Christmas Treats 2010

You may remember that last year I made homemade marshmallows. Well this year I made another marshmallow-themed gift for my co-workers and friends.

Merry Marshmallows

 Delicious sprinkles from Williams-Sonoma. The candy canes are peppermint-flavored!

 I had to order these adorable striped straws online, but they were worth it!

 All you need to make Merry Marshmallows: a package of marshmallows, semi-sweet chocolate chips (sure, you could use another kind of chocolate, but why?) and sprinkles. Melt the chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl in 30 second intervals (stir well in between), place marshmallows on straws, dip in chocolate and sprinkle with sprinkles!

 Set in a heavy-bottomed glass to dry.

The tag reads: Directions: Stir into hot cocoa, melt and enjoy.

Adventures in Screen Printing: Yudu

Yudu is a home screen printing machine made by Provocraft. It burns the image into the screen and provides a frame for the actual printing process.

I ordered the machine online. It arrived, from Salt Lake City...in a HUGE box.

All set up and ready to burn the screen...

Flooding the design with ink (not the "Go Josh" design, you can't see it right now). I've dragged ink across the empty space in the screen to print the image on the fabric.

A finished product, below.

I personally love the Yudu. It's HUGE (someone said that it is the size of a printer--no), but it's great for the home screen printer. It wasn't much of a learning gap for me to figure out how to use it, and I find the prices of the accessories pretty reasonable.

Homemade Marshmallows

This is a little belated, but I made this marshmallows as Christmas gifts, and they were DELICIOUS (and cute).

I packaged them in cello bags with twist ties and Christmas labels from the $1 bin at Michael's. Had I been more organized I probably could have done something much cuter and more "Martha," but did I mention they were delicious? :)

My crazy friend DJ told me they look like "crack rocks" but I know, from watching Intervention on A&E, that they do not!