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I think they turned out pretty good. Really happy with the soldiers and then I had so many stars I experimented with a few different ways to decorate. I think I like the plain ones the best. The flag ones were a lot of work and I don't do straight lines very well. And the star in star, I need a small star cutter or something to give me a guideline for piping the center. I don't do a freehand star very well either. But overall I'm pretty happy. I did the buttercream royal. Not bad. Only problem I had was when I thinned it for flooding, it got this white stuff where I think the crisco in the icing separated a bit. Then I figured it out and used hot water when thinning the red and that turned out much better. It actually looked kind of cool for the blue though for these cookies...almost like a denim. DH keeps saying "that's an aweful lot of work for cookies", but I have fun making them. I'm a crafty/creative type person and don't seem to have time/outlet for much of that anymore.