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Stenciling will forever be mine, I think. That even goes for stenciling with paint as well as icing! It's my favorite look, and I always think "oh I can just stencil that, easy!" And it NEVER is! 

Mine is coloring.  I am not a patient person so have a really hard time waiting for icing colors to "develop".  Then when I decorate, the colors wind up not being what I pictured in my head.

Yeah outlining is definitely something that I have a difficult time with. I see all these beautiful crisp lines and mine always have bumps and knobs at each intersection. I just don't get it! I can do it on a scottowel but when I go to a cookie, I fail!

Large circles.  Smaller ones I can get down pretty well, but large ones, no matter how slowly I work, seem to try to develop a life of their own. I can do them, but circles are my nemesis.  I try to avoid them. I am getting ready to do life preservers today. I will have a few backups.  lol

I love the term kookie kryptonite!  My absolute nemesis is the great big and evil (yet potentially beautiful) SCROLL WORK.  Mine look like crap and no matter how I draw it in practice or pipe it or whatever...it looks like a kindergarten student grabbed my piping bag and made awkward swirls on my cookies.  It is so depressing.    In my mind, I can see it, I can think it, I just CAN'T DO IT!  Arrrggghhhh!!!!

Originally Posted by Debbi Hook - The SPI Flip Flop Foodie:

In my mind, I can see it, I can think it, I just CAN'T DO IT!  Arrrggghhhh!!!!

next time, don't think!!! I taught myself this when I started cake decorating. Whenever I was looking at something to guide me, or I was REALLY concentrating.. that was when I turned out some of the worst designs I had ever seen. But now I know better... just grab the bag and go! Do it fast, do it without thought. I promise you it will help! 

I'm with Tracy - large circles are not my friend. They always end up looking lop-sided. Also, stencils. I've only attempted them a couple of times, but the result was not good. I definitely need to practice with stencils.

Originally Posted by Debbi Hook - The SPI Flip Flop Foodie:

I love the term kookie kryptonite!  My absolute nemesis is the great big and evil (yet potentially beautiful) SCROLL WORK.  Mine look like crap and no matter how I draw it in practice or pipe it or whatever...it looks like a kindergarten student grabbed my piping bag and made awkward swirls on my cookies.  It is so depressing.    In my mind, I can see it, I can think it, I just CAN'T DO IT!  Arrrggghhhh!!!!

Debbi- Can you do it drawing?  You could scroll with marker and then just trace over it with icing. That's how I do my lettering- My cookie kryptonite is totally freehand icing.  I don't have a KopyKake, but I am not a natural with the icing bag the way, say, Butterwinks, is!

Icing consistency. Piping or flooding, ARGH! It's never right. If I can name two, the second is keeping the cookie on the stick. It doesn't help business when the cookies on a beautiful cookie bouquet fall off the sticks.

Originally Posted by Mallory of ButterWinks!:

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Soccer Balls.
FOR THE LIFE OF ME

I cannot recreate a soccer ball. ever. LOL!  

Marlyn of Montreal Confections just posted this video on her YouTube channel.  Maybe it will help! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...ature=em-subs_digest

Cookier Block!!! Lettering/Fonts!  Maybe we all need to recite positive affirmations, practice mental imagery, spend a few hours on a therapist's couch, have a lucky troll on the decorating table, do it 100 times without stopping, practice with paper & pencil, go through the motions with nothing in our hands.  Decorating is a mental, emotional & physical skill, not just talent.  I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can......

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