Yes, I am alive and yes, it’s been busy in the shop and with cookies. Sadly, it hasn’t been too busy for me to write, I just haven’t really been too motivated to actually put pen to paper. Or fingers to keyboard.

We’ve been working on some new cookies and I don’t know, they haven’t been all that exciting to me, so that may be the cause for my lack of motivation. Dave and I have also been working on some home improvement projects and the house has been a dusty, holy disaster. So that may account for the procrastination as well. Oh, and making all the preparations for the Hoe Down in 3 weeks!!

Daisy is doing really well, she’s been spayed and got her shots and is a natural fit. Except that she’s still working on housebreaking. We’ve thrown out one rug already, it’s challenging. I never thought I’d see the day that Lily would be the well behaved grown up, but it has arrived! I’m trying to get her to help Daisy learn to be a super good dog. (she’s already a good dog, we’re just working on the SUPER part, ie: no peeing on the floor!!)

Anyway, I have been taking pictures of all the crap going on, like interesting meals, and cookies. But for some reason I haven’t been documenting the home improvement stuff. I’ll have all the after pictures, just not so many befores.

So let’s look at some cookies today:

Inspired by a recent custom order and our Hoe Down invitations, we created a Cowboy collection;

Included in this collection there is a horse, cowboy, sheriffs badges, boots, horse shoes and a 10 gallon hat.

We’ve had this collection on our site for a while, but we tweaked the colors on the Sea Creatures collection. I love the green octopus!!

We had a custom order of three different designs for a child’s first birthday. A customized block.

A bunny made to look like the Princess bunny on the invitation.

And a custom bear to round out the bunch. I mixed a custom pink to match the invitation as well. The customer’s bear had a personalized inscription curned on the bears belly that said “Aili is 1″. I don’t know why, but lately it seems people want A LOT of copy on their cookies. I’m not a fan. It’s just too much, and very redundant (IMO). But, you gotta give the people what they want…within reason!

We’ve been making tons of small batches of so many different cookies, which keeps things interesting, but ugh, all that color mixing takes up so much time. A few boxes of Hogs and Kisses the other day. Love this collection. It’s like a piggy version of Hello Kitty!

Peach baby carriages for a shower a couple of weeks ago. Love these kinds of jobs, simple and straightforward.

We added the hat to the “bi-partisan” collection. It was Dave’s idea, and I think it works really well.

I had an order for a 6 inch double layer strawberry cake.

A perfectly simple Birthday inscription.  Plus, strawberry cake with strawberry buttercream is so good!!

We had a fun order for some camping cookies. We made a tent with the flaps open and some fish cookies from our Gone Fishin’ collection. (which may have inspired us to create a fun camping collection for next Summer!!)

I really like these cookies, and I’m not a huge fan of non-girly cookies, but these were fun.

I’ll wrap up today with a super fun baby shower that we “catered” this weekend.

Here’s the cake, a 6 inch double layer square, vanilla cake with chocolate filling and tinted vanilla buttercream.

My favorite, polka dots and beads. (really the only thing I’m good at!)

The favors, green and blue daisies.

The cupcakes had vanilla butter cream, tinted in blue and green with lime green sprinkles and light blue sugar pearls. We made the stand out of foam blocks covered with coordinating paper and ribbons. It took about an hour to cover the blocks. Luckily, we were able to save the foam floral blocks from another party that we did.

Here’s the table set up. Dave and I delivered and set up on Sunday morning. The shower was at the the golf club at Okemo.

So, I will try my very best to be more consistent here and keep you up to date. I’ve got lots of pictures from a recent Swap that I participated in, a delicious salmon dinner that Dave and I had last week, doggies, and the new house stuff. There’s lots of content, I just have to get crackin!!

Hope you all are doing well, and if you follow me on Twitter, sorry, I may be the worlds worst tweeter. No excuses, I’ll get on it..

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