Category: Snacks

“Fairies and starlight” treat boxes shipped out the door! Next box will be in mid-November, I’m thinking an Alice in Wonderland theme. Alice in Autumn…

One of the fun parts of packing the Patreon boxes is pulling all the sweets out of the freezer, adding the other items, and making lots of little piles on the kitchen island. Chaotic, but in a delightful way.

I wouldn’t want to do this more than a few times a year, though! There’s only so much chaos my brain can take.

Some pics from Friday’s Serendib treat box shipping. Bagel bar courtesy Daly Bagel, of course!

Patreon treats — blackcurrant & lemon marshmallows, blueberry-orange mini muffins, s’more bars. Everything is so tiny and wee!

The adorableness, it kills me.

Patreon shipping day at Serendib House — Stephanie Bailey, Darius Vinesar, and Emmanuel Henderson are here to help me pack up and ship out the treat boxes.

My PLAN had been to finish these last week, before the semester started, but I didn’t quite make it, so this week has been somewhat more harried than I intended. Still, it’s done now, and I’m going to try not to think abut the next box for another month or so.

(Which is hard, because I totally want to start thinking about it…shh, Mary Anne. One thing at a time. (Ha ha ha ha ha. (I am laughing in ADHD.)))

I’m pretty happy with how the “fairies and starlight” themed box came out, though my ambition to make everything tiny-sized meant that I ended up feeling like I needed to make more items than normal to compensate. Fairies are a lot of work.

Y’all, I love the *concept* of sugared violets, but I just don’t have the patience. I find the process of brushing them with egg white and dipping them in powdered sugar so fussy, and the end result is never as neat as I want it to be, since the petals tend to stick together.

Maybe if I did it all the time, I’d get good at it, but I think I’m just going to accept that sugaring violets is really not my thing.

I did like making a violet simple syrup, though…

Kitchen experiments for the Patreon boxes — homemade marshmallow fondant (tasty, easy to make, stretchy and therefore easy to work with, very sweet, the kids like it). Also used an embossing set for these fairy dust cookies (and then gilded the embossed portions).

The result doesn’t look super-professional, but I figure fairies probably aren’t super-professional either.

Working on the Patreon treat boxes — I’m hoping to finish them off this week and ship them out next week, fingers crossed. I think August is going to be a lot of shipping, between these and the Vegan Kickstarter packages! (Babylon 5 has done a great job of keeping me company with production — I’m about halfway through season 3, and it’s improved mightily.)

This modern jersey scarf is in my temple flowers: jasmine pattern. I think it’d be perfect for summer with a crisp white shirt or dress, ideally to be enjoyed in a light breeze on a sunny boat, with a delicious cocktail or mocktail in hand. I miss boats. Should figure out how I can do sailing in Chicago…

Today’s the last day to sign up for this round of Patreon treat boxes (fairies and starlight, with a hint of tropical heat), you’ll get 50% off your first box!

If you sign up Aug 1 or after, you’ll be signing up for the Autumn boxes, probably shipping in November, which I *think* will be an Alice in Autumn theme — I see wacky tea parties coming.

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Current items made, more sweets will be added, and possibly a few soap / resin pieces:

fairy bath salts (calendula, rose, lavender, centaurea)

chocolate-vanilla rose tea

chocolate-vanilla rose tea

chocolate-vanilla rose tea