Rainbow Cookies!

I know St Patrick's Day was months ago......but I'll still share about the fabulous rainbow cookies we made.   I remember making these as a little kid, but I haven't made them for years. This year, I remembered about them, and made them as our treat for St Patty's Day.

First, you follow an awesome snicker doodle recipe. I use my mum's. It calls for cream of tartar, which for some reason makes it better than all the other recipes that don't.

Mix:
1 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs

then Mix:
2 3/4 cups flour
2 tsp cream of tartar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Instead of just rolling little dough balls in cinnamon and sugar, divide all of the dough into several sections on wax paper. Put a few drops of food coloring in each section, and mash it in with your hands til you have several little colored mounds.

Next, take a little pinch of each color to make a mini dough ball.

After you make your dough ball, roll it in a little cinnamon and sugar, and place on a baking sheet.

bake @ 400 degrees

8-10 minutes

Don't they look so yummmy! Husband loved them. I took them to school on St Patty's, and my ESL kids gave me a look like "you want us to eat cookies that look like play-doh?". The brave ones each tried a rainbow cookie, realized they were delicious, and came back for seconds. They were a big success.

Skirt Attempt Numero Dos

I attempted to help my friend make a skirt one Sunday afternoon. We used this tutorial from Susan Petersen's freshlypicked blog.  I've made a few skirts using this tutorial, but somehow I forgot that I like my skirts better when I cut the skirt a few inches slimmer than what the tutorial suggests. That gross error resulted in a skirt that was very cute, but quite a bit puffy and drowning. Since we were not going for the prego look prematurely, we decided to re-work the skirt. 

Here's the before alterations pic. 

Of course she looks darling in everything, 

and you can't tell so well in the pic,

 but the skirt really was quite a bit too large. 

So we unpicked the waist band...

Holy mama check out all that material!

One side was cut down slimmer by about 14 inches. Yikes. 

The pocket of the trimmed side was re-pinned in place...

and re-sewn.

Check out how much we trimmed down on this skirt!

Ta da!

Now we have a super cute girl in a super cute skirt!

THAT was the plan the whole time.

It just took us 2 tries to achieve success.

So the moral of this story is:

Don't give up on your sewing projects if they don't turn out quite right.

It only took us another hour to make a semi cute skirt

into a smokin hot skirt:)