Lots of Quilts and "Same Ole" V Cookies

I had two orders to fill yesterday. The first was a dozen of some of the "same ole" Valentine cookies I did a few weeks ago. I took a pic of the group just because it seemed a shame not to. lol


Then I played around with the balloons because they are just so photogenic. :)


My other order was for THREE DOZEN quilts. Oh my......it was quite an undertaking! My hand was so sore last night when I got done. I took a pic of the pink patterns and then the red patterns.




So no more decorating until Wednesday. I'm kind of decorated out after this last week and need a bit of a break. But come Wednesday and Friday.....I'll be seeing lots of red, pink, and white.......and hearts! :o)

Love Continues.....with New Cookie Cutters!

It just occurred to me at the beginning of this week that I should be baking chocolate cookies for Valentines Day. Thankfully I'm getting in a few now that holiday is drawing near.

I just received two terrific cookie cutters from Ecrandal Copper Cookie Cutters that fit the Valentines holiday perfectly. Check their site out! They have a great Valentine sale going on right now.

Here's the hard candy cookie cutter. What a fun cookie to decorate. :)


And here's the heart bouquet cookie cutter. The cutter is so cute....but my execution was not the best. I will change lots of things when I do it again. On the bright side.....I can envision all kinds of flower bouquets done with this cutter. :)


And here I go again.....playing around with a few cookies. There's something about the Valentines theme that spurs on all kinds of ideas. I guess it's because the colors are fairly simple and everything revolves around hearts....which are so easy to do. I'm definitely going to keep experimenting with cross stitch cookies in the coming months. :-))))))))


The gang's all here......


Just one more week of this red/pink/white/heart/love cookie crazie-ness!

Valentines Day......When Will You Ever Get Here? =)

OK.....so I'm finally coming down to my last few planned designs for Valentines Day. I guess it is about time, huh? This is my FIFTH set of Valentines cookies. hee hee And boy has it been fun.

Now I've got to start making replicates for the orders that I have. That's not near as fun as creating something new every time.....but I'm happy to make lots of money for our Ukraine missions effort. If you are unfamiliar with Cookies With a Mission.....check out one of the top entries in the right side bar. And if you want to know lots more about it, check out my blog about my involvement in Ukraine missions.

Here's the latest red set.......


And being as crazie as I am about pink......I had to do a pink set too. :)


I attempted valentines in envelopes.....but not extremely happy with them. Maybe next year I can improve on them.


Valentine Chocolate boxes....making cookies designs look three dimensional is tough! But this was the first cookie that my son Kyle made a comment on. He said, "Wow....those are cool!" He's a man of few words.....so that was HUGE coming from him. It made my day. :)


I just couldn't find a good angle to take these.....so I'm including two pics.


Here's the whole gang together.


Like I said.....now I need to fill Valentines Day orders.....but if possible, I'm going to try to sneak in a few new designs here and there in the next two weeks. ; )

(Just think.....after February 14, I can put the RED icing away until............Fourth of July!!!!!)

Two January Birthdays :-)

I know I already showed you Keith's birthday cookies.....but I thought it would be fun to show you my son and daughter on their birthdays.

For Keith's 18th birthday, he wanted me to bake a giant peanut butter cookie.....instead of a traditional cake. Here's some pics of him after he'd taken a small wedge out of it. :)


Such an innocent face......


Jill didn't want me to make her cookies. Instead.....she wanted to make chocolate cupcakes with BLUE icing. So she did it all by herself. I was decorating cookies when she baked the cupcakes.....and then I was at work when she decorated them. She did a pretty good job for only her second attempt at cuppies....


She wanted a pic of her blowing out the candles.....silly girl. (She loved making a wish and blowing out the candles so much.....she kept relighting it.) She makes me smile. :)


Here's the birthday girl and boy together. Proud Momma......


OK.....now it's time to post some cookies......comin' up. =)

Beyond Red, Pink, and White :)

Valentines Day is only 16 days away.......

My supervisor at work ordered these blue ribbons for some ladies that did some fabulous work in the blood bank last week when a trauma came in. (I work in a hospital laboratory in hematology and blood bank.) She wanted to let them know it was a job well done. =) I wish you could see the gold disco dust in the center of those ribbons. hee hee


I do birthday cupcakes for our church's preschool dept each month. Thanks to Brenda's fabulous swirl technique......my cupcakes have never looked better. :)


Red hearts......


My own hand cut version of L-O-V-E.


Pink.....(can you tell I love pink?!)


A new kind of love BUG..... =)


OK.....so here was my brave attempt this go around......please don't look too close. (What am I thinking to try some of these crazy ideas?!)


Quite a variety this time.......but at least I've branched out beyond red, pink, and white....yippee!




I've got just a handful of new Valentine ideas left......stay tuned next week. Then I've got to fill my cookie orders for V Day. Boy am I having fun. :)

Happy 18th Birthday Keith!

Today my son, Keith, turns 18. He is my wild child who loves loud music, fast cars, and doing things his way. I wanted to do something special for his birthday. His favorite car is the Toyota Supra. It was only made for a few years back in the nineties. I doubt he'll ever own one......but at least his mom made him a cookie that sort of looks like one. =)

I pulled up a photo of a 1998 Supra and tried my hardest. It's a bit rough in many places, but it brought a huge smile from Keith.....and that's what counts. :)


And his other cookies.....


P.S. I forgot to mention that when I took the cookies out of the freezer Tuesday, the car was broken in half. I was heart sick because I'd only made one. I decided to try to "glue" it together with a small amount of icing both sides of the break. Sure enough, it "glued" together. So don't lose hope if a beloved cookie breaks. :)

Tomorrow's another Valentines cookie day........believe it or not, I still have several ideas I want to try. :)

More LOVEly Cookies :-)

I know, I know.......you are probably getting a little tired of Valentines Day cookies..... but I told you I had LOTS of ideas. lol There's less than two more weeks until the big day.....so hang on for a little while longer.

Another quilted heart. I couldn't put the stitches on it yet, because it was too wet.....but you get the idea. :0)


Random red hearts...... (notice the disco dust, hee hee)


Love Bugs!!!!!!!


Random pink and white hearts.....


Heart balloons and cupcakes (my fav this go around).....


The gathering......


Tomorrow I'll post the birthday cookies I made for my son, Keith, who turns 18 on Thursday. My oldest daugther, Jill, turns 23 on Sunday. She doesn't want cookies......so we'll do cupcakes for her later this week. See.....something DIFFERENT to look forward to. =)