Ack!

How does a girl get so busy?! I've been downright neglectful. It all started because I was thigh high in caramel. It sounds hot, but not like you think...



Caramels are so much work! The craft fair was fun, but exhausting. So I had to do some really heavy duty relaxing after that. A good night's sleep, donuts, a trip to the flea market, lunch at Jen and Larry's house, a hike at the park and then a rare treat.

Thanks to Marianne for keeping me well fed, always. This is called a "Cookie Connection"

You know how there's a man's man? Well this one makes me want to coin the term, Sundae's Sunday.

Tiny Craft Fair!

I'm in it! Woot! Selling caramels for the first time in person out here in California.



It's THIS Saturday from 10-4 at Knit One One in South Berkeley. Read more here. And if you live here, and even if it's just to say hey, you should come.

Sweet

When not one but Two Friends emailed this New York Times article to me, I supposed I ought to just put it up here so that we can all discuss together what the heck it is about salted caramels that have people so smitten.

I've tasted several others, truth be told, and I have to say that because mine are always fresher than the kind carried by fancy food havens and not so fancy food havens alike, I think they stack up pretty well. Everytime I run out (like right about now) I'm always thinking, "Should I even bother making more? It's so much work and maybe the world will be very much the same without them," and then someone asks for a bag or two. And next, I get several gracious followup messages about people's happiness upon receiving some that I am inevitably convinced that my little candy venture must endure.

I'm not shocked that Barack Obama likes salted caramels because he has pretty reliable judgment. As things go, Fran's of Seattle is one of the top specimens, along with Little Flower Candy Co. of Los Angeles, but I'll say it: I bet he'd prefer mine.

New Caramels

I updated the labels for my caramels because of a printing issue and in photographing them, I thought it might be nice to showcase some old wallpaper I came by recently and which though too bright for wallpapering my tiny house, is a nice little backdrop for the otherwise simple candy packaging. It's nice to have the smell of sugar wafting through the house again, it had been a while.