The Pretty Ones! Cookie party wrap-up & Cooking Class winners

December 20, 2010 By 3 Comments

Thanks for linking up all of your amazing cookie recipies and ideas to our fun Christmas Cookie blog hop! It’s going to be a great resource for years to come! My sister already tried out the peppermint whoopie pies and said they were very yummy. I wanted to feature some of my favs and since [...]

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Great Gifts – Idea #4 Personalized Gingerbread Families

December 13, 2010 By 3 Comments

Neighbor/friend gifts. They always get me. They seem so simple in my mind, but the mass production always leaves me pulling my hair out. Ever since the infamous star cookie tree incident. Still, I like to do something thoughtful and fun (and inexpensive) for the people we interact with the most. Last year, in keeping with [...]

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The Incredible Cookie Party Blog Style

December 10, 2010 By 7 Comments

The time has come for our Incredible Christmas Cookie Party (Blog Style). I’m going to share my favorite holiday cookies with you. Then you want to check out the cookies from my fellow hostesses… Steph of Somewhat Simple: Pumpkin and Chocolate Cookies Kristyn of Lil Luna: Ooey Gooey Butter Cookies Jax of Aly and Ash: [...]

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Great Gifts – Idea #3 Cooking Classes (GIVEAWAY!)

December 9, 2010 By 32 Comments

I was talking about gift ideas for BSB with my sister (and I have pretty much banned him from the blog this month), and she suggested some sort of cooking class. It was a great suggestion because he loves to cook, and he loves to learn new things. He would be thrilled to not have [...]

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The Incredible Cookie Party Coming Soon!

December 8, 2010 By 3 Comments

I’m so excited to let you know that I am teaming up with some of my favorite Arizona bloggers to bring you a Christmas cookie exchange party like no other! This was the brain child of Ashley @ Cute as a Fox, who also helped dream up the Arizona Bloggers’ Tour de Thrift and she [...]

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Crazy Christmas Cookies (and MomTime TV)

December 6, 2009 By 3 Comments

Did you catch me on Mom Time TV, Friday, talking about my crazy Christmas cookies? You didn’t? That’s ok. You can watch the uncut episode, here. Cookie Recipes Uncut from Mom Time TV on Vimeo. The TV version, featured a bunch of the photos you can find on these posts (here and here). The recipes [...]

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Eyelet and Rainbows–Kira’s 8th Birthday and Baptism Celebration

June 1, 2009 By 17 Comments

Oh! This is a crazy-long post but it’s full of fun colorful pictures! My daughter turned 8 in April and was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Now that more than a month has passed, I think it is about time I blogged about it. I wanted a fun [...]

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Secret Cookie Recipe Revealed!!!

January 15, 2009 By 4 Comments

It must be a special occasion, because Baker Barry has finally agreed to share the secrets of his amazing Molasses cookies. I asked him to way back when we held the auction for Nie, but he was reluctant. He has finally decided to share but asks that if any of you open a bakery and [...]

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Christmas Cookies – 2008

December 30, 2008 By 5 Comments

So much of Christmas still to share…now that it is over and everyone has moved on. But if you are like me, you like to do a debriefing of Christmas and get ideas for next year. So here are the cookies I painted this year. (I had to take full advantage of my mother doing [...]

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Holiday Butter Cookies

December 16, 2008 By 13 Comments

I’m attending a lot of virtual parties around blogland, and I think for at least some of them, we we’re supposed to bring virtual treats. That reminded me that way back in October when I was making these… and these… for the Nie Cookie Auction, and my 100th post giveaway, I promised to share the [...]

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