happy st. patty's day!

March means St. Patty's Day! this month Eldra got leprechauns, shamrocks, and pots of gold. once again it was adventures in piping (check out those 'jazz hands') and splicing shapes. would you guess that the pot is a cauldron with a doctored circle segment? or that our little friends were made with a cutter labeled 'snowman'? these were fun, and are delicious with green beer!

the refrigerator

i've encountered SO many cookie blogs since starting my own. all share the enthusiasm, many are selling, many others include the how-to. this little blog is a little different. i probably wont be including my how-to's here. not yet at least, i like having my secret techniques. while i do sell, i don't have a set-in-stone pricing system--$15 per dozen and a nearby address will get you the kind of work i mostly show here, but order size, design difficulty, etc are factors too. like i mentioned, i'm a freelancer. what i wanted this blog to be amounts to vanity. when you're little and you draw a picture, mom puts it on the fridge. age 30 years, and simple crayon drawings don't impress all that much. draw someone a picture of a chicken and you get a polite (and confused) smile, but bake and decorate a plate of cookies shaped like chickens, and people go bonkers. they clutch their hands under their chin, make little high pitched sounds, and take forever to eat them because "they're too pretty." well i say eat 'em, and i'll let you look at them here. ...'cause i can't hang them on the fridge. :)
and in the meantime, look forward to baby-girl dinos, more produce, trucks/cars/tractors, aliens, st patty's day...

Voulez vous cookie avec moi?

conversation hearts, hot pink and "beads," and sexy animal prints. meow! these were for eldra's february installment of her year of cookies. fun new technique of the month is painting with food coloring. sexy! happy valentine's day!

i like to kick it old school

this year i fell in love with pearl dust. first i made my wedding cookies shimmer, then i made shiney reindeer, then i made actually-silver bells. i seriously got all bouncy like a kid when i made a metalic cookie. to complete the trio for eldra's december dozen, i paired the "silver" with pastel blue and ta-da, it was 1952. the fun continued with pinwheel stars. next year? christmas robots!

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!

happy november!

here's what i was up to in november--a traditional collection for eldra's monthly dozen, and a buncha corn for the folks at work. at first i thought the turkey was too intimidating, but it was nothing compared to those individual corn kernels. but i like challenges :)

katie + jeff

i married my sweety jeff, and to commemorate the event i made about 220 cookies! each favor bag had one of each cookie with an autumn faux sprig. the cookies had a layer of pearl dust (by wilton) and turned one sugar-cookie-skeptic into a believer.
click on the picture to see the full wedding cookie slide show.