Santa Claus Is Coming TO TOWN!

Ok so surprise surprise....more Christmas cookies.

I know, your shocked.....

It seems I am up to my ears in Christmas cookies over here lately.  Is it sad that I might be looking forward to the end of the season just so I can relax?!

Eh....who am I kidding.  I will probably get the cookie itch in less than a week....
It's a sickness...and I seriously doubt science has a cure for it yet.

I'm hoping everyone reading is having a lovely stress free Holiday season so far.  There's lots to do still and there's only 9 days till THE BIG DAY.  Christmas cards, shipping presents...getting some sleep somewhere in there.....

I could use a little help from these guys:

What pals.

I'm sure they would lend a girl a hand....or a hoof...or whatever reindeer hands are called....

I could sure make use of that high powered sleigh no doubt about it....

:)

Walking In A Winter Wonderland....

This is one of those ideas that I just had to get out of my head and down on cookie.  So it's a little sloppy.  But I just couldn't help it.  It was calling me out

And that brings us up to date!!  

Yay!

And now I can finally get back to useful blogging and stop spamming your Reader with cookie pics.  

Lots to look forward too, a couple recipes, perhaps even a give-a-way.  And of course some more Christmas cookies!!  Duh!!

Thanks for reading and putting up with all my cookie madness!!

We Need A Little Christmas

A little Christmas MINIS!

My Angel is 2!!

Ok...so taking a break from Christmas cookie overload....

This month my little girl turned 2.  Too fast!!

And so begins the terrible 2's.....but you know, even with the temper tantrums, I think I'm going to like 2...

Yes, I think 2 will be good  :)

How Bout Another Round of Christmas Cheer?

And MORE Christmas cookies!!  I think it's safe to say that I enjoy this cookie holiday.

Christmas Christmas!!

more Christmas!!

I need a doctor....

To cure me of my apparent Disco Dust fever....

And NOW The Christmas Cookies!!

So a whole lot of posts from here on out are going to be Christmas cookies.

Big surprise huh

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It...

wait.  I live in Texas.  We don't DO snow....

I guess I will have to make my own...

A girl can dream can't she?  :)

Turkey Day!!

Gobble Gobble my fine blogging friends  :)

That's turkey for How-dee-do!

And naturally Thanksgiving wouldn't be complete without the most essential Thanksgiving tradition...

Yes, I am aware that I already mentioned Turkey...

But I mean PIE!

*psh!*  What else did you think I was talking about?!  :)

Funny thing is, I almost threw these pies out.  I hated them.  But I thought, well I might as well use them, I spent all this time making them.  And these are the cookies my family likes the best.  Go figure.  

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!!  :)

Cupcake

Cookies for a friend who loves cupcakes so much, we seriously thought she might actually legally name her daughter cupcake...  :)

A House Divided!!

My dad is an Alabama man.  A University of Alabama man...

Roll Tide

My sister is a Louisiana gal.  A Louisiana State University gal...

Geaux Tigers

And come Game Day....

It's a HOUSE DIVIDED!!  *dum dum DAAAAA!!!*

Welcome To A Little Monkey

So a friend of mine from college just had a baby boy (yay!)

So I made these and shipped them to Arkansas:

Congratulations Andy and Heather!  And welcome to the world baby Jacob!  :)

OMG! Shoez....

..Ok I am not crazy about these...but you know....full disclosure.  Not every cookie day is a great cookie day...and here are my examples to prove it....

I dunno.  I guess I was hoping for more polish, or more detail, or more...something....

But I have several excuses all lined up to explain myself:

It was late

I was recovering from a life threatening case of the flu

I had a toddler pulling on my icing arm

I was on the moon at the time....

.....with Steve

Fall Is In The Air

or, well, it was....when I made these...

Of course now it's Winter....

Which means a certain major cookies season is upon us....wonder what that could mean... *this is what we call foreshadowing in the biz.....don't ask me what biz...I'm not even sure*

*Gasp!* Your Nonpareils Are Showing!!

Cover your shame!!

No...no wait...nonpareils are sprinkles?  oh...ok.  Well in that case....

I like what I see....

Perhaps I should share one with you....go on....take one...

Fine, don't leave any for me....I see how it is.  

My Cousin's Wedding

So back in October my cousin got married in Virginia and I was asked to make cookies for the rehearsal dinner.

And here's what I made...

I like em ok... but I gotta tell ya, all those little dots almost gave me early onset carpel tunnel (well I suppose carpel tunnel can happen at any time so I guess early onset is toeing the line there....but you know what I mean.)  

Congratulations Mark and Angela.  May you have a long life of happiness together :)

Cookie Swap (also known as my favorite cookies ever)

...well for now anyway... :)

I recently participated in a Cookie Swap with a few fellow cookie gals (who I adore).

Here is what I made for Kay over at Rollin' In Dough

If you havn't checked out Rollin' In Dough.  You really should.  Then you will understand why I was so intimidated to be making cookies for her... but I think she liked them.  So...you know...I can breath again :)

I used a ribbon rose tutorial to make the roses on these cookies.  The tutorial can be found over at The Baking Sheet.  Also another awesomely talented cookie gal.  :)   Thanks for the tutorial Loren, without which my vision for these would not have been fulfilled....