Beautiful, Beautiful Snowflakes!

Oh, not the ones outside, although I'm sure they have their own kind of charm...

I mean the sugar cookie ones I just made with

MY NEW COOKIE PRESS!

It makes me SO happy to see the snowflake imprint on the cookies I just baked up!

Last week I threw a blob of clay on the wheel... and it just felt right.

I shaped a cookie press- a clay, flat bottomed punch.

I used a snowflake decoration from the Christmas box and imprinted the design into the bottom of the cookie press.

A couple of days later, when it had dried a bit, I carved out the snowflake shape, making it a little deeper and a little wider.

I was down at the pottery studio this afternoon to put my teapot together.

!

And while I was there Linda came in to unload the kiln.

My cookie press had been fired and was ready to go!

With incredible self control

I didn't make cookies until the vacuuming was done and the supper dishes were washed.

But I had to try it out.

And it made lovely, lovely, perfectly visible snowflakes.

Even with sugar sprinkled on them.

 

And it makes me unbelievably happy.