{sweets}

First, one of my two favorite sweeties... Morgan. She is almost done with her first year of preschool. In fact, Thursday was her last day AT school, since this Tuesday she has a field trip and Thursday is her end-of-the-year picnic at the park. And then she's done! I really can't believe how quickly it has gone.

Here are some pictures of her with her 2 girlfriends...







For comparison purposes, HERE she is on the first day of school.

And now onto some other sweets. I had my first 2 cookie orders this week. Thanks for all the encouragement everyone! I thought the peace signs would be easy, but I lost a lot of sleep over the superhero ones. In the end, I wasn't thrilled with the peace signs but the superhero cookies turned out pretty cool!

The peace signs were made to match this party theme:





Here is a picture that Jen took of the cookies on display at her daughter's party on Friday:


The birthday boy is turning 5, which is why the Superman cookies have 5's instead of S's.

{woo hoo!}

I officially have my first 2 paid cookie jobs! Of course they are BOTH for this week, so I'm going to be busy baking 5 1/2 dozen cookies before Friday! I'm doing 18 pink and brown peace signs for Caroline who is turning 7 and 4 dozen superhero cookies for a little boy who is turning 5. For the superheroes, I'm doing a dozen each of Spiderman faces, Batman symbols, Superman symbols with a "5" instead of an "S", and comic book word bubbles with words like "BAM!" and "POW!"

The peace signs should be fairly straight-forward. I'm charging $1.50 per cookie. The superhero cookies are causing me to lose sleep, so I'm charging $1.75 per cookie. I really should have charged $2 because of the detail work, but oh well. :)

I'll post pictures when they are done! Wish me luck!

{fun fair cookies}

Morgan's preschool's "kick off the summer" Fun Fair was tonight. The party and the cookies were a success! I'm exhausted, though, so I'm going to post pictures of the cookies without any further commentary. Forgive me! :)

{teacher appreciation cookies}

More cookies, of course. These are mini apple cookies. I made enough to make 3 bags of 15 cookies.... one for Morgan's teacher, one for Gerard's teacher, and one for my friend's daughter's teacher. Don't forget it's Teacher Appreciation Week. Have you thanked a teacher today?

{more fundraising}

Gerard's baseball team is selling cups as their fundraiser again this year. There are 32 NFL teams, 30 MLB teams, over 90 colleges, and 5 US military designs to choose from. The cups are 18 oz, very durable, and are dishwasher safe. We bought them last year and love them. For $15 you get 4 cups of the same design. Click HERE to check out the website and let me know if you're interested in supporting his Little League!!

{the royal wedding}

Morgan and I are going to a Royal Wedding brunch tomorrow at our friends' house. Kath (the mom) is from England, and her daughter Lyla is Morgan's friend from preschool. She's having about 9 or 10 moms and their kids over to "watch a real princess get maaarrried" (according to Morgan). In honor of William and Kate's nuptials, I made cookies (of course!)

(Please excuse the lousy lighting. It's been dark, dreary and rainy here for DAYS and I couldn't get good lighting in my kitchen.)

First, the dresses..... Kate's dress is a big secret, so I made several different designs.

Of course there will be crowns...

And the Union Jack on some hearts (cute, but not perfect, and probably not worth the effort. They took me the longest to do.)....

The whole platter...

{happy earth day}

I made these for Gerard's class for Earth Day today.