A Barnyard Birthday...

Nothing says fun like a barnyard birthday - especially when the little boys mom is super excited about sugar cookies!

When she asked me to make cookies her only request was to make any cookies that fit in a farm theme, but there had to be a few pig cookies!

She also sent me two pictures of the shirt made for her son's birthday - which was awesome inspiration!

It was easy to find cookie cutters to use for this order - my only trouble was picking a few!

I ended up with a barn, cow (made from a reindeer cutter), pig, plaque cutter (made from a fancy number zero) and the letter C.  To tie everything together I kept with the same color pallet.

More cohesive.  At least that was my plan!

And hopefully Colton and the rest of his family will enjoy them at his birthday party this weekend!

Happy Birthday Colton - thank your mom for getting these cookies!

Sheaves of What...

Sheaves of Wheat...that's what.

For what?  A luncheon honoring a man who was a farmer in Western Nebraska and one of his main crops were...

...I'll give you one guess...

...it's not hard.

Wheat.

A hard one wasn't it?

I took these back in early December.  So pardon the lack of "in-progress" photos. This was BMNYR - Before My New Year's Resolution.  So this is spotty at best.

I looked at Sugarbelle's wheat sheaf cookies - and attempted to mimic hers.  Imitation is the greatest form of flattery right?

She used a ice cream cone cookie cutter.

I used the green one (aka the one on the bottom in case you're color blind)

And away I mixed "wheat" colored frosting.  A little gold food coloring with a slight drop of light brown.

Next were red bows - we are in Nebraska Husker country after all.

And then I forgot to take photos of the step by step t.o make the actual sheaves.  Just imagine photos of me piping frosting in straight lines with little small leaves at the top.

Ta-Da...you get this!

And sheaves of wheat don't look pretty unless they are sitting on some barn wood.  Right?

Hey, I was just keeping with the western farming theme.  Go with it.