Intuit Contest for Small Businesses

  I have another awesome opportunity in front of me to grow my little business.  Remember the Martha Stewart madness of 2012? Well, this is a little easier.  It is a voting competition, however there is no information required to vote.  Intuit is granting wishes for 15 businesses up to the amount of $5000.  My wish is to have professional equipment and a new website. It would cut my prep time in half if I had commercial grade equipment such as a mixer and baking racks and such. And it sure would be awesome to also have a new website that is more user friendly for you guys.

 

The contest wraps up on May 6th so I ask that you please take 10 seconds to vote once a day.  Click here to cast your vote: http://bit.ly/11pL2nP 

 

 

I can't tell you how much your support means to me!  Thanks everyone!

1970's Cookies

 I am not gonna lie; I was SO excited to make these.  I really had no idea what I was going to do when I sat down to decorate however.  My friend, Tally had a 70's themed birthday party so I had to do something special for her. 

 

There are a million directions to go with the 70's since there are so many great trends from that era.  I took a little bit of everything for inspiration.



 

I knew I wanted to do peace signs for sure but I couldn't get away from my inner flower child.  And then, after the cookies were delivered and the pictures were posted, an amazing follower pointed out that I am missing the bottom/middle line so this is actually a Mercedes sign.  Ha!  Totally something I would do!!! I bet several people noticed including my hubs but didn't have the heart to tell me. ;)

 

Believe it or not, I didn't have to make any icing for these cookies.  I had icing left over from all of the week's cookies so I decorated according to the colors that I had in flood/pipe icing.

I honestly didn't know what I was doing with this chick but she ended up looking like Velma from Scooby-Doo so it worked out I guess.

For this groovy chick, I got inspiration from Sugarbelle's afro girl and Oh Sugar Event's and combined the two.  Thanks ladies!!

 

The disco ball was first flooded in white icing.  I then airbrushed it with sliver and added rainbow disco dust before I piped the black lines. 

 

Happy Birthday Natalya!

Peace.