Happy 1st Birthday Hadley

Hadley was turning one and her mother requested stripes and polka dots to match the colors in the headband she would wear to her party

Cellos

A platter of Cellos for a recital

Valentines Day at the Shop 2013

First holiday in the new shop was Valentine's Day. We had a lot of fun setting up and stocking the shelves for our first holiday. The Blizzard of 2013 set us back a couple of days, but we were able to stock up for the holiday.

We also had our first write ups which brought in a lot of customers, enough to sellout all most all our stock!

The Wilton Patch article was fabulous, but she didn't get a picture of me smiling which I was for most of the article!

Some happy Kids with their Valentine treats from the shop:

Getting Close with the Shop Opening

After the holidays, the shop was almost ready for inspection. It was amazing to get this dark green space transformed into an light and bright baking space...

Happy Snowman Cutter from CG

Beth from CopperGifts.com asked me to make some samples for a new snowman cutter this season, their "Happy Snowman" or should I say "Snowperson"? The question was....boots or no boots?

Ambler Farm Tree Sale

The first 2 weekends of December belong to Ambler Farm's greens sale. This year I made replicas of the Red Barn with a custom cutter from CopperGift.com. I am happy to report that all the cookies sold out on the first Saturday of the tree sale!

New Location Coming Along

 We are hoping to be in our new location next month. The town and state approval process has taken longer than expect, but we are getting quite excited as the equipment is coming in!

New Thanksgiving designs 2012

I had fun working on these new cutters I bought for the holiday. The dinner themed cookies are very popular in the cookie world. I also designed a cornucopia and Indian corn too:

Beauty & the Beast

My son was in the production of Beauty & the Beast Jr this month. These were thank you gifts for the producers:

Erin's Sweet 16

One of my regular customer's daughter was turning 16 and gave me her invitation to be "inspired" with a design:

Cheerleader Favors

I was given a picture of this cheer uniform and designed a cookie for the squad:

New CopperGifts.com Thanksgiving Design 2012

New Gingerbread Pilgrim cutters I designed with Beth at Coppergifts.com to go with her Gingerbread Indian. Are they cute? They make great Place card cookies too!

                                               

Obama Cookies

The New Canaan Democratic Chapter order Obama favors for their staff:

Wipeout Party

Wipeout favors for a Birthday party:

Owl Onesies

An Autumn version of my Owl Onesie design....

Go Bears!

A college gift pack sent to St Louis:

Marnie's Halloween Birthday Party

Crown favors were requested in "Halloween" style. The birthday girl was wearing a tiara with her costume, so we came up with a design to include eyeballs and spider's web:

Emily's Confirmation

Pretty in Pink for these decorated crosses for a sophmore's confirmation:

Wedding Favors shipped to Nashville

A local bride and her mother decided they wanted favors for the wedding guests arriving in Nashville for their wedding. The bride chose a western boot, an autumn leaf and an acorn. I was nervous about shipping 3 cookies wrapped in one bag, but out of 360 cookies only 3 broke!

Another 50th Celebration

At least I am not the only one turning 50 this year! My childhood friend who lives in Burlington, Vermont invited me up to celebrate at her party on Columbus day weekend. This is the platter I made for her. I love the "Bellbottom" font I used for the 1962. I wish I had had time to use it on the crowns as well.

Carol's 50

My best friend in California wanted colorful musical notes for her 50th birthday celebration. Her favorite colors blue, pink and orange made for a colorful favor:

Guilia's Baptism

A simple white cross with gold lettering was requested for Guilia's (pronouned Julia) baptism. Cutter is from CopperGifts.com

Go Bo Foundation

I was honored to be ask by my friend Jill who lives in Wisconsin to be one of the many cookiers contributing to the Go Bo Foundation for a community bake sale to raise money for the Foundation. You must go and read about Bo's courageous life and decisions about dying from cancer. He was truly a remarkable soul. His color was orange and I got my inspiration from Jill's own cookies and drawings for this cause. Her stick figures inspired my own cookies using an orange ribbon as the main design:

Celebrating 50

This month I turned 50 and had a wonderful time celebrating. One of my favorite was a trip up to New Hampshire and Vermont. We stopped in to visit King Arthur Flour. I wish they were closer because I would love to take some baking courses in their fabulous kitchens.

And I couldn't leave without sitting in their famous chair!

University of Illinois

Another college gift set off to University of Illinois: