Fancy schmancy Valentine's Day cookies

Courtesy of The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle

I just LOVE Sweet Sugar Belle's cookie blog.  I look at all of her beautifully decorated cookies, and it makes me want to rush out to the kitchen and make a masterpiece myself.  (Reality check:  I decorated cookies with my sister for the first time this past Christmas.  Not that it wasn't fun for the first 6 hours, but those last 6 were killer...  It took me a week to get the feeling back in my fingertips from squeezing the frosting out of those little bottles all day!  I PROMISED myself I would NEVER EVER do that again!!!)  It's worth visiting her site just to drool over her creations, but-- get this-- she even shows you how she makes those awesomely perfect lace designs!!!  I am in awe of her talent.

Swoon!

They are.... perfect!  Just perfect!  If I ever make decorated sugar cookies again, I would want them to look just like this.  And that's a problem, because I really mean that.  Literally.  I drive myself crazy with wanting my cookies to be perfect.  My girls call me the Cookie Nazi.  Seriously.  But, hey-- I'm just a detail oriented person.  And chocolate chip cookies should always be the same size and shape, right?  No?  Too much?? 

I've already pinned a bunch of her cookies on Pinterest for future reference.  Which is just wrong because of my promise to my numb fingers...  I really need to stop visiting  her site, because I can feel my resolve slowly slipping away.  Sigh.  I'm afraid it's only a matter of time...