Here comes Peter Cottontail!

Well a great time was had by all at the Gallery Opening at Cecil County Arts Council! Thank-you so much Heather and everyone at the Council who threw us and the other artists such a fabulous opening!

Other good news and cause for celebration! The Easter Bunny is coming and at our house we have big plans! We will be dyeing Easter eggs (I'll send pix later in the week) and overall getting ready for our annual Easter Egg hunt at Milburn Orchards and the Easter Sunday Brunch. Stay tuned and I will post my recipe for my famous stuffed French Toast with Raspberries!

Also, Hull's Happiest Days Designs is featured in an Easter Table Treasury by KonaKreations

Check out both for some Easter cheer!

You are invited to a Gallery Opening!

Kevin and I are having a gallery opening at Cecil County Arts Council March 26th, 2010 from 5-7pm, entitled HIS and HERS. Our show will run March 26 thru April 23, 2010.

HIS and HERS features how differently Kevin and I see the world and the difference in our painting styles. Also on display and sale will be our joint venture Hull's Happiest Days Designs, personalized dessertware for life's happiest occasions. The gallery is located at The Elkton Arts Center, 135 East Main Street, Elkton, MD.

Refreshments will be served and Tim McAlee will play LIVE MUSIC! Please come and see us and support arts in the region!

Spring S'mores Marshmallow Nests

by Shawn Hull

Ingredients
12 large marshmallows
6 graham cracker sheets
¾ cup of chocolate chips
cooking spray

Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick spray. Place 12 marshmallows onto the cookie sheet and bake until golden brown. About 3 minutes per side. Break the graham cracker sheets into 12 graham cracker squares. Put each warm puffy marshmallow atop one graham cracker square. Take a finger and push down the center of each marshmallow. Fill each little nest with a pinch full of chocolate chips.

Enjoy!

Serve on any of your Happiest Days Designs dessert plates, the bunnies look especially cute !

Our Apple Tree Folk dessert set for 2 has been featured on Etsy's Storque

Our Apple Tree Folk dessert set for 2 has been featured under wedding gifts on

Etsy's Storque Blog

Check us out!

Happy Days Designs Discount!

Happiest Days Days Designs is featured on a fellow blogger, fellow etsymom, fellow etsier site Amelie Jo. Amelie Jo sells adorable children's clothing. Check her out her site and check out our feature.

There is a secret discount code for all who check out the blog (15%) on your next order!

Have a Happy Day!

Bridal Treasures

It seems I'm not the only one with weddings on the mind, and all the adventure that a wedding sets one off on! Happiest days designs was included in TWO Treasuries yesterday on Etsy. A Treasury is where one etsy shopkeeper chooses pieces to promote around a theme from other etsy vendors. We feel so honored that two of Hull's Happiest Days Designs pieces got chosen, especially in the company of other fantastic handmade crafters. Please check out the following links, they wont be around for long! Also please check out GlideLT and Sweet Briar Bridal on etsy!

Sweet Briar Bridal Link

and this one too!

GlideLT Link

Seems like love is in the air...

Happy Day Banana Chocolate Chip Cake

Shawn Hull

Ingredients
2 ½ cups of Flour
1 tsp of baking soda
¼ tsp of salt
½ cup of butter
½ cup of brown sugar
½ cup of sugar
2 eggs
¼ cup of sour cream
2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 ripe brown bananas mashed with a fork

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a Bundt pan with non-stick spray. In a large bowl cream sugar with butter. Add eggs one at a time to sugar mixture. Add vanilla. Then layer on top the flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix the dry ingredients on the top together without disturbing the wet on the bottom. Then mix all the ingredients together and add the mashed banana and sour cream. Mix only until blended, then add the chocolate chips. Gently fold in, so as not to over mix and toughen the cake.

Bake approximately one hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center and the cake starts to pull away from the edges of the pan. Transfer to a wire rack and cool for 10 minutes. Invert and cool completely. Enjoy!

Store under your Hull’s Happiest Days Designs Personalized cake plate with glass dome!