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Caramel Corn Puffs

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Dude. These are hard to describe…caramel-y…buttery…puffy…extremely perishable. In fact, they didn’t last a day at our place. HA!

One word of warning though–there is severe addiction potential with these little guys–so nibble mindlessly at your own risk…and don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Caramel Corn Puffs

Ingredients:

1- 16 oz. bag Corn Puffs

1 cup butter

1 cup corn syrup

2 cups brown sugar

2 tsps. baking soda

Pour the puffs into a large bowl with enough room to mix them around. Mix Butter, corn syrup and brown sugar in a sauce pan. Cook for about 2 minutes or until mixture gets bubbly around the edges of the pan. Remove from heat, add the baking soda and stir. Pour hot caramel over the corn puffs and stir from the bottom of the bowl to evenly coat them.

Place in an oven on 250 degrees for about 45 minutes–stirring about every 10-15 minutes or so. Remove from oven and allow to cool on wax paper. Break up the clusters while they are cooling so that they are bite sized pieces.

Nibble away.

heh, heh, heh…

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Caramel Corn Puffs
 
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Ingredients
  • 1- 16 oz. bag Corn Puffs
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup corn syrup
  • 2 cups brown sugar
  • 2 tsps. baking soda
Instructions
  1. Pour the puffs into a large bowl with enough room to mix them around.
  2. Mix Butter, corn syrup and brown sugar in a sauce pan.
  3. Cook for about 2 minutes or until mixture gets bubbly around the edges of the pan. Remove from heat, add the baking soda and stir.
  4. Pour hot caramel over the corn puffs and stir from the bottom of the bowl to evenly coat them.
  5. Place in an oven on 250 degrees for about 45 minutes–stirring about every 10-15 minutes or so.
  6. Remove from oven and allow to cool on wax paper.
  7. Break up the clusters while they are cooling so that they are bite sized pieces.
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Skinny-Mini Headband

Got about twenty minutes…a few scraps of yarn…and a crochet hook? If so–look how much fun you can have–making the easiest headband in the world! It was so darn easy that I promptly made a bunch of different colors and sizes of headbands and forced everyone in the house to model them for me. Big kids…little kids…grown-up kids. No one was safe.

Miss Foo here, however, was the only really good sport about it…hence, the Miss Foo fest. Look how adorable!

It’s made using a simple single crochet stitch (SC). I used an H hook and Peaches and Cream Cotton yarn.

If you’d like to make one or a million of these little pretties–here’s all you have to do…

Skinny-Mini Headband

Instructions

Chain 4.

Row 1:  SC in the 2nd chain from hook and in each stitch across.

Row 2:  Chain one, and turn. SC in each stitch across.

Row 3~ Repeat Row 2 until headband will fit comfortably around the head of whoever you’re making a headband for. Repeat Row 2– 5 more times and fasten off. Weave in thread ends.

Tie the headband together with a sweet little square knot.

I made this brown one a bit wider–it’s 5 stitches across. Work with the knot until it looks exactly the way you want it to. The headband is going to have a little stretch to it.

Then find a pretty little head to put it on.

Now…take a bow. You deserve it–you clever little thing.

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Positively Les Misérables

Just watched the Les Mis 25th Anniversary on PBS…and I’m completely speechless…or…nearly completely speechless.

It was amazing and just as incredible as it was when we saw the show 15 years ago.

Oh, yeah…and I’m completely in love with Alfie Boe–the star. Pretty sure I’d like to marry him. Except I hear he already has a wife. Rats…my luck.

At the end of the Anniversary show–they gathered up some of the very best performers that have every played the main part and had them sing together. Oh. MY.

Check it out…

 

So, I’m curious. Have you seen Les Miserables at some time in your life? If so, where and when and how many times? This should be good…

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For Your Man

If your husband has ever played water-ball and accidentally launched not only the football–but his wedding band into the depths of Lake Powell where it was quite likely swallowed by a ten foot trout and never seen again—a mostly true story by-the-way—then you are going to absolutely LOVE this.

Gracious Rain is so-so pleased to welcome our new sponsor Tungsten Direct, located right here in the Rocky Mountains of Utah. They have the most gorgeous rings for men and women and the magic of Tungsten is that it will never lose it’s luster–ever.  Add that to a lifetime warranty against loss, damage or theft and it will end up being the last band you’ll ever need to buy. Wish we’d have known that before the lake incident…sheesh.

So, if you’re about to get married, or needing to replace a ring that got swallowed by a fish–whatever–please go check out the Tungsten Direct site and tell us what you think! Father’s Day is coming up in a few months you know. Oh, and if there’s something that catches your eye–be sure to type in the coupon code “Gracious Rain” at the check out and you’ll receive an additional 25% off the purchase price.

Yeah…beat that…

oh, you can’t.

:}

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{Full Potential}

“When you push against the boundaries of experience into the twilight of the unknown the Lord will strengthen you. The beauty of your eternal soul will begin to unfold.”

~Elder Richard G. Scott

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