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sweet techniques: your tricks and a MEGA-giveway from Wilton

Thank you to every single one of you for your fantastic comments to enter the mega-giveaway from Wilton! For those that haven’t entered yet, you have until midnight tonight.   To enter to win the 101-piece tool caddy from Wilton, a $145 value, CLICK HERE.   I received so many more comments than expected (900 [...]



winter and Christmas ideas from the archives

As always, in my never-ending quest to be organized, I grouped all the Christmas and wintery ideas found on this blog in one nice, neat place. If you click on that icon in the sidebar you’ll go right to that nice, neat place. But just to recap a few of the ideas you’ll find: cookies [...]



more rainbows and unicorns (cookies and decorations)

UPDATE: The unicorn cookie cutter. Just remembered where I got it. The $1 bins of cutters at Sur la Table, also available online HERE. Just to drag out the party experience even further… below is some more info on the cookies and decorations from my 4-year old’s rainbow birthday party. unicorn and rainbow cookies It [...]



pumpkin patch cake

Or, pumpkin patch cake topped with chocolate cream cheese frosting, crumbled chocolate cookies and fondant decorations. Remember that pumpkin shortage we had last year? I’m not helping matters. I went through four cans of pumpkin (I’m a Libby’s gal) for challenge 8 of Project Food Blog. And yet… I didn’t make it to Challenge 8. [...]



the emotional life of Peeps

Some of you may, perchance, recall that I examined the emotional life of candy corn last fall (HERE). Well, my journey to understand the feelings of holiday candy continues with Marsmallow Peeps. curiosity  isolationdisgust thrill exhaustion contentment anxiety disdain (and shame) hope Tweet Feel free to share (nicely)! While my blog’s photographs and text are [...]