3,000 Facebook Fans Later......CLOSED

It is November!!

Halloween was a blast.  Lots of treats...not so many tricks...my tricks stink.  I can't saw anyone in half (lame) or make someone dissappear.....I can't even do a card trick...."is this your card?  how bout his one?  this one?  this one?....."

So no awesome tricks here.....just treats...

Lots of fabulous treats...

That I am GIVING AWAY!!

That's right folks...we hit over 3000 fans on Facebook!!!  And as promised, here is my thank you for clicking that little "Like" button.  Are ya ready for it?

Here is what I am giving away!!!:

A Printable Party Package from Gwynn Wasson Designs!

One full Printable Party Package of any collection in her shop which includes:

- Invitation
- Happy Birthday Banner
- 2" Party Circles
- Table Labels
- Favor Tags
- Treat Cones
- Water Bottle Labels
- Napkin Wraps

How AWESOME!!  I want to keep this treat for myself....but I'll be nice I guess.... :)

A $50 Gift Card to Karen's Cookies!!

Karen carries everything you need to get decorating!

If I may give a couple reccomendations:

They have some pretty amazing decorating kits.  I'm a fan, can you tell ?? :)
I've recently gotten into stenciling and they have a great selection of cookie stencils too!
**Just want to mention that Karen's Cookies if a family run business (I love family run businesses) and Karen and Mike are SUPER sweet people :)**

Julia Usher's NEW book: Ultimate Cookies!!!

I REALLY want to keep this one to myself!!  Pretty badly!  This book is INSANE!  I look at it and have a small brain embolism brought on by the amount of pure awesomeness....incredible talent, beautiful cookies, all in one book....I'm getting heart palpitations just thinking about it....

and lastly....my humble contribution....
One Dozen Christmas Cookies!!

I will give away one dozen of this years Christmas Collection away along with all of these amazing treats!  I make a different set every year....who knows what designs you will get this year.... but may I just say, I have some great ideas *tee hee hee*

And hey, they're free Christmas cookies.....

So....whaddaya think?  You want to win??


Ok, here is how you enter:

There are 6 ways to enter *leave a separate comment for each entry!*

Entry #1:  Follow my blog.  Publicly.  That would awesome.  Don't be ashamed....just do it.  :)  Leave me a comment telling me you love me.

Entry #2:  Head over to my Facebook page and "Like" me....(won't you please?).  Give a quick "hello!" and then come back here and tell me you stopped by.

Entry #3:  Tweet, Blog, Facebook....whatever.....about this giveaway.  Spread the word....use that social networking skills of yours!  Then tell me in a comment that you have been talking about me.

Entry #4: Head over to Gwynn Wasson Designs.  Publicly follow her and tell me what party package you would pick if you won.  Leave it in a comment.  :)

Entry #5:  Head over to Karen's Cookies Facebook Page.  "Like" her and leave her a comment saying "Hello!!".  Perhaps tell her I sent you.  That would be right neighborly.  Than come back here and let me know that you want to shop at her store as much as I do.

Entry #6:  Head over to Julia Usher's Facebook Page.  "like" her and say hi.  Come back and tell me which one of her pictures or books simply floors you. 

Contest Ends Monday, Novemeber 7, 2011 at 11:59 Central

Winner will be announced Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Now listen up people, if you win I WILL go back and check to see if you really followed the rules so no cheating!  No one likes a cheater cheater pumpkin eater.....
Tho I do like to eat pumpkin...pie, bread, muffins, seeds....

Have fun!!  Happy Contesting!!

Halloween 2011

Happy Halloween y'all!!! 

First off I want to take this moment to talk about something that might sound like I'm tooting my horn....and if I wanted to I would...because it's my blog and I can...

Here is last years Halloween cookies:

 

They're allright...nothing to write home about but good....I was very happy with these when I shipped them off to my old college dorm neighbor :)

Stay with me...I actually have a point.  I used to look at my favorite bloggers and wonder why my stuff didn't look quite like theirs.  I used the same icings, I tried the same techniques, I followed the tutorials, but mine just didn't have the same...sumthin' sumthin'....

I guess I am writing this because I want to emphasize the importance of practice...those Halloween cookies were hundreds of cookies ago.  I mean since then and now I have decorated HUNDREDS of cookies, much to the chagrin of my ever growing carpal tunnel.  

Over time, and practice I feel that now I may have reached a stride...finally after a year and a half I have reached a level where I am content with my abilities.  Not to say that I wont ALWAYS be learning something new, or that I wont ALWAYS be trying to improve myself.  BECAUSE I WILL.....that's the great thing about learning...it never stops.  I love it.  

So if you have a day where you feel like you're just never going to be as good as Jane blogger on the internet, don't give up.  KEEP PRACTICING!  You will find your style, your niche, your stride.

Who knows, one day I will probably look back on this post and say wow....I was crap back then.  

Who knows...

This years Halloween cookies (which I love) may not be the best I see in what I hope is a long love affair with cookies, but a year and hundreds of cookies later I can finally see my growth...and that feels good

Bridal Luncheon

Again, no time to write so here's the pic! 

 

Quick and simple.

Although now it occurs to me, perhaps I should write a post about how I design a cookie collection / how I use inspiration...hmm.  That could be a fun post. 

Spongebob

My nephew had a birthday.  I made cookies.  Nuff said.  :)

This week in cookies.....

Here's what this week in cookies brings us:

 

Hope everyone had a great week!

Shabby Chic Wedding

ok....so as you might know (or you might not...I mean I don't assume that you might know my every move...tho you should...duh), I'm in the process of moving to Missouri.

Well we're here.  Husband just signed his job contracts yesterday so I guess at this point it's permanent.  However, we still aren't moved in so life is still moving at a hectic pace.  We are currently renovating a home that was damaged in the tornado so free time has been scarce.  *sigh*  Let's not even start talking about living out of a suitcase for the last month....I miss my shoes....

Anywho, I don't want to continue to put off the blogging till we are all settled in because that means I will have been post-less for MONTHS and that just will not do.  So I will continue to update my blog while we renovate and attempt to assimilate to Joplin life.  BUT we're looking at less talk-y talk-y and more pic-y pic-y...yes, I know you're crushed that you wont be subjected to the ramblings of the crazy cookie lady... (ok, you can stop the happy dance)

So here ya go, cookies done for a shabby chic wedding shower with no written explination or ramblings.

Well from here on anyway...

Till next time :)

Moving

Sorry guys, I haven't been ignoring you...really...not intentionally anyway....

First my computer goes out and I am without internet and picture uploading capabilities for weeks!  It was TORTURE!!  But now I have a loaner from my Mom-in-law. So I can TRY to catch up.... *whew* crisis averted there.... but now....

WE'RE MOVING!!!
Guess where....

Yerp...JOMO. (That's Joplin, Missouri...)

(is it just me or is it totally hard to differenciate between the state of Missouri and Alabama??  Am I the only one seeing the similarities in shape??  It IS just me?  Harsh...)

We are repairing the damage to a home in Joplin (and when I say "we" I mean mostly my lovely MIL) and should be in sometime before October but we have to be out of our current place before the end of August...so we will be a bit nomadic for a month or so... but that's no biggie, I spent most of my college years as a nomad so I'm good.  (and yes, I always had an apartment in college, but I spent so much time going to Houston to see my folks or to Dallas to see my friends that I was hardly there unless it was the middle of the week and I was asleep...)

I have to bid farewell to my beautiful Texas...*oh how I love thee...*  To say that I am a tad stressed would be an understatement. I am STRESSED OUT OF MY MIND!! (Hence my insane rambling today)  The moving truck comes tomorrow and its like 11:00am and we aren't even close to being finished yet!!! 

So...that is why I have been absent.  Really once I get plugged in and settled I am going to have TONS of cookie posts...and some before and afters of the house we're moving into perhaps. 

Ok, now where did I put that packing tape?