Independence Day Cookies!!

As you know the patriotic season is upon us!  I think these have been some of my favorite cookies to do to date!

I really can't wait for the weekend!

There will be:

Fireworks!

And:

 Bottle Rockets!  Lighting up the night sky!  Chillin' with the:

Twinkling stars!

And I think these are my favorite:

Independence Day quilt blocks!  This design is inspired by my mom.  She's a quilter.  Like for serious.  She's kind of a big deal.  (I think so anyway)  :)  She creates civil war reproduction fabrics and quilts.  She even has her own fabric line(s).   She even named one of them after my baby girl Sophie.  Because that's what grandmas do.  :)  You can find her patterns and fabrics in Hancock's of Paducah stores.  So in our family that means she's famous.

Hope everyone has a super 4th of July weekend!

Belated Father's Day Cookies

I couldn't post pics of these till my father got them.  Which was a week after fathers day.

Because I knew I was going to see him and thought it would be nice to actually see his reaction when he got them.

  He doesn't mind that they're late.

He's cool like that.

Unamused Faces All Around Me...

Ok.  So my husband is part of this internet car group.  (Yes, I married the computer nerd...).
Anyway, once a year they get together in Maryland on some guys land and have a camp out.  This is no small ordeal.  About 80 some odd people show up to this shin dig every year.

Well, for some reason, my husband is known as "The General of the Unamused Army".  (This is ALL a much more complicated and lengthy story.  And it would no doubt bore you so I'm skipping it.  Just nod your head and follow along with me here for sanity time sake.)  He's known for this mostly because he has been known to randomly send out these stickers:

Really just hang in here with me.....

I am sure that this little face has some deeply important meaning to all these guys... I dunno.  I just know that these stickers are all over my house sometimes.

To cut to the chase.  He asked me to make like 4 dozen of these little babies into cookies.

Sounded like an excuse to use my new edible image system.  :)

So they're all ready to get on a plane in the morning.  I will miss my hubby while he's gone this weekend.  But I hope he has a great time and enjoys his much needed weekend to relax and just have fun.  :)

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Cookie Cutter Give-a-way #2!!

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Ok Day 2 of the amazing cookie cutter give-a-way over at Glorious Treats!

 

Yay!!

And today she is giving away 4 cookie cutters from Copper Gifts!

You can win a cupcake, a snowflake, a tea cup, and a bouquet cutter

Can I tell you how much I LOVE Copper Gifts?  They have everything.  And copper cutters are just the bees knees.  I mean they look oh so pretty on their own, but yet they're functional!  They make beautiful cookies!!

FYI:  If a certain someone is reading (Hint hint MOM) wants to just randomly give me a gift card to Copper Gifts I will be very thankful.  I will bake you cookies with them.  :)

Just sayin'

Cookie Cutter Give-a-way!

 Obsessed with cookie cutters??  I know I am.  :)

Lookin' to get some?.....For freeeeeeee????

Hop on over to Glorious Treats!  She is holding a cookie cutter give-a-way!!  Huzzah!! Foose cookie cutters to be exact.

I am a serious fan of this blog people.  I always have been.  I mean look at her beautiful creations...

I hear rumors that there will be even more cutter give-a-ways this week.  So go check it out.  Bookmark it.  Subscribe.  Whatever.  Do it.  :)

 

Happy Father's Day

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Some Father's Day Quotes (and of course some pics)

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  ~Author Unknown

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874

 Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.  ~Gloria Naylor

 
Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  ~Elizabeth Stone

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.  ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat.  Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound.  Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together.  Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.  ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968 

"The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan." -- Garrison Keillor 

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." -- Clarence Budington Kelland

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." -- Unknown

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. ~ Anonymous

A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be. ~ Carol Coats

  
 


Never raise your hand to your kids.  It leaves your groin unprotected.  ~Red Buttons






Haha!!  I just thought that last one was too funny!  

Happy Father's Day all!

** To my Dad.  Who always says, "God may not give you want you want.  But He gives you what you need."  (When asked about raising 3 girls)    :)    We love you Daddy **


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CAKE!

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LET THERE BE CAKE!!

Ok so this is the end result of what was SUPPOSED to be a Father's Day cake

Although...as you can see...it isn't very manly is it?

No... no not really....

Ok so this is the deal.  He acted like he didn't want me to do anything at all for Father's Day.  And even after I convinced him that he needed to give me a valid excuse to bake, the only direction he would give me was no fondant....*sigh*

SO I sketched out like a billion ideas....not a lot of manly things can be done with JUST buttercream without looking like it came from the grocery store.  So....after a couple of failed attempts at a MAN design... I just gave up.  I have a baby that needs attention and a house to clean and dinner to cook.  So I just did whatever I wanted.  :)

Oh well... I'm sure it will taste good just the same.  Man cake or not.  :)