Looking back to 2006, this is the first year Kris and I did a handmade Christmas. We were full of ideas, and pretty much did every idea we had that year. There was a full day of planning, then shopping for ingredients, then shopping for packaging, then, I'm sure a few days of creating and packaging. There were late nights, takeout food, freezing rain, brimming laundry baskets full of goodies, it was the Great Caramel Disaster of 06, melting fruit jellies, apartment stovetop not reaching candy hard ball stage. Oh my, it has been quite the adventure. We keep up the tradition each year. But with every year of experience, we simplify and keep just the very best: the tried and true stuff that people keep talking about and that doesn't rely on a candy thermometer. Tomorrow I will share all the lovely packaging we did that year.
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