A purple dragon

Thats right, purple dragons!
My favourite colour and one of my favourite mythical (?) creatures all in one!
Thank you so much Janet for your order!
I did need to buy the cutter just for this order, but I figure the price is worth it (even the shipping from England!) Getting interest already with prospective new orders ;)  I searched online for hours, trying to find a decent looking dragon, that didnt just resemble a funny looking sea horse...I eventually came across the "Welsh or St George Dragon" he fit the bill quite nicely.

BUT! It is very fiddly, with legs, tail,wings etc, very fragile too, I had to make the cookies a bit thicker then usual, next time I think I will make them thicker again, I had a bugger of a time even just cutting them out and not having them fall to pieces on me, I did eventually work out that A LOT of flour to dust the cutter was a good thing, as was cutting them straight on the baking paper so I didnt have to move them. Even after I figured all that out, I still managed to lose half of their silly tongues (that hang out their heads!)

After all that drama, icing them was a dream! I think this was one time when the image I had in my head came to life in front of my eyes.

I could have really gotten quite carried away with detailing on these babies, I did how ever manage to restrain myself to disco dust, gold and silver paint and a little luster dust.
Looking forward to making many more!

Western Cookies, Pretty Kitties, more to come...

Orders are coming at me left, right and centre! This is a great thing..really!
As such it has been a busy week, one order of pretty Kitties for a 4th birthday, consisting of 16 kitty heads and one large flower with message.

Next up I had a 40th Birthday order with a Western theme, I know I said I never wanted to use that cactus cutter again, but it wasn't so bad..  :)
It was actually quite different doing the Western thing, different to what usually gets ordered anyway.
I especially liked the horse shoes and sheriffs badge.

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I also have a 13th Birthday bouquet to finish up tonight, so will put up pictures with my next post, another busy week coming up, a wedding congrats pack, birthday pack and sports themed 1st birthday!

A card that is a cookie, that is a card, is a cookie...

I wanted to try something different, have a product that was a little bit unique in the cookie world, (very hard to do, I think EVERYTHING has been done that can be!)
I came up with the idea of a cookie card, basically a rough A5 size sheet of cookie, topped with one large cookie cut out shape and up to 5 minis.

My first one I was pretty happy with.. For my friends 21st Birthday. looking back now, its quite rough, but it was also a bit of a rush job, my bad!

the second one was actually a Christmas card for a little girl, ordered through one of the girls from my Mums group (extended family) The little girl is right into horses, I was sure I had a horse cutter, turned out I didnt!
LOL, oh well, I got there eventually with a bit of creative icing!

I heard that this little girl loved it so much, she didnt want to eat it!

I also did two for valentines day, but alas, again for some strange reason I didnt take any photos! I can't believe I did that!!

This birthday card I had major dramas with! The original one I made, I had all finished right around Christmas, I was leaving to go on holiday in Darwin and had planned to pack this up and post off to the lucky girl that day, but when I picked it up I somehow managed to drop it and break it into a million pieces! Disaster!!! I had no time to make another!!! I messaged my friend who had ordered it and explained the situation, I wouldn't be back until the new year, luckily, she was fine with me doing it when I came back.
So after I came back, I made this one up and posted off, this happened the day before the devastating flooding in Brisbane which of course made all postage deliveries grind to a halt.  2 WEEKS  (!!) and many phone calls to Aus Post later, the Birthday girl FINALLY got her card.

This one has to be my favourite so far, it all just worked!

This is the photo Her Mum posted on my FB page, she chomped straight into it!

Absolutely gorgeous!!!

Cookie cards are $14.95, your choice of theme and colour, A5 size cookie sheet topped with a large cookie cutter shape and up to 5 minis!

More Biscuit Bouquets!

OK. Very last catch up post! promise :)
These are pics of the bouquets I havent previously posted that were ordered from me throughout the year.

This was to celebrate the birth of my new Nephew. My SIL (sister in love) is a vegan, so no eggs and no butter, what a head ache! LOL, I only ended up with 4 reasonable looking cookies, I used egg replacer and Nuttlex spread, I think I didn't chill the dough enough, so therefore all my biscuits spread terribly.
This was back in September, I also used egg replacer in the icing mix (instead of meringue powder) not realising I could have used a glaze (Duh!) I wasn't too impressed with the end result but SIL loved it just for the fact that she could ACTUALLY eat it! :)

This beautiful Red and black flowers bouquet is one I was quite pleased with. I made this one up for a friend of mine, anyone who knows her would agree that this is just her all over! so simple but effective! Was also my first go at chocolate sugar cookie dough, using real chocolate in the mix, not cocoa. Worked out really well.

Another Friends birthday, using my new princess cutters, Tiara, high heel shoes and dress! also a single birthday cake, covered in fondant and using a texture matt for the flower impressions, which I then coloured with my foodcolour pens.

yep, sorry, its not a bouquet, but I forgot to post this last time! 3 tiara/crowns for beautiful little girls 2nd birthday party.

My brother ordered this one and the one below for his bosses and a friend who got him the job. simple stars with a thank you message and "you're a star"

and another "flowers and B's" bouquet.

For Father in Law's Birthday, six stars with different messages all in blue and white, I also made a few "pecan fancies" (as I call them!) with my left over cookie dough, just shaped small bite size chunks then pressed in a pecan and baked, when cool I drizzled with royal icing, I heard they taste pretty good!

I had so much fun making this one! yes, purple is one of my fave colours, so working with it was a bonus, but I got to try out differet techniques for making hearts and trying out different ways to put messages on the cookies.

Ooops!this one isnt a bouquet either :)  I made these up for a dear friend who had a new baby girl.

This one I love! I had recently purchased some disco dust and had so much fun playing with it! Also the chosen colour scheme was great to work with, LOL.

These two were a bit of fun too, the baby shower one was a gift for a friend, with coloured onesies and ducks, the other for a birthday gift, 5 colourful flowers.

These went into a bouquet for my Brothers Birthday, forgot to take a decent pic of it assembled.

Birthday party favours

So yes, I am still playing catch up from last year.
I will post up some photos from Birthday party orders I have done (this year and last!)

20 blue Rhinoceroses for a little boys first birthday

20 pink Elephants for a little girls 2nd Birthday

Rainbow themed Gluten free biscuits for Grace's 2nd Birthday

Pirate pops for a boys birthday

Williams first birthday, teddy bears and hearts.

more to come, I will get there eventually!

Moooooooo Cows

Cows, cows, cows, wow, so popular!
I made up a cow bouquet for an order and then suddenly everyone wanted cows!
I had a great time doing them, although one order (that sadly, I didn't take pictures of)  was for 50 or so cows, choc, vanilla, some brown, some black/white, for a fundraiser at a local hospital, left me with a VERY sore hand after wards. Think I was squeezing too hard!

This Bouquet was what started the whole thing..

Then I was emailed an order for this one...

Same thing but GREEN accents.

also the order from my Aunty that is in my last post but another pic anyway!

Birthday Biscuit Bouquets!

(Still playing catch up from last year!)

My mum actually ordered these for 2 of her friends and a workmates birthday (I still charged her! LOL)

Flowers and B's (bees and butterflies) hard to see here all the biscuits..

here are the Bees...

and the flowers..

and the butterflies!


This one was for my Mums work collegue, she is into kawaii type stuff and Hello kitty etc, so I did this one for her.

and before it was done up...

please disregard the lack of kitty whiskers! I took the photo and was looking at them for quite a bit before thinking "derrr...where are her whiskers???"

This last one I did for my friend, bit of a story here, We went out for dinner and a movie that night, consequently we were a bit tipsy by the time we got home, my dear friend left her biscuits on the floor in the loungeroom when she got home, only to awaken in the morning to find that her dog had made a meal of them during the night!! Gotta laugh....!

Orders! They just keep coming...!

It still amazes me that people are so lovely with their comments on my biscuits, it amazes me even more that so many want to buy them! Maybe I should stop being so hard on myself?
Heres some of my first orders

My Auntie actually ordered these for my cousins Birthday, a mix of white and dark choc biscuits with chocolate and coffee icing. I love doing those cows.

These were for a little boys first birthday, a mix of ginger bread and vanilla cookies, 20  bears and 20 hearts .

and I made the special birthday boy a Birthday crown on a stick, just for him!