Christmas Cardinal Cookies!

Living Locurto is one of my favorite Lifestyle blogs. Amy is always coming with fabulous printables and party ideas.
Last year I turned one of those printable sets, the Cardinal Bird Holiday Gift Tag Collection, into cookies! (it's one of my favorite things to do!)

...blue and red has always been a favorite Christmas color combo for me!

This is now my all-time favorite Christmas plaque!

Love those sparkles!!

This snowy background is super simple!

Just white wet-on-wet dots in different sizes!

Big thanks to Amy for letting me cookify her collection!!!

Be sure to pop-over to Living Locurto and poke around! Lots of fun stuff for the holidays!

Santa's Mustache Cookies!

Something happens when I walk down the gift wrap aisle at my favorite stores.
I see cute bags and instead of thinking... "Oh I want to put a gift in that!!"... ...my brain says... "That NEEDS to be a cookie!!!" So I made these.

I squealed in the middle of Target when I saw it. (really good way to embarrass your teenage son by the way)

You can't blame me though, can you?

Kind of a cookier's dream come true really....only two colors, no hand-cutting,  no special cutters, easy-peasy.

Well I did use a mustache cutter.....but still one color!

We'll be leaving these out for Santa this year!

I hope I can keep the elf from eating them first!

Elf on the Shelf Cookies!

Does your house have an elf?

Last year we adopted James...

He's a mischievous little stinker sweetheart.

We've found him in closets, on top of the Christmas tree, in my mixer!

One morning we found him under Jack's bed!! (Which I appreciated, since Jack was supposed to clean under there  and couldn't quite remember to get that done!)

He's quite the little tattletale.... (the elf not Jack....well maybe Jack too)

But with that cute little face....you've just gotta love him.

So if you have an elf in your house...

I hope they catch all the sweet little things your munchkins do this holiday!
And if you can't find him anywhere....check under the bed!
(and if you need a cutter to make your own elves.... try "Marlene" from Cristin's Cookies. That's the one I used! You can find it HERE

Halloween Mustache Cookies!

Ya'll know how I love pumpkins with sparkles.

I also love them with 'staches.

Trick or treat day is coming...

are you thinking about your costume yet?

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!

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!