Start Time: 12:45 am
Stop Time: 7:30 am
Goal: 20 types of cookies, packaged, wrapped & ready to deliver on Tuesday 12/16
Completed: Coffee Kringles (4x), Peanut Butter toffee pretzel (4x), Pecan Sandies (4x), Paris Breakfast Shortbread (2x), Cranberry Shortbread (2x),
Mixed: Extreme Brownie (4x), Peanut Butter toffee pretzel (4x),
I have a feeling I’m not going to make it on time this year.
So it’s Sunday (technically Monday) and I’ve now seen a couple of my Facebook friends post their early morning pics and status… And I have a bad feeling I’m not going to hit my goal. Don’t get me wrong– things are moving and I’m making big progress, but I think the issues with the mixer, and all that has killed my efficiency this year. It could be that I’m jut slowing down too.
The husband and I were talking today, about how someday, when we have kids, I won’t be able to do this anymore because I won’t have the energy/time/desire whatever it is that kids suck out of you, and it made me sad. Not having cookie time? That’s going in the “cons” column. How could I go without cookie time?
Well that is years away, in my head, and tonight/this morning, I am hung up on the fact that I think I’m not going to get to boxing up cookies tomorrow. There are still so many recipes to complete. The deer heads are done– some of which kinda looked like lungs or hearts depending on who you ask. I started with a flooded-white cookie and hand painted “claret” deer heads on them. Claret is a really nice, rich burgundy, almost Pantone Marsala. Gotta have the 2015 color of the year represented in my boxes.
What’s funny is that when I started plashing all that red-ish petal dust paint on the white cookie, the potential to become gruesome was there. Here we have a discombobulated/body-less deer head (or heart/lung) splashed with drops of red…blood? Nightmare before Christmas, literally. So I traced over the deer heads so they looked more scrolly and added silver and glitter detail to them so they looked less gruesome. I think they worked out ok.
Anywho, it’s time to call it a night and see where tomorrow leads me.
