Halloween cookies!

I bought some new cookie cutters and wanted to give them a try.

Sugar Cookies:

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

1 cup butter (creamed)

1 cup sour cream

Combine & beat until creamy. Add 6 1/2 cups flour and 2 tsp. baking soda, and 1 tsp. salt. Mix well. Roll out on floured counter 1/2 inch thick. Or place between sheets of parchment paper roll out, freeze for 20 minutes, then cut shapes out and put on cookie sheet. (This method will keep you from having to use so much flour which makes your cookies taste like flour :)   Bake for 10 min. @ 350.

Cream cheese frosting: 8 oz. softened cream cheese, 1/2 cup butter, 1 tsp. vanilla, and 3 1/2 cups powdered sugar.

Love this cute little witch with her cauldron and broom.

She has a boyfriend now.

I made some plates for the ladies I visit teach at church.

I had a lot of fun making these tags to go with Halloween treats! Patti and I have been into collecting Washi tape lately and when we found these Halloween ones we couldn't wait to make some tags. 

I cut out the tag shape using my cricut. I used my Happy Hauntings Cartridge to cut out the witch, "spooky", "eek", "boo", spider, fence, and the spider web. I also used stickers and googly eyes. 

My favorite caldron stew: a little bone broth and a really cute monster!

Ideas for a baby shower

I wish I could take credit for this shower or even for the ideas but I did nothing. I did want to save these ideas for later. 

I love this mini fruit pizza idea. We got to create our own pizza which was so fun and delicious. Just use a sugar cookie recipe, cream cheese frosting, and lots of fruit. 

     I also love how they served these veggies. Hollow out a cucumber slice and add stripes of veggies.

This was for the veggie dip. How cute is this?! Just hollow out a loaf of bread, (it looks like it was made in a bread maker) intertwine some ribbon, and add cookies for the wheels (maybe using chocolate as glue.) You could use this for any kind of dip. So fun!!

Happy 4th Birthday Lucy!

Today is Lucy's 4th birthday. 

Lucy loves Hello Kitty more than she loves pink but you add them together and you have the happiest 4 year old ever!

 I found the Hello Kitty cake mold at Hobby Lobby.  She wanted a strawberry cake(Duncan Hines) with cream cheese frosting:

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

1/2 cup butter softened

1 tsp. vanilla

4 cups powdered sugar.
I copied the instructions on the mold.  It was easy just took some time to do all those darn white stars.  I even used a bigger star tip than they suggested (21.)

 In her eyes it turned out perfect, mine not so much!

 She wanted to make sure her Hello Kitty stuffed animal made it to the party. ;)

 We couldn't decide if we should do rice crispy treats or cookies so we did both.

 I used the regular rice crispy treat recipe but added vanilla and a few more marshmallows:

• 3 tablespoons butter 
• 1 package (10 oz., about 40) JET-PUFFED Marshmallows 
• OR 
• 4 cups (I add close to 5 cups) JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows 
• 6 cups Kellogg's® Rice Krispies® cereal
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• In microwave-safe bowl heat butter and marshmallows on HIGH for 1 minute.  . Stir until smooth. May need a little more time but I like it when the marshmallows aren't all the way melted. Add vanilla. Stir. Add cereal, stir.  You could add your extra marshmallows here to if desired. Spread in buttered 9x13 pan.
• I found a Hello Kitty cookie cutter at Wal-Mart that I used to cut the shapes out with. It was a little more difficult than the cookie to decorate since the crispies aren't flat but hopefully they still look like Hello Kitty.

 These turned out to be Lucy's favorite so she decided we should make these for her preschool class too!

 Sugar Cookies:

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

1 cup butter (creamed)

1 cup sour cream

Combine & beat until creamy. Add 6 1/2 cups flour and 2 tsp. baking soda, and 1 tsp. salt. Mix well. Roll out on floured counter 1/2 inch thick. Or place between sheets of parchment paper roll out, freeze for 20 minutes, then cut shapes out and put on cookie sheet. (This method will keep you from having to use so much flour which makes your cookies taste like flour :)   Bake for 10 min. @ 350.

 Anna and Tacie helped me decorate these.  I love doing treats with friends!

 Lucy wanted Hello Kitty fruit snacks to share with her friends too.

 Here are the take home bags we did. We found most of these things in the Target dollar spot.  The Ring Pops and Bracelets are at Wal-Mart.

This was a fun memory for me.  Since we didn't have 8 of everything here we had to mix and match some things and Lucy had so much fun picking out what she thought each friend would like.  It was adorable watching her put them together and then hand them out to her special friends.  She is so sweet! 

Happy Birthday my little Hello Kitty Princess! (That is what she likes us to call her lately.  She is not just Daddy's princess but his Hello Kitty Princess.)

Sephonnie's baby shower

Sugar cookies for Sephonnie's baby shower.

 Recipe:

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

1 cup butter (creamed)

1 cup sour cream

Combine & beat until creamy. Add 6 1/2 cups flour and 2 tsp. baking soda, and 1 tsp. salt. Mix well. Roll out on floured counter 1/2 inch thick. Or place between sheets of parchment paper roll out, freeze for 20 minutes, then cut shapes out and put on cookie sheet. (This method will keep you from having to use so much flour which makes your cookies taste like flour :)   Bake for 10 min. @ 350.

 Michele made the other treats and all the yummy food too!

Homemade lemondade in cute blue mason jars.

Love how the onesie clothesline banner turned out!

 Michele made this cute banner.

 I loved this idea. Michele made a bunch of earrings and bracelets so Sephonnie could hand these out at the shower along with the onesie thank you card instead of writing her own thank yous.

These were fun to decorate.  Michele printed the onesies out and I got to decorate them.

Shoes, shoes and more shoes!

 The theme for the youth program this year is "Stand in Holy Places."  For the Young Women in Excellence program we chose the theme "As we travel through personal progress, we STAND in holy places." We got the shoe idea from the Jenny Phillips website.

 Sara and I made these little high heel shoes.

 We used Milano cookies dipped in white chocolate for the shoe part.  For the heel we cut a cookie in half and dipped it in white chocolate.  The pirouette cookies are much easier but I didn't want to buy an entire jar for 6 cupcakes.

 I loved this box Megan found to display them on!

 Christine, Sara and I decorated these fun cookies.

 They took us forever but they turned out so cute! Way to go girls!

 We did a few temples too that said Stand ye in Holy Places.

 Megan and Christine made these cute paper shoes for the take home favor.  We found the template on Pinterest.  We filled them with nail polish.

Thanks for the memories girls! It was a super fun night.

I ordered this chocolate shoe mold but it didn't get here on time and I couldn't not use them so Megan found these cute shoe cards and we decided to make a thank you with them.  We gave them to the girls at church on Sunday.