News!

Well, it's been a crazy couple of months for me.  I have been receiving more cookie orders, which has been wonderful!  I also have other news....

Yup, there's another pea that will be joining our family in October!  It was a shock, but we're very excited and happy!  Stay tuned to hear if it will be a boy or girl pea!!

Last Tuesday we returned from a great trip to Florida!  My parents live down there, so we were able to relax and check out some places we wanted to see (Legoland, Lowry Park Zoo, etc).  Just a quick tip:  DON'T go to Legoland on Good Friday.  EVER.  The Peas had a great time, but it was ridiculously crowded.

I had three cookie orders to finish in three days...a bit scary, but I got them done!  Here they are...

 

Pirate Birthday Party

 

 

Painter Palette for a Birthday Party

 

 

Madagascar Themed Birthday Party

 

This weekend I'll post about the bowling cookies I'm making for Saturday...then it's Communion time!!  Tons of cookies to make for Communions.  Luckily, my orders don't have Communion on the same weekend...it's pretty evenly spread, starting next weekend and ending May 19th.  

 

Birthday cookies!

Now I need to focus on something else besides my photos...I know!  Cookies!  I had two orders for today, both for birthday parties.  The first order was wrapped yesterday, 2 dozen in all.  Here they are, ready to go...

Day 24:

The next batch to go out was a dozen Lalaloopsy cookies.  This was my first time making them.  They were a lot of fun, and the tutorial from Sweet Sugarbelle was a huge help!  I would definitely make them again!

Day 25:

 

Next up is a surprise party!  I will post about that order AFTER the party happens...I don't want to be the one to blow a surprise!  You'll be hearing more about that in a couple of weeks.

Kopykake creations - take one

Remember these guys?

 

Yesterday I was super productive and spent the afternoon decorating cookies with my new Kopykake Projector!!  I'm glad I did because today I'm sick (it's about time, since everyone else in my house has had some kind of illness since New Year's!!!). 

 

The projector was easy to work with, but it will definitely take some practice before I'm completely happy with my tracing.  I quickly found that I had two problems, the first being my piping consistency for tracing.  This is something I can't seem to master yet.  I think it needed to be a bit thicker...practice makes perfect, right?! 

 

The other problem was that I was trying to do too many things (so what's new).  I had so many little designs I wanted to try, which means too many colors and a brain overload with how to layer the designs onto the cookie.  For example...

 



 

It too me a good 20 minutes to figure out what to outline first and how many layers I wanted to build upon this cookie.  I ended up tracing the basic outline of the face and hat (sorry, next time I will take progressive photos).  I filled that with color, then layered the eyes, eyebrows and mustache.  Lastly, I added the brim to the hat, the "M" and the nose.  Now that I understand how to do it, next time will be easier!

 

Besides experimenting with some nostalgic characters, I also tried out some other fun stuff...

 

This cutie here...

 

 



 

Maybe a Valentine's Owl?

 



 

How about some spring cookies?

 



 

I hope you enjoyed my first attempts!  I can't wait to try some more designs!  I think my favorite is the spring bunny.  Which ones do you like??



 

New Toy

Now that the holidays are over and the Peas are enjoying their new toys, I got myself a shiny new toy...

 

A  KOPYKAKE  PROJECTOR!! 

 

This little large beauty is my first big investment for my business.  I don't know if you remember my monkey cookie issues, but this machine will eliminate that.  I can now project an image directly onto my cookies, so I can trace it with icing.  Not only that, but if the cookie has various layers (like the monkey did with the face, then lips and eyes), I can just put the cookie back under the projector after it dries...and Voila!

 

I will be playing around with some cookies this weekend, so stay tuned for some fun designs!!