CookieCon 2015 Ticket Giveaway!

A couple of years ago a new facebook friend was posting pictures of her beautiful decorated cookies and I instantly wanted to learn how she did it! Well, she taught me a few things via fb chat, and then began my love for decorating sugar cookies. I pulled out my great grandmother's cut-out cookie recipe, started practicing, and I was decorating.  But I have soooooo much more to learn!  I am just amazed at what all of you ladies do, that I am inspired every day!

 

I would love to go to CookieCon to learn more techniques, network with so many lovely ladies, and hone in on the craft! This past 8 months has been a roller coaster of events from a car accident that broke my left arm (thank goodness I am right handed) and injured my right hand, to getting my hands back to being able to decorate at all, to my Mother's recent unexpected passing. I love what you all can do, and I would love to learn up close and personal! Thank you Tammy for this great opportunity!

I would love to go to Cookie Con to learn new techniques and meet people that love to decorate cookies like me 😊

I would love to see all the cookie work that all the amazing artists do in person, and I would love to talk to all the cookiers who have inspired me.

My favorite motto is BE HAPPY and creating is what makes me happy! I would be sooo happy to be able to attend the CookieCon 2015 by winning tickets. Happy to meet the artists that inspire and share their love of decorating. Happy to be among others with the same love of sharing ideas, techniques and stories.

Happy to just BE .... Thx!

Hello!

 

I will love to go to the cookiecon! This will be amazing opportunity to meet a lot of people, and have a lot of fun!!! I want to learn everything, even if my English is not very good. Thank you for share!

 

 

Just like everyone else who has posted a comment, I would be completely excited to attend CookieCon. I haven't been on this cookie journey for very long, but I have made some good strides in building my skills, and I have so much more to learn.  I think I would be inspired by CookieCon to work on developing my cookie-ing skills.  Most importantly, however, I would love to be able to put faces to the names of so many amazing cookie artists.  They have been so encouraging, and kind.  So many have been super generous by sharing their cookie knowledge. Fingers crossed that I will be able to make lots of new cookie friends at CookieCon!

I want/need/have to go to Cookie Con 2015!!!  Last years was so much fun that I'd hate to miss this one.  So many talented friendly people sharing so much information and fun.  Lasting bonds were built and must be nourished again this year.  

Awesome that you guys are giving away a ticket! This will be my first CookieCon! I want to go to meet in person all of the great people that I have thus far only met online! I have heard so many great stories of life-long friendships formed after the previous CookieCon's and that is something that I hope to happen to me! Thanks again

I have made plans to attend since the beginnng and something always prevents me from making it.  I would love to finally be able to go and see for myself what everyone talks about.  I would love to mingle with people who understand my "condition"! LOL! 

I am always looking to further my knowledge of different styles of cookie/cake design.  I love meeting others with my same quirky brain and love for all things cookie!!!   

 

Liz @ PublicDisplayofConfection

This would be the best mommy vacation ever!  I am now a stay at home mom in a new state trying to turn a hobby into a career and would like to provide additional income to our family.  Cookiecon would be a great way to learn and be inspired by the greatest cookiers around.

Oh my gosh I would love to go!  I've been a cake decorator for 15 years (now retired), but only recently got into royal iced cookies.  I stayed away from them for a long time because I was so bad at flooding.  I would love to see all the cool things that can be done with cookies as well as meet some of the online people who are helping to inspire me to create cookies!  You are such a lovely group of people and I would love to see you in person!

This would be amazing and such a blessing!! I'm just getting started with decorated cookies but I can't get enough of them! The opportunity to learn from the best around in the business... yea every cookiers Disneyland dream!! I would love this opportunity and if not no worries because I'll be stalking those pages for all the tips, tricks, and pics I can!

This would be an awesome event to attend as I only started (again) decorating a few months.  I would like to meet the awesome people behind the scene who gives us such inspiration to keep doing what we LOVE to do....decorate cookies.  I also want to gain more information and learn from the 'best' in the cookie world. 

I just moved from Florida to Washington State. Being this close now, I am dying to go. One small thing, I need a job to start making money here! Still working on that. Pick me, I would love to represent!

I REALLY, really want to go to Cookie Con so that I can finally meet my extended cookie family. I have "met" so many wonderful people since I've started this cookie journey, and I know that many of them will be there. In addition, of course, I want to LEARN from these wonderful people! I could see myself walking away from this conference feeling refreshed, and ready to start doing some fun and crazy decorating with the skills that I learn! 

I'd love to meet all of my cookie sisters in person.  I feel like I've been communicating with them online for what seems like forever even though it's only been a little under a year.

I have not yet been to CookieCon and would absolutely love to go!! I tried to come up with the money last year but just couldn't do it.  I have a friend that goes every year (Heather from SugarNosh Treats) and has only great things to say about what goes down there.  Being able to attend would be amazing. I know I would learn so much that would take my cookies to the next level and make this side business bakery more of a real thing! So many amazingly talented people to learn from!!

I've been decorating cakes for over 35 years, but I am fairly new to cookies.  They are so versatile, and you can hold them in your hand while you decorate them!!   I'm an aspiring "Cookie Crazy" and would love to dive headlong into a complete cookie environment to experience a pleasant cookie overload!

It would be amazing to meet so many people that are so talented in something I'd love to gain more knowledge in.  Cookies make people happy, they make me happy and to be with people who share the same interest would be so amazing.  Thank you for the chance

I like to be around people that I want to be like.  Your generosity is a shining example.  I want to be that kind of person always.  It's really a no brainer.  The BEST of this passionate field will be there.  I'm hoping to get more knowledgeable, more talent,  create lifelong friendships and ultimately share what I learn..

I just learned about this wonderful event from someone who happened be in the area on business and saw your event.  She decided to see what it was all about, and loved it.  She then came to the Minnesota ICES Day of Sharing and told us what fun she had.  I recently bought a bakery and I'm looking to expand with some new ideas.

 

EDITOR'S NOTE: Just a clarification: CookieCon is not hosted and organized by Cookie Connection; CookieCon is the brainchild of Karen and Mike Summers, and operates completely independently of this site. I am simply sponsoring this giveaway along with Tammy Colitti (paying for half of the ticket) and sponsoring the CookieCon event.

It's been a very difficult year and I could really use something positive to look forward to.

I would love to go because it will means a dream come true. It will be my opportunity to learn and meet the most artistic and sweet creative people. 

Thank you for your opportunity and support. 

I have thought about CookieCon for the past two years. Thinking that one day I would have the time to go. I quit my job as a social service director to find find my true passion. I started baking, enjoyed it, started selling and now I am really wanting to go big a cookies have nearly surpassed my other sales. People tell me they love what I do, but they have no clue where the masters are, they are at CookieCon! Lol. I admire all of the amazing talent. I can't imagine being there and soaking up all that I could. I want to be a master one day and I think this would give me the opportunity to make it happen! This would be the sign I need to move forward and make this dream a reality!

Cookie Con is a dream, I admire all of the wonderful talent of the cookie artists. I am a beginner cookier and I would love to be exposed to so much talent.  Cookie Con would help to make my dream come true. AND be so much fun.

Why would I love to win a trip to Cookie Con? Well, for more reasons then you all probably want to sit here and read. I began decorating cookies a little over a year ago and fell in love. I had been casually baking cakes for about 5 or 6 years and decided to take the leap into cookies. I never thought I would be able to create beautiful cookies, like some of the many, many great cookiers I follow. I still wonder if I will ever be at their level, but I am certainly having fun along the way. 

I work at a University, in a finance position. I probably do not need to even elaborate, but I will. The stress and anxiety of an average week is almost more than I can handle at times. Decorating cookies has been my outlet. I come home from a stressful day and dive into baking and decorating. While I am doing so, I forget about the stressors of my day. Not only does decorating put me in a “happy place”, but seeing the reactions to the creations I make for others, truly is rewarding beyond what words could say.

Since I started decorating cookies, I wished I would have the money when the time came around to register to attend Cookie Con. Unfortunately, finances are very, very tough right now and it definitely is not feasible. I would love nothing more than to win a trip to Cookie Con. There are sooo many wonderful decorators that have been my inspiration along my cookie journey. I would love to meet them and be able to attend some of their workshops. It would be an honor.

I know many others are probably just as deserving, but please consider me! Cookie Con is like the Disneyland for adults. Take me to my happy place!!

After being forced to leave my career due to disability, it was my hope that I could focus more time on my love of cookie decorating.  However, it was only then that I realized how little I knew!  I see so many beautiful works of art being created but seem unable to progress toward anything near to this beautiful work.  I have not register erred due to my now limited resources, but  I would very much like to attend CookieCon to restore my passion for this creative outlet that I began working in when I was very young.

I really want to go to Cookiecon because I'm a new Cookier and would really love the opportunity to meet all of the wonderful people that I've met through Let's Talk Cookies and Cookie Decorating for Beginners. I love learning how to bake and decorate cookies just in the last 5 months. There is nothing better than when a customer tells you over and over again how great your cookies are.

I started decorating cookies almost 4 years ago. My plan is to make my business a full time one. To get to learn from the best, meet so many cookie artists that I follow and admire would be Amazing! This would be a wonderful opportunit!

I would LOVE to go to Cookie Con! I was set to go to the first one for my birthday--and cancelled to prioritize visitng a friend across country who was going through a divorce. Two weeks prior, she emailed me to tell me about her new boyfriend who would be spending all weekend with us--on my birthday--and wasn't I excited to come out to meet him? Again. My birthday. Ditched for a guy. On my birthday. I should have gone to Cookie Con.

First, I would love to go to Cookiecon because it would be wonderful to meet the masters in this type of art who are also an inspiration to me! Second, I would like to experience this fabulous world of cookies and to be able to bring all these new techniques and art to Colombia. For me as an entrepreneur and small business owner, it would be wonderful to meet people who do what I do and love making awesome cookies. And last but not least, I would also like to apply the newest techniques available in the market and be able to bring this knowledge to Colombia, to my business, to better my business and to better my life since part of my income comes from making people happy through cookies.

***** GIVEAWAY CLOSED - WINNER ANNOUNCED! *****

 

First, thanks to all who played along, but especially to Tammy Colitti of 2 T's Stencils for co-sponsoring this giveaway with me.

 

Well . . . the random number generator has spoken, and the winning comment is #112, the last comment on the blog . . .

 

 

This means that JojaBlueberry is our lucky winner with the following heartfelt comment:

 

 

Congrats, JojaBlueberry! Clearly, you've got lots of good reasons for wanting to attend this wonderful event, and Tammy and I are delighted to help make your dream a reality! I'll be in touch soon via email with instructions for redeeming your ticket!