Fleur De Lis

In an attempt to say thank you for all of the orders my uncle has made this past month I brought him over this tray of fleur de lis when he invited us over for dinner tonight.  My sister Laura had actually found the cookie cutter while we were out shopping this week and we decided it would make the perfect cutter for a tray of cookies for Joe because that symbol is a main staple of his home's decor.  (In fact I teased him tonight telling him he has more fleur de lis in his home than the entire French Quarter in New Orleans:) )  

One Person's Trash is Another Person's Treasure

I've really found this statement to be true as I've proceeded along my cookie making journey.  There have been many projects that I have completed that I have felt a strong desire to toss into the trash immediately, that I have instead shown to others, who not only like them, but end up ordering them.  Case in point are the ornament cookies I made earlier this week.  Although nothing in particular wrong with the cookies, they were a batch that I had no intentions of showing anyone because I was not completely happy with them.  Instead I decided to post them here and send a text message with them to my Uncle Joe.  He not only liked them he placed an order for two baskets for this weekend.  Moral of the story: There is always someone out there who is going to appreciate something you make.

Tortoise and the Hare

Tonight while finishing making a quick batch of cookies in order to use up some of the extra dough I had from this past weekend's projects I was reminded of an old fable I heard as a child that I should have taken into consideration while making my cookies.  This fable is the story of the Tortoise and the Hare.  As with anything someone is attempting to make money at speed is key, and I've really been trying to cut down on my production time, however as I witnessed tonight sometimes "Slow and Steady wins the race."  Just as I was setting the cookies down to take pictures of what I had accomplished, I got myself into too much of a hurry and didn't take the precautions I normally do and I flipped the basket.  Its fall caused me to blotch up some of my cookies and seriously ruined the "O" in the NOEL.  As you'll see in the pictures below the "O" looks a little out of place.  However I still wanted to include the basket and NEL just didn't make sense : )  Lesson hopefully learned!!!!

Dreaming of A White Christmas

One thing about living in Houston is that the holiday season always sneaks up on me because of the lack of winter like weather.  (As a native Wisconsinite this "cold spell" we've been having does not count!)  So after creating the basket for my uncle's party last night, I decided to keep trucking with the winter theme and finish up four baskets today that he had asked me to make for his neighbors.  He had found these beautiful baskets at Hobby Lobby and filling them with blue, silver and white winter cookies was the perfect finishing touch.  Real happy with the way these baskets turned out.  

Late December

I have been taking a vacation this month from cookie making - ironic considering this is the time of year that most people make more cookies than normal. However, today my Uncle Joe broke me out of my reprieve when he asked me to make cookies for his holiday get together.