Craftiness as a Procrastination Device

I should be laboring over my NaNoWriMo adventure, but procrastination has taken hold and I am instead perfecting my soldering techniques. These soldered scrabble pendants were fairly easy to make, and went quickly once I really got into it.

Lolliscotch Packaging

One of my favorite aspects of this candy making venture is the chance to create some adorable packaging. Here are the first four complete lollipops:

The Island of Misfit Candy

Although making candy is about having fun and getting a sugar high - there are also the mishaps that result in candy-joy disasters.

Temperature has proved to be our main villain, too hot and the sugar burns......



....too cold, it never hardens.

Sweet Science Experiments

Here's a photo round-up of the candy making process!

Mixing ingredients:


Deliciously molten, bubbling sugar:


Mixing the candy coloring:


Coloring added to other ingredients:


The final product:

Lolliscotch is in the Business of Cute

This is my collection of Lolliscotch stamps. Some of them are general characters, and the others are flavor specific.

Here's the set:


Lolliscotch Kids:


All of the flavors we've created so far (excluding cantaloupe which is proving hard to carve a stamp for):


Ginger Ale, Jalapeno, Cinnamon Bun, and Sour Lime

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New Lolliscotch Stamp Characters

I went on a bit of a carving frenzy today. I made a stamp for a new Lolliscotch flavor: Ginger Ale, as well as two for the labels.