Final Move Update- Opening June 17

Finally!  This is it!  We're re-opening!!

My husband and I are all settled into our new house in Charlottesville, VA and have been loving spending time with baby Oliver.  I've officially completed all of the steps to licence our home kitchen for commercial baking, so I'm excited to announce that it's time for me to start taking orders again!

Our opening day is Monday, June 17th, so now is the time to contact me about custom cookies for your events!  I'll only be accepting a few orders each week so that I can balance baby time with cookie time, so be sure to place your orders early!

In the next several weeks, keep an eye out for website updates as well as a new price sheet for custom cookies.

Thank you all so much for your patience and understanding while we moved and while I took my maternity leave.  I'm looking forward to getting back into the kitchen and baking!

Did you know...

...that quidditch is a real sport?!?

Well it is!  Apparently, colleges all over the world now have club quidditch teams!  As a Harry Potter fan, I was pretty excited about this.

These cookies were ordered as a birthday surprise for the captain of the Denison University quidditch team.

For those of you who aren't familiar with quidditch (*gasp*), that's the International Quidditch.Association logo, broomsticks, a golden snitch, and quidditch goal posts.

I hope you enjoyed your cookies, Inbar!

Yankees birthday cookies

Baseball season is officially upon us, so I thought it would be a good time to share these birthday cookies that I made last year for a Yankees fan!

Happy (very belated) birthday, Kevin!

Introducing...

Oliver Henry Shaffer!

Oliver was born on February 26, weighing in at 7 lb, 7 oz and 20 inches long.  Our lives will definitely never be the same!

Remember that adorable quilt that my Mom made?!

Oliver has been doing great since we came home from the hospital.  He eats like a champ and really only cries when he's hungry (which is frequently).

My husband and I been having lots of fun getting to know Oliver over the past couple of weeks.  Our favorite baby accessories have been his swing, his vibrating chair, and the Moby wrap.  He loves to be on the move!  He's also a big fan of being swaddled, so we love the Aden and Anais swaddle blankets.

As expected, the sleep situation has been tough.  Some nights he sleeps great and gives us 2 1/2 to 3 hour stretches of sleep.  Recently, however, they've been more like 1 hour stretches.  I'm hoping it's just a 3 week growth spurt and he'll start sleeping again soon!

I can't believe he's 3 weeks old already!  Maybe it's the sleep deprivation, but time really does fly!

I'll be taking the next 2-3 months off from cookies to enjoy our little man, so please understand if I don't respond to emails or phone calls right away.  I do have a few cookie pictures in the archives that I never shared, so I'll be posting them over the next couple of months.  In the meantime, happy belated St. Paddy's Day!

Thank you cookie package

Here's another cookie package for the website - this time it's "Thank You" cookies in a large 10x14" box.  Anyone who knows my husband will guess that it was his idea to add the faces to the letters :)   Everything's funnier with faces, right?  They were very loosely inspired by the letter people we all had in kindergarten!