Christmas, in case you missed us...

these were available at the store in December.  stop in during January, snowmen are on the way!

some airbrushed patterns inspired by wrapping paper...

some gingerbread...

scotties dressed for the cold...

and the first winner of the November raffle, Beth, requested some reindeer.

thank you all, and i hope your holidays were merry, happy, joyous, festive, and safe.  drop in again soon for some baby stuff, coming soon...

Christmas in July!

i know all the cookie greats are beginning their holiday dazzlement now--what you'll see in this season's catalogs, magazines, how-to shows, and high-end bakeries, is coming together in crazy minds like mine, and prototypes are being baked in this terrible heat. yes, we suffer for our craft. :)
my yearly Christmas-cookie-night with Mom is incomplete without some Perry Como playing in the background. the first track on the perennial set list is a reading of "The Night Before Christmas," with all the glitzy, yet cartoon-like, big band accompaniment. it's actually one of my favorite poems, and if i could cookie-tize the whole piece i would, but here's one scene, when "away they all flew like the down of a thistle."


a little zooming in, and you have "the luster of mid-day to objects below" (i did those buttons with a toothpick!)
i think i'll make this one my family's 2010 Christmas card. then again, i have a growing list of holiday imagery that i want to try. maybe i'll make a whole set of cards...
coming soon, a nursery classic, candy, and bride's-to-be and their love of purple.

reindeer!!!!!!

brown reindeer are nice and everything, but why not green? or rainbow antlers? my new favorite product, pearl dust, made these extra pretty, and a little retro. and here's some proof that i'm goofy--the cookie cutter faces the other way, but i can only seem to decorate reindeer if they face to the left, so i flipped them before baking. thanks to james and judy for their orders!