Learn how to make some fun polka dot pumpkin decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  Oh friends. Let's make things simple today, shall we?  I made cookies.  They're fun. 

Learn how to make some super easy gold fleck leaf decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  There have been exactly two people in my life that regularly used the phrase "The Google" and meant it. My five-year-old and my grandpa. 

Learn how to make some colorful Fall or Autumn leaf decorated sugar cookies with this royal icing cookie decorating tutorial!!  We've run out of "acceptable" breakfast cereals at my house. I'm not gonna lie...it's been rough.  Sometimes, I buy cereals based on the nutritional content and my current efforts as a loving mother to help my children be self-aware and make healthy food and life choices so that someday they can grow up to be happy, successful adults. Sometimes , I buy cereals based on my very low tolerance for incessant "please, please, pleasing" while simultaneously jumping about and very nearly knocking things over.  So as you can imagine, we have a stack of healthy-er-ish cereals in our cupboards of whose very existence my children refuse to acknowledge.  After being away a bunch this fall because of back-to-back CookieCon schedules...we hit an all-time low this week. The very last of the impulse cereal purchases was consumed.  My kitchen ta...