It’s been a great year!

It’s been a fun first year. Thank you for sharing it with me.

• Making the first Cupcake Pops ^[1]
• Appearing on the Martha Stewart Show ^[2]
• Being recognized by Jim Davis for my Garfield Cupcakes ^[3]
• Playing thank you war with Cakespy ^[4]
• Winning the first Iron Cupcake Earth Challenge ^[5]
• Selling some cute t-shirts ^[6]
• Contributing recipes for Nickelodeon’s Parentsconnect website ^[7]
• Having fun giveaways ^[8]

And, just yesterday I got the coolest present to round out the year.

THE ^[9] Pioneer Woman ^[9] blogged about making my Halloween Cake Pops ^[10]. I couldn’t believe it. I look at her site all the time in amazement and I couldn’t believe she was talking about me. (She’s like some kind of super-human. If you aren’t familiar with her, you should check her out.) I’ve been secretly wishing her family would adopt me so I could live on the ranch and cook and take pictures of cows with her all day. So here’s a little photo just for her. I think she would like it.

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Anyway, I can’t wait to see what next year brings. More sweet stuff for all of us I hope.

And now, for a Blogiversary Giveaway!

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This is a celebration. And what’s a celebration without presents. So I’m giving away some Bakerella t-shirts from www.bakelove.com ^[13]. Three of them!

• If you’re a bakerella at heart or simply like the site, enter for a chance to win.
• Just leave a comment and share which celebrity you had or still have a crush on.
• Make sure to leave an email address or a link to your blog so I can contact you if you win.
• The cutoff to enter is Monday, November 3rd at Midnight. The winners will be announced sometime Tuesday evening.

Find out who won! ^[14]

* Winners will be chosen at random, using random.org’s ^[15] integer generator.

Oh yeah, Happy Halloween, too!