2 more sleeps!

Only 2 more sleeps till Christmas. Are you ready? cause I am not. I don't really know why this always happens to me as I know Christmas is coming and the fact that the day doesn't change I should be prepared after all these years. I just figured out last night what to get for my sister who is incredibly hard to buy for. I can't really say what I am getting as she might read this :-) Let's just say I don't know why I didn't think of it like over a week ago. Now all I have to do is go buy some vegan peanut butter to make peanut butter balls for my brother and then I am done, I think? Oh well, at least Superstore is open 24 hours now! I can head on over there once my daughter is asleep and husband is watching hockey.

Lovely Scribbles

Checking out some blogs today to get some inspiration for the upcoming year and all the candy buffets we are going to be doing :-) I came across this "lovely scribbles" blog and the girl does the most amazing cards and tags with all hand drawn calligraphy. I wish I had nice hand writing to start with but maybe with practice I can create some beautiful fonts of my own. Then use them for our candy buffets and goody bags, or maybe even make and sell some cards in the store? Why not. I think it starts with the pen so I will head on over to Staples and buy a nice pen then practice practice practice :-)

Vosges

I just nibbled on some Vosges Blood Orange Caramel Bar and boy was it divine. I was reading on the back of the packaging and it explains how to enjoy an exotic candy bar. So here it goes.

Breathe...Engage your senses. Take three deep ujjayi breaths, quiet the chattering mind and be in the present moment.

See...There should be a glossy shine to the chocolate bar indication a tight bond between the cocoa butter and the cocoa mass.

Smell...Rub your thumb in the chocolate bar's surface to help release the peppermint notes. Inhale deeply.

Snap...Break the bar in two pieces. Hear a crisp, ringing pop, which indicates a well-tempered bar of chocolate. You will hear the loudest snap with dark chocolate, soft break with milk and a faint whisper with white.

Taste...Place a small piece of chocolate on your tongue and press it to the roof of your mouth. Within thirty seconds the chocolate square will begin to melt, revealing layers of revitalizing peppermint amongst deep, dark chocolate.

Peace, Love and chocolate.

Enjoy.

Tea for Two

I brought some cotton candy home to see how long it stays fluffy as I would like to start using it in our candy buffets. Instead of just leaving the bag open or puting some on the table I saw my tea cups and thought, cute! I love the contrast of the dainty, pretty and poised tea cups filled with fun and crazy cotton candy. I can`t wait to use them in

my next candy buffet. Then after seeing how amazing the tea cups looked I grabbed one of my buffet jars and voila cotton candy in a giant martini glass. So much fun for any party, I`m going on half and hour now so I`m crossing my fingers it last at least an hour more.

All sorts of yummies

It's Saturday and I'm working but at least it's blue sky's outside. I have Elf playing on tv and a store full of customers buying all sorts of treats to fill stockings for there loved ones. A popular item today has been the Crave Vancouver, the ultimate guide of the places women crave in Vancouver including more than 150 women you need to know. It's a great gift for the savvy mom or daughter who wants to know about some amazing business plus a tonne of discounts. Of course Frankies is featured in the book and we are so happy to be apart of all the wonderful ladies. We can't wait to meet them all and hopefully do business with them. I need to get my act together asap as I'd like to approach a few of them to see if they would want to sell our Frankies Surprise Cones. I beautiful decorative paper cone filled with all sort of sweets from Frankies all wrapped in cello with an array of ribbons and a hand made tag by me.

Oh I just saw a scene on Elf where Buddy drinks a whole 2 litre of coke and then pours a whole bottle of syrup on his spaghetti! Yuck. I love sugar but that is just a little too much for me. But it does make me want some pancakes :-)

Baby it's cold outside

Brrrrr it's cold outside, glad to be inside today. Last night I had a craving for a big bag full of gummies and I didn't have any stock at home so I had some Breyers Brownie fudge ice cream. It didn't satisfies my craving but it helped :-) I will still have to wait to have my big bag of candy as tomorrow I'm getting in my favorite candy CENTIPEDES from Haribo. So yummy I love them. But I will have to have something today and that candy shall be clotted cream fudge. An English treat that's creamy, caramely and fudgie all wrapped into one. Another yummy English candy are millions chewy candies, kind of like nerds but chewy.

Advent Calendars

Every year I always want to bring in or design an advent calendar for Frankies. I guess I'll have to wait another year as tomorrow is Dec. 1 and I have nothing. Today lots of customers came in to buy little treats to fill calendars for there kids. Candy cane pop rocks, mini hamburgers & hotdogs, foiled chocolates and lollypops are some things they purchased. It's hard to find things other than candy to fit in those small boxes but what kid won't like opening a box every day to find a yummy sweet treat! I searched online for some inspiration and maybe I can create something for Birthday's?? Like some people have Birthday weeks so maybe we can celebrate Birthday month? That would be cool, even if you didn't fill it with candy or toys you could fill it with special notes and wishes for that special someone. Wow I really like this idea, I might just go and buy or make something as a sample and go from there.

Candy Buffet

I love doing candy buffets! I'm doing one right now for McDonald's head office tomorrow. So many candies to choose from it's always hard to decide which ones will work and that everyone will love and eat. This buffet needs to be WOW as the girl who booked it said now at every meeting they have some sort of candy and everyone wants to out do one another. So it is my job to impress everyone now. Yikes! I already did a buffet for them at the Wall Center last month but this one is just a mini candy buffet. I was able to find a red table cloth to go with there signature colors and I will also make tags for each jar using yellow and red ribbon... So I went this morning and set up the buffet and just heard back from them and everyone loved it! The candy buffet was a hit. The one thing I wish I had made was a back drop to lean up against the wall to kind of bring the attention more on the candy and not the surroundings. I have an idea to paint some fun words on a canvas then attach these giant papermache lollypops on it. In my mind I think it will look amazing and will add another WOW factor to the candy buffet. Now I can't wait for the next one so I can bring it all together.

Christmas time already?

The Halloween decorations are barely down and Christmas trees and wreaths are already up! Well at least in the shopping malls. How did it ever get this way. It seems like every year the stores start the Holiday displays a few days earlier than last. I guess Frankies is already behind as we won't be decorating until next weekand. Don't get me wrong I love Christmas and all of its fun and whimsical trees and ornaments! Our trees are amazing in the store, they make me want to have Christmas morning right here in a candy filled wonderland. Christmas is going to be lots of fun this year because my daughter will be one years old and will be able to enjoy (somewhat) all the fun things it brings. Pictures with Santa, The Christmas Train, Snow!!! I can't wait to get our Holiday shipments in starting next week, but I am not looking forward to not getting some items that we were so looking forward to get. We are still on the hunt for some unique Hostess gifts and class handouts but I am sure we will think of something. Oh and this year I am definitely making a gingerbread house! It's going to be out of this world yummy :-) I can't wait.

Chocoholic

Chocolate, Chocolate and more chocolate! Sometimes candy just doesn't cut it and you need some smooth and creamy ( or dark) chocolate. From dark chocolate covered cashews to Mo's Bacon chocolate bar, you can find anything these days covered in chocolate. One of my favorites right now has to be (and everyone's) are the chocolate covered gummy bears. The best of both worlds, you can't beat it. They now are available in both white and dark chocolate and we currently have in stock the white but are still waiting for the dark to be released to us retailers. I can't wait!! We have so many ccb fans it's crazy. People buy huge bags full and always ask for no twist tie :-) LOL What I like to do with them is eat them with our fruit juice berries, the best combo ever. Another fav of mine right now are the chocolate dipped Oreo's yummmmy. You definitely can only eat a couple as the sweetness of them allows you only to eat 2 or 3. Unless you like sweet things then by all means eat as many as you like :-)

Some more delicious chocolate Frankies carries are the Yorkie bar and other English chocolate bars, Scrumdillyumptios Wonka bar, Chocolove, Vosges, smores, Chuao and chocolate caramels!

So have a little piece of heaven and eat some chocolate today!

Spooooooooky

Halloween is slowly arriving at Frankies Candy Bar. Just started decorating our Kerrisdale store and just a few more touches and we will be done! A must see when you come to the store is our larger than life glitter skeleton heads! They are so MASSIVE that you can put them over your head and still have room. Next chance I get I'm definitely going to take a picture of it on and post it so you can see. I'm going to start decorating our Dundarave store tomorrow once I collect everything from our attic. Maybe I can add some real spiders to the mix too as you never know what's in the attic at home. Rats, spiders, gummy bears oh my!! I love Halloween, or maybe I just love all the fun spooky things you get to buy to decorate! My parents go all out with there display at home too by adding a full on graveyard with smoke, a enormous spider on the front window and a crazy cackling witch. Oh and you can't forget all the pumpkins 7 to be exact, one for each of us made my me and my brother. I'll post some pics of our house too along with both stores later this week.

Goody Bags Galore!

I love making up goody bags, they are so much fun! You can get so creative with them, the sky is the limit on what you can put together. I just finished up some Frankies takeout surprises for a boys Birthday on Saturday. They are going to love them! Skewers have also been super popular this past week. How can you not love candy on a stick? It's so eye appealing and yummy. They're even great to add on top of a gift with lots of ribbon for a special treat. Oh and I also just created a Frankies Surprise Cone. Seeing candy is great but not knowing what's inside is SUPER great! Lol

Pucker Up!

Pucker up with Twin Drops, a super sour liquid candy you squirt in your mouth! Now I'm a huge fan of sour candy and nothing really makes my face pucker but these Twin Drops did just that.You get two flavours in a snap top bottle blue raspberry, green apple or strawberry. Squeeze one then the other or squeeze them both into your mouth. I love that you can control how much you want then close the lid and save for later. Come down to Frankies and buy some if you dare!

Mini Melts now at Frankies!

Come cool off with some Mini Melts, the coldest ice cream in the world! Now at Frankies Candy Bar.

If you love ice cream but want a change then you must try Mini Melts. There little pieces of yumminess in flavours cotton candy, cookies and cream, banana split and mint chocolate. I've stopped eating candy for the last week and have just been stuffing my face with them! They are so addicting I love that there tiny circle like chunks cause it makes it more fun to eat. The only bad thing is that you have to eat them super fast so they don't melt! But I guess that's not really a bad thing after all :-) My favourite is banana split and cookies and cream. The great thing that we do is have them in the bulk so you are not stuck with getting just one flavour, you can get 2 or 3 if you want.

So head on over to Frankies Candy Bar in Dundarave West Vancouver or Kerrisdale Vancouver and get yourself some Mini Melts!!!

It's been too long.

A year has past and there are so many new things here at Frankies Candy Bar. First off we opened a second location in Kerrisdale 8 months ago. Twice the size of the original which means way more eye candy to choose from !! I also had a baby girl and she is now 9 months old!! Crazy how time fly's by so quickly. I love having the new store because we get to order tonnes of new candy and more of it! Some things that are popular right now are anything Hello Kitty, (Nintendo) Mario candy, chocolate covered gummy bears, handmade Japanese erasers and Vosges Mo's Bacon Bar in both milk and dark chocolate. I know your thinking " a bacon chocolate bar?" I'm kind of in the middle with it, I don't not like it but I don't like it either. You have to love bacon to eat this bar that's for sure. We just had a photo shoot at the new store so I'll post some pics as soon as I get them from the photographer. Then you can see how amazing Frankies Candy Bar in Kerrisdale is!

Have a Sweet Day!