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!

13th Birthday Cookies

These cookies were created for a 13 year old birthday boy.  Jack plays football for his local township team and, like any 13 year old boy, likes to play video games!  So we decided on a variety of footballs, jerseys in his team colors, XBox controllers, and happy birthday cookies for his cookie gift.

Happy 13th birthday, Jack!

Nautical Baby Cookie Package

Thanks to Pinterest, these nautical baby cookies are some of the most popular cookies that I've ever posted.  And I must admit, they're some of my favorites too!  I've been working on new gift packages for my website and I just HAD to include a version of those cookies.  Here they are:  a large gift package in a 10x14" box.  

You'll notice that all of the cookie gifts are photographed exactly as they'll arrive in their box. I've ordered lots of these cookie boxes from BRP box shop and can't wait to start using them!

I'm in the process of doing some shipping tests (my parents have received LOTS of cookies!) and I'm happy to say that there hasn't been a single broken cookie so far.  That means that each cookie will still be sealed in a clear cellophane bag, but that I won't need to wrap each cookie in bubble wrap anymore.  I'm excited that the customer will get to see their cookies as soon as they open their package without having to dig through a sea of bubble wrap!

New Baby Cookie Gift Packages

It seems that while I get ready for baby, part of my nesting habits have transferred to my website as well.  While I wait for baby to arrive, I'm trying to prepare as much as possible to reopen my business sometime in late Spring / early summer.  

I've already set up an LLC in the state of Virginia, and once I have a kitchen that's ready to be inspected, I'll finish applying for my business license in Albemarle County.  Of course, that means I need to move into my new house which hasn't happened yet!  In the mean time, I'm working on some new gift packages.

These are 2 new baby gift packages that will be available when I reopen.  They're small packages that include 5 cookies in a 7x10" box.

It's a boy gift package:

 And it's a girl gift package:

When I relaunch, I'm also planning to create an Etsy shop, so all of these packages will be for sale there as well as from my website .  If you sell on Etsy and have any advice, I'd love to hear it!