Amy Currioman

My sister and I went ahead and experimented with the candy melts last night. We poured an entire bag into one of the large glass measuring cups and put it in the microwave oven. My microwave oven has a soften/melt button so I used that button and just watched the little buttons melt down. I took the cup out of the microwave oven and stirred it, put it back in and let it melt some more, stirred it again, and then I decided to go ahead and just pour the melted candy into the candy mold.

The cup was a two cup measure, and I felt that it was a little bit cumbersome to pour just a little bit out at a time so I decided to use a plastic tablespoon measuring spoon and dip that into the cup and then pour the candy into the mold using the spoon. Each little mold took about one and a half tablespoonfuls to fill up.

I was worried about whether I should have sprayed the molds with cooking oil, but decided to try it without the oil, since the instructions that came with the candy melts did not indicate anything about greasing. We stayed up until 2am working on those candies!

My sister bought some lollipop candy molds and wants me to take some time later this week to practice melting some candy melts and fill the molds so she can have some lollipops to give away in the near future. I’ve never done anything like that before, it sounds like it could be fun, but I’m a little bit worried about having to use a frosting pastry bag to squeeze the candy out. I’m not quite sure that I have the strength in my hands to be able to do that.

I don’t even have any pastry bags, and I’m wondering if I should go out and buy some, or if there is a quick and easy way to make one ourselves from parchment paper or coffee filters. I’ll have to spend some time online to research that. Have you done anything like that before? How did you do it?

The weather is starting to get much warmer and nicer. I think the sunshine has inspired my creative juices. I feel like a painting – maybe something outside in the spring air. I just feel a pressing need to get out all my painting supplies and spend a couple hours working on a new project tonight.

I was so tickled when I saw Helen put on her Facebook account that she is now selling tie-dye scrubs in her tie-dye store! For several months now I have suggesting that she find an online source like http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/ to buy some and try selling them. There are several hospitals near her store, and there are so many people that be-bop around town wearing scrubs that I think that she would sell a ton of them!

Now that she’s posted that she has a lot of them to choose from, I will have to make a point to squeeze in a trip to her store to check out the selection and try to get a set. I love to wear them as pajamas and lounge wear around the house! Helen won’t have any trouble selling them; comfort is one thing that will sell quickly around here. Especially comfort that is easy on the wallet and looks great at the same time!

I bought a bag of corn from the feed store to use to sew into micro-wavable heating pads.  I brought it home and opened it up to fill the bags I had sewn, and I was totally grossed out because it was full of bugs!  I ended up scattering the corn in the back yard for the deer to enjoy.  Now I don’t know where I can go to buy the corn, they don’t sell it at the health food stores anymore!