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Chocolate Dipped Candy Corn Rice Krispie Treats

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Chocolate dipped rice krispie treats. Need I say more?! Ok, how about one shaped like a candy corn for a fun Halloween treat. These are so easy, even your littlest hands can help!

Chocolate Dipped Candy Corn Rice Krispie Treats

Ingredients:

  • 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 1 package (10 oz., about 40) regular marshmallows
  • 6 cups Rice Krispies
  • Yellow and red food coloring
  • 1/2 cup Chocolate chips
  • 1/2 cup White Chocolate Chips
  • 1 teaspoon Crisco

1. In microwave-safe bowl heat butter and marshmallows on high stirring once a minute, until smooth. Add food coloring to die the marshmallow mixture orange (about 4 yellow drops and one red drop).

2. Add Rice Krispies cereal. Stir until well coated.

3. Using buttered spatula evenly press mixture into two 9 inch round pans coated with cooking spray. Cool.

4. Cut into 8 triangles. Round the pointed edges to make them look more like candy corns.

5. Melt chocolate chips with 1/2 teaspoon of crisco in microwave on 50 percent power stirring often. Spoon melted chocolate over the big end of the triangle. Place on wax paper.

6. Repeat step 5 with the white chocolate on the small end.

7. Place in fridge to help chocolate set. 

Hope you like these rice krispie treats as much as we did!

If you have a favorite cereal treat, please leave a link in the comments or send the recipe to me by email (tipsyblog@gmail.com) and maybe you will get featured.

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Feature Friday-Blog Swap with Oopsey Daisy

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I am Alison, the crazy lady behind Oopsey Daisy and I can’t wait to get a little tipsy! Thanks for having me here today, Michelle!

Once upon a time, I was a first grade teacher. Now, I am a happy stay-at-home Mommy to my almost-two-year-old Little Man. He is a handful, but he inspires a lot of creativity, too! When he sleeps, I craft. I am always trying new things, pulling out stitches, and laughing at all of my stupid mistakes. There are plenty of “oopseys” in my craft world along with the occasional “daisy”, too!

Michelle wanted me to answer a few questions:

What is your favorite crafting tool or secret weapon? My secret weapon is definitely my seam ripper! I couldn’t live without it. I am constantly making mistakes, so I need to rip out my stitches and start over again! Although I have figured out ways to use scissors and even my teeth, the seam ripper is my weapon of choice!

What color are your toenails? Yikes, this is embarrassing! I am in dire need of a pedicure. You see, every time my husband has been out of town for a while, I reward all of my single parenting with a pedicure! The leftover color from my last pedicure is a dark magenta color.

If you were a Halloween character, who would it be and why? A witch. A good witch… you know, like Samantha from Bewitched. I would love to just wiggle my nose and have things go my way! Especially when it comes to cleaning the bathtubs, emptying the dishwasher, ironing my husbands’ shirts, oh yes and washing lettuce! (Just a few of my least favorite chores!) I would love to have more time to craft!

Here is a little peek into my world:

What better way to celebrate Halloween than with a tasty treat?! I recently made these Oreo pumpkins:

I just can’t stop filling my tiny apartment with Halloween decor! I made this spider topiary

especially for my Little Man!

These 2 quiet books were my big project for the entire year! I also shared printable templates for 9 pages:

PLUS I recently began a fun “Mommy School” program for my Little Man. I share all my ideas on Saturdays, and I compiled all of my latest ideas into one giant “L is for leaves” packet.

I have been hoarding frozen juice can lids for weeks just so I could make this owl matching game.

Finally, I created this little Sunday ABC Book to keep Little Man occupied during church! Come by and print your own. This would be a great stocking stuffer!

I hope you will come by Oopsey Daisy and say hello! Every day is an adventure! Thanks so much, Michelle, for letting me give a personal tour of my little world!

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Baby Shower Cupcake Gift

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A giant cupcake is sure to please, especially when it is filled with baby essentials! This is a fun baby shower gift idea for those who like to skip the gift bag and be a little more creative with their gift.

I had a baby shower for my good friend, Amanda, who is having her second baby (due on the same day as me), but first girl. I wanted to give her something she needed so luckily I found she had a registry and what did I find on it but two packs of white onesies. Most boring baby shower gift in the history of man I know, but I knew she would do something adorable with them. I knew with such an exciting gift I needed to spice up the wrapping. She also had some receiving blankets on her list and I knew I had a couple I had spiced up with some ribbon, so what to do with 10 white onesies and two blankets but make a cupcake.

1. Fold your receiving blanket until it is the height of the onesies and roll securing with tape or a rubber band. Lucky for me, all the onesies were already rolled, so I just added some tape to secure. Line onesies around the blanket until you have a nice cupcake base. Secure with rubber bands.

2. Fold all the blanket edges in forming a square and place a whole bunch of plastic grocery bags in the center. Fold two of the corners in and then fold them over the bags so it looks like the pic below.

3. Then, take the two points and twist in to the center creating the puckery top. Tuck the pointy ends through the middle of the cupcake base and pulling them through the bottom, securing it on the top. This will take some practice. I had to keep altering it until it looked right.

4. Take a piece of 12×12 scrapbook paper and cut it in half. Fold the paper like a fan with about 1/2 inch slats or smaller if you are really patient. Tape the edges of the two paper halves together to form a paper cylinder. Slip the paper over the cupcake base pulling out the top so it is larger than the bottom.

5. Add embellishments like a shiny poof on top and some layered ribbons tied around the paper to secure it.

Happy Birthday baby, a cute and useful baby shower gift!

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Ecosystem Recycled Notebook Review & Giveaway

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I enjoy things that are earth friendly and Made in the U.S.A, so when Ecosystem contacted my to review their 100% recycled notebooks it was an easy decision.

I love that they come in six bright colors and four different styles: artist (blank), advisor (calendar), author (lined), and architect (grid).

I got two of the flexi cover author notebooks. I can’t wait to use them as my daily baby journal where I record fun events and milestones from the new little one.

The more I learned about these notebooks, the more I loved! Here are just a few of the cool facts and features:

*The environmental benefits (see chart on left)
*A code in the back cover that can be entered and tracked on their site if you ever lose your notebook.
*That same code can be used to see where your recycled materials came from. See where my ingredients originated. I love that they all came from U.S. companies with less than 65 employees! Yay for supporting small business!
*A pocket in the back to keep odds and ends like receipts or memorabilia.
*A built in bookmark to keep your place.
*Acrylic cover that will protect your notebook from sippy cups and bottles resting on it. 😉
*Cute leaf print on inside covers.

There’s nothing I like more than to share the products I love. Ecosystem is giving away a notebook of your choice for 3 lucky winners!

To enter, you must become a fan of ecosystem on facebook and comment on this post with your email address so we can contact you.

Giveaway closes Tuesday, October 26th.

If you don’t win, you can always purchase an ecosystem online.

Official giveaway rules :
– A Little Tipsy is the official host of the giveaway and is sponsoring the giveaway, ecosystemlife is just providing the prizes to the eligible winners.
– Winners will be chosen via random generator and then checked on ecosystem’s facebook fan page for eligibility. Only those who both comment & became a fan via ecosystem’s facebook fan page are eligible to win.
– Only those whom are in the domestic United States are eligible to win.

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