"Meanwhile, back at the farm..."

So I hate to deviate from The Birth Story but I just have to. I think you'll be glad I did, because these gifts are delicious!

The church we are attending has never had a Father's Day honouring thingy. Nor a Mother's Day honouring thingy either. Once I got over my horror I invited Bekki around to do some crafting and we brainstormed ideas of what we could do as a gift.

Father's Day isn't the easiest, well, actually men in general, are not the easiest people to craft for. It has to be clever enough to be interesting, maculine enough to be nonoffensive (and to a girl who believes ribbons cover a multitude of sins this is a major setback!) and of course, cost effective. 

The winner? 

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Cullere de Chocolat d'Yuck.

To use, you either heat a cup of milk to steaming, or you make a regular hot milo or coffee and use one of these babies to stir. As you can imagine the chocolate melts and the marshmellow hidden inside escapes. All of a sudden you have a decadent, marshmellowy, hot chocolate drink.

We used a variety of toppings, including M&Ms, shredded coconut, granulated nuts, silver balls, cake decorating bits and pieces. We also used milk chocolate, dark chocolate and white chocolate. They were suprisingly simple to make procedure-wise but from shopping to designing tags and wrapping it was time consuming. Praise the Lord I had someone to help me this time!

You may wonder why there is a little man laughing in amongst those pictures. He's my little helper! He has to feature in the final shoot! Lol :-)