{Sugar Bee} Prescription Cookies for U of A Pharmacy Graduates

Six students will be graduating from the University of Arizona from the College of Pharmacy today and I am so happy that I was able to make their special day a little sweeter!

These cookies were a lot of fun to make because not only was I able to create little sugar cookies to look like medicine, but I was also able to package them to appear as though they are prescriptions! To top if off, each set of cookies is personalized with the graduate's name! I thought they turned out so cute and I hope that they are thoroughly enjoyed and taken daily with a glass of milk!

 

 

Congratulations graduates on your well deserved success!

{Sugar Bee} Mother's Day Cookie Collection

This Sunday is Mother's Day and we all know that moms do so much all year long taking care of their kiddos and family, but this year it is especially true! Whether your mom is a Mama Bear or she has helped you bloom and grow; this is the perfect time to tell her how special she is and that you appreciate all that she does for her family! This year I have created a collection of cookies that are a wonderful way to show all the special mamas how amazing of a mother they! I love that these cookies are a great gift by itself or can be paired with a gift card or bouquet of flowers.

 

 

 

Wishing all of the mamas a very happy Mother's Day Weekend! You deserve it!

{Sugar Bee} Nurses Have Heart Cookie Collection

Nurses Day and Nurses Week provide us with the perfect opportunity to celebrate the nurses who care for us, our friends, families, and the overall community. They have an important job to do, especially this year, and it is important to show them our appreciation. In honor of Nurses Week, it is important to take a moment to show gratitude to those who take time to make sure we, and the people we love, are comfortable. They spend countless hours caring for us. Now, it’s our turn to show that we care for them! Their compassion, dedication, and kindness do not go unnoticed.

This year Nurse Appreciation means even more than in the past years. With this pandemic, our nurses and healthcare professionals are working around the clock, putting themselves at risk every day to help care for the sick. For this and more, our gratitude for their selflessness is beyond measure and saying thank you is the least we can do. That is why this year I created special cookies for my customers to show their love and appreciation. 

Happy Nurses Week! We appreciate you all!

{Sugar Bee} Apple For Teacher Collection

I am sure there is a teacher that you remember who had an incredible impact in your life. It may have been in preschool, middle or high school, or even in college, but most of us have experienced that special teacher who made lessons come alive or started a lifetime of love for a certain subject. They may even been the reason for the job and career you have now!

For many of us, our children now have teachers that go the extra mile for them. They have inspired them or helped them through challenging times or lessons. They work alongside them to ensure their success, to create a love of learning, and ultimately make going to school every day fun and exciting!

This year has been a strange one with our children learning remotely from home, Teacher Appreciation Week won’t be celebrated the same way it has been in the past. However, if you are like me, challenged with trying to figure out homeschooling and keeping your kids focused and on task when all they want to do is play, then you are appreciating teachers MORE than ever before! 

So this year, as they navigate these uncharted waters alongside us parents and work through all of the challenges of instructing remotely. I thought that it was especially important to let all the teachers know how important they are and how much we appreciate them!

Because of their hard work, kindness, and compassion for our kids, Teacher Appreciation Week is the perfect time to show them our appreciation for all that they do. Dedicating their life to others, as teachers do, is a selfless act. Therefore, saying thank you and expressing our gratitude for the time and effort they put in every single day is a small gesture, but is it is the least we can do and they truly deserve it!

Therefore, I have created a collection of cookies for my customers to gift to the special teachers in their lives! I figured if we can’t give teacher appreciation gifts to our children’s teachers this year, why not gift A teacher we know with a sweet treat to let them know how valued and grateful we are for what they do for our kids!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! We thank you for all that you do!

{Sugar Bee} Hole in One Cookies for Sweet Cooper's 1st Birthday

A beautiful little girl is turning a year old and to help with the festivities I made some cookies to celebrate her "Hole in One" golf themed birthday!

Though sweet Cooper is unable to have a full-blown birthday bash at this time due to the pandemic that is currently affecting the world, she will still be celebrating her special day with a small PAR-TEE surrounded by her loving family! I am so honored that Cooper's mama asked me to make cookies for her big day and I had so much fun creating this set!

It was so difficult narrowing down the designs, but ultimately I came up with the perfect set for a baby girl's golf themed birthday party!

The color palette was chosen by Cooper's mama; she wanted to to have light pink and dark pink as her main colors since this celebration is for a sweet and sassy baby girl, but it also included green and white because they are traditional golf colors .

The first cookie I designed was a plaque cookie that is patterned with clouds and the word "ONE" is featured in the middle, but instead of an "O" I used a golf ball. Though blue wasn't a color that Cooper's mama was using in her decorations, I figured that it would help break up the colors and the blue sky is one of the amazing sights one gets to see while golfing!

When I think of golf, I usually think of golf clubs and argyle. So I thought to myself why not decorate an argyle patterned cookie with golf clubs....and that is exactly what I did! I LOVE how this cookie turned out!

I love making number cookies to emphasize the age of the birthday boy or girl. So I thought it was important that I create a Number One cookie for Cooper. This cookie is decorated with a golf pattern for the number and features the word one and accented with a pink flag.

As I was thinking of fun things associated with golf, I thought that golf carts are super fun! But for Cooper, I decided that I would make a cute pink golf cart cookie that would also allow me to personalize the cart with her name.

Cooper's mama wanted a cookie that would be a simple golf ball with the birthday girl's name, so of course I did that, but just a little bit more! I found a great cutter that not only had the golf ball, but also a tee on the green! Titleist has nothing on a Cooper golf ball!

The last design came about because I just love cake cookies, and this cutter is just so cute and perfect for a girl's birthday! This single tier cake on a cake stand is patterned with a golf ball pattern, adorned with sprinkles, and topped with a banner that says "Cooper". What is not to love?!

This entire set just gives me all the feels and I just can't get enough of it! 

Happy 1st birthday Cooper! Enjoy this momentous milestone day, surrounded by your adoring family and may it be filled with sunshine, smiles, laughter, and love....and lots of sweet treats!

{Sugar Bee} Hoppy Easter Sugar Cookies for a Very Happy Easter!

This year I wanted to create a collection that was filled with the cuddliest of characters, the Easter Bunny! With the pandemic causing families to stay home this Easter, resulting in a change of many traditions and activities, I am hoping that these "Hoppy Easter" sets will bring many smiles to my customers and their children this holiday and perhaps may bring a little bit of normalcy during such an unusual time.

This year I created three options for my customers to choose from. The first option is one of my favorites, and was one of my most popular! The "HOP" set of 3 cookies spells out the word "hop", but instead of the letter "o", there is a cute bunny face in its place.

The second option is my "Funny Bunny" set of 2 cookies. It also consists of  an adorable bunny, but it combines the traditional decorated egg and Easter Bunny. This set also allowed my customers to personalize the egg with a name or they could have it say "Happy Easter".

The last option is my "Chocolate Bunny" cookie. It isn't actually chocolate, but is meant to look like the traditional chocolate bunnies that you see in the stores this time of year.  This option appears to be a single cookie, but there is a little bit of a surprise! The "Chocolate" Bunny is wearing a pretty pink bow, but the bow is actually another mini cookie!

I just love how all of these turned out and I especially love the pretty Spring colors!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter that is filled with peach, love, happiness, and plenty of colorful eggs, and of course sweet treats!

{Party Bee} Ava's 8th Birthday Mermaid Spa Bash

A few weeks ago, my daughter, Ava, had a mermazing birthday party with her closest friends to celebrate her 8th birthday! Ava has loved mermaids for years now and after her 7th birthday party, she immediately told me that she wanted to have a mermaid party for her 8th birthday. Once she mentioned this to me, I knew I had plenty of time to come up with a bash that would make a total splash!

Ava has always been a big fan of getting her nails done and just being pampered. She loves bath bombs and all things girly. So several months back I decided that we wouldn't have just a typical mermaid party, but it would be a mermaid spa bash where the girls could get a little pampered.

Our main color palette consisted of pink, purple, and blue and I designed an elegant mermaid themed printable collection that featured a beautiful mermaid and sea creatures using water color illustrations. 

 

Every party I have more my kids, I always create decorated sugar cookies and chocolate covered Oreos. This year I made under the sea cookies featuring a mermaid tail, starfish, shell with the birthday girls name, a number 8, and a magical mermaid cake. I kept the Oreos relatively simple by created a gold mermaid scales pattern and adorning them with purple and blue white chocolate flowers.

When I am designing my table scapes and dessert tables, I try to reuse what I can from previous parties so that I can keep to a budget and make use of the items I already have. If you have seen my previous parties, you may actually recognize some of these items, such as the pearls, white ceramic serving dishes, sign holders, floral centerpieces, white crates, glass jars, kraft paper backdrop. I always recommend taking a look around the house before purchasing anything and then if you need additional decor, always start at the dollar store and don't forget to shop holiday clearance sales!

A couple years ago I made my daughter mermaid tail cupcakes for her 6th birthday. Because they were so cute and I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, I made them again! They really added so much color to the dessert table and added to the overall mermaid theme.

Right after Christmas ended and everything went on clearance, I purchased numerous plastic ornaments. I thought that I could get them to look like bubbles by hot gluing them together in groupings. I placed them around the tables and I just loved how they turned out!

Once again my friend, Natalie, created an amazing cake for Ava's birthday! She really outdoes herself every year! The detail work on this cake is impeccable and the best part is it is even more delicious than it looks!

Each girl was given a place setting with all of the supplies they would need for their spa day. Walmart clearanced out plastic dishware a few months ago and my best friend grabbed some to use as their water bowls to soak their fingernails before their manicure. Inside the bowl I placed a hand mirror, cloth headband, toe spacers, and a kraft container with some special party favors. One of my favorite dollar store finds was a plastic cup with infuser. It was the perfect way to add that spa feel while providing reusable cups to the guests and offering different fruits to infuse their beverage!

Inside the kraft containers was our special thank you party favors. Each girl received a pocket mirror, small loofah, a mermaid tail bath bomb, and a little nail polish to continue to their spa experience at home!

To celebrate the birthday girl, we created a special table that had decorations and accessories that were only at her table. Particularly, my best friend created the most gorgeous sea shell crown for her to wear! It is just breathtaking!

When I originally thought of the spa party theme, I knew that we had to have the girls dressed the part, because what is a spa party without a robe?! I found these girls' satin robes on ebay of all places and got pink robes for Ava's guest and she chose a pretty blue to stand out from her friends.

I always have kraft paper bags on hand for when I package cookie orders, so it was easy for me to create these simple bags for the girls to take all of their party favors and accessories home. I even was able to reuse the pink doilies from one of Ava's previous parties to help decorate the bag.

I love to have a game or two for guests to play and win prizes. This year I created a pin the fin on the mermaid tail. It made for a pretty decoration and a fun game!

 

 

Photos in front of her dessert table and decorations is always a MUST! Especially photos with mama, grandma and grandma, Gabby, and her Aunt Kathy who made a special visit from Chicago!

I wanted to add to the spa experience with a water bar where the girls could choose to infuse their water or fresh lemonade wit strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, cucumbers, or lemons! I even had a small adult station so they could infuse their lemonade as well and make a "Siren Song Cocktail".

The festivities started with the girls changing into their spa attire, then shortly after that, the girls applied a cucumber yogurt face mask and placed cucumbers over their eyes. This was probably the cutest thing ever! Some girls loved it and others weren't so fond of how the mask felt. 

Once they completed their masks, it was on to mani and pedi time! Thankfully I had a lot of helpers to assist with this part!

Last year the kids had so much fun with my friend turning them into puppies with incredible face painting, that we had to have her back again, but this time she transformed Ava and her friends into mermaids! Her painting skills are just off the charts!

Musical chairs is a game that we just don't see played very much anymore. It was always played at birthday parties when I was a child. When I introduced Ava to it a couple years ago, she found she liked it so much that she wanted to play it at her parties. The kids had a blast!

Because we didn't want to ruin the girls' freshly painted faces, we had to ask them all to play pin the fin on the mermaid tail using the honor system and they just had to shut their eyes.

 

 Cake time and singing happy birthday to our little mermaid, Ava!

A group shot of the beautiful mermaids in their spa attire! 

This party definitely made waves and was absolutely magical! Here is to mermaid kisses and starfish wishes for a wonderful 8th birthday! Happy birthday, Ava!