Everything is Coming Up Roses

Mother's Day is around the corner.  I've been making and decorating all kinds of rose cookies,  I have been stretching my creative muscle, which I feel is very weak to begin with, and trying new techniques.

With this cookie I created a screenprint.  It's so clean and simple.  I love it!!  I was so happy with the result.  I think I may make a leaf screen to add leaves to the rose, but I do like the simplicity of this cookie.

The nice thing about my job as a dispatcher on the graveyard shift, is there is usually some time to practice being creative.  One thing I have been trying to learn is making roses with wafer paper.  This is such a challenge and frustrating as heck for me!  I have ruined several dozen sheets of wafer paper, but I think I am getting close!

This is the rose I made during the breaks between phone calls and incidents at work tonight.

This rose is inspired by The Painted Box's roses.  Visit her facebook page and check her cookies and cakes out.  She is freaking awesome!!!

Speaking of being at work...today was a day for patience...There is a t-shirt I need that says "We cannot fix stupid, but we can fix what stupid does."  Today was a day for stupid.

Caller dials 911 because he's irate that someone "parked in the left turn lane with all his lights out."  Uh....duh!  He's broken down, not parked!!  Geez!  Thank goodness tonight is my "Friday" shift.  I think my tolerance for nitwits is very low by the end of my week.

My goal is to blog on the nights I work, and since this is my Friday, I will be back at it in 2 nights.  I hope every one has a "rosy" few days!