Sweet Little Love Notes (January 2014)

My co-worker is due with a baby in February.  Their first, a little girl, and our department couldn't be happier for them.  I was also happy to have another excuse to make a platter of cookies.  Since I'm basically addicted to Pinterest, I searched for her and spied on some of her favorite pins for baby.

I knew they were decorating the baby's room a cool combination of teal and coral, and I know how much her husband is into music.  I saw that she had pinned a few baby onesies with cute music puns on them, and that was all the inspiration I needed...I was off to work!

How about those music puns?  "Here comes treble...Hold me?"  Awesome.  Since I really didn't think I could fit all the lettering on a onesie cookie, I chose to use a heart, with some additional flower details.

I happened to have the music note and treble clef cookie cutters already.  See...this only fuels my collection-buying habits, since, well, you never know which one(s) you'll need.  I traced the treble clef a few times with the gray icing in order to give it the perception of having strings, and the music notes, although the largest, were the most simple overall design...especially once I discovered Sweet Sugar Belle's simple roses...love these!

 Of course, I wanted to have a mini option, so I chose basic hearts in coordinating colors, since the rest of the cookies were so elaborate and busy.

 Also, to add some background interest to the platter, I made some additional circle cookies.  This time, I used a food marker pen to stencil on the gray and white chevron...still working on perfecting that pattern with icing.  The quatrefoil (the coral in the middle), I was able to free-hand after some practice on scratch paper, and the teal with white polka dots was completed with the wet-on-wet icing technique. 

 

I loved making a baby shower platter that didn't include my traditional baby cookie cutters (i.e. onesies, bottles, carriages).  It was fun to make this personalized platter for such a fun and sweet couple.  

Best wishes with their new addition!