I was asked to make cookies for a 75th birthday using Roman numerals and NO blue.  Pretty simple request?  Sometimes the simplest things can be the most challenging.  I've struggled with Dyslexia since I was a child.  I experience it most with numbers but it happens with letters too.  I try very hard to check over my work because I know if I get careless, letters can get switched around.  Well some how it happened.  As you can see, I piped LVVX instead of LXXV.  It's funny how the brains work.  I piped it incorrectly numerous times and never saw it.

I felt really defeated and frustrated that I could make such a stupid mistake.  I've been making cookies for a long time and have never done this.  By the time I realized my mistake, I was too close to delivery day to bake new cookies.  I had a Tim Gunn moment and had to "Make it work."  I took a knife and scrapped off the icing of the wrong letters.

It looked like there was a party confetti in my kitchen sink.  Once I had the letter scrapped off, I piped the correct letters.  I used the same color as the incorrect letter.  I filled in the areas not covered by the new letters with white icing.  Then I added squiggles and dots to further camouflage my mistake.  Those cookies are over-decorated but I fixed the mistake. 

The client loved the cookies and in the end, the set turned out looking pretty good.  I still have a hard time looking at these cookies because I know how much of a struggle they were for me.  It's hard to face our own personal limitations.  I know that I've learned a ton from this cookie set.