Here are some cookies I did last April for Christopher around his birthday. I was just playing around with some extra cookies I had, apparently with a lot of sugar! Chocolate cookies this time with a little royal icing.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Sometimes when I buy scones they can be a little too dry for me. But, lucky for me, I found a recipe from The New Baking Book that comes out nice and moist every time! The first time I made these was with Christopher and we put currants in them and called them Peter Rabbit Buns because Peter Rabbit ate currant buns. He loved them! This last time that I made them was for a play date snack. I served them with lemon curd that I found through Stephmodo via Design Mom, and some fresh whipped cream. Yummy! I think maybe I'll make some scones with fresh Lemon Curd to give out as Easter presents!

-J

Got the Blues

Ok, this isn't really baking related, but I wanted to share this cool project that Christopher and I did. Inspired by the cool Idee Color thing, I took pictures of all things blue (C's choice) during a little walk we took to Compton's Market the other day. Put them all together and voila! A beautiful blue picture collage. At Gregory's suggestion I also took pictures of all things S, so here's our letter collage...


Christopher loved pointing out blue things, especially the bright blue soda at the market! And who knew there were so many blue cereal boxes? Maybe we'll make it into a continuous project and do a different color each week. This is a great little fun (and free!) project to play with your kids, especially if they're just starting to learn colors or letters!

If you haven't checked out the Idee Multicolor Search Lab you're missing out- it's so awesome! This links to my favorite color search: pink & purple. But you can do whatever color combination you want, up to 10 colors!

I will get back to the baking posts soon, I promise! Have a great weekend!
-J

Valentine's Day Cookies

Here are some cookies I did for this past Valentine's Day. I got my inspiration from some cookies I saw in the Sur La Table catalog. I love how frilly Valentine's day can be and all the pink, white, and reds came together so well. With these cookies I got to incorporate so many things I love: pink, lace, sparkles, tiny hearts, and cookies! I especially love that deep pink color- you know the one that hits on the spectrum right before pink turns into red?

Decorating music was a mix of Country Love Songs - perfectly fitting for Valentine's Day!

Bows in Stock.

Good afternoon! I am working away filling orders for my headband line, Harlow's Hairbows. I just wanted to let everyone know that the headbands I currently have in stock are Robbins Egg Blue, Baby Pink, and Baby Pink with the white center. I'm working hard on getting some of the other colors done including adorable one that's pink with yellow polka dots! Red is currently sold out, but there should be more soon. As soon as the headbands are done I'll put 'em up for sale. All headbands are $6 each and if you'd like a particular color just send me a message!

Ciao!
-J

Girls 'n Bows

I was originally going to keep this blog for my baking endeavors, but since I don't bake every day I've decided to expand it to all things creative. My latest diy project has been making bow headbands for little girls. I recently bought one on etsy (for my non-existent daughter, of course) because don't you just love a huge bow on a little baby? Well after examining it I decided that I could make them myself! So after trips to Joann's Fabrics and Michael's craft store, here's the finished project: a cute little pink bow headband, perfect for Easter! And if you see something you'd like to buy or have customized on here, just shoot me a message! Here's my friend's little daughter, Katie, modeling the gorgeous blue grosgrain bow for us. That one's my favorite!

-J

A, B, C... don't you want to eat me!

Got the snack cookies done! I did letters for first names of all the kids for my son's preschool class and some extra stars for the parents. I lost my list of their names but I somehow managed to remembered them all and everyone got the right letter (whew!) except for 1 little boy who was new, but luckily he was happy with one of the extra A's. And because one of the little gir's named Cate was absent today, a new little girl named Cassie got her C!

Unfortunately, little peanut woke up sick on Wednesday so he couldn't go to preschool today. He missed all the kids enjoying the cookies as well as getting the chance to eat his own! But no worries, I set his aside and he'll get to enjoy his blue C cookie when he's feeling better. Sugar cookies with royal icing and colorful sprinkles- I just love how the sprinkles look!

decorating tunes: Taylor Swift's Taylor Swift album.

Snack time!

This is my first live post! Live meaning it's about something I'm doing now rather then something I've already done. Thursday is my son's day to bring snack for his preschool so I'm taking the opportunity to make some fun cookies! Here's the start of the process, basic sugar, eggs, flower, vanilla, etc. It was extra exciting because I got to try out my new sifter. It went well considering it's a sifter and pretty basic. I just stuck the dough in the 'fridge to chill for a hour. I'll let you know how it goes on Thursday!

Watermelon Cookies.

Happy Monday!

Some watermelon cookies I did for the 4th of July last year. I loved all the bright colors together! At first I wanted to do a variety of fruits including oranges, lemons, and kiwi along with the watermelons, but it was a little too much work for my first cookie project. The hardest part was getting the icing the perfect shade of pink. But the best part was that my family were all impressed with my sudden baking and decorating skills! Sugar cookies with royal icing.

Cupcakes!

Time to mix it up and post something besides cookies. Here are some cupcakes I did last summer for my fiancee's sister's birthday party. They're little flowers with some colorful sugar. I used a chocolate cupcake to look like dirt with different colors of frosting. I used gobstoppers for the middle and marshmallows for the flowers. They were perfect for the summer garden party!

Birthday Cookies.

Here are some cookies I did for a joint birthday party. My friend's son was celebrating his 3rd birthday and her daughter was celebrating her 1st! There wasn't a specific theme so I made blue stars for Peter and pink hearts for Katie. I did A LOT of cookies but I was so happy and honored to be a part of such a special occasion! They were sugar cookies with royal icing and TONS of sparkly sugar! I have to admit here that my fiancee, Gregory, and his sister, Elaine, helped out with the decorating. I couldn't have done it without them!

They looked yummy before we decorated them,
but even better after!

Construction Truck Cookies

These cookies were from the first cookie order I ever did! They were for a friend's son's 3rd birthday party with a construction theme. I love the dirt in the dump truck and the bulldozer (or is that an excavator? I'll have to ask my 3-year-old son!). They turned out really cute and all the little boys at the party loved them. My friend's daughter even said they were the best cookies she'd ever had! I think that was the best compliment I could have gotten from the 11 year old crowd! These were simple sugar cookies with lemon royal icing.

This is only the Beginning.

Per Lara over at The Calligraphy Girl and her helpful business skills, I am getting this baking business off the ground! Tiny blurb about myself, I am a stay at home mom with a beautiful almost-3 year old son. I love baking, scrapbooking, and photography (among other things). I have also recently started browsing some baking and design blogs online and I'm addicted! There are so many creative people out there and after reading some amazing blogs I figured I'd take a shot at it and share the work I've done... and hopefully inspire someone along the way.