Teacher Appreciation

If I could have one wish for my girls after their acceptance of Jesus and their Lord and Savior it would be a spirit of gratitude.  The highs are that much sweeter and the lows so much easier when we can remember to be thankful so when we have the opportunity to shower those to which we are truly grateful...you better believe we are ALL over it.

I searched the blogsphere for ideas and inspiration but just wasn't smitten with anything.  I knew that I didn't want to spend a lot on money and was hoping to just make due with what we had on hand so I dug through the cabinets and found cookie mix, a flower shaped cutter and the rest is history! 

We decided that we also needed something chocolatey and who can argue with faces like these?

We baked FLOWER COOKIE pops!

Grace helped mix and cut and Faith...well Faith just kept trying to steal the dough.

My kinda gal ;)

After they cooled and the girls were fast asleep I decided to tackle royal icing for the very first time.  I piped the edges and centers...

Then flooded the petals...

Then it was on to our flower pots!  My initial thought was to paint them but the more I looked at them the mmore I liked them in their natural state so I hot glued a cute ribbon around them and stuffed them with Easter grass!

A few salted walnut and dark truffles to serve as the dirt and an AMAZINGLY yummy treat was had!

Total cost of the entire project?  Less than $1.25 a pot!  Can't beat that!