Cookie Inception

Or, really, just cookies about making cookies :)

I made those princess crown cookies and had a lot of dough left over, so I decided to make some baking themed cookies with the extra. I got to pull out my stand mixer cookie cutter, and that’s always fun :)

I am having a hard time deciding which are my favorites – they all turned out so cute!

Of course, then they sat in my kitchen for a few days, needing someone to eat them. Thankfully I was able to give them away ;) They were too fun not to share with friends!

Pink and Gold Princess Crown Cookies

I had a little cookie order last week for some princess cookies – these were so fun to make!

I piped the detail on yellow, then painted over it with gold luster dust and orange extract. Cute, huh?

I think the birthday princess liked them :)

A Dresser of My Own

Okay, so here’s the thing: John and I have shared a dresser our entire married life. We’re coming up on 8 years now, you know. ;) We’ve made it work, but I’ve been excited to have my own dresser at some point. In an effort to find a dresser for baby girl’s nursery, I found 2 dressers on craigslist for $100. Serious steal of a deal, my friends. 2 solid cherry wood dressers for $100! John was hesitant to buy both, because we only needed one for the nursery, but I convinced him that each of us having our own dressers would be awesome and it was too good of a deal to pass up. (He’ll thank me someday) ;) They were on my parent’s craigslist, and my dad was awesome and picked them up for me and then I refinished them at their house. The plan then was to move our current IKEA Hemnes dresser to the nursery and then the refinished dressers would go into our room. It worked out perfectly! (and I finally have my own dresser! yippeeeeee!)

Here’s the before picture:

I got everything sanded and primed one weekend in June and then finished them up when we were at my parent’s for Spencer’s birthday party. 

We got them up to our house a week or so later and I LOVE THEM! I am SO excited for a dresser of my own! I found some beautiful glass knobs on amazon and put them on my dresser and the IKEA dresser for the nursery (the nursery is still a work in progress- pics to come soon!). I then put the old knobs from that IKEA dresser onto John’s new dresser – they were a little more manly than the glass knobs ;)

Here they are all finished!!!!!

I also purchased a few things to style John’s dresser – I think he sometimes feels like my stuff is taking over our room, so I wanted to put together a space just for him. The little chest holds his cufflinks and collar stays and we both totally love the ship piece I found at Hobby Lobby.

I just LOVE walking into our room these days, I love how these turned out!