Showing posts with label gift baskets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gift baskets. Show all posts

Sunday, August 20, 2017

February-August 2017...(yes, playing six months of catch-up!)

 Here we go again...playing catch-up for many months of holidays and events!
But as you all know, with being back in school full time and working full time outside of the home, my baking has taken a bit of a back seat.  But I always count it a joy when I can sneak in an order or two to let my creative juices flow again during the busyness of life.  So let's play catch-up again, shall we?
 The mini hearts above and the larger hearts and circles here were done for a bake sale at our church for our kids ministry. I always love donating for a great cause and these were a lot of fun to do.  These were done back in February.
 Moving along to Easter!
These cookies were for another church bake sale.
These carrots were a lot of fun too.  I did a wet-on-wet technique with the polka dots and outlined the leaves with sanding sugar.  The bunnies were outlined in pastel jimmies.
 These bunny silhouettes were super fun...peaking over the edges and corners!
I dipped the edges of these cookies in Easter sprinkles (little pastel eggs).  Made for a unique look and yummy texture. 
 I made these crosses fairly simple but added little pink flower candy embellishments and piped green leaves on them. 
 I had seen something similar to these on the internet somewhere but can't remember where or I'd give credit where credit is due. But I tried to change them up and make them my own.  I used the wet-on-wet technique to create clouds and then piped grass and laid little candy Easter eggs in the grass to resemble an Easter egg hunt!
 More wet-on-wet carrots with sanding sugar...
The bunnies were outlined in nonpareils. I love the crunch they add to cookies.
 I finished up this order with some mini eggs.  I always like packaging minis in these long pretzel bags.  I like the presentation.
 And here's the whole batch of them.
They were a super fun bunch to create!
 Next up was the "She Is Brave" women's conference at our church.
I had the awesome opportunity to donate a gift basket for a drawing/giveaway they did at the conference.
 With the exception of giving me the name of the conference and colors, I was pretty much given free-reign on these (which I love). I used the flyer/registration forms to get an idea of the theme.
 I loved creating these!
 And one of the neatest things about creating these...
The gal that won them was from another church in another town.
I got to meet her and she asked if we could take a picture together.
She is super sweet and recently moved to the town I grew up in (small world)!
We are now Facebook friends.
 This spring, my niece graduated high school.
She and my sister asked if I would make 200 cake pops for her open house.
Well...duh!
Of course I would!
I love how they displayed them!
 My niece has a passion for travel and missions.
She had the coolest travel theme to her open house.
 I tagged the pops, "Thanks for coming! It meant the "WORLD" to me! Love Raegan"
I put little globes on the bottom and did the cake pops in globe colors.
Cah-ute!
 Such a fun project and so proud of my niece.
 Last project in this catch-up post...
A cookie and cake pop bouquet for our new youth pastor and family at church!
 We had a meet-and-greet at church and I brought this for them.
I never realized how much I liked red and turquoise together!
Well, that catches us up for the last six months!
Hopefully I'll do better next time...
But don't hold your breath, LOL!

Monday, April 30, 2012

Mother's Day Love...

I did this set of cookies for Mother's Day for my momsie.
Again, I decided to work with glaze.
This was only my second attempt at glaze icing.


I really love the taste of glaze, but I'm still getting used to actually "working" with it.
Flooding is not too difficult.
But piping intricate details does take a lot of practice.
I had a lot of fun with these cookies because I love this color combo.
Hot pink and orange!
I think gift baskets and bouquets are such a fun gift.
You can use such a wide variety of things to hold your goodies.
I have seen so many things I want to pick up to store for future gifts.
You can use sand pails, wire baskets, wicker baskets, plastic baskets, giant bowls, vases, mugs...
Virtually anything for your goodies!
The possibilities are endless.
Some of my favorite places to shop for "containers" for my gift baskets and bouquets are:
Dollar General, Party City, Target, and many others.
Happy Mother's Day all you mommies out there!
I hope you enjoyed your special day!

Monday, March 12, 2012

Royal Ranger Cookies...

For those of you who are unfamiliar with what Royal Rangers are...
It is a wonderful boys program through our denomination (Assemblies of God) at church very similar to scouting.

The earn merit badges, go on campouts, all kinds of things.
Except with Royal Rangers...there is also a spiritual emphasis as well.

My boys have grown and matured so much since being in the program.

My oldest has gone to three of the state-wide campouts (Pow Wow) with Rangers from all over the state.

This year, he will go to the national Camp-A-Rama...with boys from all over our country...including a couple other countries!

They both have shirts and vests filled with merit badges!

They do Pinewood Derby just like in scouting.

But most of all, I'm so blessed by how they've grown in their relationship with the Lord.

We have an amazing program at our church.

We have dedicated leaders that are there every week.

They go through all the training.

And volunteer so many hours with our boys.

Our Senior Commanders (the leaders in charge of our whole Outpost at our church) are amazing and we love them so much!

So I decided to make a little thank-you basket for them.

And what better way to say thank-you, than with cookies!
I won't lie...the Royal Ranger emblem was tricky.
But for freehand...I was VERY impressed with how they turned out.

And so to you Wayne and Barb...we say THANK-YOU from the very bottom of our heart!
You bless our boys and we appreciate your dedication and leadership all these years!
God bless you!