Baby Shower Cookies

My cousin doesn't know what she's having. This would have totally driven me nuts. I had to know!

I decided to make heart cookies because in our family, we love our babies. I made pink ones for girls and blue ones for boys. Then added the girl and boy symbol to them.

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Basket o' Books Review

I was happy to review a basket of my choice from Basket o' Books!

Just a handful of the many categories on their site are:

• Wedding
• Baby Boy / Girl
• Valentine's Day
• Mother's Day / Father's Day
• Birthday
• Movie Night

I chose Movie Night because I wanted something our whole family can enjoy. Basket o' Books personalized our basket to fit our interests.

Our basket was loaded with goodies. They lasted well past one movie! 

Candy, candy and more theater candy!

Plenty of popcorn and crackers! Our kids loved watching me pop the popcorn in the microwave!

The best surprise of all was the movie How to Train Your Dragon. It was a hit with the whole family!

Basket o' Books really gave us something we needed, time together as a family. They truly think out of the basket!

Disclaimer: The opinions on this post are my personal take on the products. This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. I am not compensated to provide my opinion except for receiving the products themselves to test out. If you have questions about this post please contact me at: alissa4illustration@hotmail.com

Conversation Heart Cookies

My son Mica is in two preschool's. He has an August birthday, and just wasn't quite ready to go to kindergarten when he turned 5, so he's going when he just turns 6. We thought the variety of two preschool's would be good for him. I'm glad we chose to do that. I just wish that he would of been able to start kindergarten right after Christmas. I think he was ready then.

Being in two preschool's means two Valentines Day parties. I decided to make conversation heart cookies. Each child gets two cookies, one with their name, and the other with "Cool" for the boy's or "Cute" for the girl's.

The longest name was Josephine. I actually did well on that one. Later Mica told me that Josephine goes by "Joey". I should have asked about that, but I wrote all the names out while he was in bed.

Between both schools there is three Landon's. It must be a popular name for that generation! a's and o's are hard to write with frosting. I was thinking towards the end that I should have used the edible markers. That would have been too easy. ;)

I made a lot more cookies then the pictures show. 

Wordless Wednesday - Playing with Play-Doh

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I had a chance to do a review for them on my healthy food site, Finding Me Again.
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Disclaimer: The opinions on this post are my personal take on the products. This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. I am not compensated to provide my opinion except for receiving the products themselves to test out. If you have questions about this post please contact me at: alissa4illustration@hotmail.com