Oh my, the year is already one-third of the way over! 
How on earth did that happen so fast?! And why do I always feel like I'm racing against the clock? (Rhetorical questions only, folks! 
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As much as I bemoan time flying faster than I can get through my to-do list, I do love that each new month brings a new featured site artist!* And during this lovely month of May, our artist in none other than our hardworking and talented Practice Bakes Perfect Challenge organizer and recent Milestone Award winner, Christine Donnelly (aka Bakerloo Station). Let's give her a hand not only for her gorgeous artwork (below and now in our banner and backdrop), but also for her unrelenting dedication to pushing us to new cookie heights! 
We already know a fair bit about Christine from her official Cookie Connection contributor's bio below. But as with our other site artists, I'll be interviewing her for an upcoming Cookier Close-up, where I hope to get behind her bird cookie fetish (
), her near-lifetime journey in baking and decorating, and much more.
Pssst . . . If you have anything you're dying for me to ask Christine, please don't hesitate to drop me an email! But do it fast! (Yes, I'm racing against the clock yet again!)
Christine Donnelly is author of Practice Bakes Perfect, a bimonthly Cookie Connection blog feature that poses inspiration and challenges to stretch you as a cookie artist - for practice, prizes, and fun! A lifelong baker, Christine began her professional career at 16, when she was hired on the spot at her local bakery to work the counter and decorate cakes. After detours to college and law school, she worked as a trial lawyer in Chicago for many years, ultimately leaving that career to become a stay-at-home mother to her two children. In her “retirement,” she continued to bake at home, at last finding her preferred artistic medium in decorated cookies. In February 2013, Bakerloo Station was born with a presence on both Facebook and Instagram. Christine makes cookies to balance her left brain, to inspire and share creative ideas, and to feed those needs that only art can satisfy. Catch up on all of Christine's Cookie Connection posts here. Photo credit: Christine Donnelly.
* P.S. Our 2016 featured site artists are all winners of our Practice Bakes Perfect Challenge #13, which you can read more about here. If you would like your own cookie art to be considered for use on the site after our challenge winners have run their course (by January 2017), I would love to see it at any time. Guidelines for submitting cookie art can be found here.
