Little Lamb Baby Shower

This was another baby shower theme that I just adored!  It was a "Mary Had a Little Lamb" baby shower in pretty pastel colors.  I thought the color scheme was just gorgeous :)

I love that I get requests for so many creative party themes.  My job is completely different every week.  It definitely keeps things fun!

baby girl shower cookies

I promised you more baby cookies and here they are!

These simple pink and turquoise bird cookies were created for a baby girl shower.  They were bagged and hung from a tree at the shower :).

I loved these pink and mint nautical cookies that I did for twin girls.  They were created to match the shower invitation.  And how cute is that SS Little Ladies cookie? ;)

Next up, boy cookies!

Gender Neutral Baby Shower Cookies

I've done so many baby cookies over the past several months that I thought I'd round them up into a few baby-themed posts.  This first post has LOTS of fun ideas for gender neutral or mixed gender baby showers!

This was a fun, colorful baby platter for Alexis's gender neutral baby shower.

These bumble bee-themed baby cookies with bows and mustaches are perfect for a gender neutral baby shower or gender reveal party!

I loved these autumn-themed baby cookies for Harper.

These were more adorable cookies for a rubber ducky-themed baby shower for twins.

I've posted these baby jungle animal cookies before, but this was a fun personalized version that each shower guest received.

These "sprinkled with love" cookies were from a sprinkle that I hosted for a friend.  They were blue for a baby boy but would be perfect for boy or girl!

And finally, these simple, elegant pink and blue "Baby" onesies are perfect for a gender reveal, boy and girl twins shower, or a gender neutral shower.

Keep an eye out for more baby cookies coming soon!

Bird-Themed First Birthday

I was going through old cookie pictures and found this one in the archives.  I loved these little bird cookies!

Fiona's Mom sent me this picture of the favor tags and wanted similar cookies to match:

I love having adorable inspiration to work with!

Sports-themed baby cookies

These twin lion cookies were made to celebrate my new twin cousins!  The cookies were designed based on their dad's super cute book "Declan Grows Up".

Welcome to the world Chase and Pierce!

Elephant Baby Shower cookies

I just loved the color scheme for this baby boy's elephant-themed baby shower.  These cookies made me so happy :)

The elephant profile onesie was new for me.  I think I'll definitely be using this design again!

Lots of different elephant sizes and designs went into this platter.

And I'm just loving the "bunting" cookies lately :)

I hope Parker's parents had a great baby shower!  And happy Friday everyone!

Rubber Ducky, You're The One!

Girly rubber ducky cookies for a baby shower.  I think it was love at first sight for Oliver's rubber ducky!

Dinosaur Cookies

Cute t-rex and stegosaurus cookies for a birthday boy who loves cookies and dinosaurs!

Henna Elephant Cookies

Henna-inspired cookies are quickly becoming some of my favorites.  These cookies were created to celebrate a child's Annaprashana or "First Rice."  This is something that I hadn't heard of before, but after I looked it up I thought it was a pretty amazing idea.  I would have loved to do this to celebrate Oliver's first food.

Lev's mom asked for elephants that were personalized with Lev's name and decorated with henna designs.

She also requested paisley-shaped cookies with similar henna designs.  I just loved the teal, orange and white color scheme for his celebration.

You can tell that I loved these cookies because I took LOTS of pictures!  Keep reading for more :)

Penguin Party!

I thought that this post would be appropriate for all of this winter weather we're having on the east coast!

This penguin cookie platter was created for a first birthday party in December.  The bow tie penguins were based on Jimi's super adorable invitation.

I also included lots of snowflakes in different shades of blue.

The idea for these penguin faces came from Jimi's mom, and I thought they were super cute!

And Jimi's mom was nice enough to share this beautiful picture of the cookies displayed at his party.

I hope you had a great first birthday, Jimi!

Twins' Jungle-Themed Birthday Party

This jungle-themed cookie platter was created for 2 twins' 5th birthday party.  Happy birthday Hunter and Kyndall!

These babies are now available in our Etsy shop here!

Elephant-themed Baby Shower Favors and our New Etsy Shop!

I'm excited to announce that our new Etsy shop is now open!  

If you aren't familiar with Etsy you should really go check out their website.  Be prepared to spend a lot of time browsing the adorableness.

The shop not only has the gift packages that you can also find on my website, it also contains listings for custom favors like these "it's a girl" elephant onesies!

If you have a minute, please go take a peek at my shop and let me know what you think!  If you've tried my cookies before, I would LOVE it if you would leave a review :)

Jungle Animal Baby Shower Favors

I've done these baby jungle animals before, but they got a makeover this time.  I used a pale yellow background to "girly" them up for a baby girl shower.  You can see them with a brown background as the "elaborate" example on my website.

They're also for sale on my new Etsy shop!

Preakness Cookies

I made these cookies for a Preakness party this year.  Unfortunately, I didn't have time to take pictures before they were packaged, but hopefully you get the idea!  There were several complicated designs in this set, including Maryland state flags, Preakness logos, and Gentleman Jack whiskey bottles.  Those Maryland flags were killers!

I made several of the jockey's silks who were going to be racing in the Preakness.  The winner was Oxbow, whose black and yellow silk is in the back!

Baby Elephant Cookies

Last week, while I was working on these pink and gray baby shower favors, I really fell in love with the color scheme.  Luckily I had some icing leftover, so I decided to create a new baby gift package for my website.  For some reason the colors just screamed baby girl elephant cookies to me.

These are 6 large cookies in a 10 x 14" box.  I also snapped a quick pic of a sample platter with all of the pink and gray cookies:

The baby girl elephant cookie package be available for purchase on my website when I reopen after my maternity leave.  Baby S is due exactly 1 month from today!  He'll be here before I know it.

It's a Boy!

I have a confession to make:  I've been holding out on you.  There's something I've been meaning to tell you and I swear I didn't mean to wait this long.  But here goes:

My husband and I are expecting a baby boy on March 4 this year!  I can't believe it's only 7 weeks away.  How does time go so quickly?!

Happily, I've had a very easy pregnancy and have been feeling good.  But between moving, planning for the new baby, and building a new home, I haven't had much time leftover for baking cookies or updating this poor lonely blog!

I'm still hoping to have my Virginia business license by mid-2013 and will reopen for business at that time.  The number of orders I take will just depend on how cooperative baby S is!

As you can imagine, I've been a bit baby obsessed lately, particularly when it comes to decorating the nursery.  Since I can't actually decorate a room yet (we move in the first week of February), I've been stockpiling baby gear in our temporary apartment like nobody's business.  One of the first things my husband and I found was this cute animal print for the crib bedding.  Once we found that, the rest of the nursery kind of fell into place.  My mother-in-law is making the crib bedding for us which is AMAZING and I can't wait to see it.  I'll be sure to post a picture of the nursery when it's completed!

At our baby shower recently, my Mom surprised me with this beautiful quilt that she made using all of our fabrics.  It's so gorgeous, I just had to share a picture of it.  Gotta love having talented women in your life!

Of course, I couldn't resist turning some of the animals into cookies for my announcement :)

Please continue to bear with me over the next several months as my husband and I get settled into our new home with our new baby.  I do have some cute cookies cookies coming up to share with you, so I promise I won't be completely absent :)

Jungle-Themed 1st Birthday Party

Well, once again it's been a while since my last post.  I just got back from an amazing trip to France and Germany for a friend's wedding, so now it's time to get back into cookie mode!

It will be several months before I begin taking orders again, but I have a stash of a few older projects that I'll be posting in the coming weeks.  Hopefully by then I'll have unpacked my cookie supplies and will be able to  get back to decorating!

I made these cookies a while back for a good friend's daughter's first birthday party.  The designs were inspired by a really cute napkin that I unfortunately forgot to photograph :(

This was the final cookie platter:

And here's a close up view:

I love working with bright colors and had a lot of fun playing with the different animal prints on the letter and number cookies.  The party was a huge success and we had lots of fun celebrating with the birthday girl.  Happy birthday Ava!

Vintage Baby Shower Favors

There are so many adorable baby shower themes out there right now.  All you have to do is follow Hostess with the Mostess and you'll be completely overwhelmed with ideas!  So, I love it when clients contact me with a specific theme in mind and then we can brainstorm cookie ideas together.  That's what happened when this client asked for cookie favors for an "Etsy" themed baby shower.



The customer wanted something very rustic, vintage, and crafty for the favors.  She knew the Mom-to-be was planning to decorate the nursery in a baby farm animal theme, so we combined those two ideas into these cookies!

The inspiration for the cookies came from these stickers on Etsy.  It was an absolutely adorable design and was easy to modify the jungle animals into ones that belong on a farm!



This project was fun for me because I got to play with an airbrush for the first time.  Thanks for letting me borrow yours, Steph!  I think I might need to invest in one of these in the future :)

And, as promised, I made sure that I left myself LOTS of time to take photos!

It's always tough for me to shoot in daylight since I work full time during the day, but I'm really making the effort to allow time for me to run home on my lunch break to shoot.  I really think it makes all the difference!




My new favorite props are the piece of burlap that I found in the Michael's scrapbooking section and this wicker bread basket that I had laying around the house.






I heard that these were a hit at the baby shower.  Congratulations Ashley and Jared on your new baby boy!

Baby Animal Cookies and Cake!

These cookies were made for a friend's baby shower.  They were designed after an adorable wall mural that they put up in their nursery and I love how they look as cookies!

I also wanted to bring a cake to the shower, but I don't decorate them all that often, so I figured I would stick to what I know - cookies!  I've seen a few cookie cakes around on the internet and I've been dying to give it a try.  Here's what I came up with:

 And a view of the front:

This was so much fun to do and was really easier than I thought it would be.  If you're interested in giving this a try, here's a few tips.