Happy Holidays Everyone!

Merry Christmas Everyone!
Wishing you all a beautiful Holiday Season filled with people you love.

I'll be on vacation until early January!
See you in 2013!

Cookies for Santa!

Last year I saw these darling cookies by Sue at Munchkin Munchies...
Go look! They're super cute!
(I'll wait here)
Darling, right?!
So I wrote her a little email asking could I pretty please re-create her cookies,  and because she's as sweet as can be, she said yes!
(Thanks Sue, you're the best!)

I think Santa will like these, don't you?
(I hope so...mama needs a new camera!)

The snowmen were my favorite!

Every now and again I make a set of cookies that makes me giggle.
This is definitely one of those sets!

Alright....back to the ovens.

Hope your holiday baking is going well!

Snowflake Cookies

It's finally winter in Southern California.
We woke up this morning and looked out over a valley of beautiful, puffy, white....
...fog.
No snow.  

So I made my own.

Not great for making snowmen or sledding.

Pretty darn good with my coffee though,
 while I'm staring out at that fog.

Homespun Christmas Tree Cookie

At Cookie Con, there were lots of fun treats from our sponsors.

One of the best was a brand new cutter from Karen's cookies!

Pam from Cookie Crazie designed it and they made it just for her!

(you can buy one HERE)

Then Miss Pam asked me (and a whole bunch of other cookie ladies)  to join her in a little cookie decorating project! Of course I said yes! We could use our new Homespun cookie cutter anyway we liked! So I made these!

They're all sparkly!!!

There's a silver cookie (light grey icing sprayed with Duff silver food spray)  with a red tree and white pearl ornaments....

...and a silver cookie with a white tree and red pearl ornaments! Then I got a little crazy with the spray and turned some white sugar pearls silver! ooooooooooooo... pretty!

So I made a white cookie with a red tree, just so I could use those little silver pearls.

I can't wait to see what everyone else makes! Oh, right! No more waiting....here are all the cookies!

1 Ali – Ali Bee’s Bake Shop

2 CeCe – Tactical Baker

3 Laurie – Cookie Bliss

4 Andrea – Cupookie

5 Christine – Sugar Cravings

6 Heather – Sugar Nosh Treats

7 Lorraine – Lorraine’s Cookies

8 Penny – Grammie’s Cookies N Goodies

9 Nancy – Seasons of Joy

10 Kim – The Partiologist

11 Maryann – Cookie Artisan

12 Jen – Posh Pastries

13 Jennifer – Cookie Cutter Creations

14 Tricia – The Cookie Loft Girls

15 Elizabeth – Lizy B Bakes

16 Stephanie – Ice My Biscuit

17 Melissa – The Baked Equation

18 Liz – Arty McGoo

Miss Pam's not on that list!!! If you don't know Pam...she's the wonderful lady behind Cookie Crazie. She bakes beautiful cookies decorated with glaze and  donates all her profits to her mission work in the Ukraine. Her cookies are as beautiful as her smile and her spirit,  I hope you'll stop by her blog and read all about her amazing work!

My Favorite Personalized Christmas Cookies

These are my all-time favorite Christmas cookies.
I made them last year...you can see the post HERE

Since then, my boys have reminded me many, many, many, times that I didn't put THEIR names on them.

Whoops.

They were affectionately called 
"Those cute cookies you made, but didn't make for us..."

So like any good mom, I made them again this year.

This time, with the correct names on them!