Anyone wondering what we’ve been up to??

Well, here’s a big old hint for ya:

We’ve entered the Utterly Engaged Designer’s Challenge and have been creating AWAY to make something truly gorgeous and unique. That being said- I’d love it if anyone of my readers, clients, friends or fans came out to support the element of my job that I hold most dear: designing!!

It’s set to be a night full of fun and definitely some inspiring designs! Hope to see some of you there! Until then, I’m just trying to keep my head screwed on straight and get some sleep [ever]!

All of you newly-engaged gals: you sleep at some point, too, okay! It’s a pact!

xoxo,

A.

As I’m sure you’re all dying to know who won the contest and which member of the team decorated each fabulous [ultra fab, if I may] cookie, I’ll get right down to it!!

BIG congrats to Stephanie, for being the randomly selected winner [and commenting just in the nick of time! Please note the timing on my blog is off- you got it, Steph!!]

And now, for the final count of cookie votes [discounting all of the votes Josh attempted to give himself]:

And the ITN winner IS…. drumroll please….

ME!!! I never, ever, ever, ever, EVER thought in a gazillion years that my tree-on-drugs would win a darn thing! I honestly thought that E.T. would take it purely on the nostalgia factor! At least the team can’t say that you guys play favorites! I don’t think you’d have any idea that the tree was mine [especially since it started out as a bouquet... ouch]!! Have a WONDERFUL weekend and get some shopping done!! xoxo!

So tonight the girls and I [sans Shannon, man, a winter Hawaii vacation must be rough, missing out on THIS!] decorated cookies and came up with a sweet little contest for ourselves and well, for YOU all!

Directly below me is a cookie that each of us decorated. We had limited items to use and we only had red/green/white of everything. It made for some interesting cookies, that’s for sure! But we totally had a blast. Anyway! Leave us a comment on this post telling us which one is your favorite! We’ll tally the votes for ourselves [for bragging rights] and then give one LUCKY RANDOM commenter a super sweet gift card to Sprinkles Cupcakes [who, I may add, decorate just a bit better than us]!!! This is open to ANYONE and EVERYONE so if you READ, I want a comment! That includes alllll of my clients who have yet to comment, friends of mine outside of the industry, vendors I know or don’t know, blogger brides or people who just randomly found me and have nothing to do with weddings. We’re a big old family here! I know how many people come by every day and I know you’re watching me… so chime in! Here it goes. For “fairness” purposes [because my whole team knows everyone loves ME so much] we’re keeping the cookies anonymous. You won’t know who’s cookie is which until the contest ends, Christmas Eve!! We’ll announce the winner on Christmas Eve [literally, in the eve] along with another sweet surprise for my faithful few followers.

Now, bring on the cookies!!!

Cookie A, “the eyeball”:

Cookie B, “the willy wonka tree”:

Cookie C, “the pretty flower”:

Cookie D, “the extra terrestrial”:

Cookie E, “the ‘bominable boy”:

Cookie F, “the bear that rings eerily similar to the grateful dead bear” cookie:

We took lots more fun pictures that I’ll show you all as the week progresses along [after all, it's Christmas and we SHOULD be off of work, right??]. Please, chime in at YOUR chance to win some yummy, yummy fun at Sprinkles!! And may I suggest the Red Velvet [weak in the knees at the thought!!].

xoxo!