Connections

Happy Birthday, Ryoko!

A birthday cookie for a cookie friend @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave. met here on Cookie Connection and a peony from my garden. . .

Ryoko and I made a couple of cookie collaborations together (here and here), despite the distance Japan-Italy between us. We used the Cookie Connection PM feature to communicate.

It is nice to bake for a fellow cookier. It is also nice as cookier to receive cookies, as I experienced last July when Ryoko made a B-day cookie for me!

(There are cherry blossoms handpainted with edible colors under the SugarVeil needlepoint grid. Handpainted background is an idea that I borrowed from @Teri Pringle Wood. Name cross stitched with royal icing.

You are well loved, @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave.! Happy birthday, again!

This is lovely Manu!! What a thoughtful birthday idea . I absolutely love it!!

Hi there, Manu!!!!  Thank you indeed.  What a wonderful day today, cookie artists make cookies just only for me.  

love it Manu x

Julia M. Usher posted:

You are well loved, @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave.! Happy birthday, again!

  Yes, yes, thank you and as I told you, Cookie Connection is the wonderful place.  

Lovely! Love the cookie and the flower!!! 

Well done @Manu biscotti decorati, and happy birthday @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave.!

Cookies by joss posted:

Well done @Manu biscotti decorati, and happy birthday @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave.!

Hi, Joss   Thank you 

Manu posted:

Happy Birthday, Ryoko!

A birthday cookie for a cookie friend @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave. met here on Cookie Connection and a peony from my garden. . .

Ryoko and I made a couple of cookie collaborations together (here and here), despite the distance Japan-Italy between us. We used the Cookie Connection PM feature to communicate.

It is nice to bake for a fellow cookier. It is also nice as cookier to receive cookies, as I experienced last July when Ryoko made a B-day cookie for me!

(There are cherry blossoms handpainted with edible colors under the SugarVeil needlepoint grid. Handpainted background is an idea that I borrowed from @Teri Pringle Wood. Name cross stitched with royal icing.

Oh, that's a real flower from you garden?  Mamma mia!   That's absolutely beautiful! You made cookie for me and the flower is from your garden, this is so lovely.  Grazie mille.  

@Ryoko ~Cookie Ave.

Yes it is from my garden. A beutiful bush of peonies blossomed for an entire week but the weather was too awful to take pics. Such a pity I had either beautiful flowers and bad light or beautiful weather and too late for fresh flowers! I am glad I finally took this picture on a sunny afternoon just to see how it looked. The next day the sun was so strong that when I came home to take pics all the flowers were discolored!

Cookies Fantastique by Carol posted:

This is lovely Manu!! What a thoughtful birthday idea . I absolutely love it!!

Cookie Bakes & Cakes posted:

love it Manu x

 

carouselselsel posted:

Lovely! Love the cookie and the flower!!! 

Cookies by joss posted:

Well done @Manu biscotti decorati, and happy birthday @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave.!

Thank you!

Manu posted:

@Ryoko ~Cookie Ave.

Yes it is from my garden. A beutiful bush of peonies blossomed for an entire week but the weather was too awful to take pics. Such a pity I had either beautiful flowers and bad light or beautiful weather and too late for fresh flowers! I am glad I finally took this picture on a sunny afternoon just to see how it looked. The next day the sun was so strong that when I came home to take pics all the flowers were discolored!

Thank you, again.  Since you make everything so beautifully, I thought you had made this flower, too.    You raised this flower so in that way you made this flower.  You are so busy and do gardening also, wow!!!  amazing.    Very talented and capable.  

Adorable Manu! I love it ❤

Happy birthday sweet Ryoko!

So pretty! Another needlepoint that I love, Manu, especially the hand-painted flowers underneath.

Happy birthday @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave. !

Evelindecora posted:

Adorable Manu! I love it ❤

Happy birthday sweet Ryoko!

Sweet Prodigy - Christine posted:

So pretty! Another needlepoint that I love, Manu, especially the hand-painted flowers underneath.

Happy birthday @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave. !

Hi Evelin and Christine

Thank you so much!  I am having lots of fun today!

What a lovely idea ! Happy Birthday, Ryoko <3!!!

Evelindecora posted:

Adorable Manu! I love it ❤

Happy birthday sweet Ryoko!

Sweet Prodigy - Christine posted:

So pretty! Another needlepoint that I love, Manu, especially the hand-painted flowers underneath.

Happy birthday @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave. !

swissophie posted:

What a lovely idea ! Happy Birthday, Ryoko <3!!!

Thank you! I made so many connections here and you are three of them!

Manu posted:

@Ryoko ~Cookie Ave.

Yes it is from my garden. A beutiful bush of peonies blossomed for an entire week but the weather was too awful to take pics. Such a pity I had either beautiful flowers and bad light or beautiful weather and too late for fresh flowers! I am glad I finally took this picture on a sunny afternoon just to see how it looked. The next day the sun was so strong that when I came home to take pics all the flowers were discolored!

I  didn't realize that the flower was real   (ha ha ). Thought you made it @Manu biscotti decorati . The peony is so beautiful and that color!!! Ah...i love it . You are  indeed a  woman of many talents  ♡.  Such a  thoughtful birthday gift and I absolutely loved the  cookie that @Ryoko ~Cookie Ave. Made for  your birthday.  How special and fun to celebrate fellow cookiers in this way  .

swissophie posted:

What a lovely idea ! Happy Birthday, Ryoko <3!!!

Hi Sonja, thank you  I am a really happy girl to get lovely gift.  

Great design! Love it ❤️

So sweet and beautiful cookie!<3  Wonderful like the gift

Magadiuz posted:

Great design! Love it ❤️

Thank you, Ina. ❤

GingerbreadFairy posted:

So sweet and beautiful cookie!<3  Wonderful like the gift

Thank you, ladies! Ryoko had the idea to make a cake cookie for me last year and I really appreciated her surprise. 

Lovely!