Sonoma Wedding

 

A few weeks ago, we packed our bags and headed to San Francisco, and then on to the Sonoma Valley for a wedding.  It has been a really busy fall with lots of travel, and it was nice to save one of the best trips for last.  Those who know me know I am an "antsy" flier (to put it nicely), so the fact that I was looking forward to 6 hours on a plane with nothing to do and no responsibilities sums up the previous few months.  :)

 

I made California-shaped cookies with a heart over the wedding location, packaged as favors for each guest.  It was a beautiful wedding, and weekend -- and I loved the way the favors looked at each place setting.

 

Happy wedding, Jake and Jen!  Such a fun weekend.



Farm Animal Birthday Cookies

I did a variety of animal cookies for a first birthday featuring a petting zoo of farm animals.  So hard to pick my favorite:

 

 

Happy birthday, Lucy!!

Bachelorette Party Cookies

These cookies were made from yet another Sweet Sugar Belle tutorial (found here), and were the perfect accompaniment to a bachelorette party this past weekend.

 

Happy Bachelorette, Jen!!

Dr. Seuss Baby Shower

It was so fun to do these favors for a Dr. Seuss-themed baby shower!  I made some more Cat in the Hat hats, and also some onesies too coordinate with the cute striped invitations (pic below).  I love coordinating with invitations, decorations or colors.  How did I do?

 

 

 

I packaged them together with a coordinating ribbon and tag!

Wordless Wednesday

A Cat In The Hat Birthday

I was so happy to do cookie favors for our nephew Ben's Cat in the Hat-themed joint birthday party (with friend Maia).  Who knew they even made Cat in the Hat bounce houses....

I found the perfect cutter in an Etsy shop, and made hats to package as favors:

stickers from this Etsy shop

I also added a couple of bike cookie cutters for big brother Arthur, who is becoming quite the biker these days...

Happy Birthday, Ben and Maia!

A Pair Of Wedding Showers

I had some brightly-colored cookie favors to do for two different wedding showers this week.

First up, some wedding cakes and gowns with bright trim and initials:

 

For the other shower, I used the names of the bride and groom and colors to match the shower theme and invitations:

 

Fun to do, and I loved how well the colors photographed.

 

Birthday Favors

It's always especially fun when I'm making cookies for someone I know, and I was so happy to be asked by a good friend from college to make birthday favors for her niece.  My friend and her sister-in-law (the birthday girl's mom!) decided on airplanes, butterflies, and some 5s.  I had fun picking out the colors and doing these cookies -- here's what I came up with!

Happy, happy birthday, Sasha!

A Pair Of Baby Showers

A friend from work had baby showers on back-to-back weekends, and asked me about doing cookies for each.  

First up, a baby boy.  Loved the hosts' ideas of embellishment on the onesies -- baseballs, footballs, wagons, and sailboats.  Simple and cute, my favorite kind of cookies to do:

Next, favors for a girly baby shower.  I used the same design as these cookies: 

The girly shower was out of town, so I packaged them as favors and packed them in bubble wrap for the plane ride.  

Welcome, new little ones.  :)

Girly Baby Shower Favors

Had fun last night celebrating a good friend who is expecting her second baby in about a month.  She's expecting a girl, and I did some quick favors for a baby shower dinner.

We can't wait to meet sweet baby Caroline!  :)

Mini-airplane Monday

A quick set of cookies I did for brothers this weekend.  :)

Happy Birthday, J!

I did a double batch of cookies this past week for a very special birthday boy.  His mom is a friend (when did we all get old enough to have friends with children??) and she had the idea to do small cookies as cupcake toppers, in addition to some cookie favors.

The cookies looked adorable on the beautiful cupcakes (homemade!) and I will share pics as soon as I get them.

Happy birthday, sweet boy!  We love you!

Wine & Cheese

It's the calm before the (worst part of the) storm here in D.C., and I thought I'd share a few pictures of some fun wine and cheese cookies I did for a friend's party this weekend while I still have power!

It was a party for a new mom's group, so my friend came up with the idea of babybel cheese rounds.

I also did packaged favors for everyone to take home: