Sweet Baby Girl

So another little friend HTS is having her baptism and we made these at her mom's request. We added some sanding sugar to the cross to make it, well, a little more heavenly??? We also made some of our duckies, but really, haven't you seen enough of those?!

We're in Daily Candy Kids!

How psyched are we! To boot, they found us, making us feel pretty darn special and so glad that our product and concept is getting seen. As Homer would say, WOOHOO!! Thanks Daily Candy Kids!!

We do Art.

For Nico's 4th birthday, we went back to the drawing board finally. Er, maybe we mean the painting board. We created some kookies for an Arts & Crafts themed birthday party in the way of some paint palettes and number "4"s. Strangely, we just assumed that we had number cookie cutters, but in fact, we did not. So we created our own #4 stencil, which involved the elegant task of cutting cardboard and covering it with foil and saran wrap. It wasn't the most elegant stencil, but it got the job done and we think the 4s turned out pretty cute (and more sizable than the usual number cookie cutters!). Happy Birthday to our little friend Nico!

Signature Series

Oh wait, what's that again? We've been so busy making custom kookies, that we haven't had time to make some of the animals in our Signature Series! These are the kookies that were designed by a local Bay Area anime artist. So we finally got to it, and well, we think they're pretty irresistible. Well, not so much that we wouldn't eat them!

Ready for their close-ups...

Roarrrr! (It's the Chinese Year of the Tiger, by the way!)

Somebunny loves you (wow, that's cheesy, but we just couldn't think of anything to say here. But cute, huh?)

And... you've seen them once, you've seen them twice, but heck, why not thrice! Our logo duckies!

New Year's Resolutions

Ok, we just can't say "lose 5 pounds." One, because we make kookies. Two, have you ever seen Wendy? She doesn't have a pound to spare (to which Dina says, lucky lucky girl!).

But we do have some resolutions about Hello Kookie!

1. Fix the website. It's been "baking" for some time...surely it's burnt to a crisp by now!

2. Focus on quality not quantity (this means we are limiting our production each month; we're just not happy when we are producing a zillion thousand and two kookies).

3. Get better at taking pictures. We admit it, our pictures are lousy (usually because Dina is taking pictures in bad light), but we're hoping to get a clue this year!

Happy New Year to all of you out there!

Birthday Planes for Quinn Kong!

An old high school friend of Dina's (actually, she was his prom date!) ordered some vintage inspired airplanes for his son's 2nd birthday. Super cute because the theme is "Quinn Kong" (Quinn, the name and Kong, the movie). They sent us over a King Kong vintage poster, from which we drew inspiration for these red planes. Red is usually a pretty hard color to work with, but we were really happy with the red we achieved. We hope Quinn Kong has a heck of a birthday!

Starting to come to life

All bagged up and ready to hit Los Angeles

Blurry but still cute!

What, More Xmas Kookies?!

This time, it was for pleasure. Wendy's pleasure, that is (as Dina's been delving into the world of brownies of late). Here's some fun winter kookies made by Wendy's hand for her family and friends!

Christmas Packs

The photos are stinky, but we did some cute Christmas gift packs. The snowmen were our favorite, so much our favorite that we made an extra batch for some of our friends and family, too!

Birthday order

Christmas variety pack

It's Beginning to Look a lot like...

Christmas! After a long winter's break, we've woken up to fill some holiday orders. Should we take another long nap after Christmas, here's wishing everyone an early Happy Christmas!

Rubber Ducky, You're the One!

We had our little kookies at the Golden Gate Mothers Group Holiday Boutique this evening. To prep, we made a few batches of our duckies and then made some polka dot kookies that we could break up as samples.

At first, our table seemed a little bare in comparison to all the cool clothes, jewelry and various other wares that were there (including Blueblood, whose owner Dina originally met at Crissy Field when they both used to go to the beach each weekend with their respective pups!).

However, we quickly realized that where we might have lost on decor, we made up on by having kookie samples. Ain't nuthin' like some free grub!!!