No, I didn't buy or sell a house.
No, I don't have new neighbors.
Nope, I don't know anyone that has moved or is moving any time soon.
These were cookies for my Mom for . . . Mother's Day! A tad unconventional, huh?
She was a realtor when I was a kid. She recently renewed her license and just sold her first house this second time around. I'm so proud of her. The last time she worked in realty, there were no cell phones. There was no internet. I don't think they even had fax machines then.
She had to learn a lot of technical stuff to get this house sold, like editing documents and getting them signed online, then forwarding them to people. I'm no techie, but definitely more techie than my Mom, and I don't know if I could have figured this stuff out.
One funny thing that she learned and shared with me was the phrase "copy you". Her client told her that she'd "copy her" on an email. Or maybe she wanted my Mom to "copy her". Whatever it was, it was a revelation to good old Mom.
I hope that when I'm her age, I'm able to somewhat keep up with whatever crazy advances are happening.
So here is my "I'm proud of you", "Happy Mother's Day" present for Mom. Sugar cookies decorated with royal icing . . .
Moving trucks and keys.
Sold signs.
Cute houses and mini houses.
I had so much fun with these. It was hard to stop. I thought about adding siding lines to the houses, tiles to the roofs, a trellis around the doors.
Bake at 350 was the inspiration behind these designs.
And unfortunately now . . .
Keepin' it Real . . .
This is the section in my posts to show you the cookies that I'd really rather not. The cookies that didn't quite live up to the dream.
Do you have any idea what these were supposed to be?
No, not a green flag of some imaginary country.
They were meant to be astro turf door mats! Ha ha!
I saw some over at Cookie Crazie. Aren't hers adorably hilarious? It looks like she used green sanding sugar. I decided to make mine using a #233 icing tip. You know the one with a bunch of little holes? I thought that it would make fabulous astro turf. Well, it probably would if I had thicker consistency icing.
The welcome mat cookies were the last ones I made of this batch. It was 11 pm, the night before Mother's Day. When the grass affect didn't work, I had a few choices . . . 1. thicken up the icing and try the #233 again, 2. make some green sanding sugar, 3. spread the icing around a bit and call it a night.
Obviously I chose #3. I ate one and gave the other to my son.
The next time I have the occasion to make "new house" cookies, I'm going to try that 233 again with thicker icing!
Oh, and did you notice that all of the cookie designs are mirror images? Yeah, baby. You can read about that tip here.
I would have guessed that they were door mats! Funny story. BTW--I think I saw the mini house while I was looking for another cutter on some websites today. Always the challenge-do I buy it? Will I use it or will it be another cutter that ends up at the bottom of a plastic bin?????
ReplyDeleteHi Diane! You knew they were door mats?! Ha!
ReplyDeleteI've had that mini house since before there was an internet. Yikes.
Yes, you buy it. I have a thing for minis.