Monday, June 29, 2009

Look what I found!

I'm going to try and find something every week that you might just be the slight bit interested in.




Today I found this great Etsy site that sells "tablescapes" made from your printer & paper.
It's all in PDF format so you can customize your party products to the exact amount. NO having 6 extra something and never using them again.
It also helps that these products are ADORABLE!




Check out Paperandcake on Etsy.

Do you like this cute sampling of goodies-then head on over and see what else they've got to offer.
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6559066

Sunday, June 28, 2009

A B C Survey

A anatomically correct
B Brodbeck
C cookeez
D dog lover
E elephant lover-especially wee little baby ones Ahhhhhh
F friendly
G generous
H humble
I in love
J juggles lots of things at once, but I don't juggle for real-understand?
K Katie, my beautiful daughter
L laughter makes things ok
M Mom-Mom-Mom-Mom, that's what I hear all day long
N nickers-what I told my husband he should wear to a business meeting to loosen those stiff business me up
O overly indulgent
P Peanuts what my 2 yr old calls his privates
Q quirky, that's me
R responsible (sometimes I would like a day off from this)
S sassy-Oh Yes I can be!
T Tammy (too easy)
U unique
V Venice -where I would love to go someday
W wedding day Sept 13th 96-it was a Friday-it's been good luck for us :)
X X-ray, of course, I had God knows how many the other day at the dentist, that thing they put in your mouth to take the pic was too big and cut the bottom and roof of my mouth-the hygienist said I had a small mouth-have to tell the husband that!
Y Yell! Yep it's summer and I do it A lot!
Z the letter I LOVE at the end of my Milk and Cookeez products :)

Thanks To Semi Slacker Mom for this fun idea!

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

RIP Charlie, I miss you.
May you be blessed with eternal happiness.

I'm back, sort of.

We will finally get the restoration company out of the basement today and then the "FUN" really begins.
Construction, painting, flooring, and serious disarray. I hope that it comes out ok. I get a knot in my stomach thinking that our great basement is ruined forever.
Milk and Cookeez will be closed for incoming orders until July 10th.
We are going away for about 6 days, to our hometown in PA. and with the whole work area issue, I can't really get any work done anyway.
I'm hoping to have a renewed creativity when we return, hopefully we'll leave the bad and return with a fresh start.
It has been quite a traumatic week-I'm more than happy to leave!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Not a good day

Life has been dealing my family a bad deck since 2007.
I don't like to dwell in the past, so I won't get into it, but we had one beautiful thing happen in March of 2007 (Rooney) and unfortunately it went down hill after that.
We are a family-we stick together, through thick and thin, and rough and easy, but the rough is getting rougher and the easy has pretty much gone away.

Fast forward 2009...

Life is still moving on, but the last 2 days have been extremely trying.
Last night we found water in our basement. Not a huge deal to most, but it hit us hard. Money is very, very tight right now and the deductible is more than we ca come up with at this exact moment. (Please read this for what it is-a fact, not a pitty statement.) There is a lot that needs to be done in a small amount of time and we just can not do it.
We have good insurance, but unfortunately-the cleaning crew knows this and wants to get as much as possible-it's horrific!

On another note, I received an email from the woman I used to Nanny for almost 15 years ago.
We keep in contact, as much as we can with my 3 kids and her 5.
She is a wonderful Mom and woman. The kind you try to compare yourself to, but know that you can never be as good (in a great way). I love her and her family. They were and still are so good to me.
She emailed me that she wanted to call, but couldn't get to it (as is always our case), but sent an attachment for me to see. I was so excited to open it, since it's been awhile, I open it to find out that her second oldest son had passed away. I am in complete shock and utter sadness. He had an accident while he was away at school.
He was in 2nd grade when I started nannying for them. He was 21 when he died. How do I look at this family ? How do I tell them that I am sorry for their loss? Words can not express, my sorrow or feeling of loss-I can not imagine how they are moving on. The world will be less one good soul. Cha-you will missed.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Another Milk and Cookeez

Yep you heard that right!
Milk and Cookeez is branching out into a .org :)
While our site http://www.milkandcookeez.com/ will still be our retail site we will be adding the .org site as a "Bulk" site.
We have been limited in our offerings to our wholesale customers and customers who would like to purchase in a large quantities.
I know it's not a big deal to my current, loyal customers, but it will make my life a whole lot easier-and make ordering a breeze for my wholesale customers.

Another great perk is I can now offer Favors!! I've been wanting to do this for a long time, but I just don't want all of that information on my retail site.

So, if you are interested in Party Favors, Shower Favors, or you just wants Lots of Milk and Cookeez at a discounted price-this is your new BFF!

Check it out, it should be ready in about a week-barring any unforeseen internet issues.

Thanks again Bloggy Buds!

UPDATE:
www.milkandcookeez.org has gone LIVE!!!
Check it out, just for fun-or heck become a wholesale customer :)
It looks almost identical to my retail site, but it has some new and much better pictures.
It isnt as "Fun" as the retail site-but if you want to order it works!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Im Having Another Giveaway!!!



However, this time you need to visit Mammalicious Finds.
It's Coffee Week over there and I've sponsored 2 Yummy Coffee treats to tantalize your NEED for Caffeine, w/o the buzz!
1st is my LE Mocha Nut Latte Shea Whipps
2nd is a Coffee with Cream Lollipop soapz


Amy is a great friend of mine and she has taken Mammalicious finds to a whole new level-it's a bloggy world of sorts-complete with Internet website-CHECK IT ALL OUT!

I've even thrown my hat in as a Beauty Reviewer, so if you would like your soap, creams, balms, oils, shampoos, conditioners, or make-up reviewed-just fill out the info on MF and you'll get graded 1-5 cookeez. Click Here TOO



Wednesday, June 3, 2009

New Do-hickies...


The New Gourmet Cupcakz Label
(notice the weight difference-more fizzes for your bucks)


My New Cupcakz Label



Just me goofing-I liked this graphic!



I'm bored, after being extremely busy for 2 weeks now I finally have time to doodle.
Enjoy my doodles-Im off to photograph!




Here are a few of the tings I've been working on...

Monday, June 1, 2009

OH BOY! I made my 1st Treasury!!!!

A great BIG THANK YOU goes out to PnkGeeni, who made the treasury and put me in it!
And another thank you to Patrice for letting me know-I had no idea, thank you!
Oh, I'm so excited, I've always wanted to be in a treasury, but Honestly I couldn't figure out how to do it. :)
Now I wish I had time to really sit and make up treasuries-they look fantastic when they are done.
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