Damask Baby Shower Cookies

As we know, I love making baby cookies. My onesie cookie cutter works out more than I do.  This set was made to celebrate a baby girl shower. I played off the colors of the baby's turquoise bedroom  and gray damask bedding. I also added in a light pink and white to complete this lovely palette. 

I don't use a lot of tools that would make my cookie decorating easier. I dream about having a KopyKake projector, an airbrush, an abundance of stencils and a clean up crew. That would be amazing.  I was determined to use the damask design on these cookies. Sweet Eddie and I visited several craft stores to find either a stencil or stamp to aid in my task.  I even attempted to cut my own stencils, to no avail.  On our third trip out, we eventually found a nice stencil set to work with. I added my own touches for the smaller details for a sweet and elegant batch of cookies for the celebration.

I am slightly obsessed with the sleeping baby face cookie. They are just so cute and peaceful.

And when they are paired up with the onesies... oy vey! 

Shhhh, baby is sleeping.

Sweet cookies for sweet friends and the arrival of a sweet baby. :)

Baby, it's cold outside!

Even as the polar vortex winds its way back north, it is still in the single digit temperatures in these parts. It is winter in New England! When venturing outside, every inch of skin must be covered. I have a large puffy coat that we call big blue. I look like Violet Beauregarde, but it keeps me toasty. The frigid temps keep us inside mostly, but we have a nice view of snow piles in our parking lot, an abundance of fancy hot chocolate, and a new on demand movie channel to catch up on all the films we meant to watch.  It is freezing outside but happy and warm in our home. A good way to keep our house warm is to constantly make cookies, which I am always up for. I am especially happy to make cookies for one of my first and dearest work friends as he, his wife, and their daughter welcome their new little one at the end of the month. Congratulations to the Lesser Family! I can't wait to meet their snow baby!

The baby's gender will be revealed when he/she is born, so I used the crisp, gender neutral colors of winter for these sweet baby shower cookies.

Skiing Snowmen Onesies

 Happy Snowman Face Onesies

 Snowflake Onesies

Baby Bibs

 Baby Rattles

 Tiny Baby Carriages

Tiny Baby Onesies

Baby Bottle

 Snowflake Babies 

(Creepy or Sweet, I am still not sure)

 And some  Happy Snowmen for this joyous occasion

A sweet, happy, loving family is about to get a little sweeter. 

Stay warm, give more hugs. :)

A Year in Review

Another year in the recipe books!

2013 has been quite a year. It has been a year filled with extreme joy, intense grief, and everything in between.  Sweet Eddie and I got married and it was wonderful. We happily became an Aunt and Uncle to both a beautiful niece and a handsome nephew. We devastatingly lost Eddie's loving, brave, funny, charming father.  2013 will be a year that we will never forget. I am so grateful to have had my Sweet Eddie by my side for every moment of it. I would be lost without him.

Throughout the year cookie art has been my therapy. It brings me great joy and some stress while it helps me to memorialize moments, celebrate holidays,  learn about myself, and hopefully bring a smile to some one's face.  On this final day of the year, I wanted to share images from my favorite posts this years. I loved these cookies for different reasons and maybe some of you did too.  So here is to a year of cookie creations:

Animal Baby Shower

Candy Crush Saga

Lucky Leprechauns

Cookies for the Troops 

And a special tribute to my Father-in-law 

Our Sweet Wedding

Betty Boop

Seinfeld Cookies for my Dad

Under the Sea

Pet Rescue Saga

Owl Baby Shower for Daisy

Go Bo!

Furry Bones

Movie Monsters 

Woodland Creatures

Hello Kitty Thanksgiving

Ugly Sweaters

As we roll into 2014, I wish for everyone a year of love, respect, appreciation, peace and joy.

 If a cookie makes you happy, may your life be filled with all the cookies in the world.  

Thank you for reading and supporting me.

Happy New Year!

Just Ducky

We are less than 5 weeks out from the arrival of my niece. I can't wait! My Sweet Eddie is so excited to be Uncle Eddie to little baby Daisy.  We are all so happy to have this sweet bundle of joy come into our lives. Baby kisses and cuddles are precisely what we need right now.

My Sister and Brother-in-law took a baby preparation class. For their final session I made some cookies for them to bring to the group of expecting parents. Everyone loves a bright yellow rubber ducky, right?

My obsession with baby onesie cookies continues. 

I kept this set simple with the ducky, onesie, and bottles. Play, sleep, eat sounds good to me.

The baby fever rages on!

Stay tuned for baby day. Uncle Eddie is hoping she comes on his birthday. I am keeping my fingers crossed for that to happen. :)

What a Hoot of a Baby Shower!

My Sweet Little Sister loves owls, so naturally her baby shower was covered in them.  She is having a girl who will be named Daisy. Baby Daisy will love owls too, or at least she will be surrounded by them since a lot of her gifts were owl related. There are some really cute outfits out there with owls on them. I should incorporate more owls into my wardrobe.

We had owl sweets, owl fruit salad, owl rubber duckies, and owl decorations scattered everywhere...it was a hoot! Even my Sweet Eddie got in on the owl baby bingo!

For the sweet treats, I focused on the owl theme but also incorporated daisies, for my future niece.
I made large onesie cookie favors for all of the lovely guests. Sweet pink owls perched on a branch with a daisy, I love them.

I felt the urge to try out all of my baby themed cookie cutters to make a platter of cookies for the celebration.

Tiny baby onesies make me happy

A sweet baby Daisy face

And of course, there were more owls

We also had an assortment of mini cupcakes in raspberry with coconut frosting and lemon with lime frosting flavors. The lemon had teeny owl fondant toppers. My sister loves cupcakes in ice cream cones, so we had ice cream cone chocolate cake balls. Those mini ice cream cones have changed my life. It is the perfect size for just a sample of ice cream and an awesome way to serve cake balls.

Finally, I made a cake. It was a raspberry and lemon checkerboard cake with coconut swiss meringue frosting. The owl on top was a rice krispie treat with homemade fondant covering. Ooh la la.

Congratulations to the beautiful couple! They are going to be amazing parents. 

 I am so excited to be an aunt and meet baby Daisy, because as we all know I have baby fever.  I think it is contagious, because all of a sudden my Sweet Eddie has the fever as well. It was probably from all the time that he spent with this little bundle of cuteness at the party.

Oy Vey. I think my ovaries exploded.

Happy Baby Shower!