Dips & Container Magic

The following ideas I have to credit Patricia with, she was a great help in the class. I have other pictures of some of my creative gift jars I made but they will have to wait until I get home as there was a glitch when I stored them on line.

Patricia made a whole bunch of dry dip mixes and packaged them pretty neat. I helped her make the labels for them which include directions on making a dip. She has these on a glass plate with a jar of her homemade salsa ready to give to someone lucky. If you are a dipper you will want the recipes for Mexican Fiesta, Parmesan Herb and the other 6 wonderful recipes for dips mixes. Again email me and I'll shoot them right out to you.

OK, this is to coolest idea of all for any age! Chocolate dipped marshmallows in white and milk chocolate. Do you recognize the container holding the white marshmallows? It's a plastic strawberry container washed, dried and lined with colored tissue paper then filled with yummy marshmallows. Then the next picture shows the marshmallows on a bamboo skewer, dipped and of course they are covered with candy sprinkles. How simple and fun this recipe is we didn't even include it! If you can melt chocolate you can make these!

Check out the red bucket they are standing in, it's another great yard sale find. I picked up four of these mini French Floral buckets for a $1! This on was spray painted red and brushed with acrylic paint. Again these gifts are both under $2.00 but look like you spent much more on them.

This shot is of some containers decorated from Patricia's sewing box. The snowman square container had mayonnaise in it and it's got felt and buttons glued on it. For the class it was filled with white chocolate popcorn, yummy!!!! Yes, that recipe is included in my hand out too. The other containers are decorated with stickers and sewing box scraps too. They can be filled with anything from you kitchen from snowman soup mix to Carmel and chocolate covered pretzel rods. Just be creative and have fun gifting.

I'll add the rest of the photos when I get home from vacation.