I made my first Valentines cookies this week. I just realized that the holiday is just nine days away. Yikes....how does each season and holiday seem to come faster and faster!

These cookies were made for packages that will be sent to our church's out-of-town college students.....sent by our senior adult group. I was so happy to make them to cheer everyone up. And my two oldest, Jill & Neil, will be in the list of recipients. :-))))))

I'm hoping to make cookies two more times next week to have plenty of cute hearts to share all around. :-)

I've been hanging out on CakeCentral these last few months and have gotten lots of great ideas for Valentines cookies from the awesome creators there. Check it out:
http://www.cakecentral.com/
The site is actually for cake decorators, but it has a little corner just for "cookiers" too, so I hang out in that little spot. ;-)

I fell in love with this pattern when I first saw it and was a bit stunned that I could actual emulate it and it look decent.....so I did lots of them. :-)

I'm very fond of these pink ones too.

Here's some miscellaneous ones that I hope to improve the next couple of times I decorate these hearts. I've grown very fond of the "stitched" look since I love quilts and country things.

Here's a cool swirly design with red and white edible glitter (which looks like little globs from the bad reflections in this pic....lol).

This is a kind of bizarre one I tried with black mixed with red and white. I'm not sure I like this one, so I put it in my "reject" pile.....meaning the family's cookies. Kyle gobbled it right up. :0)

Here's all the "acceptable" cookies (lol) packaged up and ready to go.

I can hardly wait to try them again next week for our Treat the Troops event. :-)