Showers, showers, and not just the weather!

The flowers to my left are for my friend Kendra's shower which is this weekend. She is having gorgeous gerbera daisies as her flowers. These are just cute. Well, cuter in person; the colors are showing kind of weird in the picture.

So the hearts below were for my cousin's wedding shower this past weekend. (The details were lighter pink, so they looked more like dresses than cheesey lingerie. Several of hers started out looking kind of tacky - I scraped off about 3 cookies before I settled on something I liked. I think I'll stick to white embellishments in the future.) Some of the dresses had to be improvised with some strap action when the last of the dough baked up with creases in it. This made the "bride" look like it had skin of an 80 year old! Hard to tell in these pics, but each one has a little pearl necklace.

Inspiration

Sometimes I get inspiration from things I see around me, or pictures I see of other cookies. Tonight I was inspired by my checkout person where I buy my baking stuff. She was so excited to learn I bake after seeing my 25 pound bags of sugar and flour and hearing about my cookies that I came home and baked a ton of different ones. So, thanks to Kim, you'll have some new cookies to see in the next couple of days. Nice to meet you, Kim!

Seasonal Suggestions

Please email me to get on my calendar for any of these upcoming events: I have many more cookie cutters in each theme, but here are a few to get you excited!

• Graduations or end-of-year class parties (Cutters: Mortarboards, diplomas, summer themes, chalkboards, apples, books)
• Assigned a treat night for your kid's summer sports team and don't want to turn on your oven - I'll turn on mine! (I can make balls, cheerleaders, jerseys, pennants, etc.)
• American pride dates: Labor Day (May 1), Armed Forces Day (May 15), Memorial Day (May 25), Flag Day (June 14). Sorry, not baking for 4th of July - getting married that day. (Flags, stars, bells, etc.)
• Mother's Day is May 10 (Several kinds of flowers, hearts, "card" - made to look like the paper kind, Alphabet messages)
• Father's Day is June 21 (Ties, grills, RV's, motorcycles, sports themes)
• First Day of Summer is June 21 (Flip flops, bikinis, sandy bare feet, flowers, suns, beverages, ice cream cones, etc.)
• And the usual birthdays, anniversaries, baby and wedding showers!

Large Cookie for Birthday

While we're waiting for my replacement cables to recharge my camera and to transfer images from my camera to my computer to arrive, I'll post a scan of a picture someone else took and post it instead! How tech savvy of me. When I get the cables, I'll post some other recent pics, including the other large cookie of a jersey-style shirt.

This cookie is a 9 x13 cookie, with an airplane cookie on top. I precut the pieces, "glued" them to the tray with icing, then iced and decorated the top. The cookie is a little over 1/4' thick. Yum!