Where have all the popsicle sticks gone?

Thank goodness. No radiation this morning. Got to sleep in and read the paper (not at the same time). Decided to make Black Cat cookies for my nurses and doctors at both radiation and the infusion room for Halloween on Monday. The recipe looked really easy and I thought, "no problem". The problem came in trying to find the ingredients. First, I was looking for a Halloween bucket, flower pot, basket or some appropriate container to display them in. Safeway didn't seem to have anything until I found these little baskets - just the right size. And I thought that was the hard part.

I bought candy to fill the baskets and the ingredients for making the cookies. The cats' eyes are little pieces of candy corn. That was the next problem. Safeway had no candy corn. I dragged my weary self to Target and they had candy corn. Next problem solved.

The cat heads are baked on sticks so that you can stick them in the candy in the baskets like flowers. Safeway didn't have popsicle sticks or sticks of any kind. Neither did target. Target also didn't have the black and orange ribbon that I wanted to tie around the sticks. This "easy" project has proven very difficult. Now, after about 3 1/2 hours of shopping, I have to get up and go to Michael's tomorrow and hope that they have popsicle sticks!

Finally, I hope to find little plastics to wrap around the cookies and ribbon to tie it closed. And, sometime, I have to actually bake the cookies!