Schneider's

Happy face cookies. Happy face cookies from Schneider's bakery have a place in my childhood memory forever. There is nothing like Schneider's cookies. And never will be!

And this week my eyes beheld Schneider's cookies. And then my fingers touched them. And then, hallelujah, my mouth tasted them!!

This box came in the mail. Excitement flooded my soul...



Could it be? Yes, yes! It's got a Schneider's stamp!!



No smilies... it's Valentines Day! Yay for Schneider's hearts!



Yes. I admit it. This is all that 's left. This is all that is left and they only arrived yesterday...



Mmmmmnnnnn....

Flashback

Please rewind with me to Christmas Eve. My parents were here waiting for little girl's arrival and we invited some dear friends over for Christmas Eve Brunch (which I think should be an annual happening... it was so special and so fun).

I wanna show you the table I set for my guests. I LOVE setting beautiful tables as you can see here and here.

Wanna join us next year? Might not look quite the same on the other side of the globe however...

What We've Been Waiting For...

What to do when you have a crying baby upstairs and piles of laundry downstairs?

No brainer.

You carry baby downstairs, let her relax in a basket of clean clothes while you do your thing, then you carry baby and clothes all upstairs at once in the basket! I've done this multiple times! I mean it sure beats trying to balance baby in one arm and heavy basket in another!

And apparently, baby likes it. Cause she stopped crying. See?



She was looking quite pleasant actually.



Maybe even HAPPY!



So happy that she cracked a little smirk...



That turned into a full fledged grin!!



And then my heart melted forever and ever.

Cake Catch-up

You should be glad I didn't type Cake Ketchup. Gross.

Here are a few more cakes I have made in the last year or so.

This first one is a faux wedding cake I did. It is faux not because it wasn't made of real cake and icing (cause it was!). It was faux because it wasn't for a wedding. I was asked to do a wedding cake replica. I was fairly pleased!




















And this is a simple, (yet charming I say) cake I made for my sweet nephew Davis's baptism in June.















The last one was for a friend's birthday in the fall. I don't often draw 'characters' on cakes... but this one turned out well. Although it wasn't done freehand! Us decorators have our secrets...

My Two Tiny Valentines...

A Weakness

This is one of my weaknesses. It's bad. Really, really bad.














And by really, really bad... I mean really, really GOOD.
Mmmmnnn.

New Camera!

Many pinched pennies + Birthday money (thanks Mama and Daddy) + Christmas money (thanks again!) + stuff-sold-on-Ebay-money = new camera for Suz!! Whooo-hooo! Penny pinching pays off! (Old Irish Proverb)

HA! Just kidding. That's no Irish Proverb. But it should be. Who do you think I could talk to about that?...

Anyway, last night I was studying the instruction book of this new camera and learning all kinds of things. So I was taking shots of this and that (without getting my butt off the couch, mind you) and naturally I took a pictures of various things around me. One of them being the remote. And I have to say... I never thought that a picture of a TV remote sitting on a boppy pillow could look so neat ('neat' Suz?... all you can come up with is the word 'neat'? Geesh.) But I guess that is what a new camera can do for ya! It produces 'neat' photos!
:)

You be the judge...














Okay, okay. I know that a better composition would have been the remote NOT in the center of the frame. I'll do better next time. Promise.

Many more 'neat' photos to come on this blog...