Oh My Goodness......Skyrim is the DEVIL. Seriously.

For those of you who know about the video game called Skyrim, you know it is addicting and your husband, like mine is glued to the sofa playing that darn game he got for Christmas.

I asked my husband to take the blow up Santa down like four days ago. First he said it was a bit wet and needed to dry out because it was deflated and it had rained. UMMMMMM that was four days ago now.

Please get off the sofa!

I did say please. I really meant MOVE NOW!

But no.....he sat, staring at his 70 in 3d tv playing that dumb game! My Santa is still going strong in the front yard. Maybe he can stay there until next year? A little tacky yard decoration won't hurt....will it?

Then my husband thinks he's slick when he asks me to sit and watch him play because.......wait for it.....wait for it......so I can make Skyrim cookies. He goes on to say I can make swords, helmets, and ......I cut him off at helmets. He's a bit delusional.

At least I have my cookies....right?

Well I still love him but no Skyrim cookies for him. Nope, he will get valentines cookies.

I love you cookies is all he will get. I had to make these to remind me that yes I love you honey......

even though I'm sick of seeing you play that game.

These were so easy to make. A beginner can make these easily.

First outline letters in pink royal icing using a #2 tip. Let dry about 30 minutes.

Next fill letters with pink 20 second royal icing and allow to dry for a few hours.

Outline heart with red royal icing and let dry 30 min.

Then fill red heart with red 20 second icing. Allow to dry over night.

When letters are dry you can leave as shown here or you can add some stripes or dots as shown at top of post.

This week I've decided we have too much stuff. Really, we do. There comes a point when you run out of room to put it all.

Seriously, there is only so much storage space.

Now, mind you I live on a military post in a duplex. Not much room to begin with. We don't even have a pantry for food. REALLY NO PANTRY. Who the heck can function without a pantry? My front closet I turned into a pantry months ago.....but anyway too much stuff in this house.

It's time for a New Year.......which gets me thinking about starting new.

So out with the old and in with the new. I started boxing up old toys, old clothes and just stuff we didn't use anymore to donate to goodwill. I'm one of those people who just hate clutter.

Sometimes I really want to just throw everything I own away and start all over from scratch. Don't you ever feel like that?

Well it's obvious I can't really throw out everything BUT I can throw out some things and have less clutter.

Do NOT mistake less clutter for less CUTTERS. I will continue to clutter the cookie room with cutters. After all it is my space to be creative and decorate cookies. It's the time I need to keep from going insane.

Ok.... I'm babbling again.

I made cookies for the New Year.

Can you believe it's going to be 2012 already? The time really does fly. Hopefully you were having fun when it was flying.

Ok so I couldn't do a tutorial on all the cookies, but I did do a tutorial on the party hat. Please excuse the fact that the first two pictures were taken of one hat and the rest were taken of the other hat. The same steps apply so just pretend it's the same hat.

First outline bottom of hat and top of hat.