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Hi, it’s me.  I just lived through another birthday.  Some years you just don’t want to count it.  Last year I was all like “woo hoo take that old age – i’m all sassy and proud!”  This year it’s more like “Crap, another birthday!”   Lucky for me I was not allowed to drown my sorrows all by my lonesome.  We [...]

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HO HO HO, now I’ve got my Christmas groove on.

Anna of Sew What tagged me for seven random facts, and I’m going to give it a Christmas twist.
1.  The above photo is my brother and I sitting on the Santa-who-could-care-less’s lap, circa early 1970’s.
2.  The first marital spat that B. and I experienced was over Christmas.  The universal clash of family traditions.  As I was wrapping [...]

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Alchemy

Alchemy – 2. a method or power of transmutation; esp., the seemingly miraculous change of a thing into something better.  In this case to take butter, sugar, chocolate, and pecans and turn it into something miraculous (i.e. English toffee)!
When you make this, make sure you won’t be interrupted.  It requires constant stirring and the candy gets [...]

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3.  The real deal hot chocolate, not to be confused with hot cocoa.  And here is the recipe from Pure Chocolate by Fran Bigelow along with her description.  It makes me blush just typing it!  And don’t get me wrong we do drink the stuff that comes in packets, but if you have an extra [...]

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Valentine’s chocolates

Here are the finished chocolates, or at least some of them.  Ever since I’ve started making chocolates I have racked my brain for a way to package them.  I found these cupcake boxes in the wedding/baking section and they were perfect.  I felt like they almost looked professional.  My friend Lynne’s husband had been watching [...]

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The top of the box.

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