Who doesn’t love a cheesy Valentine? Well, this is certainly one of my GRATEst ever. So zesty. Ripping the word play to shreds!
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Be Mine
A healthy dose of Colorado’s history circles around miners. Some became quite wealthy and you can still visit their homes today (ie- the unsinkable Molly Brown. Actually, she was never called Molly until the movie; she went by Maggie or Margaret.). You can also tour the Colorado School of Mines impressive gem and mineral collection for free (and I have). So when I hear, BE MINE, I don’t think of the usual Valentine. I went for a more literal interpretation. Courtesy of those beautiful, rugged Rockies (filled with all kinds of “rocks”), I give you a gem of a valentine… And thank you Neil Young. Can’t get that song out of my head. Cute presentation thanks to BRPBoxes!
Stick It.
I try to come up with new and fun ways to approach birthday party cookies. What better time to put a cookie on a stick (well, heavy paper straw to be exact) than when asked to coordinate with a Lacrosse theme? I created a “field” by cutting out styrofoam sheets to fit in a cake box, covering them with simple construction paper (totally not to scale but I was limited by box size). I then baked the 20 stick heads, based coated the first side white, and let dry overnight; I used the double sided Rainbow Dust pens to ink in the outline and associated netting.
okay- it’s winter. Everything starts looking like snowflakes.
I flipped the heads over and used thick royal icing to set the straw on the back side of the cookie.
After an hour or so, I coated the second side with 10 second icing. I toyed around with inking in the nets on the back as well but 1) decided it looked cleaner without, and 2) decided these were labor intensive enough already. I also made a net cookie for either end of the field.
Top view of the field; lower left corner shows the cuts I made to prep for inserting the straw.
Take home favors were also requested- jerseys out of a chocolate cookie. Just a simple hand painted and stamped jersey with a few penned in accents.
Toast the New Year
Hope you are the toast of the town this New Years Eve! Here’s to a wonderful and adventurous 2016.
And, I promise, this is my last word play for 2015… 🙂
Boxed and ready for our New Years host.
Me, My Elf, and I
I have been making place cards for a friend’s Christmas Eve dinner for many years. Santa’s helpers were happy to help, taking a break after working so hard all year long. Hope your holiday meal is a very merry one.
First stage…
Final product:
ORNAMENT.al
Ornament cookies for our open house.
FOWL Play
My sister has been hosting Thanksgiving for untold number of years and it it is my God given duty to bring cookies for the dessert table. Usually, that table is quite full so this year I made turkeys just for the kids (by that I mean mentally a kid so it qualifies a few more folks than you would think). These cookies combined The Cookie Architect designed wave cutter with a small candy corn cutter (both found at the wonderful Truly Mad Plastics web site.) The colors utilized were Americolor egg yellow, orange, chocolate, and sky blue (each icing batch had a drop of egg yellow gel to balance all of the hues).
Oh yeah. And one of the turkeys is not like the others. Getting my Sesame Street on.
Folk Art Halloween
I love the folk art scene. Wish I was gifted in that arena. Until I discover some (really wish) unseen, hidden talent, I took inspiration from the uber.sensational Johanna Parker (based in Denver, I believe. Happy birthday Johanna!) and the catalog designers from Olive and Cocoa.
Please, no Samhainophobia today! May your candy buckets be full of joyful treats (Almond Joy?)!
Mama Mayer Bakery 