DIY Paw Prints (Tutorial)

Want to make paw print cookies, but don't have the special cutter for it. No worries!

Do you have a flower and a circle cutter? Then you are ready to go. :)

 Cut two petals off the flower cookie.

Cut a vertical slit in the middle of the straight edge you just make on the flower and pull it open.

Use your circle cutter to cut out all but the petals from the flower.

Place this piece around the circle so it is touching well. When you bake it, it will "meld" together.

Cover the entire cookie with a base color.....I chose white.

After it has dried well (I dried mine overnight, because I knew the blue would bleed into the white if it was just a little bit wet), you can add the pads of the paw print.

And there you have it......a paw print cookie without the special cutter. :)

Today was my final work day at the hospital......so now it's time to get very serious and efficient about readying for my trip. Tomorrow and Wednesday are going to be fun! The anticipation of something is probably the best part.......

Happy Memorial Day to you! Praise God for those that have given everything so that we can be free.

Graduation Cookies......Personalized

There's no easy way to jump from quilt/sewing cookies to personalized graduation cookies.....so I'll just do it. ;)

This order was for a young lady who is loves sports. She was an award winning cross country runner and played basketball. Her high school mascot is a cougar....thus the paw prints. She is attending the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) this fall. I made good use of my KopyKake when making the cross country symbol and the Ole Miss logo. I was very nervous, but they turned out OK.

I'm hoping to show you a pictorial on making the paw prints without the "official" cookie cutter in the next few days. I had to improvise to make a smaller version this time.

Oh......and expect to see lots of Christmas ornaments in the coming weeks. lol I did SIX sets of a 4 piece ornament cutter set from Fancy Flours that I'm entering in a decorating contest. The deadline for entry is Tuesday......so after that.....I can show them to you. 

I just got done with the cookies for Ukraine last night. Things are coming together for the trip. :) I'm more than excited!

Busy Weekend................

It was a fantastic weekend.....but boy am I tired.......but a good kind of tired. Keith & Neil arrived home safely.....we had our big party.....which was great.....and lots of fun simple times over the weekend.

Now it is time to get back to cookies. I have two orders to do.....and then I'll make cookies for family and co-workers at the end of the week. I'm working Christmas Day and already promised those I'm working with that I'm bringing cookies. 

But then there a million and one other things to do this week too. And that clean house I had for the party......gone. It just disappeared in a matter of a few hours Saturday. ;)

I thought I'd show you the CRAZIE week I had last week when I did the 300 cookies for our ARK event at church (Acts of Random Kindness). Church members donate money to purchase the cookies from Cookies With a Mission, and then a team puts the cookies and a bunch of other goodies & info into bags to hand out at the intersection in front of our church. I doubt if most people will eat the cookies (would you eat something someone handed to you off the street?)......but it's the thought that counts. 

Here's a close-up sampling of those 300 cookies.....

I also did some dog paws for a friend that wanted to give gifts to the folks that take care of her dog when she's away.

And finally, I thought I'd show you another Christmas set I did. I was inspired by a cute Christmas snowman ornament made from a real Christmas light bulb, These were fun!

Back to work. Hopefully I'll be able to drop in several times this week and show you more of what I've been up to.

Be sure to enjoy the season this week.....even in the flurry of things to do. It goes by so quickly.....so I'm determined to savor the moments.