It’s time to start thinking of some ideas for cookie decorating for the holiday season. Once I sit down with my royal icing and blank cookies I go into some sort of trance. A few hours will pass before I snap out of it and find a table full of cookies like the ones below. I just find it so therapeutic. Every year I give a little bag of these cookies to the local bakery and they always look quite dubious. When I ask a few weeks later if they liked them they always respond with “Ma signora…sono troppe belle per mangiare!” (” Signora, they are too beautiful to actually eat!”). I’m sure they have a dusty box full of these little sacks from years past.
I love the poppy seed eyes on the little wee chicks. These were for my daughter’s spring birthday party…
Jillian In Italy 
Do you ever do traditional Xmas cookie designs or colours. Not to say these aren’t beautiful.