The Treat Jar

Traveling Cookie Decorating Parties

2009-02-22T17:44:00.000-08:00

Looking for a unique activity for your next party? Let us provide your next event with a cookie decorating kit delivered right to your door fresh and ready to use that day. We provide the delicious sugar cookies, a vast variety of decorating sugars/candies, royal icing, and boxes for each guest to take their cookies home. Great for favors. Cookies can coordinate with the theme of your event; princess, bugs, garden, dinosaurs, cars, possibilities are endless. Great for kids birthday parties, bridal showers, baby showers, team building, easter and other holiday themed parties. Our no stress service saves you time and energy so you can enjoy the party and have fun with your guests. No more hard to find kits usually available during the holidays or online and no more stale cookies. E-mail for more infomation and we can work out specific details and customize the cookies to make your next event fun and memorable. Deliveries within the SF bay area only please.

A Giant Cupcake

2009-02-22T12:59:00.000-08:00

For my niece Madison's 3rd birthday. I made her a sweet giant cupcake in her favorite color frosting PINK! The cake was as big as she was. It was a chocolate cake with fresh strawberries and fresh whip cream. Feeds 40 people.

Give a gift and Eat it too!

2009-02-20T01:52:00.000-08:00

I hate making square cakes. It may look easy but is really difficult making squares well...square. believe it or not hexagons are acutually easier to make. I've always wanted to make a present cake...so for my dad's birthday i made him a present cake...it was a gift that you can eat too. Yum!

Bug Themed Cupcakes

2008-09-19T21:29:00.000-07:00

Last weekend my friend Tisha's son Theo turned one year old. I made these adorable little bug themed cupcakes. I had so much fun making them. They're not your everyday cupcakes that's for sure! Can you find the hungry caterpillar? Enjoy.

Fresh Foods

2008-07-27T17:17:00.000-07:00

I came upon this website while looking for what types of "real" food our dogs can eat. It's informative.

http://www.yourpurebredpuppy.com/health/common/feeding.html

turns out dogs are much better off with fresh food (not table scraps) like fresh chicken, turkey, raw fruits and veggies, brown rice and oatmeal etc.

i am weary about commercially manufactured dog foods. Grocery brands are probably in my opinion the worst. We feed our dogs Royal Canin. There's none of that artificial additives or chemical preservatives. We've tried Eukanauba and Science Diet.. it made both pugs gasey and their stool on the soft side. There are just so many brands out there and alot of mysterious ingredients. Just read labels carefully, even doggie treats. It's part of the reason why I started making my own..

PROS Pug Rescue Needs Help

2008-07-26T09:42:00.001-07:00

I recently got an e-mail from PROS Pug Rescue of Sacramento asking for help finding foster homes because of the recent waves of foreclosures in california. please help of you can:

Right now I have at least 5 pugs needing refuge. They range anywhere from the age of 2 years up to 8 yrs old. I've been told that most are in good health, one is almost blind and has ear infections. Tomorrow alone I am getting in 3 Pugs - 2 of them from a Bay Area shelter and both ill; one was facing euthanasia and we have gotten 6 in the past 1 1/2 weeks. Please, if you can help by fostering even short term please get in touch with me. Every pug rescue in CA is jammed to the brim right now and we need help.I do want to thank all of you for your continuing support of PROS - every foster Pug owes you all a great debt.

Gena Austin, President/Coordinator PROS Pug Rescue http://www.pugpros.org/ I GoodSearch for PROS Pug Rescue. Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by searching the Internet with GoodSearch - www.goodsearch.com - powered by Yahoo!

Meet the Pack

2008-07-25T19:13:00.001-07:00

Meet Charlie: the first of our pack..loves to eat, sleep and get into all kinds of mischevious trouble nothing out of the norm of being a pug. WHen we're not looking he loves to sneak into the bathroom and yank the whole roll of toilet paper and start feasting away. or grabbing the napkins off the table as a snack.

Meet Linus: the second of our threesome. charlie had separation anxiety so we decided to get a second pug. sooner vs. later. Linus is much better behaved, loves to hang out on your shoulder (thinks he's a parrot) and crawl under the warm blanket and snuggle under your arm pit or between your legs. Linus snores even louder than charlie.

And Ginger: our newest addition a yellow lab with a pink nose. Is so cute! We love her! She is perfectly content chilling out on the couch all day and stealing the occasional char siu bau (chinese BBQ pork bun) off the counter. She's a little neurotic when it comes to her fetching her ball at the dog park. It's gotta be her ball but unfortunately lets the bigger dogs steal her ball away from her. When I finally have to wrestle the ball away from the bigger dogs. Oh Ginger!