How sweet it is!

Yesterday was my granddaughter, Taylor's, "official" last day of dance class till after the summer. Her recital is Saturday and can I just tell you there is nothing cuter than seeing a bunch of 3-4 year olds, dancing in their cute little costumes, on  a big stage.

This year the theme is "How Sweet it Is!"...Taylor's class is doing "A Spoonful of Sugar".  Anyhoo, for a little "Thank You", Melissa wanted to give her teacher some cookies.  Ummmm hello...what represents "sweets" better than good ol' cookies.  This is what I came up with:

 
Whatcha' think?  Good representation?  I hope her teacher enjoyed them!

FINALLY have some more finishing touches of my guest room to share...be sure to stop back by in the next day or two!

Till then...Happy Baking!






There's a skinny girl who lives inside of me that's screaming to get out...I can usually shut her up with cookies!

Cookies and a few more fun finds!

How about a few cookies first?  This order was for one dozen Circus Tents...I did not have a cutter so I had to handcut them.  It's easy, really...just find an image online and print it to the size you would like.  Some people will then trace the image on to some plastic (like a CoolWhip top), but since I am a gadget freak and I own a laminator, I just run the image through that and then cut it out.  Then you just lay the template on your rolled dough and cut it out with a sharp knife...easy peasy, right?  Let me just say...these cookies are HUGE...bigger than I planned really.

Thanks to Crystal, for letting me play a small part in your son's first birthday!

On Thursday I took my happy self to a sale that was supposed to be the closing of an Antique/Junk store.  A different company, that usually does Estate Sales, was overseeing the sale.  When walking in I was a little disappointed to find out that it was not really the first day of the sale...in fact it had been going on for a few weeks.  I figured all the good stuff had to be gone, but don't fret, I was still able to find a few treasures.

Most of the items were not even marked...the lady just said "make me an offer".  I found an old oak dining room table that I loved, but I had no idea what to offer because at this point, I didn't know what THEY were expecting.  Oh, and did I mention that I am an awful negotiator?  I told the lady I didn't have a clue and she said $50 and it's yours....SOLD!  I have been looking for a table to refinish for my own dining room, so this one is a keeper!  Sorry, no picture for this one because I have not picked it up yet...need to take my hubby back with the truck.

My next treasure were these bad boys:

How fun are they?  Okay, so you don't have have the vision?  They are supposed to go with these parts and make display stands...so for that reason alone, I had to buy them!

Now a creative person (like Gail, for instance) would find a million things to repurpose these for...me, I'm not so sure because they have those screws coming out on the ends and I have no idea how to get them out.  Sad, huh?  Anyhoo, I already have a plan for them...can you see it?  BTW, I offered $20 for all of them, I thought she was going to turn me down, but she caved!

Last, but not least...these two things:

Melissa wanted a lamp for her bedroom...this one was $5.  Spice rack...$3 and I have a plan for it as well...Pinterest inspired, of course!

That's it for me, hope you have a great day!






There's a skinny girl who lives inside of me that's screaming to get out...I can usually shut her up with cookies!

Cookies and another ABC Project!

So, a while back you might remember that I posted a picture of this little table that I bought:

This is the table that had been at Savers the week before, but I had passed on it.  Melissa insisted that I needed it and since it WAS still there a week later, I decided it was meant to be.  After all, it was actual wood (or so I thought...more to come on that) and it was only $6...can't go wrong, right?!  You probably can't tell from the picture, but the top is square.

I was anxious to start on this project so facing the 100+ temps in my garage, I began sanding the top.  I wanted to take it down to bare wood.  After sweating off a good two pounds, this is what I was left with:

 

Ooops!  Apparently, there was a piece of wood veneer over a piece of ply wood, and me, in my overzealous state...I sanded right through it!  Crap!  I probably could have worked with the other side of the board, but it had holes from screwing it on the base and at this point, I was over it!  So, off to Home Depot I go.

I had to find something that was not to pricey to use as a table top!  And then, the clouds opened up (okay, so the sky was already blue) and the angels began to sing (okay, it was someone in the lumber department cutting wood) and I spotted these pine "disc" type thingy's.  They had three sizes and the middle one was on clearance for $13...sure it was a little more than I wanted to spend, but it solved my problem so I didn't care!

I also had a light bulb moment (I'm tellin' you, my mind was busy that day!).  I have been wanting to make one of those clock face tables for a long time...they are all over blogland.  This was going to work perfectly for that idea.  I went home and the first thing I did was go to my new favorite vintage image source, Graphique, and picked out a clock face to use.  Since the one I chose had an Eiffel Tower image in the middle, I omitted it because I was going to put clock hands in it's place.

I printed the image out and took it to Fed Ex Office and had it enlarged to fit my tabletop.  I then used graphite paper and a pen to put the image on the wood.  Then, if you remember my coffee table, you will also remember how I filled in the outlines with a good ol' Sharpie...I did the same thing for this project.  I used my new Silhouette to make the clock hands and traced them on the table as well.  Stained it, topped it with several coats of Polyurethane and VOILA...the top was finished!

I cleaned the table base with TSP, did a quick, rough sanding and painted over the original wood stain with Valspar's, "Cream in my Coffee" (I loved the color, but I think I loved the name even more).  Gave it a quick distressing and it was done!

 Whatch'a think?  I love how it turned out and can't wait to make another one...just gotta find that perfect table...perhaps a coffee table this time!


Now for all you cookier's out there, here are some that I made for an order last week!  Monica not only wanted to send her own kids some cookies to celebrate school starting, but send some to her nieces and nephew's as well...what a nice Aunt!  There were three of these boxes, total.

I hope they arrive safely...always my biggest fear when shipping cookies!  Thanks, Monica!

Till next time, Happy Baking!


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There's a skinny girl who lives inside of me that's screaming to get out...I can usually shut her up with cookies!

School Daze

This is a slight blast from the past! These cookies were actually made as school "end of the year" gifts for my grandson's preschool teachers (see how honest I am, I did not even have to tell you that). I have to remind myself that in most states school is just starting...for us here in AZ, it has been in for over a month. I think these would make a great "hello teacher" gift as well!



Anyhoo, the "cookie pops" were put into teacher coffee mugs, but sadly they were out the door before I remembered to snap a picture of the finished arrangement! Need I say, I think they turned out super cute!



Yep, that is a little worm coming out of the apple!

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New Winner!

One of the prizes has not been claimed so I have once again ran the numbers through Random.org...this time the winner is:

#8 Rebecca


I am thinking that Rebecca may be a "Pea-p"...pass the word pea-ple! You have two days to contact me...otherwise, I will do it again!

I am busy working on my biggest order to date. When I have it complete, I will post pictures. Until then I will post some cookies that I recently made for my daughter to take on a vacation with friends. I thought they would be fun for the kids...sadly, she was running too late to come by and pick them up (sorry Jen, Chris and Caleb).

For those of you that have kids that watch the Disney channel (I am "lucky" enough to experience it every Thursday and Friday when I watch my grand kids), these will probably look familiar. If not, the show is "Handy Manny" and these are his "Tools". (Please pardon the fact that "Rusty" is missing, I found the cookie cutter later in the bottom of the box...I have since better organized things!) Enjoy!



Happy Baking!

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