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Making new friends, spreading the cookie love

What are these women doing?

They're designing cookies -- on paper -- at the Avery® SocialLuxe Lounge, a party for 350 women bloggers in New York City on August 5.

Thanks to the generosity of the event organizers, Drop In & Decorate was the designated charity of the evening. We couldn't decorate actual cookies at the event, so we invited attendees to stop by and draw their cookie design for the Center Against Domestic Violence of New York. We'll make and donate those cookies later this year.

It was a great party, and a great evening for us as we got to distribute our new cookie idea book, produced with support from Pillsbury® Baking. Everyone loved the book, which shows 25 of our all-time favorite Drop In & Decorate cookies, and tells people how they can get involved by hosting an event in their own community.

Special thanks, too, to Crayola, for donating boxes of crayons to give out with our cookie books.

 

 

 

Thanks to the more than 100 women (and a few men!) who created cookie designs. And thanks to SocialLuxe Lounge, for inviting us to the party.

Drop In & Decorate goes to The Big Apple

 

When is a cookie not a cookie?

When it's a life-sized cookie bobblehead coming to the Avery® SocialLuxe Lounge in New York City this week!

In addition to bringing our brand new Cookie Idea Book, created with support from Pillsbury® Baking, we'll be there with our bobbles and sample cookies anyone can make at home:

Cookies designed at this event will be donated to the Center Against Domestic Violence of New York.

If you're coming to the Avery SocialLuxe Lounge party, please look for us. Stop by, pick up your free copy of The Cookie Idea Book, and design a cookie for women and children survivors of domestic abuse.

Look for us -- we hope to see you in New York!

Social Luxe Lounge: We'll be there. Will you?

Thanks to generous sponsors and organizers, Drop In & Decorate will be the featured nonprofit organization at the Avery® Social Luxe Lounge on Thursday, August 5, in New York City!

Held the night before the opening of the BlogHer '10 conference for women bloggers from all around the country, Social Luxe Lounge offers an evening of fun and pampering, as well as the presentation of the BlogLuxe Awards.

If you're going to the event, please stop by at our table and design a cookie (on paper).

We'll be making and decorating those cookies later this year, and donating to the Center Against Domestic Violence of New York. CADVNY operates three emergency shelters for women and children who are victims of domestic abuse, and also runs a wide range of support programs. We're thrilled to be donating to them.

We'll also have our brand new Cookie Idea Book available, free to all participants, so be sure to stop by and pick up your copy!

Special thanks to the organizers of Social Luxe Lounge for inviting us to participate. We hope to see you there.

"Is our event a Drop In & Decorate® event?"

Any time you decorate and donate cookies, you make people happy, and that's a good thing.

However, not all cookies-for-donation events can use the Drop In & Decorate logo and name, which is a registered trademark of Drop In & Decorate Inc. 

Because no organization can serve everyone, we've chosen to focus on agencies addressing the most basic human needs (food or shelter), without discrimination. (See this list of organizations that have received cookies, and you'll see a whole range of possibilities.)

You may not use the Drop In & Decorate name or logo if the purpose of your event is to thank police, fire or rescue workers, or hospital staff, or to send cookies to military personnel or military families. All of those are wonderful things to do -- it is just not what we do. There are many agencies you can work with, including Fisher House Foundation and the USO, who look after the needs of military personnel, and we urge you to work with them if donating your cookies to soldiers is what you'd like to do.

You may not use the Drop In & Decorate name or logo if the purpose of your event is to promote political or for-profit organizations, or to support an individual (i.e., raising money to pay someone's medical bills). We allow our name to be used in connection with religious organizations having community-wide goals, for example, a church-run public soup kitchen, food pantry, homeless shelter or other initiative where the mission is clearly to help the general community by providing for basic human needs.

If, when you are planning your cookie decorating event, you have questions about whether your event is a Drop In & Decorate® event, please email to lydia AT dropinanddecorate DOT org, or call us at 401-567-4460.