Ah shucks.  Totally surprised and pleased to be nominated for the Lobster Award (er, Liebster Award) by Art of Food Puns ; it’s a sweet way of spotlighting small, newer blogs. If you are a fan of puns, please check out Art of Food Puns! Full of chortling out-loud, clever word play.  Hurray for another person who believes that it’s totally okay to play with your food!

Here are the questions they would like us to answer:

1. What’s the most delicious food/meal you’ve ever eaten? Who made it?

When I was etty betty, I liked my mom’s spaghetti.  Is that alright already?

2. Name your favorite vegetable.

Lettuce live with peas and hominy (ok, maybe not hominy but definitely lettuce and peas)

3. What inspired you today?

Guiry’s- the art supply and paint store.  And my children.  Always my children.

4. Give us a pun! 

Lettuce Romaine friends, oh kale yeah!

Per the pass-it-on protocol, here is the blog I would like to nominate for the Liebster Award. I am off-topic as he is not a startup blog and has quite the huge following… but you really have to check his material.  So, so brilliant. Really, really:

–Wrong Hands (the incredible John Atkinson)

If we nominated your blog and you would like to participate, 1.) link the person who nominated you (that would be us) to your blog post, 2.) answer the questions given to you by the nominator (us again), and 3.) nominate other bloggers for the award who have fewer than 200 followers. Also, 4.) create questions for your nominees to answer and 5.) let the nominees know that they have been nominated by going to their blog and notifying them.

Here is the questions we would like YOU to answer:

1. What made you start to draw?

2. Who influence(s)d your ‘pun’ery the most?

3. What/Who makes you laugh the hardest?

4. Give us a pun!

I may have said this before but it bears repeating… it’s all about what the customer wants.  As always, I asked for the back story for the order.  I found out that these cookies would be made for a graduate that was quite the active, busy girl! High on her interest hit list were singing in a choir, participating in human rights activities for the Summer Institute, and writing for the NeXt section of the Buffalo News.  Also, in a short week or two,  she would be heading to Buffalo State to study Media Production. But first we had graduation cookies to personalize just for her!!!  The theme was Provence, which made me think of lavender fields.  “Kismet” says her mom as she sent me screen shots of the lavender invitation and centerpieces! So one platter was dedicated to Eliza’s interests and one to LAVENDER!

The Buffalo State logo was a combination of pen, paint, and layering of royal icing (RI).

These NeXt newspapers were made with a base coat of RI and a quick session with an edible ink pen!

To represent media design, I chose a sound board, old school radio broadcast microphone, video camera, and (maybe soon.to.be old school?) traditional newsprint.

The two designs for centerpieces mimicked the centerpieces that mom had made for the tables: 1) tall lavender in a terra cotta pot and 2) sprigs of purple and thistle in a mason jar.  These also combined royal icing and hand painting.