After unpacking them I gave them all a coating of the glace icing in white, blue, pink & yellow.
After the first coating of icing dried, I got out my painting supplies, Wilton cake decorating colors, Wilton food writers and inspiration photos from my friend's blogs.
I started with my favorite design, the bird nests...
and added toparies, wreaths, , flowers, birds & trees...
Texas bluebonnets and wildflower baskets...
pineapples and tulips.
There were some N loves T's and 72 different butterflies
and finally they were individually bagged and 10 cookies were added along with tulip candy suckers into 10 different centerpieces.
Did you notice the scrapbooking supplies? Jayme took photos of the guests at each table and printed them out on her photo printer. During the shower each table had to create a page with their photo, signature and words of advice for the bride and groom which made a wonderful keepsake of the day for Tammy. I wish I would have taken some photos of the pages...we had some very creative women attend ;)
Nathan's great aunts who served us homemade muffins, fruit kabobs and dip, nuts & candy, orange juice and coffee...
a great time was had by all.
PS - there wasn't a cookie left to bring home ;)
The glace icing and a cookie decorating tutorial can be found at Our Best Bites. I am so thankful to Jayne for discovering this site and forwarding it on to me. She is such a great friend, a surprise package of cookie sticks, food writers and wilton icing colors came in the mail soon after I told her my centerpiece plans. Thank you Jayne! (I owe you big time)
9 comments:
Marsha - your cookies turned out so pretty - I love the nest ones!!!
You had quite the job to do, that is alot of cookies.
Jayne is a sweetie for giving you so much advice and tips too. She's a keeper!! ;)
The scrapbooking idea is cute, I'm sure she received good advice!!
Marsha, the cookies (and centerpiece) turned out beautifully. I'm sure Tammy and Nathan appreciated all your hard work.
Jayne is a sweetheart ... what a lovely and thoughtful surprise.
I love Jayme's idea of creating a keepsake of the day for Tammy with photos of the guests and scrapbooking supplies. Smart girl ... she must take after her mother.
The party looks like a smash hit, Marsha! The cookies came out awesome! You are very creative and talented, they're really pretty!
Jayme's idea is fantastic! What a great keepsake!congrats to Nathan and Tammy, wishing them all the happiness in the world!
Jayne is definitely a sweetheart!
LOL, Foley, yes we'll keep her! Hugs to Jayne :)
What a huge amount of work!!! You did awesome. I can't believe the number of cookies you decorated. I see you were able to get the bakery to do the stick. That was a big help. I love them all. The baskets are so pretty and the bird nests!!! I bet there are some of them that go uneated and are kept as keepsakes. Believe it or not I have a gal at work that kept hers (wrapped up) that I made last easter. She has it pinned on her bulletin board. lol
What a wonderful idea to do the scrapbook pages! Just think of how many times in the coming years those pages will be looked at and the guests fondly remembered.
Great post Marsha..I enjoyed it all!
I carried it off it grand fashion, Marsha! What a lovely job you did and you weren't even feeling well. It was a daunting tast - Well done!
Oh, Marsha! You did a fantastic job! They look beautiful! I don't know how you were able to do so many in one day! You're welcome...I'm glad you liked the icing and were able to use the supplies. Great job, Marsha.
Actually, I commented on this when there were 0 comments! I must have forgotten to hit post!
Take a bow..you did a great job. They are amazing!!
Looks like everyone had a great time..and you must be exhausted..
Beautiful cookies, Marsha!
Marsha, you are amazing! They came out beautiful, and that was a lot of decorating you had to do. Congrats!!
Beautiful! You are very talented - I'm sure all the gals will remember your handiwork for a long time. (And I agree that Jayne is a keeper :)
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