I recently had the opportunity to sample Geoff and Drew’s Cookies.

To say they were wonderful is an understatement. They were melt in your mouth delicious. If you’re looking for made at home cookie taste, without baking them yourself these cookies would be an excellent replacement.

I love chocolate, so I sampled the chocolate-chocolate chip, and the white chocolate-cranberry cookies. I wasn’t sure I would like the cranberry, but in the end they were my favorite.

 

They have a wonderful selection, and several options, from individually wrapped cookies, to large gift baskets.

Geoff and Drew’s Cookies would make excellent birthday party favors, birthday gifts, holiday party treats, or thank you gifts.

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I just saw these, and I think they’d be adorable for a beach party, or luau. They’re called Mini Palm Tree Decorator Pinatas . You can use them for table decorations, or hang them up. When the party’s done send one home with each of your guests. Each palm tree stands about 8″ tall.

You could fill them with candy, or small toys, or let your guests fill their own at a candy buffet.

Cute!

More summer luau or beach party supplies and decorations

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I recently had the opportunity to do a guest post for Chocolate Bytes. I enjoy planning parties, decorating cakes, and gardening. This guest post gave me the opportunity to do all three, with chocolate!

Melted chocolates make great cupcake or cake toppers. I think these molded chocolates would be fun for a cookout, or just for summer fun. If you’re planning a Mother’s Day party, summer garden party, or birthday tea party check out how to make these melted chocolate garden cupcake toppers. 

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Try a new twist on an old favorite treat, chocolate covered pretzels, for a Valentine’s Day treat. They’re simple to make, and even easier to eat. Your kids will have a blast helping you make them.

Ingredients:

A bag of rod pretzels

1/2 bar (or 6-8 squares) Chocolate Bark (it melts really well in the microwave) Follow the instructions on the bag to melt.

Valentines day sprinkles

Melt the chocolate, let your children help dip the pretzels in the melted chocolate.

I lay the dipped pretzels on wax paper, but you can also prop them up in a cup to dry (if you don’t want them to be flat on one side). Let your children add the sprinkles while the chocolate’s still soft.

Bundle them together for a Valentine’s Day gift, or make a pretzel bouquet for your child’s classroom.

Tags: Valentine’s day treat idea, chocolate dipped pretzel, Valentine’s day, cooking with kids

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What are the top selling toys this year? Here’s what’s hot at Amazon.

1. Jakks EyeClops Bionic Eye A bionic eye that plugs into your TV. It magnifies any object you illuminate to 200 times its normal size on your TV screen. For ages 6-12.

2. IlluStory Make Your Own Story Kit Does your child have a story in them you’d love to get on paper? This kit allows them to create a story including a front cover and authors page. You send the story in, and it’s returned to you bound and type set within a few weeks.

3. Fisher-Price Sesame Street Pizza Party Elmo Elmo’s pizza magically comes to life, moving its eyes and mouth when you press Elmo’s hand!
Children can sing and dance along as Elmo and his pizza sway to their silly pizza song!

4. Mattel Disney Pixar’s Cars Mack Truck Playset Mack opens up into Lightning McQueens home on wheels. Includes a play lift, weight machine, and a car wash.

5. Hannah Montana “In Concert Collection” Deluxe Singing w/ “The Other Side of Me” Everything Hannah Montana’s hot this year, but this is the hottest. Hannah plays her most popular songs for your child to sing along.

These are 5 of the hottest toys this Christmas season. What’s popular at your house this year?

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My son is a huge Pokemon fan, so he’s checked out what he wants to add to his Christmas list this year.

Here are a few fun gifts for the Pokemon fan on your gift list this year.

1. Pokemon 3″ Mini Plush Ornaments (Pikachu, Eevee, Squirtle, Mew, Munchlax and Mime Jr.) Your Pokemon fan can brighten their Christmas tree with Pikachu and friends this holiday season.

2. Pokemon TFG Next Quest Trading Figure Miniature Game Set of Both Starters (Riptide & Flamethrower) A great starter set for a Pokemon fan who wants to get started playing the figure trading game.

3. Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl for Nintendo DS top the list of any Pokemon fan who doesn’t already have these latest games.

4. Pokemon Diamond Pearl Pokedex Guide Book If they have the game, get them the guide, to help them make the most of their Pokemon gaming experience.

5. Create a Pokemon theme bedroom with Pokemon Pikachu Sleeping Slumber Bag Comforter or a Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Twin Sheet Set.

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High School Musical and HSM 2 are both favorites at our house. Here are 5 HSM games your High School Musical fan may enjoy this Christmas.

1. High School Musical: Sing it For Wii, or Playstation 2. Sing It! is a karaoke video game based on the hit musical. Your child and their friends can sing along to the songs from HSM. The game has more than 30 songs to choose from, and over thirty minutes worth of bonus features from the original movie.

2. Mattel High School Musical DVD Board Game 2 has children competing on different levels of difficulty to test their High School Musical 2 knowledge.

3. Disney’s Karaoke Series: High School Musical features 16 songs from the original HSM movie. Each song has two versions one with, and one without lead vocals.

4. High School Musical Mystery Date Your tween or teen will have fun collecting clothing or accessory cards to get ready for a mystery date. Will your date be Ryan, or Troy, or another mysterious person.

5. Twister Moves High School Musical 2 A new twist on an old classic. Twister moves is great fun for a group of friends, or an exciting party game.

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