This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! If you're looking for some great Black Friday deals we've got you covered! In our Etsy shop November 27-Dec 1 we'll be having a 15% off sale on EVERYTHING in our shop! We make and sell items you can print at home, including recipe books, home decor, coloring posters, and more. They make great gifts for loved ones, or yourself. Below I'll give you a preview of our most popular items. Black Friday SaleThe Original Hot Cocoa Bomb BooksThe best sellers in our shop are by far our Hot Cocoa Bomb books and with good reason. It seems like everyone is talking about Hot Cocoa Bombs lately and we have perfected them. We happily share how to make them in our two books: How To Make Hot Cocoa Bombs and Hot Cocoa Bombs: Fall Favorites. We're often asked about the difference between the two books. The original booklet is just the basic recipe and some decorating and flavor ideas. The Fall Favorites book has 8 recipes for different flavors, and tips for working with chocolate. Coloring PostersOur coloring Christmas countdown calendar is just the thing to help you get through Christmas social distancing style. Everyday there's a different activity for you to do with your family and you can color in the ornament everyday that corresponds to the activity. Learn more about it here! We also have a coloring poster for grandparents to give to their grandchildren. It's full of activities for grandparents and grandchildren to do together. This would be perfect to give as a promise of post-Covid quality time together. Experience gifts are the gifts that get remembered forever! (And if a poster isn't your style, it comes in book form too!) Learn more about it here! Hot Cocoa bombsLast but not least we have our Hot Cocoa Bombs! We decided to sell our leftover bombs or bombs that didn't exactly meet our standards for 50% off!!! That means the bombs will be $1.50!!! Our Hot Cocoa Bombs are perfect for stockings for a delicious drink on Christmas Morning. So be sure to check out our Etsy shop Nov 27-Dec 1 to get these and more on an awesome deal for Black Friday Weekend!
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The holidays this year are one big guessing game. Many traditions, unfortunately, are just not going to be able to happen and many families won't get to spend this time together like they usually would.
But this doesn't mean the Christmas spirit has to be gone completely. Growing up, one of the things I looked forward to the most during the Christmas season was our advent calendars. My mom would buy us chocolate advent calendars and each morning my younger brother and I would rush to the kitchen to see what chocolate shapes awaited us that day. We also had a family advent calendar. It was a fabric tree that hung on the wall with numbered pockets underneath. Each pocket held an ornament that would attach to the tree so that by Christmas, we had a full Christmas tree hanging on the wall. Thinking back on these Christmas traditions is what inspired the newest product in our shop. We've created a Christmas in Quarantine Advent Calendar so that you can enjoy Christmas fun even while social distancing. It's called the Quarantine Christmas Countdown and you can check it out in our Etsy shop!
This tree is donned with 24 small activities your family can do together to spread some Christmas cheer. They are not numbered, so you can do them in the order that fits around your own schedule and needs.
Once an activity has been completed, simply color in that ornament. By Christmas morning, you'll have a full Christmas tree hanging on your wall and a month full of fun family memories to look back on. Who says celebrating Christmas in quarantine can't be fun or magical? Some additional ideas to make the big day special:
What are some of your ideas for celebrating Christmas in quarantine?
2020 has definitely been a rough year for everyone, and those of us with a small business are definitely no exception. The holidays of the past have often been the busiest time of the year for many of us, in large part due to holiday craft shows.
Many of those shows just won't be happening this year. So we thought, why not host a virtual one? We can all hang out online for three days, have some giveaways, interact with and support cool small business owners, and get our holiday shopping done! So... we are! We will be hosting the 3 Winks Holly & Mistletoe Boutique this November 19-21, and we have teamed up with so many incredible vendors from a wide variety of businesses and shops. There's really something for everyone! If you're interested in joining, be sure to join the Facebook group and turn on notifications so you don't miss anything. Here's a list of our vendors! Livvy Lou's Bow Shoppe Polished and Purdy with Andrea Jaci Hibshman with doTerra Essential Oils Last Yesterday Solo Wood Design Lori's Card Creations Bibs4Littles Tara Fritz with Rodan and Fields Sew Unique Wreaths by Shalonda Alexander Residual Resin Craftastico Color Me Culturally Confident Sweet Louize Zuckerman's Creations Tara Fritz Art Children's Culinary Institute Baked in America Plus one more surprise... Typically, we only sell our hot cocoa bombs locally at craft fairs. This year, the Original Hot Cocoa Bomb will be available in our Etsy shop for the 3 days of the craft fair. Our available flavors will be: Original Cinnamon Salted Caramel Cherry Cordial Butterscotch Gingerbread Peppermint and Hazelnut These will be sold in packs of 4-12. Stop by early to make sure you get the flavors you want! So who's excited? We definitely are! Will we see you there? Let us know in the comments! This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! It is getting to be the time of year when Hot Cocoa Bombs are really popular! There will be cold evenings around people's fire pits or fireplaces. There will be brisk mornings when a cup of hot cocoa will be perfect to warm everyone up and a nice cup of hot cocoa with Christmas cookies are just the thing to evoke the holiday spirit! If you have been following along with us here on the blog, you know that we had a contest to see who could come up with some fabulous ideas for Fall Hot Cocoa Bomb Flavors. We received so many excellent suggestions. Our plan with these new flavors was to add them to our list of other Hot Cocoa Bomb Flavors that are perfect for Fall. We've also noticed a surge in the sale of our original Hot Cocoa Bomb Idea E-book that we sell in our Etsy Shop. It is fun to see how many people are latching on to our Hot Cocoa Bomb idea and making their own bombs! But, we haven't seen anyone with the number of amazing flavors that we have, so we knew that it would be awesome to put out a Fall Favorites Book and give you some new recipes for some of the many flavors we have developed over the 6 years that we have been making Hot Cocoa Bombs. Here are the reasons that you are going to want this book:
Not only are we sharing the fantastic news about our new e-book, we have one more bit of fun news! We have surpassed 100 sales in our Etsy shop! So, to celebrate, we are giving our readers and followers a code to receive a 15% discount on everything in our shop! That discount starts today and ends Monday, so be sure to hurry to the shop to take advantage of it! This is your chance to get new Fall Favorites Book for 15% off! So, are you ready for the code? When you check out, put in code 100SALE and you will receive the discount!
Not only will you receive the discount for both of our Hot Cocoa Bomb E-Books, but we have so many other items that you will enjoy! This is the perfect time to purchase For The Love Of Pie, our e-book full of delicious pie recipes! You will be all ready for Thanksgiving! If you have had your eye on the Adventures With Grandparents Posters or Booklets, now is a great time to get them as well! Thank you so much for following us and being a part of our Hot Cocoa Bomb story! Do you want to know what one of my favorite things about Hot Cocoa Bombs is? It is the bubbles that come out when it starts to melt in the hot milk, then up pop the marshmallows! That always makes me smile! |
Creators of Hot Cocoa Bombs! (copyrighted)
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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