My amazing niece, Mari, will be celebrating her third birthday next month. She LOVES animals, especially mice. Her favorite mouse is Mouse Cookie. I cannot wait to see her face when she sees Mouse Cookie on a cookie.
Category Archives: animals
a lot of cookies.
I try to pace my posts this time of year, but inevitably, I end up doing a Christmas Eve blog dump. Read more…
nordic sweater tutorial
I am a big time doodler. I doodle during meetings at work. I doodle during conference calls. I doodle during regular calls. I doodle a lot, and mostly cookie patterns. Read more…
’tis (almost) the season
I got a jump start on holiday cookies this year. Last weekend, I started to make Thanksgiving cookies. I cut out a bunch of circles, intending to revisit the pie cookies I made last year. Read more…
once upon a midnight dreary
I am still playing around with my new airbrush. For my final set of 2014 Halloween cookies, I used it to create a neat antique effect. Read more…
the loons! the loons!
I am in the middle of a very special cookie project. Most of the cookies are in various stages of completion and are not nearly ready to share. However, these wet-on-wet loons, which took less than 20 minutes to make, are a fantastic preview.
make way for…
A few weeks ago, two of my favorite people in DC asked me to make cookies for their end of summer party. The best part–“end of summer” was just a ruse. They planned to announce their pregnancy and wanted to use cookies as part of their big announcement. What an honor! Read more…
hometown, busytown
This week I am making my annual summer visit to my home state, New Hampshire. I love New Hampshire in the summer. When I think back on my childhood, what I remember is beautiful, long summers (I tend to block out the even longer–and much more painful–New Hampshire winters.) Read more…
panda birthday
On New Year’s Eve, I resolved to make fewer cookies in 2014. I blew it on day two. It’s not that I don’t love cookie-ing; I’m just worried that it has become my thing. As in the thing I do.
Seeing as I couldn’t not make cookies for a whole week, it probably actually is my thing and resistance is pointless. And if I’m going to do my thing, I want to do it well. New resolution: make good cookies in 2014.
pollster by day and night
First, I have to thank my colleague Lester for giving me the title for this post. In an email exchange timestamped 3 am, he questioned the legitimacy of “pollster by day.” It is true; lately I have been a pollster by day and night and those dark quiet hours in between. Read more…
