Sometimes…

…I watch Cover Girl commercials and pretend Drew Barrymore and I are best friends.  In my pretend-awesome world, we giggle about boys over a glass of wine.

…I come very close to taking a hammer to the interior of my dining room and trying my hand at drywall.

…I hide candy wrappers between the mattresses.

…I wish Rachel Ray would taste her food and then fall over like it killed her.  For comedic effect, of course.

…I let the boys eat Froot Loops for supper and pizza for breakfast.

…I make things for ya’ll and have no idea if it will come out or not.

Take today, for example.

I decided that I wanted to make boxes out of chocolate.

Why on earth would I want to do that?  I don’t know, really.  Just sounds like something cool to do.

Have I done it before?  Nope.  Practiced?  Nada bit.  Read up on it?  A little.  Here.

I’ve watched enough of those “Food Network Challenge” where they make like chocolate Empire State Buildings.  I can surely do this, right?

My parents are to blame for my consistently optimistic attitude about things.  I was raised to believe that I can do anything.  Anything.

They also taught me that sitting around flappin’ yer jaw about it doesn’t get it done.

So, let’s make a box out of chocolate.

Two double boilers, each with 3 blocks of almond bark…1 chocolate and 1 white.

After they melt, pour out onto some waxed paper…And spread thin.  1/8 inch…?After the chocolate begins to set up…but is not fully set…Cut out the pieces to the box.I used this cookie cutter…but you could use a ruler and a pizza cutter just as easily.  I think this cutter is 3″.

I got 9 pieces…which gives me one box and 4 useless pieces.I threw the chocolate scraps back into the double boiler.  I kept the extra squares, just in case I broke one.  Or two.  Or three.I remelted the scraps and put them in a zip bag – a la Sandra Lee…Snipped the corner – ready to assemble.

Choose the bottom and a side…start squirting lines of melted chocolate along the edges….Then start assembling.

I suck at photographing my process…because I just now realized that I went from “squirting lines of melted chocolate”….to:Freakin’ finished.

Well.  It’s not perfect.  Cutting out each piece with a ruler and pizza cutter would be more precise for sure.  Which would make it fit together better.

However.  As Billy Flynn would say, “Razzle Dazzle ‘Em”…

Let’s put some decorations on this bad boy…hide the imperfections…

Once again, Process Documentation = Epic Failure.

I took some melted white chocolate, poured it in my Sandra Lee Contraption and drizzled lines over the outside of the box.

Now…let’s fill it with some Valentine’s marshmallows…How can they see with sequins in their eyes???

See?  You can’t even see the hole I melted in the back because the white chocolate was too hot.

“If you seam isn’t straight, cover it with fringe” was my first lesson in sewing.

Fun project, right?

You can do it, I promise.  This was my first try – and I’m not precise with anything.

But I think these would make a nice gift, don’t you?

Subtle hint in

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Like…if someone was getting some JEWELRY????

Didja get that, Matt?