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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 562543" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>It would be pretty easy to set up cardmaking with the kids one day. The family fun magazine has some super easy oned including one that uses fingerprints to make reindeer. </p><p></p><p>You should have plenty of time to make limoncello. You can get bottles online, at Hobby Lobby, Michael's, or if you want to get some corks to stopper it, why not ask at a restaurant that sells beer bottles or ask a local lodge or on freecycle for empty beer bottles. Or just drink the beer or make beer cheese or beer bread with it. Take a look at some of the microbrewery bottles and various foreign beer bottles. They are pretty easy to decorate with stickers, etc... </p><p></p><p>Here s a simple limoncello recipe: <a href="http://www.yumsugar.com/Homemade-Quick-Easy-Limoncello-Recipe-6669380" target="_blank">http://www.yumsugar.com/Homemade-Quick-Easy-Limoncello-Recipe-6669380</a> I looked at a lot of recipes and some take 10-45 days after each of 2 steps, but it sure doesn't really need that long from what I have been told. One trick to make the lemon flavor more intense and fresh tasting is to add a few drops of lemon oil to the recipe. I would try four or five drops in roughly sixteen ounces to start. You can get lemon oil in the candy making area at Hobby Lobby and simlar stores. It is usually sold under the LorAnn brand, which is a division of Wilton, just FYI. I use it as my secret weapon in baking because it gives a really fresh taste to things. I usually use a couple of drops in pound cake and other non-lemon flavoreed items, and a bit more if I want the lemon flavor rather than just that edge of freshness it gives.</p><p></p><p>Here is a recipe for chocolate vodka, which maybe should be Milky Way vodka because that is the chocolae that they used. I would likely use some of the darkest chocolate I could find. Oddly enough, for the last year or two I have found amazing chocolates at Aldi's. The prices were astoundingly cheap and the quality was very good. <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Chocolate-Vodka" target="_blank">http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Chocolate-Vodka</a></p><p></p><p>The chocolate vodka even has a way to make it in the dishwasher! You don't melt the candy in a double boiler. You chop it up small enough to put through the opening in the bottle and then cap the bottle and run it through the dishwasher. Shake when done, and if it isn't totally melted, send it through the dishwasher again. This would be the fastes, easiest, least clean-up way to do this.</p><p></p><p>Candles are a great gift. You can use parafin from the canning section or you can hit up thrift stores and even freecycle to get old broken candles. You can use crayons insead of rit dye, but you have to be careful not to use too many. what that amount is. I have no clue. One really fun thing to do with a kid or three is to make candles. You handle the wax, but they can either dip wicks into the melted wax or they can use molds. Paper cups work quite well, and you can use silicone cake pans/ice cube trays or you can use muffn pans lined with 2-3 liners. It is very helpful to either tie the bottom end of the wick to a washer (from the hardware store) or to one of the specially designed doohickeys made to keep the bottom of the wick at the bottom of the candle. You can even pour the wax onto a waxed paper lined cookie sheet with sides or a cake pan and then cut them with cookie cutters when they are set but not hard. Or if you want, just buy sheets of beeswax and cut them wtih cookie cutters and press 2-4 shapes together with a wick between them.</p><p></p><p>While you are melting wax, why not decorate soaps? Take bars of soap and paint on them wth acrylic paints. Let the design dry and then cover it with the melted wax. The wax will hold the artwork in place and since you only cover one side of the bar, the kids can still wash up with it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 562543, member: 1233"] It would be pretty easy to set up cardmaking with the kids one day. The family fun magazine has some super easy oned including one that uses fingerprints to make reindeer. You should have plenty of time to make limoncello. You can get bottles online, at Hobby Lobby, Michael's, or if you want to get some corks to stopper it, why not ask at a restaurant that sells beer bottles or ask a local lodge or on freecycle for empty beer bottles. Or just drink the beer or make beer cheese or beer bread with it. Take a look at some of the microbrewery bottles and various foreign beer bottles. They are pretty easy to decorate with stickers, etc... Here s a simple limoncello recipe: [url]http://www.yumsugar.com/Homemade-Quick-Easy-Limoncello-Recipe-6669380[/url] I looked at a lot of recipes and some take 10-45 days after each of 2 steps, but it sure doesn't really need that long from what I have been told. One trick to make the lemon flavor more intense and fresh tasting is to add a few drops of lemon oil to the recipe. I would try four or five drops in roughly sixteen ounces to start. You can get lemon oil in the candy making area at Hobby Lobby and simlar stores. It is usually sold under the LorAnn brand, which is a division of Wilton, just FYI. I use it as my secret weapon in baking because it gives a really fresh taste to things. I usually use a couple of drops in pound cake and other non-lemon flavoreed items, and a bit more if I want the lemon flavor rather than just that edge of freshness it gives. Here is a recipe for chocolate vodka, which maybe should be Milky Way vodka because that is the chocolae that they used. I would likely use some of the darkest chocolate I could find. Oddly enough, for the last year or two I have found amazing chocolates at Aldi's. The prices were astoundingly cheap and the quality was very good. [url]http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Chocolate-Vodka[/url] The chocolate vodka even has a way to make it in the dishwasher! You don't melt the candy in a double boiler. You chop it up small enough to put through the opening in the bottle and then cap the bottle and run it through the dishwasher. Shake when done, and if it isn't totally melted, send it through the dishwasher again. This would be the fastes, easiest, least clean-up way to do this. Candles are a great gift. You can use parafin from the canning section or you can hit up thrift stores and even freecycle to get old broken candles. You can use crayons insead of rit dye, but you have to be careful not to use too many. what that amount is. I have no clue. One really fun thing to do with a kid or three is to make candles. You handle the wax, but they can either dip wicks into the melted wax or they can use molds. Paper cups work quite well, and you can use silicone cake pans/ice cube trays or you can use muffn pans lined with 2-3 liners. It is very helpful to either tie the bottom end of the wick to a washer (from the hardware store) or to one of the specially designed doohickeys made to keep the bottom of the wick at the bottom of the candle. You can even pour the wax onto a waxed paper lined cookie sheet with sides or a cake pan and then cut them with cookie cutters when they are set but not hard. Or if you want, just buy sheets of beeswax and cut them wtih cookie cutters and press 2-4 shapes together with a wick between them. While you are melting wax, why not decorate soaps? Take bars of soap and paint on them wth acrylic paints. Let the design dry and then cover it with the melted wax. The wax will hold the artwork in place and since you only cover one side of the bar, the kids can still wash up with it! [/QUOTE]
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