mountain magic arts

These are awesome chocolate sculptures I have seem, I wish I could claim to have made them, but not so. I still wish to share them with you and hope you enjoy them. The first five photo are of a huge chocolate fountain that is at a shop in the Bellagio in lasVegas. The fifth picture describes what it takes to run it, but it is fun to just watch.  It has white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate flowing  this was this past Christmas display at the same shop that has the fountain. Yes, Santa is completely made of chocolate and life size. Then we were through their in January they had changed to a Chinese theme and yes the tree is also 100% chocolate. Next, the below pictures I took at the 2015 and 2016 Ghirardelli  exhibit at Epcot's food and wine festival down at Walt Disney World in Florida. The Chef from the different Disney resort and restaurants at Disney World do these for the exhibit. They are all totally made of chocolate...

Well, I now have been trough all of my crafting things at least once. This was what I had not gotten through yet. So yesterday I spent several hours going through it all. The most time consuming was going through my jewelry supplies,   I decided I need to cut down what I was keeping by about 2/3.  I ended up keeping about one bin of my favorite crystals and beads. I only kept those that we natural stones and that I could see as pieces of jewelry Also I decided to cut down the silver components and golf filled components. This left me with about a box of supplies that filled a 18x18x18 box. Below are other supplies that I admitted that I will probably never use. It is rather daunting to figure out what to do with all the things I am not going to use. I  kept anything that I felt I may still want to try!  I am not giving up the Kumi, but these were all triplicates or ones I have.   I still have some origami stuff, but re...

Seriously people, I have had a problem! As a self employed person, my spare money over many year has gone into buying crafting things that I thought might be fun some day. The last couple of decades that amount has been embarrassingly large. I gave away thousand plus dollars of supplies when we moved last year, now nine months + later I look at the stuff I hauled here and am still puzzling over why I moved so much stuff. At least it went from two small rooms to one walking closet! sigh! An example is I thought when I retired I would I would do scrapbooking and such, so I went out an got everything i could think of that I might need. A tad bit overboard, right! This just one area in which I saw something that I thought might be fun and totally went over board with getting supplies for. Much of it I have never used and none of it have I used since I moved. Now, for several years I was making jewelry and doing some shows with it. I did okay, but got into the cycle of p...