“Make Your Own” Custom Chocolate Bars

Posted in food & flavor & recipes, wanderings in the world & web by Rosemary Lynn

Today, I discovered custom chocolate bars.

That’s right: make your own Belgian chocolate bars by mixing and matching 3 types of chocolate and over 100 toppings.

I believe that “Sweet!” would be an appropriate response to this. {Pun fully intended.}

Anywho, the combinations are endless, which I love.

You can add up to 5 toppings to make “recipes,” like Peanut Butter Jelly Time Chocolate Bar which includes a milk chocolate base and toppings of dried strawberries, butter toasted peanuts, peanut butter drops, and gushers.

Heck, you can even go the extra mile and add a “Congratulations” plaque and a candle.

Some of the ingredients which most intrigue my taste buds include:

Diced Ginger
Himalayan Sea salt
Pumpkin Spice
Dried Raspberries
Nerds
Sour Patch Kids
Cookie Dough
Pop Rocks
23 Karat Gold Flakes
Crystallized Violet Petals
Bacon
Monkey Munch

The list goes on…

And I mean, seriously, does anyone really NOT know someone who wouldn’t want a pumpkin spice chocolate bar?

I’m thinking that I’d love to try the dark chocolate base topped with violet petals and gold flakes.

What about you? What would you try? What would you craft as a gift for a loved one?

Let me know! (And don’t forget to check out all the ingredients for the Create Your Own Chocolate Bar on Zazzle!)

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1Feb2014

Leaf Chain Fringe Earrings {Product Review}

Posted in toys & games & gifts by Rosemary Lynn

Leaf Chain Fringe Earrings in Antique Gold

I just received these Leaf Chain Fringe Earrings and totally had to share them!

I don’t normally buy long, dangly earrings, but these intrigued me. Especially the color. I mean, they’re available in shiny gold and in silver, but when I saw the antique gold I was simply enchanted.

I have other jewelry in a similar color and I love how it goes with so, so many different outfits; how it can be dressed up or dressed down. Kind of funky, kind of bohemian, kind of feminine.

Anyway, I love how they hang, playfully peaking out of my hair when it’s down and gracefully drawing the eye when it’s up, brushing against my shoulders.

They do make a slight jingle when I move quickly, but it doesn’t bother me. It’s not annoying. I actually find it kind of fun, but it may bother some people.

I think they’re comfortable, and, even though I can feel the weight of them enough to know they’re there, I don’t consider them heavy.

Also, for some reason the image above doesn’t show the hook, but it’s worth mentioning that they’re fish hook earrings.

And, finally, yes: they are called “leaf chain fringe” earrings but they most definitely look like feathers.

Albeit the discrepancy in the description, they’re fun and beautiful, and I’m happy I decided to get them. Totally my style.

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2Sep2013

More Beautiful for Having Been Broken

Posted in musings, wanderings in the world & web by Rosemary Lynn

kintsukuroi to repair with gold

Saw this image on Facebook today. Can’t get it out of my head.

The thing about this word is, I really do find the dish more beautiful then it would have been without the gold. Still beautiful before, but even more so now.

Kind of reminds me of the Princess Bride, where, in the first chapter, Buttercup learns of Westley’s death and she suddenly becomes the most beautiful woman in a hundred years. Because she was “a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. …understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was a character, and a sure knowledge of suffering.”

Granted, the Princess Bride is one big, long satire, but it leads me to wonder how much wisdom there is in that thought. In that concept of becoming more beautiful for having been broken.

More confident, for what I’ve been through, certainly. More self-aware. Saddened by my current circumstances, but continually gladdened by my blessings…

But more beautiful?

I suppose that depends on your definition of beauty. If that definition includes confidence and happiness, well, then I guess I’ve been through the kintsukuroi process, too. :)