Won't be long....

and Valentine's Day will be here...can you believe it?? We just finished celebrating Christmas!!! Oh well, that's the way it goes....to celebrate Valentine's Day, I went and bought some new cutters and here they are, can't wait to bake some cookies with them!!! I will post them when they are done...

Welcome to the New Year!!!

Hello everyone and welcome to the third day of 2012!! Hope it has been a good one for you so far...I have finally been able to get myself out of the "holiday mode" and back into the "groove" of everyday life(not that being in holiday mode is a bad thing). If you have made any resolutions for the new year I hope you can manage to stick with them..I always have a problem with that. I do know that in 2012 I am definitely going to do more cookie decorating(so that by the time Christmas comes around again) I am truly ready to take orders and make some holiday money!! I also plan on doing cake pops and cupcake bouquets.

Valentine's day will be here before we know it so I hope to have some new cookies up within the next few weeks. I need to go cookie cutter shopping for some new valentine cutters and I am hearing on the forum that Michael's has some new cutters...so guess where I will be heading out within the next day or two!!! 

Oh, if you are a new cookier and visiting my blog for the first time, welcome and thank you for stopping by. Leave a comment if you like and if you are looking for a place for inspiration and knowledge head on over to the "Cookier's R Us" forum and join. You won't be sorry!!! Until next time..."Happy Cookieing!!!"

Nothing to do with cookies

Only 8 days until Christmas...can you believe it!! I know I certainly can't. Since Thanksgiving I think everyone has gone into super fast mode.  I think we all just need to stop, slow down and think about the holidays and what they are truly suppose to mean. Thanksgiving is a time of being thankful and grateful for what we have.

Christmas is the season where we are suppose to reflect on the meaning of that little baby boy born in Bethlehem and what He has done for us. No matter what our situation in life may be it is a time where we should be more giving and understanding of our fellow man...and maybe "give" a little more of ourselves. I know I find myself contributing more this year to our local Salvation Army then I have ever before..perhaps it is because this year has been a rather devastating year for some who, because of the economic situation; have lost their homes while others have had their homes destroyed by flood(particularly here in PA)and some just don't have anywhere to live at all. My heart goes out to each of them because it could just as well be me and my family in that same situation. We are fortunate that my husband still has his job, even though I lost mine. We are survivors and with God's help we will continue to be.

I would just like everyone during this holiday season to be just a little more patient and kind to those around us. We don't know their situation and they don't know ours. My mother always said that no matter how bad our situation may be, someone else is in a much worse situation. A little bit of kindness can go a long way folks...if you haven't already done so, dig into your pockets and give an extra dollar to your local organization that may be in need...better yet help a neighbor or friend who may need it but is to proud to ask....remember Jesus came for a reason....let us all "pay it forward".

                 Merry Christmas and See you in the New Year!!!

Awesome giveaway at CookieCrazie!!!!

If you haven't heard or done so go on over to CookieCrazie.blogspot.com for an awesome giveaway. She reached 3000 facebook fans and has wonderful prizes to be given away.  Hurry up and enter...deadline is December 5th!!

Signed up for Pinterest!!

Well, I finally got my invitation from pinterest to sign up so I did!! Let me tell you, there is a lot of inspiration there, not only for cookie decorating but for everything else that you could be interested in.  I have pinned some of my fellow cookiers because they are so good and I won't have to look so far for inspiration. I am still in the process of setting up my boards so who knows how long that will take. I could have quite a few boards by the time I am done!!! If you haven't signed up for pinterest, go for it now.  You can find me at: http://pinterest.com/sugarfairy1/ Come on over and check it out!!!

New Freebie Blog Design...for now!!!

Hi everyone!!!
Hope you like the new look of my blog!!! I was surfing the net on the weekend and came across "LeeLou Blogs".  She has freebie blog templates so I decided to give one a try and voila....what do you think?? I love it...it adds character to this blog, and until I can get some money to have someone design me one this will do for now!!! Free works for me, does it work for you???

Here they are...my first decorated cookies!!!

Here they are folks!!! They are by no means perfect, but I didn't think they turned out to bad!! These are only practice cookies and the family thinks they are good...including my daughter's friends!! Yeah that's right the daughter stole about 10 of them to share with her friends!!!  They even liked them(I guess that's good right)?  Gotta love those teenagers!!! After one of the girls ate the cookies my daughter decides to call me and ask about anything in the cookies being peanuts cause it just so happens the girl is allergic to peanuts...yikes!!! too late if she was(she ate the cookie anyway)...luckily for her there were no peanuts in the sugar cookies or traces of peanuts in anything I used....as my mom always said "Nothing like closing the barn door once the horse escapes!!"  Anyway, they taste good and I still need practice!!!...had a lot of fun making them.

YIKES!!! Just realized my skull and crossbone cookies look more like a ghost body with a skull head........