Category Archives: Candy

Top Ten Posts for 2013

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I posted this a couple of weeks over at I Should Be Mopping the Floor, and I wanted to post it here for you today!

 These were my top 10 posts  in 2013!

Top 2013 posts

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Valentines Soup Can Label

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Yesterday I promised that I would give you the perfect thing to end your Valentines Countdown, so here it is!

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A Valentines Soup Can!    

What Valentine wouldn’t love receiving this  on Valentines Day filled with his or her favorite goodies, trinkets or love letters etc?  

You can customize these to each individual person.

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Valentines Countdown

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Today I have a fun little printable Valentines Countdown for you to make for all those little Valentines in your life!   It is a countdown to KISSES!  ( I think you should get a real kiss each day besides the chocolate ones!)

My little 4 year old grandson just walked in while I was taking these pictures and the first thing he said is “Do I get one of those?!”  Then then next thing he said is, “are you going to make one for everyone?”  So I guess the pressure is on for me to make all the grandkids one of these! :)

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Christmas Candy Roundup

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I thought that it would be fun to just do a round-up of some of our family’s favorite Christmas candies!  Some of these recipes go way back and some are pretty new, but they have all become favorites!  

Of course most anything with sugar in it, is a favorite around here! :)

I have fond memories of making candy for the holidays with my mom.  We used to make all kinds of fondant and dip our own chocolates, we would make BIG batches of it and give it away to all of our friends.  I also remember making anise candy, fudge, caramels and peanut brittle, those were great times and we had fun doing it all together!  It still brings back good memories when I make them for my family now.

I don’t dip my own chocolates anymore but I do make fudge and peanut clusters, they are two of my favorite Christmas candies!

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Easy Fudge

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M&M’s Christmas Gift Label

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Today I have a fun little gift label that is perfect for neighbor gifts, teacher gifts, visiting teaching gifts, a co-worker or a special treat for someone you love!

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December 2013 Visiting Teaching Handout

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I hope that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.  We had a great one even though there was a lot of excitement in our neighborhood!  One of our neighbors had a fire in their home on Thanksgiving morning!  The home received smoke damage and damage to half of the house, but it is not a total loss, thank goodness!  We are hoping that they will be able to move back in a week or two!  But it will probably take months to get their home all put back together!  It really makes you stop and count your blessings and my number one blessing is always my family, as was our neighbor’s!  Everyone was safe and that was the most important thing!

But now, here is the December visiting teaching handout for Relief Society for my church  I love that it is all about the Savior for this month, because to me that is what Christmas is all about!  

I chose to focus on this quote by  Elder D. Todd Christofferson.

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Thanksgiving Roundup

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I thought that today I would just do a fun Thanksgiving Roundup to get us ready for next week,

 with recipes, games, printables, decorations and just fun eye candy!

Here is a great site with many vintage images!  I love the old vintage pictures!

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Thursday’s Thought-Note to Self:

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Today my thought is a fun one… just in time for Halloween!

 I have actually used this for several tags to give to people for a “just thinking of you”  or thanks for all you do note attached with some kind of chocolate of course!   Do you know anyone who could use a pick me up today or a “I’m thinking of you today”?  Go ahead and print some of these up as tags and give them away!  It will make you feel good.

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Hope you have a Thoughtful Thursday!  Love Ya!

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5 Recipes to Make with Halloween Candy

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This is a repost that I did a year ago.  The original post said to use your leftover Halloween candy, but you could use any of these recipes before Halloween for your parties, get together’s or for a fun family night!  These recipes are also great to give away as gifts for the holidays.  Many of these recipes can be changed up just a little bit and you could use them for any time of the year! 

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