There's No Place Like Home and a {COOKIE GIVE-AWAY}!

Lets do a COOKIE GIVE-AWAY! More info on this post after some cookie pictures... I made Wizard cookies for a friend of a friend. Her school was putting on a play. She asked if I would make her some dresses, witch shoes with added stocking, witch hats, princesses, Sparkly shoes in silver, and scarecrows. To get the full effect, I added in the specialty girl, the rainbows, the lion, the tin man, the oil can, the yellow brick road, the dogs and the ruby red shoes.

I started by purchasing a Wizard clipart set from JW Illustrations. I used that as my inspiration for my designs.

I made a bunch of dresses. I think they came out pretty cute. 

 Then I thought that we must have rainbows - remember that song - Somewhere Over The Rainbow...

 Then I made sparkly ruby red shoes. 

For the play, the shoes are sparkly silver instead of red. 

 and some Witch shoes that I added on extra dough to make fun striped stockings.

 and some Witch hats. By now I wish I had thought of making some witches too.

 and then I made some princesses and dressed them up a little like a good witch

and some scarecrows that need a brain 

 and some lions that need courage

 and a tinman that needs a heart

 and I also made the little dog too

 and then added in the yellow brick road to follow

In all, I made quite a few Wizard cookies.

So I wanted to do a COOKIE GIVE-AWAY when my blog had 100,000 visitors. On Thursday we hit 100,000, but that also happened to be the 4-year anniversary of my dad's death and I just wasn't much in the mood for a give-away. Instead I wrote about my dad and gaining perspective and received so many nice comments on my blog, FB and email and I was so touched by all of your kindness. Then we went out of town which I'll tell you about soon in cookies. So now that we have over 103,000 visits, it's finally time to do a COOKIE GIVE-AWAY!

The prize will be one dozen of Cristin's Cookies to one reader. My design, my timeline (in the next couple weeks). Open to U.S. residents only. Winner will be chosen via random.org on Friday, April 20th at midnight. 12 Large Decorated Sugar Cookies with Glaze Icing.

I've thought a lot about how I want to host this give-away. I've opened up so much to all of you in the last year and 3 months during this cookie adventure, so NOW IT'S YOUR TURN. Tell me something, anything about yourself. And here's the really fun part. You can enter as many times as you want!!! The more entries telling me something about YOU, the more chances of winning. Show me that you want my cookies!

Enter one factoid about yourself per entry. There are lots of ways to leave a comment on my blog. If you use the "anonymous" option to comment, make SURE to leave an email address so I have a way of contacting you if you win. Here is my for instance on how to play along with factoids about yourself:

*Raising my children to be independent, competent, loving, kind, giving people is the most important thing I will ever do. EVER.

*I have a Frankenstein scar across my neck, my hand, my shoulder, and my elbow.

*There are never enough hours in the day to do all the things I love to do.

*Having supportive, loving girlfriends in my life is one of the most important things.

*The longest I've ridden my pretty pink bicycle is 26 hours (400 miles).

*I watched my father die and I miss him more than words can say.

*When I exercise, I am happy and have energy to spare.

*I earned a Black Belt in Kenpo Karate.

*I have PINK hair.

*My daughter is pregnant with my first grandchild and her middle name is Cristin.

*My son made his final decision on the college he will attend this fall.

Get it? Want my cookies? Then tell me about you! One factoid per entry. Go...

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