Birthday Goats!

I was asked last week to make birthday cookies for one of my dad's friends. I was really excited to start the project because he uttered the best phrase a cookier could ever hear..."Just be creative!". I love it! You can pretty much do anything and are not restricted to any preconceived ideas. However, I could not think for the life of me what to make. Do I go funky, cutesy, age appropriate or traditional? Then I remembered they raise goats! She is in love with all of the baby goats and goes out to see them daily. Why don't I do cookies that look like the all of the goats and put their names on each of them.

I love this name for a goat! Too cute!

I decided to go a little more cartoony than realistic. I ended up liking the full bodied goats better than the portrait style ones, but what can you do? :)

Sorry about the delayed blog posts lately....life has been wild lately!

Thanks for reading!

Candyland Birthday!

Last month I had the pleasure of attending a birthday party for my niece's best friend, Aislinn. (Don't you just love the tu-tu!)


We were greeted with lollipops lining the front walk (spray painted paper plates wrapped in celophane) and giant candies hanging from the tree (colored lanterns wrapped in celophane).


Missi, her mom, had the kids decorate their own cookies with vanilla icing and assorted candies.


...the completed works of art. They all did such a great job!


The cake...


They played a life size Candyland game...



...and this was waiting for them at the end! They were in heaven!


They all got to take home buckets that had toothbrush and toothpaste sets.


Each bucket had a roll of pennies in it and the kids had to "buy" the candy they wanted at "King Candy's Candy Shoppe".


They loved it!



Missi, this was such a great party with so many creative ideas! Thanks for inviting me....I had a blast!!!