Royal Icing Flooded Cookies

First of all, I know ….I haven’t blogged in about 10 years. There is something about summer that throws me out of whack. The ideal dreams of blogging, baking, laying out…doesn’t seem to come to fruition. I have been baking some just unfortunately not taking a lot of pics of feeling like blogging about it. I am certain, that for that reason, I will never be a big time blogger.

I have been wanting to make sugar cookies with royal icing for a while now. I had seen the “flooding” technique used by many bloggers but couldn’t seem to find the right time to do it. Well, my brother and sister-in-law just gave birth to a baby boy last weekend. I used the occasion to practice the technique.

I had seen in on pioneer woman’s blog, but I followed the technique and tutorial of the brown eyed baker.

the tutorial is found here -

the recipe for the cookies here -

Lets preface the pictures with the phrase…”it was my first attempt’

the icing writer pen I attempted to use was very gooey…It probably would have been better to just use regular icing in a piping bag. Oh well, you live and you learn.

the the sugar cookie recipe is quite tasty, soft and chewy, find the link above.

Wedding Wednesday–Addresses

 

For this edition of Wedding Wednesday I can report that collecting and typing out addresses is very time consuming and boring work. I know that it will be easy once it is done but man it sure is tedious.

I am curious…does anyone have any recommendations on how  to print address labels? how to store and sort the addresses? Did you use a book or notebook or just keep them on the computer?

I am hoping to get this done ASAP and get the “save the date” cards in the mail as well, once they are out I will share them with you but I do not want to spoil the surprise! =)

Ps- to those who scoff at the large wedding party…when it comes to sealing, stuffing, and addressing envelopes – It becomes mighty handy.

Survived the run

This past weekend I ran in a local 5k race. I grew up a runner, running my first 5k in 2nd grade, and ran competitively up until high school. Then I dropped the idea because I thought I was too cool for that, ahahah. But in the past year or two I have really picked it back up. I have not been able to actually enter in any races due to conflicting times or what not. But this weekend I ran the Bowlegs midnight 5k run, and it actually felt pretty good – my time was not quite as good as it used to be but hey…it will get there.

My sister and three friends also ran it with me, everyone did great and it was a lot of fun!! (callie –my sister – obviously kicked all of our butts)

I have also been baking, A LOT, recently which is a good complement to the running.

I am also compiling wedding addresses and making spreadsheets – which equals a whole lot of busy work. But hey, it is all worth it in the end…I hope everyone has had a good start to the week!

toodles.

For Good….so good.

Last Tuesday was a great day.

I am not sure that this was planned but the entertainment industry gave me a fabulous treat. Two wicked performances in one day.

On one of Oprah’s last show Kristen Chenoweth (the original glenda in Wicked) sang the song “For Good” live on the show. This is one of my all time favorite musicals, and she did fabulous as always.

(cannot find a video of it…sad day)

but then that very same evening…Glee, Kurt and Rachel, rocked their own version of the same song. It was a fabulous day.

Running Playlist…

hello readers, I am running in a 5k this weekend and today while I was running I decided I needed to revamp my playlist. I might be running the Disney half marathon in January with my sister. I say might because I have chickened out before, but I consider it my wedding work out method and I hope that will keep my motivation up.

In that case there is a lot of running in the future and I am going to need some good playlists with a  lot of variety…so readers…please let me know your suggestions!! oh and I tend to love all sorts of music so  please give any and all ideas!

also, if you have any tips like clothing items, gadgets, types of socks, eating, drinking…please leave those as well!