tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75716480781462058672024-03-14T01:33:04.969-07:00Frost Your CakeA Mommy's life & baking adventures!FrostYourCakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03959490198183127030noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7571648078146205867.post-26168458677551752272012-12-10T10:04:00.000-08:002012-12-10T10:04:46.873-08:00Fond memories, sharing, and a giveaway to boot!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, the past 6 months have been a crazy whirlwind. But somehow my page has managed to grow to over 5,000 friends! So I'm hosting a GIVEAWAY to say thank you for all the lovely comments and words of encouragement. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's what one lucky person will receive - hope you love cupcakes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most of my summer & fall were spent in pain, resulting in my not being able to do what I love most: play with my favorite 6yr old, and bake!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's my little sweetie decorating cupcakes <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We also moved. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be honest, we haven't even finished unpacking all the boxes yet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Feeling overwhelmed and a little depressed for quite some time I started thinking about some of the happier times in my life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were so many and so much to be thankful for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One thing I remembered was spending time with my Mother, baking Christmas cookies! I have 4 brothers, Mom would let us help roll and cut out all the cookies and decorate them with LOTS of sprinkles!!! I also loved baking with my Grandmother when I was a little girl. She made the BEST apple pie EVER!!! There was always extra pie crust and we'd make yummy treats with it. We'd roll it out and cut out circles with a juice glass, then cut even smaller circles out of the centers of half of them, bake them, spread jam onto the full circles and top with the holey circles - - - So. Good!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are some of my favorite memories. So it got me to thinking... my Giveaway should be all about your favorite baking memory! I bake with my son all the time, he loves to help in the kitchen :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here he is watching his cookies bake last Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here he is with my husband making the annual Gingerbread House.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here he is measuring and pouring in the ingredients for pumpkin muffins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're always mixing up something yummy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My hope is that when he's older he will look back at these times and get all those warm, fuzzy, feelings I get when I think about the times I baked with my Mother & Grandmother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now it's your turn to share your special memories with me. Leave a comment telling me all about some sweet baking experience you've had! In one week I'll randomly select a story and I'll send a box full of memory-making cupcake goodies to that person. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please remember to leave your name & email address so I can contact you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*** Giveaway limited to continental United States only, please ***</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My baby recently had a birthday. Since he's 6 now, I probably should stop referring to him as my baby, but I can't! He's my only child and so he is destined to always be my baby. Ahem, what were we here for? Ooooh yes, my son's recent birthday party. Aside from his 1st birthday we've encouraged him to choose the theme for each party. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His 1st was "Cookie Monster" and I had a </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">very blue stained baby for several days. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> For his 2nd birthday he chose "Nemo"...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See my sweet little guy peeking back there? Awwwwww!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His 3rd birthday was a Pirate theme. This was so much fun! I made treasure maps on the walls and had the kids digging for buried treasure in the sandbox. I also made pirate cookies but at the time I didn't always take pictures of everything. (the Horror!)</span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His 4th birthday was all about Thomas the Train </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and his 5th was a crazy combination of Lightning McQueen, Ducks, and Ladybugs! </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(He couldn't make up his mind so he drew a cake sketch which incorporated all 3 and I made it!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which brings us to the 6th Birthday! How time flies, sigh...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year my sweet boy chose to have an "Outer Space" Birthday party. He and I sat down as I was instructed on just how he wanted his cake to look and discussed decorations and guest list. He asked me to make rocket cookies for his school treat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple weeks before the party he painted planets for the backdrop, he used several of his space/planet books to try to get them just right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Wonder where he gets that from???)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cake was so fun, and exactly how we'd sketched it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Oh. My. Gosh! I know!!! It's only been forever since I made a Blog post. Sheesh, what could I have been doing that was soooo darned important that I couldn't take a few moments to sit down and write up a new post?!?!? Well, this post is all about catching you up on what I've been neglecting to share with you since LAST FALL?!?!? Can it really be that long ago? </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">*I hang my head in shame* ... Moving right along :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So, now hopefully you get an idea of what's been keeping too busy to blog. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And I'm going to try to make at least one blog post each week! Because seriously, I don't think you or I want to go strolling down memory lane like this again in 6 months due to my neglectful blogging habits :/</span></div>FrostYourCakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03959490198183127030noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7571648078146205867.post-37296890634678439772011-11-17T10:15:00.001-08:002011-11-17T11:07:56.279-08:00"A Few of my Favorite Things" Giveaway!!!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens<br />
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens<br />
Brown paper packages tied up with strings<br />
These are a few of my favorite things</span><span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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upon a time I promised to give away a few of my favorite things <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">and
THESE are few of MY favorite things!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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& to say “thank you” to all who’ve supported me throughout my kitchen, &
Mommy, & now blogging, adventures, I’m giving away a bunch of stuff I love:</span></div>
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movie “Elf” because nothing gets me through a long night of decorating like Christmas
movies and this is one of my faves!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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super cute magnetic notepad with tree-shaped sticky notes and a festive little
pen. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt;">J</span><span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;"> Because we must
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& super cute cupcake liners w/matching picks. Because sprinkles are a food
group, it’s true, look it up. I’ll wait…. See?!! Told ya!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tags. I have a slight addiction to Christmas tags. Doesn’t matter how many I
already have, every year I HAVE to buy more. So I’m sharing my addiction with
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of 4 Handmade Christmas Crafting books! Because I LOVE CRAFTS! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">The 1<sup>st</sup>
one is “Handmade Christmas Crafts”, tons of great ideas!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book is “Handmade Christmas Ornaments”. You can see just on the cover several
terrific crafts!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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There are 6 cutters all together, and just in time for you to get busy!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I have also a Gingerbread Boy-shaped cake pan. Because there are so many ways
to decorate a Gingerbread person, why try to fit it all onto little cookies
when you can go all out on a whole cake! (um, forgot to take a pic of the pan
by itself, but it’s in the photo with everything else – oopsy!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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letting me know you did. (and thank you, in advance)</span></li>
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4: “Like” my page on Facebook, then leave a comment, here, letting me know you did. If you
already do, please leave a comment telling me you already do.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">~This
giveaway is entirely because I feel like sharing. I am not, in any way, being
compensated from any of the companies or brands included in the giveaway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">~Giveaway is limited to the
continental </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">United States</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;"> due to postal restrictions and
other matters that I have no control over – and I DO like to have control of my
favorite things. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">Every year I battle the “HalloThanksMas” urge. You know, that overwhelming need to decorate for Christmas before you’ve even finished putting away the Halloween stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">Last year I gave in, I caved, my tree was up on November 1<sup>st</sup>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But since I was getting so much: “Shame on you! Every holiday deserves its own time!” & “</span><stockticker><span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">DON</span></stockticker><span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">’T </span><stockticker><span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">RUSH</span></stockticker><span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;"> ME!!!” feedback, my little one & I TP’d the tree so it would feel more like leftover Halloween tricks rather than hurrying Santa. Of course the moment Thanksgiving was over we stripped that TP off and went full-on Christmas glory.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">I should mention, in my defense, that I get very busy this time of year and want to have ample time to decorate and enjoy the sparkle of Christmas without “trying to fit it into my schedule”. Also, I adore Christmas and all that goes with it – the crazed shoppers, the decorations, the crafts, the gift wrapping, the cookie exchanges, the whole feeling of LOVE and FAMILY that the Holidays seem to bring. Not to mention the “Elf on the Shelf” and the wonderous, magical powers he holds over all small children with the ever-threatening “Hmmm, what do you think Elfy will have to report to Santa tonight?” Yeahhhhh, that’s what it’s all about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">This year I’m fighting the urge. It’s already November 7<sup>th</sup>, the Halloween decorations are packed up, leaving only a few random pumpkins, leaves, pinecones, turkey crafts, and cornucopia’s to represent Thanksgiving. My plan is to leave those fall decorations alone until the 25<sup>th</sup> then engage in an all-out fury of decorating. A veritable Christmas tornado, if you will, to get it all pretty before the madness of cookie season sets in. I’m not gonna lie, I may not make it. But at least I have a plan… and chocolate, plenty of chocolate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">I’ve done most of my shopping to keep myself super busy, ya know, so I wouldn’t be tempted to decorate “just a little”, but I don’t know how long I can last. I mean, I only have so many hiding places before I need to start wrapping gifts, and if everything is wrapped then surely I’ll need a tree (or two) to put the gifts under, right? Ok, ok, stop now! Before I go hunting for the trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">I've also kept myself busy with caking. Have I ever told you how much I love it when someone orders a cake, gives me the theme and maybe an invitation to work from, and then says "Go!" and I get to do my thing?!?!?! Well, I love it! Here are a few examples of me doing my thing from the last couple weeks...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">Oh! Speaking of gifts, I will be posting a “Few of My Favorite Things” giveaway later this week – and it’s </span><stockticker><span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;">ALL</span></stockticker><span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;"> CHRISTMAS stuff! (I gotta get my merry on somehow!) So keep your eyes open for that – I cannot wait! I love gift-giving, I love wrapping and ribboning and shopping for those special things that I just know will make someone happy </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Architect; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Architect; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Architect; font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">What I’d like to do today is tell you about something I posted recently on my Facebook page. Last week, while grocery shopping with my 5yr old, we came across something kinda cool. My son said to me: “Mommy, you need this cookie cutter!” and just as I was about to ask him to put it back (because Lord knows Mommy already has a bazillion cutters), I looked down and noticed he was handing me an upside-down skull cutter, but I saw something very different, so I bought it. Then I posted this photo on my page ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;"></span><span style="font-family: Advantage;">It was so much fun watching everyone try to guess what I saw! So many people saw something completely different. Yes, some very unique & colorful ideas, indeed </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Advantage; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Advantage; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Advantage;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">This is what my brain saw (brain saw? Ha, being a Zombie lover, that makes me giggle.) Anyway…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">Nobody guessed it would be Hello Kitty in a pumpkin! It’s exactly what I’d imagined in that moment at the grocery store. Whatcha think? I LOVE repurposing cookie cutters, it’s like a fun little challenge for myself. I do it with those shaped cake pans as well. I cannot tell you how many ways I’ve used my old Dora pan! Wait.. whaaat? To make a cake!!! How many ways I’ve used it to make a cake! Get your minds out of the gutter already! Sheesh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">I made these little dancing Skelly Guys, too. Looks like they're scaring the bezeezes out of ol' Kitty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">Oh, I nearly forgot to wish everyone a Happy Sweetest Day! (yesterday)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">Here is what I gave to my Sweetie ~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">Yes, we share our Zombie Love <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">Ok! So here I am. BLOGGING!!! No way I ever thought I’d be a blogger. Ever. But I was seduced by all the fabulous blogs I currently follow and I just HAD to have my own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">So, what’s next? I guess I’d like to get my feet wet by sharing some photos of a few of my favorite creations… if I can figure out how to do that! Cross your fingers….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">I did it! Ok, enough freaking out. I can do this. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every year I feel like I need to try something different for each holiday or celebration. Who wants to make the same old designs over and over? Not me. So I thought I’d give edible image cookies a try…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage; font-size: 10pt;">And here’s what I came up with. Now I’m addicted to using edible images on cookies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage; font-size: 10pt;">Also, I’m addicted to GLITTER!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">I made a few new Halloween cookie collections this year. But I’m not through yet, I mean, we still have a couple more weeks, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">See what I mean about the glitter? I am now glitterizing everything. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">Is that even a word? Glitterizing? Oh well, it is now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">Alright, I think that’s enough photos for today. It’s time to see if this thing actually flies!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Advantage;">Drop me a comment, if you’d like, and let me know how I did! (Be kind, or I may never blog again. And that would be sad.)</span></div>
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