If All the Rain Drops were Lemon Drops & Gum Drops...

Interesting fact about me:

I swam in a rain puddle once.

You read it correctly.

I said I swam ...in a rain puddle.

I did not say I got very far.

While I'm sharing, I should mention I've also competed in hog wrestling.

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...I was a strange kid.

Anywhoozy, it's been raining off and on the past few days and as much as I'd love to make a mad dash for the swimsuit and galoshes, it's February here in the Midwest and, much to the dismay of my cold weather lovin' husband, I still have not magically transformed into a polar bear.

So I decided making cookie Safari BUD ducks would be the next best thing...

Obviously. :)

Cheetah Duck

Zebra Duck

Both BUD ducks are sugar cookies that 
have been hand painted with royal icing.

Sugar & Love Everyone!

Do a Grouch a Favor

There are quite few things I would say "I'm not a fan of":

-Spiders

-Chicken livers

-Grown women who wear "Team Edward/Team Jacob" t-shirts... to work.

But most of the time, these things pretty easily avoidable:

-I scream for El to kill the giant man-eating spider while hightailing it to the room that's farthest away.

-I steer clear of the "parts" section of the grocery.

-I try my best to avoid contact with the undead.

Easy peazy.

But recently, I've been having a heck of a time avoiding a bad mood.

It's getting to be like that creeper kid, Brainy, from Hey Arnold who breathes over Helga's shoulder all the time. 

Right?  

It's creepy.

Fortunately, thanks to an afternoon spent snuggling up to some Red Velvet Cupcake Wine, I turned my bah-humbugged-ness into something useful...

Oscar the Grouch Cookies!

Sugar & Love Everyone!

Anniversary... kind of

Today is the 6th anniversary of my husband and I officially "going steady".

And for those of you who are curious, I do still like, like him. :)

Most of the time.

Anywhoozy, instead of spending the day either glued to the computer with work stuff,

-i.e. surfing Pinterest or creating fun inspiration boards on TheKnot.com-

or screaming at him from the kitchen because my old lady hands are literally stuck clasped around a piping bag...

don't laugh - that's actually happened... sadly, more than once...

I decided I should probably pay attention to him.

That being said, I'll just show you the cookie and cake pop shenanigans I've been up to lately and that'll be our schpeel for today.

Yes, you read correctly.  

I was just able to work "shenanigans" AND "schpeel" into the same sentence.  

BAM YO!

Red velvet cake pop.

Red velvet cake pop with marshmallow feather things...

One of my FAVORITES!!!  This was for the New Girl Adorkable Cake Pop Contest.  It's my interpretation of the Thanksgiving episode. 

Each character and the turkey were pumpkin spice cake pops.

Valentine's day cookie and cake bite order that was due this week.  The white containers with the cookies were supposed to give the impression of milk cartons- hence the straws.  (cookies & milk?)  Imagination power folks.

Sugar & Love Everyone!

so... tired... must... sleep...

Since you've listened to me talk about this mysterious cookie order I've been working on for the last few days, I suppose I should tell you how it went...

After having only 7 hours of sleep since Wednesday (and that's mainly just from me stressing out), the cookie order is officially completed!  

Well, actually it was completed and delivered at 7:30 this morning, but hey, whatever right?  It's done. :)

I had never decorated cookies before, but when I got the order for five dozen baseball cookies I thought, "Sure I could teach myself how to do that.  Sign me up!"

The cookies are homemade sugar cookies with homemade icing, all piped by hand.  I did tie the bags with ribbon too, but I had already sealed the box they were being delivered in before I realized I should have taken a picture of that.  Sorry.

All in all, I think they came out pretty okay.

Now... I need to go to sleep. :)

Have a stress free Friday everyone!