Happy Birthday

All the ladies at the office put me up to baking "over the hill" cookies for our CFO. They had it all planned to decorate his office with black balloons and such and asked me to make the cookies (then they all forgot GRRRR). I thoroughly enjoyed making them because the went right along with the Halloween theme I was working on. He is an awesome person - so I was happy to bake them. I really liked the cake and the tombstones. My little girl smashed up some chocolate jimmies to make the dirt. Afterwards, my big girl told me I could've used hot chocolate mix too. WOW, she's got a creative mind too huh?

Halloween is near

Halloween is near and I've been wanting to bake Halloween cookies for a while now. Just got the chance this weekend and boy was that FUN!! My favorites are the purple witch hats and the bubbling cauldrons. Inspired by some awesome bakers on FLICKR as usual... Doesn't my black bat look mean?? My little girl helped fill in all of the ghosts and some skulls and she did a great job!

Happy Birthday Ruth~

I put these cookies in a bouqet for our I.T. Queen, Ruth. She's always rescuing me from some computer mishap, or when my boss looks at me with fire in her eyes and says "my mailbox is full". Needless to say I immediately start blowing up Ruth's phone and she always comes to help us, no matter how busy she is. She has a wicked sense of humor and we get along really well.

Sports

I made some sports cookies recently. I tried out a "food writer" as you can see on the left baseball cookie, which wasn't too bad - but the one with royal icing on the right looks so much better. So - food writers are put away for now. Maybe they will come in handy at some point. I also got an order for some "fast-pitch" softballs and remembered that I had made some footballs a while back. So here are my very first sports cookies. Enjoy!

Cowboy boots

Howdy Partner! My first attempt at cowboy boots. Not too bad, but the next ones will be much better

Fish Eyes

My sweet sister LISA bought me some candy eyes to use on my cookies - so I put some on these fun little fish. I have lots of inspiring photos of fish to decorate, but I just love to mix up the sprinkles and make rainbow fish. The book about the rainbow fish comes to mind every time. They sure look happy don't they? Maybe one day I will actually decorate a fish...or maybe not!

Fall is in the air

Fall is here... I have resolved myself to embrace it, even though it is a very melancholy time of year for me, having lost my mom in the last part of October. I hope you can see the chocolate sprinkles which are the center of the some of the sunflowers. These were part of a batch that I made for one of our hospital volunteers as a going away gift. More fall creations to come soon!