Happy birthday, Padre!

Happy birthday, Dad!

Happy Birthday, Mr. Fix-It!

I whipped these puppies up for a friend's husband's birthday!
I haven't had the pleasure of meeting the fellow, but I hear he'sa real Mr. Fix-It.        

When I decided to make tool cookies,

 I hopped on the internet to check out what tool cookies cutter were available.  

Of course, there were a number of amazing sets (I'm always amazed at how many different cookie cutters are out there!),
but I wasn't about to pay the ridiculous shipping cost to get them here quickly.  

So, that left me with the "delightful" task of drawing my own tool shapes
 and tracing them onto the dough. 

 I say delightful sarcastically because I'm a really terrible drawer...I'm mean, really terrible.  

All of this accounts for the fairly rough edges of the tool cookies. 

 In the end though, after I slapped some frosting on them, I think they came out pretty cute. 

 I also want to apologize for the not-so-hot photography :) 

 I always end up baking in the middle of the night, 

so there's really no natural light to help the pictures look pretty.  

Oh well!

Healing Hearts Northwest

Flashback to the first official cookies from Jujubee's Bakery!  As I mentioned in that first post, my aunt and uncle are part of an organization, called Healing Hearts Northwest, that does medical missions to Rwanda.  They perform dozens of much needed heart surgeries each year and work with the local community to build their medical programs.  I brought back the Rwandan flags, Africas with the heart over Rwanda, and the swirly hearts for a fundraiser they're having this weekend.  They put so much work into fundraising to make sure they can continue to help the people of Rwanda, so I'm more than happy to make them cookies any time they need.

I think the flags turned out mucho better this time.  The lines are much straighter and much more precise.  I also decided to line the Africa cookies with color, instead of white this time, which I'm happy with. It's kind of funny...if you look at the Africa cookies for too long, they start to look like Great Lakes....hehe (Can you tell I've stayed up way too late baking?!). The trickiest part of this whole order was definitely getting all the cookies to look cute in one big box.

Team Child Thank You's

I was asked to make some cookies for the non-profit I worked at last summer, TeamChild.  The staff attorney there had an opportunity to meet with some members of the local community and wanted a unique...and yummy...way to thank them for their time.  Jujubee's Bakery to the rescue!  As you can see below, I added the TeamChild logo to a second tag to add a little flair.  Each little box has three sugar cookies in it...aren't they cute?!

Thank You and Good Luck!

I just finished this batch of cookies for my friend, Lauren, who wanted to send a gift to a former professor from the University of Washington.  This professor was kind enough to help her get her wonderful new job as an activities coordinator at the University of Oregon.  Lauren's former professor has also just started a new job at Wheaton College, so she also wanted to send him a dozen cookies for good luck. Lauren let me pick the design so I went with circles (because they're easy to ship) and my classic swirls and plaids (because I know Lauren loves 'em). For the colors I went with UW purple and gold and Wheaton College blue and orange.

Sailboats!

I made these sailboat cookies for my best friend's bachelorette party this weekend.  We went to Vancouver to celebrate her impending nuptials.  They were the perfect snack while we opened presents.  Since the rain forced us to be inside most of the weekend, we demolished the cookies in no time.  My friends were all very excited to hear about my new business proposal too.