Spring Cookies

You could say I'm kinda hooked on cake central.  They have a section for cookies, and there is a thread for Spring Cookies...so here is what I created.  The women at Bible study got these tonight and they really liked them.  That made me happy :)

I like the ones with eyes better than the one without, I think.

Daisies..my favorite flower!! (I have a tattoo on my back of 3 daisies.  I got it when I was 19.)

catepillars!! My first time doing these, I cant wait to do more.

I love doing umbrellas.  They're so simple but cute.

I love doing tulips.  I've had lots of requests for these for Mother's Day!

first attempt at dragonflies...this cutter was very difficult to use, so I definitely want to try it again sometime.

My first collection of spring cookies.  I cant wait to do more!

Women's Bible Study

We have an awesome group of women at our church.  Our group is called W.O.W...Women Of Worship.  They are just wonderful, Godly women and I feel blessed to be a part of their circle.  They show God's love in a way that can only be experienced, not described.  So each week during our Bible study I bring cookies :)  I think I'm developing a reputation as the cookie lady!

This week I did a platter of cupcake cookies.  These are always so popular and one of my favorite cookies to make.  This time I wanted to try out some of my new Americolor gel colors and did a set in their "electric" colors.  I really like how they turned out!!

a close-up.  yummy :)

Easter cookies!

I am currently up to my eyeballs in sugar cookies and icing.  Last night I was able to take the time to go to a woman's Bible study at our church and took the ladies some of the Easter cookies.  Here's a quick picture of some of them.  They appreciated them very much, and that made me so happy.

I apologize for the quick post, but its 5:00 and I still have a LOT of decorating to do before my parents come tomorrow! Dad is taking back some of the orders I have for people in Indy, so I need to get moving. :)  Be ready for lots of pics soon!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

Well, its been a looong week or so.  Oliver has been very sick, so I havent been online much.  Here are some last-minute St. Patty's Day cookies I did tonight for Jay to take to work tomorrow.  Once I started decorating I had so many ideas I wanted to do, but no time to really do them.  There's always next year, right?!

Disco Dust added the perfect touch to the pot o'gold.

And I love the ribbon, so I had to take a picture of a couple of them packaged up and ready to go.

Hopefully I'll get lots more time to do some cookie-ing and caking with Easter coming up.  I love spring designs and colors!!

Yay!!

So no new pictures yet today (I have a cake due tomorrow so I'll have more pics soon) buuuuut I am excited about something so I had to share it.

My cupcake cookies made the "most saved list" on cake central!!!!! 10 people have added it to favorites so far!!!!

That's huge for me. I mean, there are a lot of pics on the most saved list, but still.  This is the first time I've seen a picture of mine make the list so I am pretty darn pumped.  I mean, its one thing for me to love my cookies and others to say they love them but when total strangers love them?! heck yes!!!

:-D

Finally, the end.

Finally, I got all the cookie pictures uploaded! Just in time, too, because I'm going to be making more tonight or tomorrow.

I'm continuing with pictures from cookies from last weekend.  These are the only two I made from my large Wilton cookie cutter.  I like it, but need some work on the designs...

Little Easter eggs! My favorites are the white plaid one (top left) and the white one with stitches (top row, second from right)

Big Easter eggs..love the white ones, again!

A collection of some of my favorites!

The Disco Dust collection :)

Blessed Cookies!

Cookies, cookies galore!!! Oh my goodness, after this weekend, I might have to consider changing the name of my blog!  On Saturday, my friend Kirsten (who is a pampered chef consultant) had an "open house" at her home.  She featured pampered chef, another lady did Mary Kay, and another had Gold Canyon Candles.  And I sold cookies! I also had pictures of all my cakes.  I didn't sell a ton of cookies, but I was pleased with the amount and Jay took a bunch of leftovers to his work today.  Plus, who doesnt love cookies...I'll give some away too!  Don't get me wrong, I love cakes, always will...but I have become obsessed with cookies as well! They have a lot of advantages that cakes don't that I enjoy also...for example, its easy to take a couple cookies to someone, versus an entire cake.  And since watching others enjoy what I make is what really drives me, thats a big plus for me!

So...are you ready? For lots of cookie pictures?  You might want to go to the bathroom first or grab a cup of coffee!

Ok, here are my favorites...beautiful cupcakes!! (I tried various swirls on top...trying to decide what looks best.)

so fun :)

Close-up of a couple with Disco Dust..absolutely beautiful!!

These flowers were some of my favorites as well.  Pam at Cookie Crazie does the most amazing stitch work on cookies. I tried my hand at them also, and L-O-V-E-D the results. (I promise I have my own ideas, but since I'm just starting the cookies, I have to try some of the awesome stuff I see others do...that's not bad, right?!)

These little umbrellas were too cute. Love the stitches too!

These little coin purses were cute..but they need some work. (Can you tell the one is an attempted zebra design??)

Some purses..my favorite is the white one with polka dots and stitching.

Pretty butterflies...although that white/pink/blue one got a little "drippy"!! :)

high heels!

Ok, and even though I have more to share...blogger or my internet is being sloooooow.  I'll be back later!

One More Princess Picture

I received this picture in an email of some of the cookies I made for Maya...I still wish I had a picture of all of them, but at least you can see a few more that I did.  I absolutely love the Disco Dust, especially the gold on the magic wands.

Thanks again to Pam at Cookie Crazy for the encouragement to try the disco dust.  She is wonderful!

Happy 2nd Birthday Maya Rose!!

Well, I found one picture of some of Maya's cookies that I took on my phone.  It doesn't show the magic wand cookies, but those didn't turn out as well as I had wanted anyway, so thats ok.  I think they'll be in the pictures Joy took. 

(Disco Dust added such a beautiful shimmer!)

Happy Birthday Maya Rose!! You are so loved!!

Happy (early) Birthday Vicky!!!

I'm still on my cookie kick...I love it!! I am especially enjoying it now that I have an icing that works so well on cookies.  I'll always love the taste of sugar cookies and buttercream icing, but this new icing looks much prettier.

My niece Maya turned 2 today.  That's so hard to believe!  When she was born I was only about 10 weeks pregnant with Oliver and felt so sick on my way to see her.  Time has flown by!  I made cookies for her (the weather was iffy so we decided it was best they order a cake from a local bakery in case I couldnt make it down there...they live about 3 hrs away.) but...can you believe this...I forgot to take a picture!!!!! I'm so mad!!! But I'm pretty sure Joy took one, I just emailed Chris to find out.  As soon as I get one, I'll post it.

But I got to see my cousin Vicky at the party.  I made her a fun set of cookies as an early birthday gift...The icing on her was too thick, so they didnt turn out as well as I had hoped, but she loved them :)

high heels...so fun :)

purses... :)

gift tag with my new favorite thing...DISCO DUST!!! sooo pretty!

some of my favorites

All wrapped up.  I even found pink ribbon with black high heels that I used for the gift tag cookie.

All packaged up! I made to many to fit in the little tin that I found, but I loved the tin so much I used it anyway! The rest were just wrapped up in tissue paper.

Happy Birthday Vic!!! Love you!!

Cookies!

This was my first attempt at decorating sugar cookies using this icing recipe.  It was so much fun!  Thanks so much to Pam at Cookie Crazie for her inspiration.  These cookies look sad compared to hers, but for the first time doing it I was pretty happy with them!  I'd love to start doing more cookie decorating.  I plan on making some cookie boquets in the future for some special occasions, hopefully it'll get my cookies "out there" for people to see and want.  I loved doing the little ones, I thought the X and O cookies turned out super cute.  Those were inspired by The Decorated Cookie. 

Happy Birthday Liam!

My nephew Liam will be 4 this Thursday! Its so hard to believe how big he is getting. He and Oliver look like they could be brothers. Everyone was commenting at the party how Oliver looks just like how Liam did at this age. Liam loves Thomas the Train so I made him a Thomas cake. I can't take credit for the creativity though, I got the idea from a cake on cakecentral.com. It was so fun to do! Its the first time I've done a cake for them so it was very special to me. :)