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Battle of the Cake Boxes: Do Pinterest hacks actually make the cake better?
Search box cake mixes on Pinterest and in five seconds you will see hundreds of posts about how to make your box cake taste more homemade. Some say to increase the eggs, others to add milk and still say to swap out the oil for butter. I had decided to go with a Funfetti cake […]
Reading away anxiety: Great picture books to get your kid ready for kindergarten
Starting kindergarten can bring up a range of emotions in kids and, let’s be honest, parents. There is joy, excitement, anticipation but there can also be anxiety and fear. Preschools, kinder-ready days, practice runs can be a big help but you can also help your child lessen their fears by reading to them. By telling […]
Bookakery Picture Book Sale
We’ve spent the last few days organizing our picture books and realized that we have some great ones that we want to share with you! All of the books listed above are from our past Bookakery Boxes and are currently on sale in our shop. So if you missed your chance to get one of […]
Summer Reading Ideas for Kids
Summer’s can be filled with a lot of “I’m bored” and “there’s nothing to do”. Always having amazing books around is a great response to these comments. We’ve put together our Summer Reading Ideas for Kids sheet to help you and your kids discover new books, log the ones you’ve read and keep track of […]
Bookstore Finds & Reviews
I have a hard time passing by a bookstore, especially a used one with a children’s section, without going in to see what they have and the other weekend was no exception. Sterling and I went to our local farmers market and there is a great little used bookstore on the same street so in […]
Bookakery Boxes Now Available!
It’s been such a crazy two weeks since we launched our Bookakery Boxes that I forgot to announce it here! We started accepting orders for our first box at the end of March and in just over a week those boxes will be heading out the door. April’s theme: In the Garden This month’s box […]
Bookakery Boxes Coming Soon!
First off, sorry for being MIA for the past two months but it has been for a very good reason. We have been working on launching our first business and finally we are ready to share it with all of you! We are so excited to announce that The Bookakery will be launching a subscription […]
Homemade Gingerbread Houses – Passing on a tradition
Tomorrow is National Gingerbread House Day so I thought it would be a good time to write about one of my favorite holiday traditions: decorating gingerbread houses with friends and family. I honestly don’t remember the first time I made a gingerbread house, my recipe is so old that the paper is brown from being […]
All the Pumpkin Things – Pumpkin Cake
This may get me banned in certain circles but I am not a fan of the pumpkin spiced latte. I wanted to be, I really did, but it just doesn’t work for me. That being said, I am a huge fan of just about everything else with pumpkin in it. Pumpkin pie, yum. Pumpkin cheesecake, […]