Brown Bagging It

Here, have a look:

 
Now look closer:

He's not a cookie ornament, he's made of paper.  Heavy-duty, grocery store issue, brown paper bags, to be specific.

And the icing?  It's royal icing - with some white glue added.

Looks tasty, doesn't he?

I also made these:

I love these.  My mother-in-law had these plastic cookie molds, the boy and the girl, and I just think they're sweet.  So I made them into papery ornaments as well. 

But don't worry - I'm also baking the edible kind of cookies, too.  My kitchen smells like cinnamon and cloves as I type!