First time giveaway

Hi Friends!

I am giving away a dozen decorated sugar cookies at Bacon with the Hungry Hypo!  Jump on over to Mindie's blog and get all the fun details. 

They will be customized just for you, so get going people! 

P.S. They taste great!

Toile cookies

I love the color pink.  I love toile.  I really love PINK TOILE. The peaceful pastoral scenes filled with charming people, animals, and graceful trees, has me at hello.  Every time I am at Sweetology 101 blog I swoon over the background.   It may have been a crazy idea to attempt toile design cookies, but then I never claimed to be sane.

As you might imagine, its a little tricky.  A cookie is a bit unforgiving if you get a nose wrong or eyes out of alignment.  One slip of the tip can make a lovely lady look like Adolf Hitler - I speak from experience.  As I have mentioned before, I do not have a Kopy Kake.  My house is very small.  If I had one it would have to do double duty as an end table or night stand.

 I'm sort of happy with how they turned out.  The lady in top cookie looks a bit like Elly Patterson from the cartoon strip For Better or For Worse.  This was not on purpose. 

See what I mean?  After the pinks, I decided to use up some left over blue and brown.  Another color combo I love in toile.  This time I used a larger tip. 

Hmmmm.  Next attempt I will go back to the smaller tip, and I think adding some sort of border would be nice.   What are your favorite colors in toile?  Maybe I will try it out!

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Wedding cookies

Is in the air.  I have been working on ideas for wedding cookies this week.  My son Drew and his beautiful fiance Genevieve are getting married next May, and I am so happy for them.  First and foremost, we are welcoming Genevieve into our family.  She is everything I could wish for in a wife for my son - intelligent, thoughtful, and loving.  Isabelle and I are thrilled to have another member for the girl team.

 And now for a guilty confession - Izzie and I are wedding show junkies.  Say Yes to the Dress, My Fair Wedding, Amazing Wedding Cakes, and (I can't believe I'm going to say this) occasionally Bridezillas.  We laugh and eat popcorn.  Don't judge. 

Of course, we can't wait to see what Genevieve picks for a wedding dress.  Will it be a one shoulder mermaid?

A classic ballgown?

Would she go for a ruffly skirt?

Or something couture?

And if this wedding excitement isn't enough, I am making cookies for my friend Nancy.  Her son is getting married next weekend and we are doing cookies for the rehersal dinner.  Little wedding cakes would be cute.

This next idea has been done a million times, but it is fun.  The bride and groom cookies, using a gift package cookie cutter for the groom and a heart cutter for the bride.

I also like the idea of monograms.  Michael and Lindsay's wedding colors are tangerine and purple so I did some with those colors.

Then I tried it adding white as a third color.

I know what are my favorites are.  Which would you choose?

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Chintz petit fours

I was in one of those girly moods today.  I started thinking about when I used to have a tea party almost every day with my daughter Isabelle when she was a little girl.  She had a miniature silver tea pot and a collection of espresso cups that were the perfect size for tea (actually, apple juice).  It is a very precious memory for me, and I hope she will look back on it fondly when she is an adult.  My favorite little cup had a chintz pattern on it - I am insane for chintz.  I am also insane for roses.  I grow them, buy them in the winter time, and even gave my daughter the middle name Rose.

                                                                                                                         

So I made some delicate vanilla petit fours and drizzled them with two coats of powdered sugar glaze.

And if that wasn't good enough, I covered the tops in tiny yellow and pink roses made with Swiss meringue buttercream.  The only thing better than one is, of course, three.

Excuse me now, its time for afternoon tea. 

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Can you guess where I'm going cookies

Isabelle and I have something really fun going on this weekend.

No, we aren't going to the zoo.  Not a safari either. 

We are heading for a city.  Can you guess which one?

New York City!  I'm afraid we aren't going up in Miss Libertie's head.  I put small crowded places at high elevations on my phobia list along with snakes and gaping wounds.  We will just have to wave to her.  Here is our destination.

Do you know what we are going to see?  One more hint.

You know now, don't you?

We are so excited!  Look out New York - Pennsylvania chicks are headed your way.

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Class of 2011 Cookies

I was asked to make cookies for my husband's niece who is graduating from high school this weekend.  I mulled designs around in my head for quite a while.  Cap and gown?  Diploma?  School Mascot? 

Nope.  I wanted something that caught Mary's style in her favorite colors, not the school colors.  Because she is her own person who isn't really into cute or ordinary or cartoony.  This is what I came up with.

Hope she is going to like them.  Congratulations on your graduation Mary, and I hope your every dream comes true!

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Boudoir Cookie tutorial The 2010's Housewife

Tracy at The 2010's Housewife asked me to do a guest tutorial of some of my boudoir cookies.  I chose to do a thong cookie because it is incredibly simple for even the non cookie decorator.  Here is an example of what they look like.

The 2010's Housewife has tons of great ideas for creative and frugal living.  To see more of my boudoir cookies click here.  Who says you can't have fun in the kitchen?