With a little help from our friends at Fancy Flours Baking Supplies, the House of Shine was able to pull off magical party favors for some of Ray Wattson's closest friends.

For those new to the site, Ray Wattson is a lightbulb.  Not just any lightbulb.  A snarky lightbulb who thinks everyone around him is dim-witted and that we should all just snap out of it and, "Shine Dammit." 

If you're new then you should also know about our Fancy Flours Cookie Cutter Challenge.  Each month, this nothing-short-of-magical website partners with us to create cookies that shine.  I decide on the holiday we are going to celebrate; you, the readers, decide on the cookie cutter; and then Fancy Flours donates two of whichever cutter wins.  One of them I use when baking the winning batch of cookies.  The other I give away to a lucky reader: a reader who is willing to engage in a little fun.

This month we are celebrating Ray Wattson's birthday - which, he says to tell you, is tomorrow, should you not have purchased his gift yet.

Hocus

Pocus.

Alakazam.  The cookies...

Presto-chango.  Party Favors.

"Now you see it, now you don't," is what Matthew and Jack said after making the two cookies pictured above disappear.

Izzy wizzy let's get busy... announcing how you can win your very own Magic Wand cookie cutter.  Visit us in the Community Forum, labeled Today's Post and share another magical holiday for which you could use the cookie cutter, along with a winning slogan.  The cookie cutter will appear in the mailbox of whoever Heather, Cheryl, Ray, and I decide made the overall best suggestion. 

Also, join us in a couple of weeks when we use the Armadillo cookie cutter to celebrate Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day.

Vanishing until tomorrow...