Its time for CAKE!

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I am sorry I have been absent for a bit, besides celebrating the holiday 3 day weekend- I have been accident prone. To those that know me, I can be a klutz... but this week its been BAD!  Nothing too serious! .. but I am dangerous!  I was cutting up canteloupe on Tuesday night, May 24, and sliced my thumb... TO ME, I wanted to put a bandaid on it and call it a night- but to the other half (who inspected it well) it was a car ride to the ER, a tetanus shot and two stitches later going to be ok.... I hate it when hes right! {{wink wink}} Its on a part of your thumb in which holds everything - it sits on the desktop when you are using a mouse, its just a bad bad spot. Plus I use this hand with scissors... UGH!!!!

This was  Wednesday morning, I removed the stitches by Monday May 30 myself, it was just annoying!

In the meantime, I have to get some graduations gifts completed. I wanted to make something different for the boys, and I knew they would love this - since they really could east it!

I only hot glued the two styrofoam circles together, after I put cardstock on them. Everything else has medium sticky dots on them, so you can eat the chocolate.

I am convinced the I may have to stick these numbers up - some little strips of cardboard, for a better appearance. With only really only having limited use of the right hand - I figured I would try this first, then pop them up! {{when my thumb was up to it!}}

Top view - and I really had a fun time making this! I did imagine other candies that you could use for this project too!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hug the ones you love!

Have a great day!

Glassine bags +Chocolate + sun = My lessoned learned

A few weeks ago, I got out my glassine bags from SU! (Holiday Mini?) I decided they would be the perfect size for a few chocolate covered pretzels and turtles to head overseas just in time for the Easter holiday... I made dozens of them... I was extremely happy with the outcome and then just waited patiently for the time I could send them when they would arrive closer to Easter.

I put the goodies in the car, to mail over lunch since a post office is only a few miles from work. Nothing big, I got all the paperwork for the USPS completed, and then couldn't go. And couldn't go the next day. So on day 3, I was like WHOA... its been in the 60-70s over the course of the day - I wonder what the candies look like?.. OH MY LORD.. some of them (the turtles) were a nightmare... so I brought them inside at work, in the fridge it all went to 'form'.

Well you do not want to know what the pretzels with Carmel kisses on them topped with a pecan looked like from when it melted to when it formed after being chilled! There were survivors! HOORAY!!!!

The survivor "team" made it safely to the post off the early morning of day 4, along with other goodies that I thought the soldiers would enjoy! So it wasn't totally lost.. the co- workers/kids eat the messed up versions, and the soldiers get extra goodies! LOL!!!

So here is a survivor:

I used the scallop oval die from the BIG SHOT, to make the handle, and the bag band. I used the Vintage Labels (SAB stamp set) for the scalloped circle punch out "tag". All in retired SU! DSP.

If my calculations are correct, they will arrive April 2 - and then can be distributed accordingly. I am a little upset on the mess of the chocolates, but lets face it - one cannot really count on the weather to be really what the meteorologist says!

HAPPY MONDAY!!! HAPPY SPRING!!!