Baby shower cookies, part 1 - summer

I have never baked so many cookies in one two-day period. The 250 plus cookies were for my sister-in-law's baby shower and were put into treat bags for the guests. So like the Christmas cookies (same cookie and icing recipe), but baby-themed. Thankfully realizing ahead of time that I would need to plan my cookie designs exactly so I could stay organized and not drive myself crazy (which is what I usually do with the Christmas cookies, which are made on a much smaller scale), I 'sketched' the cookies beforehand and decided what colors of icing I would use and what icing designs I would pipe onto the cookies.

The cookies were by necessity created in stages--rolling out all the cookies and baking them, icing the base coat, waiting for those to dry, then adding things like eyes and writing and designs. If there was more than one color of design/sugar sprinkles, I would add the first one, wait for it to dry, then add the second one. These cookies take a long time to dry completely.

The advantage of baby shower cookies over the Christmas cookies was that I made the same design for each type of cookie since each person would only get one of each at most. I may apply this strategy to my Christmas cookies this year anyway, as opposed to my usual non-plan of baking the cookies, then staring at the big red box and its various sugars and sprinkles and candy snowflakes until inspiration strikes (repeat for each cookie, then start duplicating designs or varying the design only slightly after a few cookies when I get tired of trying to come up with something new).