Ways to Use a Heart Shaped Cookie Cutter

One of the best uses for a heart shaped cookie cutter in of course to make cookies. Decorating cookies made out of a heart shaped cookie cutter can be an enjoyable family project. If you are scared that little ones will cut their fingers then buy plastic ones. The plastic ones also double as toys for cutting out play-dough after you are done using them for St. Valentine’s Day.

You can sprinkle these heart shapes cookies with just about any decorations that you like including red glitter, pink glitter pink sugar balls and edible silver balls. He3t shaped cookies also look nice dusted with pick or red Jell-O powder or paved with thick pink sugar icing.

You can also take two sugar cookies and press jam or pink icing between them. Heart shaped cookie cutters can also be used to make Jell-O treats. Simply add an extra package of clear gelatin like Knox gelatin to a pan and let it gel. You can then use the cookie cutters to create the heart shapes. This makes great finger food for toddlers. The glittering heart shapes also make beautiful decorations for other desserts including cakes puddings and pies. The extra gelatin makes them stiff enough to pick up with your fingers.

You can also make mini cakes using the cutters to make a delectable valentine’s day treat. Yet another use is for making heart shaped ice cubes and centerpieces.

The cookie cutters can also be used as templates for cutting hearts it of construction paper. Simply trace a line around the cutter and then cut it out. You can then decorate the heart as you please. You can also use it to create heart out of a photograph. You can then trim the ribbon with whatever you like so it looks nice.

In essence the heart shaped cookie cutter has been used to make a heart shaped object out o anything. You can fill them with plaster, clay or paper mache to make decorations and paperweights. You can paint the result with latex or acrylic paint. You can even embed objects. Within the heart shaped mold is space to place a flower or shell or other curio along with acrylic plastic. This is a great way to make an elegant broach. Simply use feathers to create a brooch or ornament that says 'my heart has wings”.

You can cookie cutters themselves to make all kinds of crafts including sculptures of earrings and brooches.

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Should Your Little Girl Wear High Heel Shoes Like Suri Cruise?

There has been trends among celebrities for them to allow their little girls to wear high heel shoes. The biggest star of this sort of style is little Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom Cruise, who struts around in gold lame two inch heels. She also has a silver beaded pair of two inch mules that she has been seen wearing in several photos. Is this something you should let your daughter do as well?

It's actually pretty hard to find a shoe with a high heel of any kind for a girl six years or younger. Nina makes a glossy pair of high patent leather boots with pointy toes for toddlers. Some of the cowboy boots made for toddlers also have quite a high heel. A company called Mootsie's is making little plastic and lame dress shoes for toddlers with a wide but quite high squared off court heel.

Believe it or not you can buy high heels for babies to wear. A company named Heelarious makes soft crib shoes that have a soft high heel and that are bright red. They have a cheetah pattern lining. These look like cartoon high shoes and the good news is that they are not going to hurt an innocent child's back. You can also get them in a leopard print, pink vinyl, black vinyl (to look like patent leather.)

If you don't want your child to wear high heel shoes but you want to gratify her fascination with them you can always get her a little gold or silver charm that looks like a high-heel. A lot of jewelry companies are also making high heels that are made out of ceramic. A company made TaiToolli makes a high heel shoe charm on a necklace that looks like fake pave diamonds.

You can also buy glycerin soap in the shape of sexy high heels. Peppermint pink Cinderella shoe soap is available at Etsy which makes a lot of fun stuff for little girls and older women who are young at heart.

Little Posh Bebe is onto the trend and makes a little T-Shirt featuring a Zebra-striped pump with a real pink ribbon on it. The T-Shirt is paired with a set of Zebra striped flat shoes with pink velvet ribbons and an inside pink lining. This way your little girl can have the style without risking injuring her back as celebrity kid Suri Cruise is by wearing high heels while her spine is still developing.

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