Twilight

Today we went to Portland and insisted on going to the Cullen's which is near downtown.It was very modern in the midst of older colonial style homes. I was soo excited and cannot believe I was on the same grounds that Robert Pattinson aka Edward Cullen has walked on. They were doing some work as you can see from the bulldozer in the background...maybe they are adding on a room for Renesmee. 

Here are some pictures!! 

The balcony where Rosalie and Bella stood and talked 

Edward's room that I think is on the top floor of the house! 

Cookies

I am always up for a challenge so to be honest when I found out an enemy of sorts had started making and decorating cookies....I had to challenge myself and see if I could do the same, for my first try I am pretty pleased but I enjoy cupcake and cake decorating much more and the making everything from scratch and mixing a ton of different colors can be annoying. 

Here are the results...

The dough made from scratch is rolled out and then I cut the cookie shapes out.

Stars cut out ready to be baked at 350 degrees  for ~10 minutes 

Then you use the icing to outline what you will fill in with thinner icing, it's called "flooding" the cookie

The cookie with the "flooding" icing added

I decided to do a tie-dye effect on some...I added a blob of the color I wanted, here blue, in the center of the cookie

Then take a toothpick and swirl around in different directions and ways for an array of designs..and no one will know if you messed up with this design!

This is a Palm Tree I did..excuse the fingerprint from me moving the cookie

The finished Stars..I also wrote July 4th on some of them!

More designs all done with the toothpick!

Strawberries...they were my favorite! 

Pineapples that are pretty cute...and my favorite fruit in non-cookie form. 

Hope you enjoyed this I got most of my helpful information from this great blog...Bake at 350...but I will warn that it is time consuming! 

Table

I found this table on the side of the road a long time ago and decided to distress it and put it in my study.

In all this project was FREE...the table was as I mentioned earlier found by the road, the paint was a free Valspar sample I had won, and the Polyurethane I already had from previous projects. 

Before..

The top after paint.

My new Forrest Green side table!

Free Valspar "Forrest Green" sample

Polyurethane I use..it dries really fast so you don't have to wait impatiently to move anything and start decorating. 

I am using it as a side table in my study and I put an old suitcase as an accessory and magazine holders on the bottom.