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Hey, cookiers! It's that time again - the time to thank your favorite cookie, cake, and sugar artists for their hard work and the inspiration they've provided you over the year! Yes, nominations for the...

It's certifiably autumnal here - meaning both here in Maine, where I am tending to home-away-from-home matters this week, and in this Spotlight. In the course of the few days between my arrival on Monday and today, the...

At long last, we’re catching up in depth with our wonderful July 2023 site artist Lori Todhunter, aka Cookies on Cambridge. (Aside: I always love finding out the real names behind cookies names, don’t you?! They seem so much more personal to me.) As we learned in...

One of the many amazing aspects of Cookie-A-Thon, organized by the wonderful Nancy Westfall, is that sponsors like me get free All-Access Passes to give away. Remember, Cookie-A-Thon (a four-day spree of online cookie decorating classes from November 2 to November 5) is normally free. However, if you want..

I can't believe we are saying goodbye to another month. The summer breezes already feel like a distant memory. I guess I should clarify that those summer breezes were in my neighborhood. Though I am...

I shared my first felt letter board cookie tutorial three years ago, and have made a few more since! Here’s a photo collage of my past projects plus some of their variations for reference and inspiration...

At the end of last week's Spotlight, contributor Lisa Foss mentioned feeling a heightened sense of urgency to get cracking on Halloween cookies after seeing the plethora of pumpkins in her local markets. At the time, I was feeling pretty chill about my Halloween decorating so...

Yay, I'm back! I know, I know, it's been a while since my last Kitchen Club kit, but since I'm now releasing kits just five times a year, they all come clustered around key cookie holidays, which tend to be toward the end of the year. Boring admin stuff aside (LOL), let's move on...

In 2018, I bought a pack of 100 sheets of wafer paper to make a teeny tiny greeting card for a Mother’s Day cookie. Since then, I’ve used wafer paper in one other project to make a couple of small oak leaves. Between the two projects, I’ve...

I am so thrilled with the cookies that have been trending on Cookie Connection this week. We have all sorts of celebrations. We also have color, texture, and dimension. Though this may be my personal interpretation, we also have...

Wow - what a stunning collection of fresh, new cookies! Thanks, everyone, for the active posting this week; your beauties have really livened up the site. This hot list has...

At my house, we've had so much fun these past few months. It has been the first stretch since the pandemic that a season has felt completely familiar. Now...