Beautiful morning in Birmingham.
We started our day with worship in the garden and Tricia read this verse to the girls:
God made us to be unique and beautiful women.
When you find you have a special talent share it with the world.
Share what you love with a friend just to make their day or to lift their spirits.
The girls learned just by simply placing cookies in a little bag with a special note is a way of sharing love with one another.
Hospitality is a beautiful gesture.
I think we are loosing sight of this art and we need to teach our girls to give to others and love one another unconditionally.
Look at what our girls created today:
I taught the girls how to ice a border using a pastry bag and how to flood the center to get a smooth finish. Didn't they do an amazing job!
The girls had homemade eiffel tower cookies to decorate. The recipe is from Martha Stewart. My special addition to the icing to make it extra yummy is almond extract!
The set up for the girls is simple: enough pastry bags filled with different colored icings so they can all be busy at the same time, runnier icing for flooding and their cookies to decorate.
Look at how gorgeous these colors are. It was so much fun to see how differently the two different aged camps decorated their cookies. More detail in the older but more color combinations in the younger. I loved walking around seeing the girls' faces light up when they masterd the flooding technique..it was like magic to see the border and the center of the cookie connect flawlessly.
I know they are going home to teach their mommas!
I have women ask me all the time to hold some baking classes so they can learn these techniques so sugar cookies are not just for kids!
Here's a little peak into Tricia's beautiful house. Doesn't this just look like a porch waiting for sipping tea and swinging in a porch swing.
Now for some bike painting time on the porch.
I was so amazed to see the girls' creations. They were all so talented.
Tommorow's art lesson...beautiful dresses(this is one that Tricia painted of a Kate Spade dress)
We are creating fun ice cream cake lollies tomorrow!
Back to the kitchen to prepare:
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