One of the distinct pleasures I have is blogging for various causes and organizations around the Nashville area. So at the end of this day, when I realize another week is speeding by without me blogging for NanceSense, I’ve turned up the Neville Brothers “Brother John/Iko, Iko” and doing a little blogging for the love it.
So here’s what’s on my mind…Shut Up! The Southern Living Showcase Home is giving away KitchenAid’s newly released of the 7-qt stand mixer to the Ultimate Southern Living Cookie winning entry. Wow, the two things I love best in this world are merging with the year’s premiere home tour. I love baking, love cookies better than ice cream and love that Castle Homes, the host and builder of the Southern Living Showcase Home, is having this contest. Here are the details so get out your bestest cookie recipe and wow us all. I don’t get to enter, but, by goodness, I will be whipping up my aunt-in-law’s molasses cookie and you better send us something mouth watering cause I get to help decide our contenders!
Details from the Nashville Southern Living Showcase blog at www.castlehomes.com:
Gracious living is all about a welcoming home and scrumptious food and the Southern Living Showcase team is searching for the Ultimate Southern Living Cookie in conjunction with the upcoming Southern Living Showcase Home in Dorset Park of Brentwood being built by Castle Homes and presented by LP Building Products.
The search for the Ultimate Southern Living Cookie is being held by the Southern Living Showcase Home team with the new KitchenAid mixer as the grand prize. Get out your favorite cookie recipe and be sure it has a yummy southern flair or maybe is a little fall festive says the home’s builder, Castle Homes President Alan Looney.
The gourmet kitchen of the Southern Living Showcase Home, which opens to the public on Friday, October 21, will feature a colorful array of Williams-Sonoma products including the newly released KitchenAid Mixer, the largest, most powerful and quietest KitchenAid mixer to date. With a generous 7-qt. capacity, this machine equips home bakers with a full range of high-performance commercial features.

Shut Up! Nashville's Southern Living Showcase Home Is Giving This Away To The Ultimate Southern Living Cookie Winner
Participants can now submit their favorite recipes for consideration to info@castlehomes.com. Be sure and mark it Ultimate Southern Living Cookie in the subject line. Recipes can be submitted through Sunday, October 16 at midnight.
Capturing the charm and beauty of Southern Living magazine, the mid-state’s top interior designers have teamed with Castle Homes and LP Building Products in presenting the Southern Living Showcase Home with the latest ideas in home design, green innovation and new building products with Ronald McDonald House Nashville as the benefiting charity. The fully furnished home, located off Granny White Pike near Old Hickory Boulevard intersection, features two adorable kid’s rooms and is packed with clever ideas from new paint and wall treatments to kitchen and bath products as well as outdoor living and game room features. Opening weekend is Friday, October 21 and then it is open Thursdays throughSunday until November 6 from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m. In advance, tickets are $10 at www.castlehomes.com or available at the gate for $14.00. Children 12 and under are free.

You write to that kind of music? I have to have classical or nothing on to think my thoughts onto the keyboard.
The faster, the louder, the better!