Happy St. Patrick's Day and a huge cookie update!

You didn't hear much from me this week because I was knee-deep in cookies!

First was a batch of St. Patrick's Day cookies for a sweet lady I work with. She

wanted to send shamrock cookies with her daughter to day care on Friday!

And, since I was going to be up decorating until the wee hours of the

morning with shamrocks, I decided to pull the dress cookies I baked

for the Ranger's girlfriend out of the freezer and decorate them too!

It was a long, long day but honestly,

when I receive e-mails of thanks...

With photos like this attached... It so makes

decorating cookies until 2AM worth it!

Speaking of worth it...

I was delighted to create dress cookies for the very special young lady

who stole the Ranger's heart... And, for the women she works with too!

They arrived at her office yesterday and

reports were that they were well received!

And, thanks to UPS, 15 of 16 made it to Dallas in one piece too! By the
way, I'm still loving the fancy dress cookie cutter by CopperGifts.com!

You may remember that I first used it to create Prom-ask cookies!

Ranger's girlfriend works for Neiman's so it could only be fancy dresses for her!

After all, she and the ladies she works with know their fashion!

So the pressure was on to create cookies worthy of their sophisticated taste!

But just for fun, I tossed in a few tutu's!

Thanks to another fantastic CopperGifts.com cookie cutter!

I was told this particular cookie was an instant favorite!

You'll find your own heirloom-quality copper tutu cookie cutter here

The morning after the icing was completely dry, I added disco dust!

Sanding sugar and disco dust are my

two favorite decorating embellishments!

Who am I kidding? I also love candy flowers and sugar pearls too!

I love it all!

Except the sending them away part...

Although I know they'll be appreciated and enjoyed,

it's always a little difficult to see my creations leave!

I imagined them saying to me, But what if we don't like Texas...?

Can we come back home?

Of course, I told them they could... Even though I knew they wouldn't!

So I talk to my cookies at 2AM. Don't act like I'm the only one!

The final project I worked on early last week was these onesie cookies! 

I learned how to decorate onesies from the one

and only Dani Fiori of Sweet Dani B during one

of her appearances the Martha Stewart show

The secret to success with wet-on-wet decorating is to

ensure your icing colors are the same consistency!

Because when they are...

The results are seamless!

And that's important when you're working with a lot of seams!

As you can probably tell from the tags, these baby

onesie cookies went to a very special group at work...

Who took them to a sales meet with a very important retailer!

Of course, I could resist sending them off with a little good-luck charm!

So that concludes my cookie recap from last week! For next week I'll

be equally as busy as I was just asked to create egg-hunt themed cookies

for a special girl who'll turn four. Now... I really should have stayed home

to bake today. But it was 77 degrees and, the only thing I wanted to do was

get out of the house. So... Mr. B and I made a run for it and spent the day

browsing through our favorite antique and consignment stores. It was

well worth blowing off my baking assignment! When I checked the mail

this evening I was so surprised to find this from one of my blog friends!

She's more amazing than she knows and, I'm so happy to know her!

When we left this morning I had no idea I would

be replacing the side table in my living room!

But when I saw this one at Red Collection, I knew I had to have it!

I love its little wheel feet and this shelf is the perfect hiding spot for

books, my laptop and iPad! It's vintage American made furniture...

And, even the inside of the drawer is beautiful!

Most people say Out with the old and in with the new but I

find that most of the time it's better the other way around!