I haven't had much to say recently which is why my blog has been unchanged for the past few weeks. Sure, things have been happening - you can't live life with two children without things happening it seems. I just haven't been motivated to put those things in writing. One of my many moods I guess. Forgive me.
When we were out in Colorado, our Grandma Karen bought us a fabulous new cookie cutter! So we spent one evening creating these beautiful Cowgirl Hat cookies. It was my first adventure using royal icing and I have to say they turned pretty nice.
We also made flowers, butterflies, stars and pumpkin cookies to go along with our hats. The hats were by far the cutest though. Isabel said that now we need find a cowgirl boot and a horse to go with our cowgirl hat cutter. Would you believe that I can't convince her to go as cowgirl for halloween?
The royal icing experiment was really the first step toward this gingerbread house. I've never made a gingerbread house before and I needed to know that I could successfully make an icing that would hold a house together...and be tasty. Now I realize this house leaves a lot to be desired, but it's still standing upright and nothing has fallen off of it...despite the questionable construction. Mostly I just wanted to see if I could make one. Why you ask? Because we're getting ready to host a Gingerbread Open House at school as a fundraiser. No...I'm not making any of the houses. I'm leaving that to a woman that has been making them for years. But this little starter project has at least given me a clue into the process and I'm hoping I can be more helpful if she needs me to do anything.
Not much else has been happening. We're living. That's about it.
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