New Website... kind of

So I have started my new website. However, I ended up with one that I didn't expect... a recipe and menu planning website. It is still very much a work in progress (in fact there is only one recipe on it as of today) but I will be adding to it daily for quite a while.

In the meantime, I am putting my sugar and spice site on hold so I can put all my energy into the other site. A recipe and menu planning website isn't much with only one recipe! Ha! All the recipes I have put on this blog will soon be on the other website. So, please stay with me. When I set out to start a blog I didn't know where it would take me but it is slowly unfolding. 

In the mean time, please check out my new website: http://www.mommysmenu.com/

Allyoop!

New Website-A Work in Progress

Just wanted to leave a quick note that I am working on my new website.

I will let you all know when it is up and running.

Mommy Quick Tip-Washing Velcro

Anyone with babies likely has a plethora of velcro on items you wash in your washing machine. From bibs to playmats, they are on so many baby items. I have fought with velcro for years. I would put the ends of bibs together so the velcro wouldn't snag on other clothing, I have turned things inside out, I have (in my admittedly less-sane-little-sleep hours) spoken to the velcro prior to putting it in the washing machine and asking it to not snag... yet, the velcro always detached, the item turned right-side out, or the velcro rudely ignored my verbal pleas until now!  I have finally conquered putting velcro in the washing machine...

1. Take an old sock (they are usually easy to come by)
2. Cut it in strips the size of the velcro
3. Push strip onto the velcro (you may need to work in some kinds of socks a little more than others so it sticks)
4. Toss the item needing a wash in the washing machine with sock-strip-covered velcro
5. Once washing (and drying when applicable) is complete, remove item... still velcroed to the sock strip... and smile with triumph while you quickly pull the sock strip off the velcro without a single snag on other items washed with the velcro item!!!

*If you are like me and have lots of items with velcro, keep a little jar/cup/box near your washing machine with sock strips of different sizes so they are always on-hand when you need them.
**Don't feel like cutting old socks into strips... assign one of your kidd-os to do it (depending on age of course)... they will love cutting up socks. Not exactly sure what it is, but there is something enticing to little ones about cutting up clothing. Perhaps there is a slight sense of breaking general household/school scissor/cutting rules.

Happy Washing!!!

Name Change-Input Requested

To My Readers,

After two months of blogging I have decided to change my site address. I am going to change from http://www.sugarnspicesnailsntales.blogspot.com/ (which, I mean, I don't  know what I was thinking.. what a mouthful! I tried to tell the address to my mom the other day on the phone because she wasn't at her home so she couldn't just pull it down from favorites, or however it is she has it saved on her computer, and I had to repeat it several times to ensure the letter "n" NOT "and" and that there is an "n" between "sugar and spice" but not between "spice and snails" etc... what a mess!!!) to http://www._________.com/ and I need your help!

I am looking for something simple so I don't run into the aforementioned issues of trying to tell people my site address but I also want something that is similar to what I already have. I also hope that if you like my blog you are passing it along to friends (although, up til now it was probably difficult to verbally pass it along.. and perhaps even a little challenging to type it correctly) it will be easier with the change over.
I was thinking of putting a voting widget on here so people could vote for which they liked best, but I opted out of that so I could have more specific input from my readers. Thus far I have come up with the following addresses, in no particular order (which are currently not taken in cyber world):

1. http://www.sugarandsnails.com/
2. http://www.sugarandtales.com/
3. http://www.sugarytales.com/
4. http://www.sugartales.com/
5. OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS... (WARNING: some combinations may lead you to some questionable sites, especially when trying to work with the word "spice," when checking to see if your suggestion is already a website!!!!!)

I would like to launch my new site this coming weekend (October 24th-25th) so please respond by Friday the 23rd. :)

Thank you all,

Allyoop

Food Find: Candy Corn Flavored Hershey Kisses

My husband came home from the store this week with an impulse buy (which is very unlike him): Candy Corn Flavored Hershey Kisses.

I fully admit that I am not, nor have I ever been, much of a candy corn fan. Don't get me wrong, I will eat candy corn if you have it out in a candy dish and I am visiting you. I also appreciate it for its asthetic purposes in the fall (for decorating cookies and its use in non-edible items as little knick-knacks). But I rarely ever buy candy corn for the purspose of consumption... if I want fall colored candy in a candy dish I buy Reeses Pieces (YUM!).

Now, back to the Hershey version. So when my husband came home with the bag I was only mildly curious, but couldn't ignore his excitement for his "find." So, I tried one, and now I am hooked! They taste like a combination of white chocolate, candy corn, and egg nog. Further, not only is their packaging perfect for the fall, but they look really cute unwrapped (great for cookie decorating, or if you are one who makes a cookie haunted house at Halloween these would be great additions to fences or tops of towers). If you are looking for a change of pace with Halloween candy, you need to try these.
(I put a link for them below so you know what to look for; but Amazon is charging $8.99 a bag!! We paid around $3.00 at our local grocery store.)





Happy Candy Corn Kisses-ing!!!