Stackin' em up

Let me show you what I have be so busy with...

Cookies waiting to be iced...




Cookies waiting to be boxed...



Boxes waiting to be closed...



By now, I have five stacks like that! And all of the boxes contain these cookies:



And thank goodness, I am almost finished!!!

The cookie shop is temporarily closed...

This monday, I am sending out my biggest order yet... For De Perswinkel I am baking over 1300 cookies in over 90 boxes. That means that everything in my house is now cookie. It also means that I won't be able to take any more orders for a week. On tuesday the shop will be open again.

Sorry for the inconvenience!!,

The return of the Random Number Generator

We have a winner! Let me show you how we picked one.

First, I wrote all names on cards and tied a piece of string to them.



Then, I took all the strings in my hand. No telling what string belongs to what card!



After that, I asked my random number generator to help me. Remember my RNG? She is in desperate need of a haircut, I know.



She pulled one of the strings...



And the winner is:



Congratulations Sanne! Please send your address to maaikee@yahoo.com and I will send you your package as soon as possible!

A monsterous giveaway!!! Enter now!

On october 31st it's halloween again! So finally I had a reason to buy the Wilton monsters cookie cutters... And I love them! These are going in the shop for Halloween.





In that same order, I bought some flower cookie cutters, that I was sure had ten petals. Turned out they were exactly the same set that I already had. Duh.



So, what to do with this extra set...? How about a giveaway?

Leave a comment to this message before saturday evening and you can be the proud winner of a cookie kit! I will make a nice box with the cutters, a piping bag, piping tip and coupler and all the dry ingredients you will need to make your own yummy cookies! All you need to add is water, an egg and some butter. And all I ask of you is to send me a picture of the result!!!

So leave your comment and make your own cookies!!!

Gumpaste flowers

For some time now, I have been enjoying baking. Cookies (duh), but also cupcakes and cakes. So in the spring, I started the Wilton courses for cake design. Right now I am in the gumpaste and fondant course. And loving it, I might add!

Last saturday we learned how to make gumpaste flowers. I never knew it could be so easy!!!





Roses are always the "pièce de la resistence" of fondant flower making, but we also made carnations:



And calla lillies:



I can't wait for next weeks class!

The finished apple swap package

The package was sent, received and appreciated! I am so glad! This is how it turned out:



This is the back.



And this is the front. I designed the apple myself. I am proud of me. ;-)

By the way, did you notice that I am miserably failing my Drawing Lab Monday? I have discovered that the book has a lot of assignments that are hard for me to do with two little ones running around. Going to the zoo, finding live models, drawing in public and such. But I found another book that might just work... More on that tomorrow.

What? Who?

Yes, I am still alive, and I am really sorry about the lack of blogposts. I have been really, really busy and stressed, in a good way. Something exciting happened!

No, I am not pregnant (I always feel I have to make that clear to everyone before making any kind of announcement). But I just got my first big order of cookies! Which means that I am now preparing for a sale of almost 90 (90!!!!) boxes with cookies!!! Ordering boxes, printing labels, replacing cartridges, printing more labels and buying ingredients and the sorts.

I do feel the need to seriously consider what I want to do with my baking, because it is rapidly turning into an actual business. It also made me think about what kind of entrepeneur (cool huh, I'm an entrepeneur!) I want to be. So in the middle of all this, I am trying to reduce the plastic I use in packing my cookies and replacing it with paper. Using organic ingredients. Mjammie is going green!!!

I promise you that I will be back with more craftiness soon!!!

An apple for the teacher

Sone time ago, I initiated a swap, where you would make your swap partner something really nice, based on their profile. I got assigned to a teacher. No surprise that I picked an apple theme.





Translation: an apple for the teacher. I made it into a pencil case. I hope she likes it.

Baby Boy Bunting

As promised, an update on the little man's bunting.





I really like the colors. He has a green wall in his bedroom, so I think it will be adorable!

While working on the crochet buntings, I have also made some new cookies. With a little twist of lemon. Hmmmmmmmm...

Lacy crochet mini bunting

As you may know, I love Japanese crochet books. In one of my books I found a pattern that, with some adjustments, became this cute mini-bunting.





I just had to run out and get some more thread, to make a bunting for the little man with some more color. I also made the individual flags a bit bigger. I'll show you the result next time!

I also had an idea... Maybe it would be nice to organise a "crochet-inn" some time? We could meet up in a nice tearoom or something to share patterns and work on our crochet together. Who would be up for that?

Baby shower

Tomorrow we are having a little party to welcome two new babies, Emil and Juul, and we are all bringing snacks. Of course I made cookies.





The onesies will be in the shop soon!

The sweetest little gift

I've got a present for you!



For a new swap, I am working on all kinds of fifties things. I really like the style of the fifties, and the colors, and the illustrations they use. It inspired me to make new cookies, little gift boxes with a neat bow to tie them shut...




They will be in the shop today, twelve cookies measuring about 5 by 5 cm, iced in a lovely color and decorated with strings and a bow. A box of twelve will be EUR 5.00 with shipping and all! Of course I will take color preferences!

What a sweet gift these would be!

The last two boxes of pretty flower cookies are in the shop now, I hope you liked the sale, I really liked all your sweet feedback! So I won't be adding new boxes of those, but be sure to stay tuned for more new cookies at a reasonable price!

Little red Swap-Bot riding hood

Usually I really like the swap bot goodies that come my way, but this one, this one I LOVED!!! Just seeing the envelope made my day... I have taken the liberty to remove my address from the picture though...



How cute is that!!!! And the contents were just as cool!!!



I love the handmade stickers and the doll, and the pictures, and everything! You know who else loved it?



So if you were still not sure how much fun Swap bot can be, and if you should join, but maybe this will convince you!!!