When I buy candy (on the cheap with coupons ), I try and think of specific uses for them since we really don’t need to be eating candy around here. So when I got these Dove bar coupons, I decided to buy purple ones and use them for Easter. Purple is the Easter color, no? [...]
Happy Monday! – did you have a great Easter? Ours was fun. At dinner the night before Easter my daughter asked if it was true that there’s no Easter Bunny and that the parents really do the baskets. Yikes. She said that’s what Payne told her. Thanks, Payne. Sooo…I’m thinking this may have been our [...]
Here’s a super-simple candy package that took me no time to make. I had some of those Russell Stover chocolate eggs that I wanted to fancy up for Easter. So I popped them in to my smallest glassine bags, and then topped them with jars cut out of some Dear Lizzy patterned paper. Tied them [...]
Second only to my goody bags, is fancying-up chocolate bars. I love candy gifts, just love them, and if you can dress them up so that they don’t look like something you picked up as an afterthought at the Walmart checkstand, then you’re a winner. I use Glue Dots’ Continuous Glue Lines on the back [...]
I got about 90% of my Easter candy on the free this year, but every now and then I see something that I just have to have. This year it was the pastel jordan almonds at Cost Plus. So pretty and so so tasty. So I bought the big bag and then packaged them up [...]
