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Day 8 (February 10), 10:30 am.   Gad! How indulgent! I hate to admit it, but I sleep in much later than any reasonable person should. But what counts is that I've recovered from my marathon weekend of cookie decorating and teaching, and I'm ready...

They say “necessity is the mother of invention,” and nothing could better describe the life events of our next Cookier Close-up featured guest - Georganne Bell, creator of the popular blog LilaLoa and CookieCon 2014 presenter.   ...

With a mere four days to go to my favorite cookie decorating holiday, my second sweet Valentine's Day Spotlight,  promised over three weeks ago, is long overdue - but well worth the wait!   Without further ado, here you have it: the hottest...

Day 7 (February 9), 8:00 am.   Hmmm . . . I'm a little less spritely than yesterday when the alarm sounds off this morning. I chalk it up to the extra concentration required to teach without being conversant in the classroom's language. All of my...

Day 6 (February 8), 8:00 am.   My iPhone alarm sounds off a full two hours later than usual, and I'm showing none of my typical hit-the-pause-button-and-roll-over predispositions. We were so organized at the conclusion of yesterday's class...

Day 5 (February 7), 6:00 am.   iPhone alarm sounds off, but there's no point to re-setting it as I "slept" fitfully all night and, though exhausted, I'm strangely wide awake. The pent-up enthusiasm about the start of today's classes is the clear...

The diary of my Barcelona trip continues . . .   Day 3 (February 5), 8:00 am.   iPhone alarm sounds off. I reset it for 8:30 am, roll back into bed, and promptly fall back to sleep.   Day 3 (February 5), 8:30 am.   iPhone alarm...

WARNING: What you are about to read (a daily - or thereabouts - travelogue documenting my cookie teaching trip to Spain and Portugal) may be TMI for many of you. But for those contemplating similar trips, I hope it will serve as a healthy dose of...

This week, our CookieCon 2014 series continues with the talented and oh-so-entrepreneurial Susan Schmitt of The Painted Cookie.         As it turns out, Susan harks from Wilton, Connecticut, not far from my...

Maybe it's my non-stop cookie decorating of the past week. Or the fact that all of the projects I'm doing are ones I've done before . . . Or the sheer quantity of cookies (about 3,000) that have passed before my eyes, hundreds of which are the EXACT...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: It takes a small community to keep a large community like  Cookie Connection  alive with content, which is why I'm so completely thrilled to be adding another regular contributor to the site. I'm sure many of you already know our newest featured blogger - Kari Arroyo aka Yankee Girl Yummies - for her amazing cookie work posted here on Cookie Connectio n and elsewhere online. She's a top-flight decorator with a strong grasp of many techniques and an amazing...

I don't know about you, but Valentine's Day has got to be my all-time favorite cookie decorating holiday. The very shape of a heart allows for so much design versatility, and there's no shortage of pithy puns ("Bee mine", "I love ewe", "My...