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I never believed in the gender stereotypes. At least before I had my first daughter. I bought her trucks and dolls, princess dresses and firefighter outfits. I didn't want any preconceived ideas of what a little girl 'should' be like pushed upon her. I don't think those trucks or firefighter outfits were ever touched by her little hands. </div>
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When she was 2 1/2 I bought her a twirly dress. This quickly became her 4 day a week dress, only not worn when it was in the wash. We had so many battles about that dress, I soon bought her a second. For a solid year and a half she wore some kind of twirly dress every day. Not even a skirt was good enough for this girly girl. The sparklier and twirlier the better. Oh, and don't even think about a color beside pink. Princesses and glitter and dresses, oh my!</div>
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This last year when my second daughter, now 4, became obsessed with Star Wars I was a little torn. Don't get me wrong, it was great to have some kind of relief from those princesses! I wasn't so crazy about the guns and other weapons, the play fighting, and her love of the villains though. As hard as I try to push the good guys, she just insists, "Darth Vader would love to have me on his side!" Whats a mom to do?</div>
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We embraced the Dark Side. Do you know how hard it is to find Star Wars clothing for a little girl? A friend told me about <a href="http://www.heruniverseshop.com/" target="_blank">Her Universe</a>, that has Star Wars and other Sci-Fi clothing specifically for women but unfortunately, she's 4, and they don't start that little. </div>
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I came across a this <a href="http://www.stayathomeartist.com/2011/07/stencil-with-freezer-paper-harry-potter.html" target="_blank">tutorial</a> at Stay At Home Artist for freezer paper stencil and made these shirts for my little Jedi. I thought about creating my own tutorial, but it's been done so many times, and done so well. </div>
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So now my little Jedi had her own Darth Vader shirts because, lets face it, she wouldn't wear a Yoda or Luke Skywalker one. </div>
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She was able to go to the Jedi Training Camp at Disney World this year and did get a little scared of Darth Vader when he came out. I guess it's a good sign that she didn't bow down to him.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-QqwTg6BY2iywva-p-Hts2eqmboruQ2zjDYifIsgkfQHliFjGXcJdj4pnJgVG_gbOBfmGrWboHN7lUxvbSYg8DFuuTkIGv68XgTzItj9A2wZGR9-mXivkJj6JUVt6jA98yNxL8AmlHY/s1600/DSC_0147.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh-QqwTg6BY2iywva-p-Hts2eqmboruQ2zjDYifIsgkfQHliFjGXcJdj4pnJgVG_gbOBfmGrWboHN7lUxvbSYg8DFuuTkIGv68XgTzItj9A2wZGR9-mXivkJj6JUVt6jA98yNxL8AmlHY/s320/DSC_0147.jpg" width="242" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDFvwddaT-Kb7wJTTmomTPa4RQtjUeFcpmcAJoNZ9iGad2XUpF0xgoNdMxwbYkq217P_jMm3upKaUzyxDhm-67KBtbedgYk9Ewlr9H4UR7h2xp5_4a4_p6Tql5whNTE5WFIxu9OZF4vQ/s1600/DSC_0134.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDFvwddaT-Kb7wJTTmomTPa4RQtjUeFcpmcAJoNZ9iGad2XUpF0xgoNdMxwbYkq217P_jMm3upKaUzyxDhm-67KBtbedgYk9Ewlr9H4UR7h2xp5_4a4_p6Tql5whNTE5WFIxu9OZF4vQ/s320/DSC_0134.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>
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So, we embrace it. It's a nice departure from twirly dresses and princesses. As long as she doesn't plan of freezing her little brother in carbonite, I'm fine. Plus, it's really fun to create all kinds of Star Wars goodies!</div>
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Like these cakes made for my closest friend's son.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU4H6hxA6IgMSxq_3XzYIsNaCGBFiC3yxQ12cqXuPrw3lQnhM68wEjFAZV5Rgz0nLAqvF78ZC9_DXgo6r0TmQu5gsfuSjB7oP3C0v2ec05fjXrGkS822Wo5ZlGXH1fZ36GaGBul7tveSY/s1600/cake-starwars.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU4H6hxA6IgMSxq_3XzYIsNaCGBFiC3yxQ12cqXuPrw3lQnhM68wEjFAZV5Rgz0nLAqvF78ZC9_DXgo6r0TmQu5gsfuSjB7oP3C0v2ec05fjXrGkS822Wo5ZlGXH1fZ36GaGBul7tveSY/s320/cake-starwars.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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And these cupcakes for my daughter's birthday, blogged about <a href="http://freshbakedfun.blogspot.com/2012/05/may-force-be-with-you.html" target="_blank">here.</a></div>
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When my older daughter turned 4, we had a princess party. Boy, did she love princesses. We had our babysitter come dressed as a princess, played princess games, and made candy castles. She loved it. We took her to Disney World that year. She was in heaven with the Disney royalty.</div>
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My younger daughter, she's a different story... We took her to Disney World this year. She was in heaven!</div>
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Needless to say, when this one thinks of princesses, she thinks of Princess Leia, not Princess Jasmine.<br />
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So, for her 4th birthday party, she had a Star Wars party. Star Wars plates, Darth Vader candle, and to top it off, Light Saber cupcakes. I've been making decorated sugar cookies for years and found this great idea, with a tutorial to go with it, for <a href="http://www.sweetsugarbelle.com/blog/2010/11/a-fun-mini-tutorial/" target="_blank">light saber cupcake toppers</a> at the <a href="http://www.sweetsugarbelle.com/blog/" target="_blank">The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle</a>. I came across Sugarbelle years ago on Flickr and she sure knows how to wield an icing bag! I loved the way the rainbow Jedi cupcakes turned out!</div>
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I think my little Jedi was quite happy too!<br />
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Here's the first of the tutorials from my friend's son's new bedroom! Let me apologize to you first for the lack of pictures. It's a pretty simple project, I wish I had more pictures to show but I'll try to make up for it.</div>
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Just a reminder of what the room looked like before:</div>
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It's amazing how some simple window treatments can really pull a room together. I decided to try to make a faux box valance. This was something that I had never done before but always thought it would be pretty simple to do. My first thought was that I would cut some plywood down to size, well, I would have the nice employee at Lowes do it for me. Then I would cover it with some batting and use my new handy dandy staple gun to cover it with our fabric. Great idea, right? Seems simple enough. However my biggest concern wasn't making it, but hanging it. I'm a very crafty person however I'm lacking in basic handyman (woman) skills and I was worried about the weight of hanging fiberboard or plywood, or a 2x4. I honestly just don't know enough about support and weight and whatever else I need to know. I could always ask the hubby but I really wanted to do this project without his help. Off to Lowes I went for some inspiration.</div>
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I asked for some help from one of the nice gentlemen that work there and, after explaining what I was looking for, he took me on a guided tour of the store and showed me all of my options. Inspiration hit when we hit the wall insulation department! This huge foam sheet was way more than I needed, incredibly light, and at $16 a sheet, was perfect!</div>
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I had one very long window (96.5") so I had to use two pieces and fit them up to each other. Really, all it entailed was wrapping the foam with fabric and stapling around the sides so the fabric was taut.</div>
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And then I used (2) 4" L shaped brackets on each to connect it to the wall above the window. First I connected one 2 to the wall, one on each end, then after triple checking my measurements, I connected them to the backside of the foam. Since it was foam that I was working with, I took my Gorilla Tape and secured everything on the back, the brackets, staples, everything, just in case. </div>
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After all the brackets were attached we simply lifted the valance,which was as light as a feather (and stiff as a board), and connected the brackets to each other so the final bracket shape was an upside down U. The side panels are hanging from curtain rods behind the valance. Very simple and easy project. I think the Valance part of this project cost less than $40.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">She wanted a more put together room for him that, without being too mature, he could grow into and not have it be too juvenile for his teenage years. There was no set budget, the goal was to spend only what we needed too. With every project being a DIY-er, we did a fantastic job with the budget, spending less than $200 on the whole room. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">What a lot of people don't know is that even arranging the furniture differently in a room can be a huge change. In a bedroom, the bed should be centered on the longest wall. It forms a nice focal point in the room that way. There's lots of different options to create a headboard too if you don't have one. Even simple painting a color block behind the bed is a great option. Hanging a piece of artwork above the bed has the same effect. For my friend's son's room, we were lucky because the only piece he was really missing was a headboard. Here I created a headboard by refinishing and upholstering some awful framed artwork I found at goodwill for $12 each. My friend found fabric she liked on clearance and scored the whole bunch of it for $20. We still have a ton left over that I'm not sure what we're going to do with.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">Here's the link for the No-Sew Window Valance: <a href="http://freshbakedfun.blogspot.com/2012/04/diy-inexpensive-window-valance.html">No-Sew Window Valance Tutorial</a></span></div>
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These are my 6 year old's new boots. No they're not. They're her old, horribly scuffed boots that I won't let her wear anymore because she totally ruined them after a month of wear. What's a mom to do? Well, I did search high and low for a new pair of boots for her. Did I mention that I have the pickiest 6 year old in Chicago? I was so proud of her when she was younger that she knew what she wanted and wouldn't let people sway her. We want our girls to be strong minded, right? Yeah, that's only with other people. With us, they should bend to our wills, right? Anyway, back on subject. Since I couldn't find anything that was up to her standards I went back to the beginning. I decided to have a go with refashioning her old boots so they would be wearable again. After all, they are a perfectly good pair of boots, except for that ugly toe.<br />
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I went to my craft room and pulled out my trusty Mod Podge. If I could tell you how many things I've used Mod Podge for, I love this stuff. Don't get me started (not a sponsored post, blah, blah, blah). My first thought was black glitter, however I only had a small container of it so I mixed it with silver. I think I used a total of 2 small vials of glitter and maybe 1/4c Mod Podge, probably less.<br />
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First I took a permanent marker and covered the ugly. I'm not sure if this step was necessary but I didn't want to risk it. If I were doing it again, I'd probably scuff up the whole area that I was glittering a little just because it seems to adhere better where it's scuffed.<br />
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My initial though was to just glitter the toe. As you can see below, it goes on pretty white. Don't worry, it dries clear.<br />
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See? Clear. Sparkly! Hmm... Enough sparkle? I don't think so! Not for this 6 year old!<br />
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There we go, that should do it! I really had to stop myself before I covered the whole shoe. I actually asked my 6 year old at this point for her opinion. Big mistake. We almost ended up with hot pink and purple glitter on them too. Could have been cute, but I guess I'm not that daring. Oh, and I'm not 6.<br />
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Ta Da! Needless to say she's thrilled. She wouldn't take them off for like, 6 hours. My husband took the kids out to dinner that night and the second she walked in the door the hostess came up to her and said, "Wow! Great boots!" To which she replied, "Thanks, my mom made them."</div>
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First I decided on a picture of my FIL that would work well. Considering I had about 6 pictures of him, I was lucky I found a good one. I used Photoshop but there are tons of free picture editing sites online now, so you can use whichever. First I changed the photo to black and white and played around with the brightness and contrast.</div>
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I then just copied and pasted the image and used the color fill tool to get a Warhol inspired design.</div>
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I simply uploaded the image to Zazzle (there are tons of sites now that will print your design onto anything pretty inexpensively) and selected everyone's sizes and styles. The nice thing about it was everyone was able to pick their own style. My husband's cousin got a tank top, my sister-in-law got a babydoll t-shirt, everyone got what they wanted. </div>
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The shirts turned out great. We made pink and blue ones for the kids and the fronts said, "I survived my Poppi's 60th." On the front of the adults there was a simple 60 where the shirt pocket would be. It's really a great idea to personalize the trip a bit. They made for great memorable pictures and I think my daughter wore her 'Poppi Shirt' for the following two years. </div>
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Next time you have a family vacation or group outing you should try it. It's really very easy and takes very little time and trust me, everyone will be very impressed!</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #756e67; font-family: Fresca, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">2 sticks butter (dairy free, soy free, vegan) - softened</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #756e67; font-family: Fresca, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #756e67; font-family: Fresca, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">3/4 t baking powder</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #756e67; font-family: Fresca, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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Most of these projects can be done 5 minutes at a time because, lets face it, as a mom of three that's really all the free time we have. Five minutes here and there. I'll share with you my craft triumphs as well as my failures (there are plenty). I hope to inspire you to take just five minutes and create something.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3542857132555581012.post-2242535767163492302011-07-11T10:47:00.000-05:002012-04-10T18:21:34.541-05:00Catching up<div style="text-align: center;">
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I've heard of a great Halloween tradition of Boo-ing your neighbors. I think it's such a great idea and a wonderful way of bringing the neighborhood together. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe what you do, is leave a treat at your neighbor's door and they do the same for another neighbor and round and round it goes.</div>
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The show went great. I made a lot of new contacts and I LOVED making what I wanted to make. This was a little more creative than I've been able to get for a little while and I loved it. I made 5 showcase cookies, samples for the crowd and then of course some other sweets for everyone to enjoy, a delicious candied nut mix and chocolate drizzled cereal treats. Please enjoy the show and feel free to leave any comments!<br />
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So here's my first order all summer long. I was a bit worried that it would be harder to get back into them, and it was at first, but I love the way they turned out. For a Yo Gabba Gabba loving 5 year old on his birthday.<br />
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Here's a few extras I did for my girls. They're always so wonderful watching me make cookies. Imagine how hard it must be for a 2 and a 5 year old to always be watching Mommy making cookies for other people. I don't like for them to have too many sweets so I obviously don't make them for them all the time. These were a special treat.<br />
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This order was for a little boy's 2nd birthday. They were having cupcakes instead of cakes so the mom wanted a tray of cookies for parents and other adults and then trains as cookie favors for all the kids. This was the same week as my daughter's birthday so needless to say, it was a busy week.<br />
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I've been dying to decorate a cake for a while. As you may know, I was so desperate to make one, I made my own birthday cake a few months back. My dear, dear friend was so kind to let me decorate her son's birthday cake. I got to do the best part too, just the decorating. As you can see, I do plenty of baking. The baking however, is a necessity. The decorating is what I love. So, here you have a Star Wars themed birthday cake for little Matthew, who will turn 5 in a few days. Happy Birthday Matthew!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3542857132555581012.post-51144311327103708652010-04-21T13:08:00.000-05:002011-07-11T10:51:17.772-05:003D Cookies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz-_zYA7r4wX6y6PESElL7Jc49yreSu1S6WZs_Lo5az9hDZOfIhf2PozBvbDKZ9WADy3sudDBh6yIdrKDiCzaTNdpWhL4URRX8kjRHeLl9I_ZOk8AJ_x1PFukKoOdGtinJj2Nk5qiuyI0/s1600/DSC03249.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz-_zYA7r4wX6y6PESElL7Jc49yreSu1S6WZs_Lo5az9hDZOfIhf2PozBvbDKZ9WADy3sudDBh6yIdrKDiCzaTNdpWhL4URRX8kjRHeLl9I_ZOk8AJ_x1PFukKoOdGtinJj2Nk5qiuyI0/s320/DSC03249.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">I am Ironman</span></div><br />
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What I learned this week? Believe it or not, making 5 cookies takes just as long as making 20. Normally I ask people to let me know at least 2 weeks out when they're going to need cookies. If I'm not too busy, I can do it in a week. How long can making cookies really take? Well, I have kids, and carpool, and errands, and carpool, and meetings, and carpool. The life of a Stay at Home Mom. Sometimes I swear I would be so much less busy if I just went back to work. I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment.</div>
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So, my friend called and said she just <i>needed</i> a cookie bouquet, and oh yeah, she needed it tomorrow. There are very few people I would do this for. Maybe 2. One is my mom, but she would never ask. She's one of those weird people that don't like cookies. And her daughter is a cookie decorator. Go figure. I'm sure a shrink would have a field day with that.</div>
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Well, for those of you that aren't cookie decorators, the icing takes 24 hrs to dry before it can be packaged or stacked. So, I am very proud to say that this cookie bouquet was ready roughly 26 hours later.</div>
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I've been busy filling cookie orders and I'm very appreciative to everyone for placing their orders. If you didn't know already, every cent that people pay for the cookies, I donate directly to Camp For All Kids. It's an organization that sends disadvantaged youth to summer camp. Pretty soon I'm going to have to start covering the costs of my materials but right now, it all goes right to them.<br />
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One of my dearest friends placed an order for her older daughter's 7th birthday party a few weeks ago. What else does a 7 year old girl want but peace signs? So here they are:<br />
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Sorry for the horrible picture, I forgot to snap them before I bagged them. Notice the note attached to the cookies... It was very important to this little girl that her friends know that these were no ordinary favors. She wanted her friends to know that by purchasing these cookies, she was performing a mitzvah, or a good deed. So all of the cookies had notes attached to them letting everyone know that all the money was going to Camp For All Kids and a brief blurb to let them know what that was. Sweet girl.</div>
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I'm very pleased to say that from this order I received my first referral order, from a complete stranger. Up until now its been friends and acquaintances ordering. A mom of one of the girls who got a Peace cookie told her sister-in-law about the cookie and then she placed an order for her son's 2nd birthday party. And if peace signs are for a 7 year old girls, what could be for a 2 year old boy? Sports balls!</div>
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Let me start off by saying that there's simply nothing better than marshmallows. Growing up my Aunt Cathy was probably the most influential person in my marshmallow loving life. She taught me how to make taffy out of store bought marshmallows. Yum! And totally something that my 6 year old self excelled at. The only problem was that I discovered that the tastiest part of this recipe was also the messiest. If you pull the marshmallow apart and stretch it over and over again it turns into a yummy, gooey mess. So this was how I ate marshmallows for a good portion of my life. My best friend in middle school (still my BF today) was thoroughly disgusted with this, as is my husband. My husband overlooks it though, as one of my very few flaws. So with my new baking obsession what was the next logical thing to try to make? Marshmallows! Vanilla marshmallows, sugar covered marshmallows, simply delicious. It was much easier than I thought it could be and they turned out just fabulous!<br />
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