Chocolate Covered Christmas Spoons

For Christmas this year, I made my coworkers personalized etched glass mugs, and filled them with teas, hot chocolate, and cappuccino.  To make it better, I thought I'd include some chocolate covered spoons, for stirring tasty drinks!

To start, I melted Baker's semi-sweet chocolate squares in the microwave.  Next, I dipped spoons into the chocolate and set it on wax paper to dry.  It took forever to dry and left an ugly pool of chocolate under the spoon. 

It occurred to me that it was below freezing outside, so I dipped a few more and walked outside.  In a few seconds the chocolate began hardening onto the spoon!

 

(You can see the ones on the end are still wet, they took about 45 minutes to dry!)

 

Next, I put a few squares of white chocolate into Ziploc bags and melted that in the microwave.  I snipped off a tiny bit of a corner and decorated the spoons! (Try to get all of the air out of the bag before squeezing.)

 

 

Now that these are finished, I can add them to the personalized mugs I made for my coworkers!

Etched Glass

Sorry to my coworkers who love surprises at Christmastime and just found this... I discovered how easy it is to etch glass, and now I can't stop!

I bought a small bottle of Glass Etching Cream at A.C. Moore, and used my mom's Silhouette machine to make cut out names on sticky-backed cardstock. 

 

The cream only needs to stay on for 60 seconds, and then everything is washed off.

 



I filled the mug with tea, hot chocolate, and cappuccino, and will later be adding chocolate covered spoons to stir with! :)

Easter Egg Decorating

On Saturday I organized a free event for the kids in Columbia.  Thanks to Ned and his family who were a huge help, and to Tom who got ahold of 15 dozen eggs!  So many kids came and we had a ton of fun!

Supplies: hard boiled eggs, dye, rubber bands, rubber cement, stickers and white crayons.