Archive for April, 2012

Easter candy bars.

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

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 […]

Easter Bunny bags.

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

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 […]

Easter pouches.

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

I would have had more of these Easter pouches to make, but my son got in to the Lindt truffles and ate 2 bags of them.  I was so mad at that kid.  My daughter found the wrappers under the couch and didn’t hesitate at all in rolling her brother under the bus.  But I […]

Chevron Easter bags.

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

I was busy this weekend making lots of crafty-packaged sweet Easter treats.  Up first are these fun chevron bags from Whisker Graphics that I embellished with patterned paper, diecut baskets, and punched bunnies. I bought the little library stamp from K&Company and used that to stamp the date for Easter on them.  I can see […]

Adventures in Couponing.

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

Hello and welcome to another one of my Sunday coupon posts.  We’ve had a little bit of a dry spell here lately going three whole weeks with no double coupons, but they are back today so next week I’ll have whacks of deals to share with you. But for today, I’ve got a little trip […]