Candy Canes!

I follow quite a few baking and craft blogs and one of my favorites is, 

Mom on Timeout. 

And she had a post last week titled, 

17 Candy Cane Recipes and Crafts

Find it here

http://www.momontimeout.com/2012/12/17-candy-canes-recipes-crafts/

Anyway, one of the crafts were these adorable candy sleighs that were featured on 

Ellyn's Place

http://ellynsplace.blogspot.com/2011/12/candy-sleighs.html

And I had to try them. They are quite simple to make and you can customize them any way you like.

Here are the two I have put together so far.

Let it Snow!

Instead of the usual red and green, I love blue and white for Christmas colors. They remind me of snowflakes and snowmen, which here in sunny southern CA we don't see too often. So I've put together a few crafts, gift bags, and ornaments in these two colors. Hope you enjoy them.

Wine or Sparkling Cider gift bag.

Gift totes to fill with whatever!

Purchased gift bag with plastic canvas topper.

And a snowman scene made from plastic canvas and decorated with items from the dollar store.

What are your favorite Christmas colors?

Toilet Paper Roll Decorations

Yesterday I wanted a quick craft to work on and here is what I made!

They are sooo easy to make and take no time at all.

Here's what you'll need

toilet paper rolls

paint in colors of your choice

hot glue gun and craft glue

ribbon

clear spray paint

glitter or fake snow

embellishments of your choice

 Start with your toilet paper roll. Flatten it out and then cut off even strips. 

 For the green one I wanted it to resemble holly leaves so I folded my strips like this.

This will be a snowflake

And for the snowflake one, I wanted it to have more detail so I cut some strips in half like this.

I used hot glue to assemble the red and green ones, but ran out of glue sticks and had to use craft glue to assemble the snowflake. I prefer the hot glue because it's quicker.

After assembling them, I used different types of paint, because I didn't have spray paint in the colors I wanted, so I used craft paint and a paintbrush. If you use gloss spray paint you don't need to spray them with  the clear spray paint.

And here's the finished decorations!

Poinsettia 

(you could glue some green leaves to the back)

 Holly

And last but not least,

Snowflake

Looking for other ideas to recycle your toilet paper rolls? Try http://familycrafts.about.com/od/cardboardtubecrafts/tp/ToiletPaperRollCrafts.htm
Or http://www.favecrafts.com/Green-Crafting/16-Uses-for-Toilet-Paper-Rolls

Melt in your mouth truffles

Quick and easy chocolate truffles

3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
1- package white chocolate chips
flavoring, (mint,cherry, strawberry, maple etc.)
white and milk chocolate candy coating

Melt white chocolate chips in microwave safe bowl. Stir in sweetened condensed milk.
I separated mine into 3 bowls and added strawberry flavor to one, butterscotch flavor to another, and watermelon flavor to the last one.
Chill until firm. Using a teaspoon size amount, roll into a ball, and dip into melted candy coating and place on wax paper to set.

Note; you can also use milk chocolate chips instead of the white ones. Depending on the size of the balls, this recipe makes apprx. 48 pieces of candy.

Always makes me happy when a customers happy!

 I love everything! def will be ordering from you for christmas gifts? what other stuff do u put in the baskets? for kids?
Got my package of goodies today love everything♥ thanks so much!!!