Fall Cookie Winner

I apologize for the delay in getting this posted.  I am so grateful to everyone who entered the Fall Cookie Giveaway on my SITS day.  I've had so much fun reading all of the wonderful comments and look forward to visiting all of your blogs in the coming weeks!  It has been a rough week for our family, so no new recipes today... but I did want to post the cookie winner as promised!  I will be back very soon with some really great recipes to share!

So-- without further delay... the cookie winner is...

Brandi, at "From My Kitchen to Yours"

Brandi-- Congratulations!  Please email me your mailing address at decadentdreamsbakery@yahoo.com  so we can get your cookies to you!

It's SITS Day!

I couldn't be more excited about being the Featured Blogger for SITS today! For those of you visiting for the first time, welcome to Delectable Dining! I have been blogging for about a year, but have been cooking and baking for as far back as I can remember. I'm thrilled to have this outlet to share my passion with others!My primary role in life is to take care of my family. I have been happily married to my best friend for the last four years, but just celebrated our tenth year together. I am the proud mother of a three-year-old boy and a nine-month-old girl. Being their mommy has been one of the most rewarding elements of my life and I look forward to every moment that I spend with them, watching them grow. I also work as a first grade teacher and keep myself very busy in this position. It is such a rewarding career and I love to watch the excitement on my students' faces as they gain confidence in their abilities! Life is good!

To introduce you to some of my favorites, I have chosen the following blog posts to share some of my favorite creations! If you check out my index on the right side of the page, you can find different categories of foods and desserts to try for yourself. Now that I am back at work full time, I find the "Weeknight Cooking" recipes to be especially helpful!

The BEST chocolate chip cookies!

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day Cookbook Review

Special Occasion Breakfasts: Chocolate Glazed Cherry Turnovers

And now... in honor of SITS Day... a GIVEAWAY! :)

While I was home on a maternity leave last year, my good friend, Christy, and I started an in-home bakery specializing in customized, hand-painted sugar cookies and other unique treats. We have had so much fun within this creative outlet and enjoy sharing our love for baking with each other! As a special thank you for visiting today, we're having a cookie giveaway to celebrate! We're offering a 7 cookie assortment of fall cookies and we'll ship anywhere in the continental U.S.! You can earn one entry by leaving a comment to this post and can receive another entry if you sign up to follow my blog. (Current followers, you definitely qualify for the second entry as well!) If you have any questions about ordering cookies, please feel free to contact us at: decadentdreamsbakery@yahoo.com.

Thanks for visiting today! :)

Cookie Winner!

The ultimate highlight of my little boy's day was getting to pick one of your names out of his White Sox baseball hat! (These cookies are obviously not the Father's Day cookies you've won-- but this post was way too boring without a picture in it! This bouquet was made as an end of year gift for my nephew's preschool teacher.)

Congratulations to. . .

Lisa (from Cheerios Underfoot)

Lisa-- I will email you to get a shipping address and specific personalization information for your bouquet!

Father's Day Cookie Giveaway!

You may have read in earlier posts about the cookies that my friend Christy and I have been making lately. . . we've been creating hand painted sugar cookies for all different holidays and events. Our Mother's Day cookies (pictured above) were a hit and we decided that it would be fun to do a Father's Day Blog Giveaway!

We are giving away a box of 9 hand painted, personalized "Father's Day Theme" sugar cookies-- to be shipped anywhere in the continental U.S. One box will be given away to a random winner on this blog and another will be given away to a random winner on Christy's blog.

Here's how you can win:

* 1 entry for leaving a comment on this post

* 1 additional entry for signing up to follow this blog

* 1 additional entry for linking back to this post from your blog (be sure to leave me a note letting me know that you have done this!)

As an added bonus, you can go to Christy's blog to have added entries on her giveaway! This contest will run through June 6th, at midnight EST. That way we can be sure to have these shipped out in plenty of time for Father's Day.

Good Luck!

Happy Easter and Congratulations!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend!

I wanted to take a moment to say 'Congratulations' to a fellow blogger! Heidi, from Tried and True Cooking with Heidi, is celebrating her 100th post today! You can go to her site to enter her 100th Post Giveaway. Congratulations, Heidi, on a great blog! I love checking it for new economical and family friendly recipes!