Dance of the Butterflies

Outstanding 

Absolutely gorgeous!!! I love your color combinations and the detail is always impeccable! I always look forward to seeing what new creations you have made

Wow! Your work is alwas perfect! I love it! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Beautiful colours! I love them!!

There's some very fine details in these beautiful cookies. Do you use a tip?

Everyone is beautiful and clearly your style..I love them

Wowwww amazing set 

I love every single butterfly, Sonja! The way you decorated, the colors and the tiny dots on the ruffles. The way you have displayed them in hexagons it is mesmerizing.

Teri Pringle Wood posted:

Outstanding 

Thanks a lot,  Teri ❤️!

Cookies Fantastique by Carol posted:

Absolutely gorgeous!!! I love your color combinations and the detail is always impeccable! I always look forward to seeing what new creations you have made

And your comments always make me happy, Carol . Thanks a million ❤️!

Magadiuz posted:

Wow! Your work is alwas perfect! I love it! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

 

Thank you soooo much, Magadiuz! You know I'm a fan of your work as well ❤️ !

Alison Friedli posted:

Beautiful colours! I love them!!

Thanks for your kind comment, Alison ❤️!

Too beautiful for mere table decoration - get them a proper frame and promote them to wall decoration!

Sweet Prodigy posted:

There's some very fine details in these beautiful cookies. Do you use a tip?

Thanks so much, Christine! The details are not as fine as I would have liked them. I feel I could have gotten more detail on these smaller butterflies had I had extra fine confectioner's sugar, which I ran out of, and cannot get locally. And since we're moving in a week, there was no point in ordering more at this time. Also, the RI consistency with rougher sugar is just not the same as with extra fine, which is much creamier and easier to paint on for eyelet lace, for instance.

I don't use tips for two reasons. Even the extra fine powdered sugar, which I have to order online, will clog the PME 00 and 0 tips. I work with parchment paper cones which at least are a bit flexible, and I can force larger particles through the openings to free them when they clog. The second reason is, that I seem to have more control with smaller and somewhat rigid cones, instead of the larger, softer bags with tips.

Thanks again ❤️❤️❤️!!!

Marimen posted:

Everyone is beautiful and clearly your style..I love them

So sweet of you to say . Thanks so much Mariment ❤️!!!

Laegwen posted:

Too beautiful for mere table decoration - get them a proper frame and promote them to wall decoration!

Thanks so much, Leoni ! Alas, I hope they will be eaten . I donated the abstract flower set to the same institution. They used them as table decoration as well, and they disappeared one by one. I know one employee there who loves that gingerbread taste a lot ;-)! Thanks again ❤️❤️❤️!

Wow!!! Butterflies are flying.....

Maravillosas!!!! Bravo!

swissophie posted:

Sweet Prodigy posted:

There's some very fine details in these beautiful cookies. Do you use a tip?

Thanks so much, Christine! The details are not as fine as I would have liked them. I feel I could have gotten more detail on these smaller butterflies had I had extra fine confectioner's sugar, which I ran out of, and cannot get locally. And since we're moving in a week, there was no point in ordering more at this time. Also, the RI consistency with rougher sugar is just not the same as with extra fine, which is much creamier and easier to paint on for eyelet lace, for instance.

I don't use tips for two reasons. Even the extra fine powdered sugar, which I have to order online, will clog the PME 00 and 0 tips. I work with parchment paper cones which at least are a bit flexible, and I can force larger particles through the openings to free them when they clog. The second reason is, that I seem to have more control with smaller and somewhat rigid cones, instead of the larger, softer bags with tips.

Thanks again ❤️❤️❤️!!!

Well, if you'd have said that you created this set under the perfect conditions, I'd have believed you. The details are still amazing. (And you've made me feel fortune that confectioner's sugar is so readily available in Canada. ) I knew you couldn't have been using tipless bags, which is why I asked, but I never thought of parchment. I'm a tip person, clogs and all, but I can definitely see how you would have good control with the cones.

your butterfly magic!!!!

Gorgeous!!!!!!! ❤️

Preciosas mariposas ! 

Mila Krylova posted:

your butterfly magic!!!!

Thank you so much, Mila! I so much admire your work!

Sweet Prodigy posted:

swissophie posted:

Sweet Prodigy posted:

There's some very fine details in these beautiful cookies. Do you use a tip?

Thanks so much, Christine! The details are not as fine as I would have liked them. I feel I could have gotten more detail on these smaller butterflies had I had extra fine confectioner's sugar, which I ran out of, and cannot get locally. And since we're moving in a week, there was no point in ordering more at this time. Also, the RI consistency with rougher sugar is just not the same as with extra fine, which is much creamier and easier to paint on for eyelet lace, for instance.

I don't use tips for two reasons. Even the extra fine powdered sugar, which I have to order online, will clog the PME 00 and 0 tips. I work with parchment paper cones which at least are a bit flexible, and I can force larger particles through the openings to free them when they clog. The second reason is, that I seem to have more control with smaller and somewhat rigid cones, instead of the larger, softer bags with tips.

Thanks again ❤️❤️❤️!!!

Well, if you'd have said that you created this set under the perfect conditions, I'd have believed you. The details are still amazing. (And you've made me feel fortune that confectioner's sugar is so readily available in Canada. ) I knew you couldn't have been using tipless bags, which is why I asked, but I never thought of parchment. I'm a tip person, clogs and all, but I can definitely see how you would have good control with the cones.

I learned from Julia Usher . Have a beautiful weekend, and thanks again, Christine ❤️!

CHELY Morales posted:

Preciosas mariposas ! 

Muchas gracias, Chely ❤️!

Evelindecora posted:

Gorgeous!!!!!!! ❤️

Thanks a million, Evelin ❤️!

Manu posted:

I love every single butterfly, Sonja! The way you decorated, the colors and the tiny dots on the ruffles. The way you have displayed them in hexagons it is mesmerizing.

Awww, thanks so much for your sweet comment, Manu ❤️❤️❤️!

My Sweet Art posted:

Wowwww amazing set 

Thank you sooo much ❤️!

Amore García Lorca posted:

Maravillosas!!!! Bravo!

Muchas gracias ❤️!

Dolce Flo posted:

Wow!!! Butterflies are flying.....

Thank you very much, Flo ❤️!

Gorgeous!��

Nanzcam aka Nancy Kemp posted:

Gorgeous!��

Thanks so much, Nancy ❤️!

Lovely lovely lovely

Roberto Correa posted:

Lovely lovely lovely

Thank you,  Roberto ��. 

I love how the little dots on the edges line up so perfectly for the ones in the middle. So gorgeous and mesmerizing...

Natalie B posted:

I love how the little dots on the edges line up so perfectly for the ones in the middle. So gorgeous and mesmerizing...

Thanks so much, Natalie ❤️❤️❤️! They line up because they are on the back of each ruffle fold, but not all of them do. I cheated once in a while ;-). So happy you like them .

I tell of hearts and souls and dances...
Butterflies and second chances;
Desperate ones and dreamers bound,
Seeking life from barren ground,
Who suffer on in earthly fate
The bitter pain of agony hate,
Might but they stop and here forgive
Would break the bonds to breathe and live
And find that God in goodness brings
A chance for change, the hope of wings
To rest in Him, and self to die
And so become a butterfly.” amazing hand work

These are really beautiful!

Carol-Anne posted:

These are really beautiful!

Thanks very much, Carol-Anne !

beautiful color palette and exquisite piping!