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Building a Giveaway Box

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STEP 1: Pick out a postcard while you are at Hammerpress during the Crossroad's Art District First Friday. Priscilla made sure I got my postcard selection recorded by being my paparazzi.  We have a winner! STEP 2: Create a leather envelope to be used as a wallet (pictures on this later). STEP 3: Make caramel candies and wrap them in parchment paper. (Note: caramels are very sticky and will fuse to the wax paper -___-)  STEP 4: Make a reusable drawstring canvas bag to hold caramels. STEP 5: Find a reusable box to ship it in from Blackwell Thrift Store. Oh you know, just a hallway of mirrors that leads to nowhere. I prefer the center box but the postcard doesn't fit.  I liked the pop of color and the metal clasp of the first one, so that is the one I went with. STEP 6: Package it all up and send it to the Steven, the ...

Sugar & Dirt

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I tried to post yesterday but due to  the internets being completely stupid  technical difficulties , I was unable to talk to you. I missed you. Anyways,  a couple days ago, which would be Sunday, was a day of sweets and gardening. On the way to church (where I got spiritually-falcon-punched-in-the-adam's-apple as the Farrems and I like to call it) we stopped for donuts. Now we didn't go to DH Co. or anything but it wasn't terrible. Went to church. Following the service we went to Bru's Wiffle , where I proceeded to eat chocolate waffles smothered in maple syrup. Joy and I then said our goodbyes to Farrems as she had to go to work. As we were winding down from a rather busy day, I was thinking of how I could spruce up our front porch area since it looks pretty janky. So we went to our local hardware store and bought 2 box planters ( I wanted wood ones but they were ultra expensive and the wooden ones that were more affordable weren't deep enough and would...