Merry Christmas!!!!!

Merry Christmas to each and every one of you.

I hope your day has been filled with Joy and much happiness.

I know I haven't blogged in a while, but we traveled home to New Orleans for all of two days to visit the family quickly before coming home to wait for Santa. It was a fast, in a blink of an eye kinda trip.

So I didn't get to blog....but I did miss you and I did make you some amazing cookies.

Do you all have Julia Usher's new book,

Ultimate Cookies

? If not you must.....seriously she shows you some amazing tips. I've got three cookies to show you today. The first one I made from Julia Usher's book. GO order it now....it really is good!

Here's the first cookie I made....

SNOW GLOBES!!! I just love snow globes. 3D too....

Julia Usher

shows you how to make these in her

book too

!.....just one of the many techniques she teaches.

Next I made Santa cookies.....

I mean what Christmas would be complete without Santa cookies right? 

Then there were the green and red ornament cookies I made. Topped them off with some gold disco dust and ta daaaa they were done. 

  And last but not least were the Santa hats. They were fun to make and with the edible glitter they looked like the fur was on them for real. Cute huh?

Well I sure hope everyone is enjoying Christmas with the people they love most. I know I am. Today it's all about them.....tomorrow....back to cookies. 

Fairy Cookies

I've been wrapping and wrapping presents and there seems to be no end to them. Y'all know what I mean?

Seriously it seems like the presents multiply when I'm not looking. Makes me rethink all this stuff I've bought.

I know I'll be rethinking those blocks when I'm stepping on them..... OUCH!

If you read my blog regularly you already know I'm OCD and my wrapping paper has to coordinate with my tree decorations.  Yes, SERIOUSLY......so wrapping presents isn't always a "fun" project. The paper needs to be just so, the bow needs to be just so.

What happened to the me who years ago bought a bag of pre made stick on bows and slapped them on? I want that girl back. It was so much easier that way.

Well if your a bow slapper......CONGRATULATIONS! You have the right idea and your wrapping will be less stressful and you will have more time to make amazing cookies. Unlike me who has been sticking with simple cookies because of OCD present wrapping.

GOOD NEWS is that I'm almost done wrapping. Everything was wrapped last night. I just need to make the bows......and cute labels.

I know these aren't Christmas cookies but they're cute. I was contacted by someone whose daughter was having a fairy themed party. This was what I came up with.  Not too bad right? If I wasn't so busy I could have taken a better picture, but y'all know I've got wrapping to do. You'll forgive me right?

Ok well I must get back to my tedious wrapping. Unless a wrapping fairy stops by....lol. I hope to be done today and making you amazing cookies by Monday.....deal?