Valentine Hot Cocoa Bombs

Mallary kept wanting to make hot chocolate bombs, and I finally ordered molds after Christmas. They came pretty fast and we made some the next day.  I forgot I hadn't posted that video of her making them... I'll get on that... 

I got the idea to do a Yoda one from a Yoda cake I saw, and finally decided to try it.  I posted the first one I made farther down in the post, and it's pretty funny.  Contrary to popular belief, I have plenty of fails when I experiment. These aren't perfect, but they are still a fun idea!

The eyes need some work, but they are better than the others below.  

These are the molds we used:

  

To make Yoda's clothes I added some chocolate chips to the white melting chocolate. 

I have a big box of these I keep in my pantry for projects like this:

    

Of course I used my favorite hot chocolate!

Bahahaha! This was my first Yoda.  He's so funny looking! 

I used white chocolate hot cocoa because I knew it would keep a cool green color with the melts.  The kids liked the green hot chocolate, and honestly it tasted good!

Then, I thought... these kind of look like golden snitches!  I tried dying the melts with yellow food coloring and using a gold spray over them.  I also tried spraying the gold into the molds then adding the chocolate. Similar results despite the different methods. 

Just a little fun Valentine gift or activity!  Enjoy!

2014 Hand Made Family Christmas Ornaments

Every year we get our kids a new Christmas ornament that has some meaning from that year for them.  The year before I made some and decided to do it again last year. 

This was a bookworm for Trevan.  He always has his nose in a book and is a superstar in reading at school. 

An I love makeup ornament for Mallary.  Self explanatory if you follow me on Instagram...

And for my sweet Jonah Sunshine I made a simple XO because he will come up to you and randomly give hugs and kisses.

And for Everett, he was still a snuggler to sleep last year and liked to have his arm up the sleeve of your shirt and he loved elephants!

If any of you want some hand made ornaments for your family this year, I can help!

You can see our family ornaments that I made from the year before HERE. 

Hand Made Angel Message Ornaments

For Christmas, once I again, my cash flow was low... but I wanted to get my sisters and my nieces something.  I came up with these little angel ornaments with little messages on them.  I made four of them.  I had all supplies already, I even used some vintage sequin edging (I can't think of the right word??) from my mom's craft stuff that I got from her.  I think from now on I'll always put little halos on them.  They are cuter that way!

This was the first project I've ever done that I've printed on fabric. I kind of held my breath as the muslin went through my brand new printer, but it worked fine!  I learned I actually needed to make the font a lot bigger than I did, but it was fine in the end. 

Interested in a custom angel for a gift?  You choose the quote or sayings!  Just send me a message!