Bobbing Eyebrows And A Cheshire Grin

My note from the universe today...

Always speak of the past gratefully,
Of the future, excitedly.
And of the present, with bobbing eyebrows & a cheshire grin!

That sounds like me :) I'll do it!

Yummy-ness

I think I'm hooked :)

Cinna-butts

Homemade cinnamon roll fail...

I call them...CINNA-BUTTS!

Great News

...that we hope gets better! The amazing boyfriend had an interview today that went VERY well. Hoping to hear the words, "You got the job, when can you start?" by early next week!! Lots of changes in store for the future...

Dinner at Linko to celebrate the "almost got the job" news

Later... because this is a well paying job, he says..

"I need to look for exemptions" 

She says...

"Is that some sort of lame marriage proposal??"

Sugar Cookies

I found this icing recipe that looked like so much fun, so I decided that if I was going to play with this wonderful icing then I needed to make some sugar cookies. This special icing deserved better than the cut & bake cookies from the grocery store so I set out to make something homemade. I used the cookie recipe from the same blogger that I found the icing recipe. Here are the results...

As you can see it took me a few tries to get the icing just right but I love the way it looks shiny and hard but is still soft when you bite into the cookies. My next adventure will be to do some piping and flooding (words that were foreign to me). I am armed with 101 cookie cutters & a plethora of squeeze bottles for the task. Valentine's Day is just a month away!

~Smiles~

Update: In Maggie's blog she says,

"That shiny icing dries up nice but not hard and rock-like!  

 You can stack those babies as high as you'd like."

 

This is true, EXCEPT, I baked, iced and packaged within 3 hours and the icing wasn't quite ready to be stacked (I squished the icing a bit but they were still yummy) ...but the cookies that I had left over the next day are PERFECTLY hardened for packaging and still soft when you bite into them! Yay :)

Lucille's & Victoria Gardens

We had already used our gift card from Brandin & Kayla to go to Lucille's with Chad & Gabi last week, but B & K invited us to go again! This time we didn't over-indulge in the goodness! After dinner we strolled through Victoria Gardens. I bought some really cute cupcake cookie cutters at Crate & Barrel :) and here is a funny sign I saw in the Hollister store. Good times!

Thinking About Hoopiness

I'm toying around with the idea of making more hoops & selling them at the farmers market this year.

 

I miss the hoops. It made me happy to spread hoopiness :)