Miss L. Bug & Her Ladies in Waiting

I made some lady bug cookies for Valentine's Day this year and posted the photos to my personal facebook page for family to view. My second Momma, Leslie, saw them and loved them. So I made some of her own to be shipped to Texas today...


Lady Bug & Her Court

If I were being smart about it...I would've made a cute little tiara. Maybe next time. :)  It also seems Miss L. Bug went a little heavy on the eye makeup...she'll need further lessons, I'm sure.

 

Ladies..by themselves

...and her Court of Ladies in Waiting. Apologies on the photo quality in the last 2 pics. I had to use my phone to snap those as my camera battery went kaput right as I was taking the pictures.

Ethan turns TWO!!

Oh my gosh...where does the time go!?! It seems like yesterday that little Ethan joined us in this big ol' world on 3/17/10. Our little leprechaun. :)  He's a little clone of my brother. 

I just love him to pieces! I made cookies for Ethan's birthday. Surprise! Surprise! haha  Have you ever had a plan of action and then suddenly you veered off course? Well...that's kinda what happened here. I had grand plans to make awesome circus themed cookies because who always wants to have green, shamrocky things on your birthday ...even if it is the same as St. Pat's day?  Sometimes, my time gets away from me in the line of work I'm in (clinical consulting) and I end up not having enough time to pull off THE MOST AWESOMEST CIRCUS COOKIES IN THE WORLD!! *sigh*


So I followed my cookie Idol Callye's "cookie think" & looked at my cutters. What can I use to make cute but simple cookies (in the essence of time) to send to my nephew? The cupcake cutter is versatile...but not quite what I had in mind. Circles, squares...blaaaaaaaaaaaah booooring! After a bit of digging I came upon a cutter and stared at it for a bit. I've seen people use this to make clowns (almost went there too) and I may have seen a gnome out there somewhere. meh... just wasn't feeling it when all of a sudden I saw this....

Balloons in a rainbow of colors!

There were some circles & squares.... I mean...he's 2. Is he REALLY gonna care what these look like & that they're boring circles & squares? ;-p


 Aunt Dina loves & misses you. Happy Birthday Ethan David Alan!

Happy Birthday Cat!

Not long ago I posted a message on facebook asking my friends and family if they'd be interested in receiving free cookies.  FREE!! No strings attached. I know...crazy right?!!   You'd think people would jump on that eh?  Luckily for me they all didn't.  LOL  But I did have a couple of people express interest...one of them being a friend from HS - Erika.  Her daughter's birthday is 3/17 and she said she was interested.  Excellent!!! (said in my most sinister voice, of course) Now I have a real reason to bake & decorate cookies AND someone to give them to!

I thought I'd borrow an idea from Callye over at SweetSugarBelle where she created these Pot o' Gold cookies. Except I was subbing the pot of gold for a cute sparkly heart as I was told "she likes rainbows, hearts and lots of sparkle!". Everything was going great until me and the sky blue icing had a parting of ways. I was already down to the wire in terms of timing...these cookies HAD to be in TX no later than Mon 3/12. What the @#%$& was I gonna do?!  I thought maybe the sky blue icing needed a "come to Jesus" talkin' to... yah not so much.. it didn't help. So I scrapped that idea and recut 28 new shapes in a standard rainbow with clouds shape using my cutter from coppergifts.com.  The rejected rainbows?  Sent to hubby's work and also shared with the ladies at the post office. :)

I ended up with cute standard rainbows with sparkly, sugared clouds. Forgive the poor photo as I snapped it quickly with my phone around midnight. 

My only dilemma was getting them to her in time and not in a million broken shards of cookie pieces....they live in TX. I'm in PA. I have seen how UPS & Fed Ex handle packages... pretty scary especially when dealing with fragile cookies. I ended up sending via USPS. They arrived on time to be shared with her classmates and teachers. Thanks Erika and Cat for allowing me to bring some extra sparkle to your birthday celebrations!

Happy Birthday Laura & Kelton!

I hope you enjoyed your trip to California! I also hope you enjoyed these cookies I made for your special day. :)

Valentine's Day Love Bugs

So...it's nearly Mid-March and I'm just now posting the cookies from Valentine's Day. To say I'm a slacker on this blog is an understatement! haha However, real life and a FT job often delegate what comes first and this blog is something that can go on the back burner.


It's been awhile since I've had time to dedicate to making cookies. Fortunately my new(ish) job has about 75% less travel than my last. I know...huge difference eh?! More time at home means more time in the kitchen!! I chose a lady bug design because my Lillea Mae's nickname is Lillea Bug and it seemed fitting for my darling granddaughter. :)   I also sent some of these cookies to my niece and nephew in Illinois.

I used the bumblebee cutter to make the Diva Bug. I used royal icing in white, black, & electric pink. I tried to keep the heart theme going in her face, her lips & her wings. She's such a Diva with all the bling!! ;-)   (BTW if you want to know where I got the "Good & Plenty" style sugar crystals, click the picture to go to flickr and follow the links in the comments.)

The other lady bugs were also iced in royal icing in electric pink and electric green. I wanted fun & bright!  I think it worked! :)  Plus the googly eyes make me giggle.