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Happy 3rd Birthday!

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Happy 3rd Birthday, Sweetopia!

Is it silly?

A birthday celebration for a blog?

Probably, but I have to do it anyways.

I can’t believe it’s been 3 years, this February, since I began blogging here. It’s been rewarding beyond measure – a passion which has grown even more with time, and hopefully will continue for many more years to come. I would still blog, even if no one was visiting, because I enjoy the process of making sweets, photographing them as best as I can (and learning more about how to, bit by bit), and then sharing them here. Sweetopia has become a labour of love; creating the confections, showing how I make them, and communicating with you, are all parts of a passion which is sweet in so many more ways than one.

Thank you for visiting me in my little, sweet corner of the world. Your comments, your emails, your tweets and pins, are what make me smile, warm my heart, and make blogging even more fun.

Because the blogging process and life in general don’t leave as much time as I would like to check out your ‘home’ on the internet, I would love if you would share with me today where I can find you, on my facebook page here, in the comment section below, or wherever you like:  Whether it be your flickr page, your facebook page, pinterest, instagram, a blog, anything… This February I would love to take some more time to find out where you ‘live’ on the internet, and what you love to do.

The amazing thing about the internet, and I’m feeling this more and more, is that it brings us together, no matter where you are on the planet, we can connect with each other based on mutual interests and a love for similar things.

And as a new blog birthday ritual for me, I’m sharing 10 of my favorite posts to date… Either because you seemed to like them according to the comment section, or just because for some ‘can’t put my finger on’ reason, I especially enjoyed creating the post.

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decorated owl cookies

How to Decorate Cookies with Royal Icing – Top 10 Tips

2. {The lighting is really bad in this photo… I tried to fix it a bit}.

Princess Cookies

3.

How to Decorate Cookies with a Kopykake Projector

4.

Making Mardi Gras Decorated Cookies

5.

Halloween Cookies

6.

Figuring Out Royal Icing Consistency

7.

tea-party-cookies

Tea Party Cookies

8.


Green Apple Bridal Shower Cookies

9.

How to Freeze Decorated Cookies
10.

Marbling Royal Icing (First Video)

Thank you for reading me here, I appreciate each and every comment, and love to hear from you!

If you’d like, leave me a comment below, on Facebook, twitter, youtube or instagram, letting me know where you ‘live’ on the internet, and what are your favorite things. Mine, as you can see, are making sweets, especially decorated cookies. Is that yours too, or is it something else?

xo,

Marian

p.s. You can find the vanilla cupcake recipe and buttercream I used for these by clicking here and a video on how to make the cupcake swirl here.

Don’t miss out!

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  3. Happy Blog Anniversary! I really love looking at the beautiful things you create! I love to bake and my stuff tastes good, but they are not beautiful to look at too! You have a gift Girl!

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  4. Happy birthday Sweetopia, and happy Valentine’s day! What a sweet and perfect day to have as a birthday! You taught me how to decorate with royal icing, and for that you are one of my favorites! I linked above to my website anytime you want to stop by and see what inspiration you create!

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  6. Congratulations Sweetopia and Marian. Your site has been a true inspiration for me. As a matter of fact I just finished 2 days of baking, soon to be followed by a few days of decorating for the first time. Pics to follow soon. Thank you for everything and best wishes for your continued success.

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  7. 3 years! And I only just found you about 5 months ago. I’m new to blogging and such, but I have 2 sites. The first is gingerbreadhousehowto.com (http://www.facebook.com/gingerbreadhousehowto) and the one I just started a couple of months ago is sugarcookiedesign.com (http://www.facebook.com/sugarcookiedesigns) I also started Pinterest (http://pinterest.com/gbreadhouse) There’s so much to learn…like how to get more than 60 Facebook “likes” ! But I’ll keep plugging away and at least I have YOU for inspiration. 🙂
    Thank you for your generosity! – Linda

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  8. Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Sweetopiiiiiaaaaa, Happy Birthday to youuuuuu. Love your blog, you are so very talented! =) You can find me over at Jo-Lyn’s Cup Cakes N’ Candies. I hope to be there for 3 years and then some. I am having lots of fun so far!

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  9. Happy Birthday to you and your blog. Thanks for sharing all your wonderful recipes and ever so gorgeous photo’s that are so visually alluring!!

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  10. Congratulations Marian on three beautiful tears of blogging and saring tour wonderful talent, decorating tips and recipes with us! Here’s to many more years of many more posts that we all look forward to 🙂

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  19. Happy Birthday! I read a ton of baking/cookie blogs and yours is by far my favorite. Such beautiful work. Wishes for many more years!

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  20. Congrats! I have been reading your blog for over a year now and just love it. You inspire me so much, and I just love trying out your recipes and sugar cookie ideas. I tell all my friends who are interested in sugar cookies to check out your blog. Congrats again! I hope for many more years too.

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  22. Happy Birthday! You are, indeed, an inspiration and I look forward so much to each email I receive from you to see what your next beautiful piece of artwork will be! Thank you so much for sharing so openly with us.

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  23. Congrats on 3 years! Your creativity is just so beautiful and flawless! One day, I WILL get royal icing decorating down.
    My home is over at mamahenskitchen.com, and I’d love to have to have you stop by for a cup of coffee or tea:)

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  24. Happy birthday!! I love your blog and it is my go to for cookies because you inspired a completely unique and fun way to decorate cookies and makes me want to make cookies year round. I started a blog about baking and practicing decorating however I often forget to update it. You can check it out at thekay-kery.blogspot.com. I really need to start posting more. I also have some pics up at my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kay-kery/168233013223912?ref=ts

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  25. Happy Birthday!!!! I hope there are many more to come!! I live on Facebook and my email. I do not have a website as yet. My son is working on one for me and has been for awhile. Hmmmm?? Just like picking up his clothes when he was a kid…was always gonna do it!! lol Maybe someday!

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  26. So glad your wonderful blog exists. It makes me want to try harder with my royal icing attempts. 🙂
    Truly though, your tutorials, photography, and creations are all wonderfully gorgeous! I could only dream for such a beautiful blog!

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  27. Happy Birthday and Happy Valentine’s!
    I truly share your thought’s in this post!
    My passions seem to be in a wide range; from cookie decoration and sugar paste figures to cooking (some oil painting in the past, sewing etc.)
    Now I’m working with airbrushing; it is so fun! Some airbrush decorated cookies are in a post in the Finnish site (coming soon in English)
    Unfortunately I don’t have time to be in Facebook, but You find me in my blogs in English and Finnish.
    There are so many things in life that makes me happy, like your blog!

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  29. Happy birthday!!
    You where The first blog we found about cookie decorating at this level! We still shout out to each other when you have a new blog and (almost) live by your “rules” thank you for that!
    You can find us here at Fb, twitter, Flickr, blog and website (I right and pinetrest) but I am typing from my phone and can not leave you a link to those, except for the website:) http://www.koekiekoekie.nl
    Xxx

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  33. Happy Third Blogirthday! Yours was the first blog that drew me in to wanting to make pretty sweets! I have since collected others to follow but yours is the inspiration. Thanks for all the pretty sweets and tutorials and such!

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  34. First of all, Happy 3rd Blog Birthday!!! Now I have to say that I tried your shortbread recipe for special Valentine’s cookies for a ladies tea that my mom was hosting. They got rave reviews, and it was a super easy recipe to put together and roll out!! LOVE IT!! Thanks so much for sharing, and also for all of your videos, which I love to watch and learn from 🙂

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  35. Happy Blogversary Marian, life wouldn’t be as sweet without your inspiring cookie escapades!You are one of my faves!

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  39. Feliz Cumpleaños!!!!, Desde España también hay mucha gente que sigue tu blog. Yo, concretamente, desde Canarias. Un blog y un trabajo estupendo. Saludos.

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  42. Marian,
    wow it´s your 3rd blog birthday. Congratulations! I enjoy reading your blog so much! Thanks for all the inspiration you give me!
    A few days ago I had my 2nd blog birthday. 😉

    Have a wonderful day!

    Greetings from Germany,
    Verena

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  43. Love love love yr blog !lcame across yr blog and baking ever since ! Can never thank u enough ..
    Looking forward yr new post and recipes – frm Singapore

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  44. Congrats on three years of blogging awesomeness! It has made such a difference in my journey to learn to decorate cookies. I am still quite a novice but have progress leaps and bounds from where I would have without Sweetopia. I have said it many times but you have by far the easiest to follow tutorials, you have a gift of putting techniques into terms we can put in to practice. Thanks for sharing your gift for decorating goodies. Here is to many more years of Sweetopia and lots of pink royal icing!

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