My second batch of Christmas Cookies

Yesterday I got my Ultimate Cookies book by Julia Usher, and decided to test the most important part for me...the consistency of the royal icing. It was the first time I saw
such a perfect description, with pictures, of how it should look like
for which technique. I had lots of leftover cookie dough in the freezer, so I only had to bake the cookies, and then I made a batch of icing. And went crazy with the colours! When I went to bed last night-before attaching the little figures to the cookies (had to make both dry up first), I started thinking how overly colourful they probably would be. That I am learning a lot, but I have to practice making classic understated cookies, not just crazy childish ones, you know? This morning, I woke up to make Lily's bottle and saw that my cat, despite the barrier I had made around the figures, destroyed one of my reindeers, a bauble and a penguin. I was so mad. I just felt like these cats are slowly destroying me! Too frustrated to get back to sleep after Lily's feeding, I decided to finish the cookies and was quite taken aback with the result...I think they came out really really cute, despite them being really flashy! All of the remaining figures were stable, the cookies had dried well, and the addition of a few snowflake sprinkles made everything look really cute! I am really happy with the result! Credit has to be made to Doodlebug Design Inc and Best Creation Inc... I used their cute designs as my figures... Just put a piece of acetate on top of the drawings which I had made smaller and copied with black icing! What do you guys think?

The cat barrier