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Chick marshmallow pops tutorial – Handmade Easter craft along – Day four

By Tricia on April 15, 2011 in Handmade Easter Craft along, Holidays, Recipes, Tutorial

Wow, how did the day go by so fast. I made these today even though my day was about 10 hours shorter than I needed it to be. Marshmallow pops are very quick and they are my favorite last minute thing to take to parties.

chicks

and ducks

Here is what you will need:

Marshmallows

Yellow candy melts or dye it with food coloring

Flaked coconut

teeny bit of orange fondant

yellow food coloring
lollipop sticks
lollipop bags

one of my beautiful assistants rolls out our homemade fondant and punches out teenie flower cutouts to use as feet and diamond shapes to use as beaks.

dip your marshmallows. I explain how to make marshmallow pops here

let your candy melts set up for about 10-15 minutes so the chocolate does not drip off the marshmallow. Put your shredded coconut on a plate and roll the marshmallow to coat it in the coconut.

put some melted candy melts on the back to glue them to your pop

add your feet, beak (fold your teenie fondant diamond cutout in half and stick on face) and eyes and voila you have a chick and duck. Wrap in lollipop bag and these will definitely keep until Easter.

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Blogiversary Blogger Guest- Tracy of A Slice of Smith Life and Saint Joseph table tutorial

By Tricia on April 1, 2011 in CCM Guests, Feast Days, Happy Blogiversary, Tutorial

Day four of year three

Thank you so much everyone for celebrating with me. This has been the funnest (its a word if it has letters in it) week on my blog ever. Please accept my apologies for getting this post up so late. We have been without internet or power for a good part of the day. On the news there was a water tower which collapsed and took out the power to millions, an RV was picked up and slammed down on someone’s house and in my town alone 5 tornados touched down. Anyhoo…Thanks for sticking around.

Today’s blogiversary guest is Tracy from A Slice of Smith Life. I met her here actually because she was the winner of my lego rosary giveaway. She is a wonderful Catholic mom and has a really cute blog. Today she is sharing with us how to make a Saint Joseph’s altar and some really wonderful breads right here.

From Tracy’s blog: It is a tradition to prepare a St. Joseph altar in a home where the decorative breads, food, and desserts are placed. The altar has 3 levels to symbolize the Blessed Trinity-the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

this looks like so much fun… we will definitely be trying this next year.

a beautiful monstrance before baking

So now that you’ve seen what she can do, meet Tracy through some Q&A:

My favorite blogs are: There are so many great blogs, it’s hard to narrow down to just a few of my favorites!

I love reading blogs about Catholic and non-Catholic homeschooling families, blogs that inspire and share their walk with Christ, and book review blogs, although I rarely have time to sit down and read for leisure 🙁

I’m especially thrilled to co-host No Ordinary Blog Hop (NOBH) www.noordinarybloghop.blogspot.com with 2 very special bloggers, Lynda at My Heart’s Desire http://lynishiskid.blogspot.com/ , and Anna-Marie at Life’s Adventures http://lifesadventures-amb.blogspot.com/

My favorite color is: seafoam/celery green

My first job was: Chick-Fil-A in high school at our local mall

My favorite guilty pleasure is: getting lost in blog land

The best advice I ever received is:

	“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” St. Francis of Assisi

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for everything.” F. Jeff Stiles

I am inspired by: “by God’s word, my faith (especially reading about the lives of the saints with my children), my family and friends.”

If I have an afternoon off I like to: Is there such a thing as an “off” day for a homeschool mom? 🙂 If a did get a free afternoon, I would spend it with my family riding bikes or go to the beach and no cooking or cleaning!

Think quick, if there was a fire and you could only grab three things (not people) what would they be: my Bible, a rosary, and my wedding album/photo albums/scrapbooks. Oops! That’s more than 3 things !