Happy Birthday Lydia!: Shabby Chic Cookies

As most of you should already know, I have been taking a break from making cookies. This beautiful girl is a big reason why, but I wouldn't have it any other way!  While I am still in a bit of denial that she turned one today, like every other major milestone in our lives since having kiddos, I knew we needed cookies at the event.  Lydia's room is a "shabby chic" design and that led to the inspiration for her party theme. 

 

 

I had so much fun dusting off my cookie supplies and putting my skills to the test to see if I "still got it."  I decided that I had to have the blue background with flowers and then added some more designs to complement that.

 

 

 

 

I also put together a few decorations for the party (please accept my poor excuse of photography)...

 

 

but everyone knows at a 1 year old's party, it's all about the smash cake!

 

Big Brother helping her out

 

 

 

 

We had the greatest time celebrating our baby girl.  This past year has flown by and been one with an abundance of love, joy and laughter.  While I have missed making cookies, nothing could compare to the fullness of being a mommy to my two kiddos!

 



 

Gender Reveal Cookies: Baby Silhouette Cookies

We have some big news in the Supak household!  I am so excited to announce that I am pregnant and due this September! 

Since I've started up this cookie venture, it seems like every major milestone that happens in our life now has to be celebrated with cookies!  And finding out the gender of our precious baby was no exception. 

Ever since I saw this idea on Sweet Sugarbelle's blog, I knew I would want to do it when it came time for us to have another baby.  I was going to show you the step-by-step process to the cookies, but she created such a wonderful tutorial, I thought, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"  If you are interested, you can see the tutorial here.

Looking at these cookies, you wouldn't know that hidden inside is either pink or blue dough to reveal the gender.  Isn't that just a genius idea?!  The exterior design is my original idea (I've become a bit obsessed with silhouette cookies as you can see here and here), and I actually hand-painted the cookies as well.  Not because I was going for a certain effect, but honestly I was being lazy and didn't want to make any black icing.

We are thrilled to announce that Baby Supak is a .... 



GIRL!

Thanks for being a part of this exciting journey with me.  I can't wait to meet our precious baby this fall!

Chalkboard Baby Shower Cookies

I wanted an excuse to make painted cookies ever since I made my peacock cookies, and thanks to my friend Krista, I had that opportunity. You may remember Krista from the birthday set that I made for her where she gave me free rein to create whatever I wanted.  I loved this artistic freedom and she trusted me to do this again!

 

Krista helped host a baby shower and being the wonderful friend she is, she wanted cookies in lieu of a cake.  Krista's only request for the cookies was that they echoed the invitation.  The invites (seen here-) had a chalkboard feel to them, which gave me my reason to paint!  In addition to loving the invitations, I had the sweet baby girl's name to work with and that made these cookies a lot of fun.

 

 

 

The invitations also included this insert and I copied its design for the cookie below that featured the baby-to-be's name.

 



 

 

Krista, thank you so much for ordering and once again giving me the opportunity to stretch my artistic side!

Baby Shower Cookies: Pink and Gray Onesies and GIVEAWAY!

A while back, I did a Pink and Gray Baby Girl set for Elizabeth to give to her friend that just had a little girl. In a complete coincidence, Elizabeth's mom, Karen, saw those same cookies and wanted wanted to order some for a baby shower, not knowing those were cookies ordered by her daughter!   She decide to just do onesies in the same color scheme and left the design up to me.  You didn't think that I would let you get straight to the giveaway without showing you some cookies first, did you?!

Now for the fun part of the GIVEAWAY!  

You are entering for a chance to win one dozen cookies of any design you choose for FREE!  

• Enter with the Rafflecopter below.
• You must "LIKE" Sweet Melissa's Cookies on Facebook to be able to win.  The other entries are completely optional; they just give you more chances to win!
• The giveaway is open to continental US residents only.  Shipping will be covered by Sweet Melissa's Cookies.
• You must be at least 18 years old to enter.
• Your email will not be shared with anyone when you use the Rafflecopter to enter.
• The winner will be chosen at random by the Rafflecopter.

The contest is open starting at 12 am CST on August 13th and end at 12 am CST on August 22nd.  Once the giveaway ends, one winner will be chosen and will be contacted within 24 hours by email.  This post will be updated with the winner's name once we've heard back from them.  The winner will need to respond within 48 hours to claim their prize or another winner will be chosen.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Good luck!  If you have any questions or problems entering the giveaway, you can comment below or shoot me an email!

Baby Cookies: Pretty Baby Girl Cookies

Kim (now making her third blog post appearance and becoming a regular celebrity around here) was showing off the firefighter cookies to her co-workers and one of these said co-workers, Elizabeth, liked my cookies and wanted to order some to surprise her friend who is expecting a little girl.  At this point you may be wondering if I need to put Kim on my payroll, but she does all of this out of the kindness of her heart. :)

Elizabeth gave me some inspiration pictures and then just gave me free rein to run with it.  Which, by the way, I LOVED and had so much fun doing.  And after making these cookies, as much as I love being a mom to a precious little boy, I need a girl that will fulfill my need for frilly, pretty things.

Now, you are probably looking at these pictures and wondering to yourself, "Melissa, you are normally such a wonderful photographer, what happened?" (heavy sarcasm intended here).  I'll tell you what happened: procrastination.  Since the photography isn't my strong suit, I tend to put it off.  Next thing you know, it is time for the cookies to go to their rightful owner and I have no photo documentation of them.  So these were taken in the wee hours of the morning when the desperately needed natural light had yet to arrive.  Add that to a very novice photographer with a sub-par camera and you get very grainy pictures.  Hopefully, I will actually learn my lesson this time!

Thank heaven for little girls!