So Far Behind...

I'm really late in posting these cookies, but I have a good excuse...I swear!

Yup, that's right, FATHER'S DAY.  I'm so far behind that I'm posting pictures of Father's Day cookies...sigh.

Anyway, these are cookies that I made for my Dad for Father's Day.  He had a baby blue VW bug when he was in college, and he still regrets the day he had to sell it :)

His birthday also happens to be the same week, so he also received these fun 60's themed birthday cookies.

I told you I had a good excuse for neglecting my blog and here it is....WE'RE MOVING!!!!

Charlottesville, VA here we come!

The good news is that the move is going to allow me to do what I love full time: bake cookies!  And you know the best part about Virginia?  They have a cottage law!  This means no more silly rules about renting commercial kitchen space like they have in Maryland.  I'll be able to work from home!

The bad news is that I'm not going to be taking orders for the next several months.  We'll be living in a temporary apartment until we find a new house (hopefully one with a big second kitchen!) and I just won't have the time or space or licence to sell cookies.  I'm so sorry for the inconvenience!  I'll still be baking and decorating, so I'll continue to keep up with the blog, although probably not as frequently as before.

I want to take this time to thank my loyal customers in Maryland (and everywhere else)!  It has been an amazing year and a half and I'm so grateful for all of the support that I've received.  I'll still be shipping cookies once I get up and running, so please be patient while I straighten out all of this craziness!  I'll make sure I keep everyone up to date on my progress through the blog!


Thank you all so much for your support!  
~Jaclyn

Antique Bridal Shower Favors

Sometimes I love having free reign with cookie designs, and sometimes I find it very challenging.  This was one of the more challenging times for me.  

The request was for 15 bridal shower favors with a few different designs.  The cookies definitely had to include a copy of the invitation, which was a green background with a white birch tree, and a few of the square dress cookies that I've done before.  

I was happy to do more of the dress cookies since they're still one of my favorite designs.  I love things that are simple but elegant.  And in case you hadn't noticed, white and ivory are pretty much my favorite color scheme :)

The white birch cookies ended up being very fun to do, and I loved the way they turned out.  The invitation lettering was beautiful and I used the same font on the cookies.

The other cookies needed to include the bride's and groom's names, monogram, and date, but the design was left up to me.  The bride was going for a vintage feel for her wedding with black and pearl / sepia and cream color schemes.  I stuck to those colors and decided to include the green from her invitation in several of the cookies as well.

Whenever I'm able to take some artistic license with cookie designs I always try to do something new.  So, I tried out some white on ivory filigree piping thanks to the great tutorial from Sweet Ambs.  You can see it in the above picture, lower right cookie.  Overall, I liked the end result (and again, my favorite color scheme).  

I've been wanting to include a quatrefoil design for a while, so I gave it a shot on a few of the square cookies.  I also played with some brush embroidery on the borders of the round cookies below. 

I hope that all of the cookies fit in well with the bridal shower color scheme and vintage theme that the bride wanted.  And hopefully Chelsea and Frank enjoyed their cookies!

Classic Cars for a Cause

These cookies were donated to the UCP Philadelphia Motor Cars auction that took place at Citizen's Bank Park last week.  The auction was a fundraiser for the United Cerebral Palsy of Philadelphia organization, which helps to support children and adults living with cerebral palsy.

I designed the cookies based on actual cars that were going to be displayed during the event.  This was the 1963 Corvette Grand Sport:

This was was a 1912 Rauch and Lang Towncar.  I painted silver luster dust on some of the detailing and really liked the dimension that it created:

And this was the 1953 Chevrolet Corvette "Motorama":

The cookies were included in a gift basket along with several gift certificates, including one for Jaclyn's Cookies.  Hopefully they brought in a good price at the auction!

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!

Spring Cleaning

I'm doing some "spring cleaning" this week and found lots of cookies that I never blogged.  So here's a mish-mosh of what I've been doing over the past several months!

These were some updated Facebook cookies to celebrate a big milestone for a popular restaurant chain:

Birthday cookies for Nurse Suzanne:

A new Mother's Day package (I loved this plaque design!):

A "thank you" cookie package that will hopefully make it onto the website soon:

More thank you cookies inspired by Cookies with Character:

And finally, cookies for a high school graduate who's going to be a freshman at Temple University next year: