Sunday, May 29, 2011

National Candy Month Continued.....

The Monthly contest theme is now ice-cream.  Here are the suggestions made so far, please feel free to add your own.

I did make some more candy to celebrate June (national candy month).  Licorice Allsorts were suggested by Pam.  When I saw Pam's suggestion, I went out hunting for allsorts.  I actually went to 4 different stores trying to locate them.   I did find some great licorice allsorts at a local store called Sprouts.  They were very pretty, and made great models... They behaved very well ; ).      P.S. Pam if you are reading this please email me your address at sweetandsavorytrinkets@yahoo.com

I did want to take a moment to thank you all for joining in my monthly contests.  All of the suggetions have been amazing, and I wish I could make them all.  Candy month was definately a fun theme, and I do hope to make some more of your candy suggestions.  In the mean time,  I wanted to share a little bit of my selection process with you.  because it really affected my decision with what to make for candy month. 

When you all make your suggestions, I start searching through pages of google images for the suggestions.  They inspire me greatly!!  From this point I start deciding If I am going for particular color themes.  Then I will do an Etsy search to see how many of my fellow miniature food artists are making that item.  If there are already fellow shops that have perfected a particular food, I usually wont make that particular item, unless there is great room for variance. Here is a couple of great examples.

This month I found some amazing gummy bears at  Bit O Sugar .  Bit O Sugar is a wonderful shop run by Brad and Lei.  They opened Bit O Sugar in September 2010, the same week I opened Sweet & Savory Trinkets.  Brad and Lei are in Hawaii, and have over 90 very cute items to browse though.  You should read their profile if you get a chance, it made me smile.      
I wanted to share these amazing gummy bears with you.  Brad and Lei have definately perfected these  little guys!



These lollipop earrings were created by Inedible Jewelry .  Jessica and Susan are sisters, and opened Inedible Jewelry on etsy in February, 2007.  They are an amazing team, and make very realistic goodies for you to wear : ).  
This team of sisters actually wrote a book on making miniature foods, called Polymer Clay Cookbook.  I would highly suggest it for those of you that want to make your own minis :) 
When I saw their tiny lollipop earrings, I was amazed at the color and detail.     



For those of you who are new to the blog, and contest, I run a monthly contest, Every month I give a new theme, and take food suggestions that fit in with the theme.   If I make your suggestion for my monthly charm club, or for store inventory, you win!  The prize is a charm of the food item you suggested.

The Contest Rules
1: Try to limit your suggestions to one a day. You can make a suggestion every day... in fact I love seeing as many suggestions as possible.  I just want to make sure that everyone gets a chance to make suggestions.
2:  Take a quick look at the suggestions, to make sure you aren't duplicating a suggestion. 
 July's Theme
July is national ice-cream month!!!  So lets hear your ice-cream suggestions.  I already make ice-cream mochi, and a hot fudge brownie, so those two ideas are excluded everything else is up for grabs. :)  They can be ice-cream itself, to anything with ice-cream or is ice-cream related.  You can start making suggestions for ice-cream month now :)


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8 comments:

  1. Ohh... I was thinking some root beer flots in frosted mugs with foam on top.
    mmmm.... now i'm hungary

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  2. What about some of those rainbow pops made by bluebell. The ones that start out purple then subside to green,then yellow,orange,then finaly red.

    Ohh,this is so fun.

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  3. How about dreamsicles. I remember when I was a little girl they didn't have the hard shell they have today. They were creamy all the way through. Kind of like sherbert mixed with icecream. I can still smell them!

    BTW....I was just interviewed by an artist blog and they asked me to list a couple of my favorite blogs and yours was one that I chose.

    Here's where you can find it:

    http://creative-artists-blog.com/sheryl-hastings-interview/

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  4. Ice cream! Hard to just pick one, you can't beat a Mr Whippy though! Not sure how common they are your side of the ocean, but in England it is *the* ice cream on a hot (or usually cold), summers day.

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  5. How about italian Ice mmm.. I remember eatting it on those hot summer days when you cant seem to get enough to drink.

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  6. -My favorite from Cold Stone- Taramisue mixed with cinnamon vinilla, with cookie dough mixed in and fudge on top :D

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  7. How about push-ups? I loved those as a kid!

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  8. I suggest chocolate covered strawberries with coconut powder or chocolate covered bananas with some crispy cookies! Yummy!!!

    ksyshenka(at)yahoo(dot)com

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