Chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate

So, I've been in this crazy stage where I just want to make stuff. Anything really.... but I've just finished  making chocolate!!!

My boyfriend, Henroshi, decided to give his mother something for her birthday. Well, she likes monkey's so I made her chocolate lollipops of little monkeys. It was pretty tricky at first but I finally figured it out!!!!

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Alright, so, here's the trick. 

I used dark chocolate for the monkey's eyes and eyebrows, I painted them by glopping chocolate on top of a toothpick and dropping the dark chocolate in a thick amount into the small crevices. 

The whites were made of just normal white chocolate. 

I mixed white chocolate and milk chocolate to create that nice tan color on the monkey's nose. 

With the yellow in the bananas, BE VERY GENEROUS to the yellow chocolate, if you don't other colors will bleed right through it. The same applies to the green leaves... GENEROUS GENEROUS GENEROUS!  

Now here's what a whole lot of trial and error helped me figure out. Paint in an EXTREMELY thick layer of milk chocolate into the monkey's body, pushing into the fingers, ears, sides and tails to avoid bubbles.

Pour a layer of the blue inside, it doesn't have to be covering the whole monkey just needs to be fairly thick in the parts of the mold where the blue "sky" should be showing.

After that, make sure you let the chocolate set for a bit until it gives the outward appearance of being firm. Then you can pour the mold with milk chocolate the rest of the way with the lollipop stick.

NOTE: Let the chocolate you just heated cool for a bit before putting it on top of other chocolate layers or else you'll melt the lower layers into the hot layer.

If you lift up the mold and let light shine on it, you can see the spots in the mold that need more chocolate to avoid washed out colors in the green and yellow chocolate.

If you need the chocolate to set fast or you're just nervous about the chocolate you just melted melting into the chocolate you already layered. The freezer for a minute is a fantastic option for both concerns.

YEP! I hope you get any help you are looking for in this little blurp about chocolate making.

Also, I've been making a costume, I know it's a little bit after Halloween, but, Henroshi's mom and Aunt are fantastic and made me a beautiful costume for Halloween. Maybe when I finish it, I'll show you how it turned out! I'm pretty proud of it so far.

Hugs and kisses!

~BroadwayChick

P.S. Henroshi and I also gave her a Dove Soap/Shampoo Gift bag, and a towel (because the universe is a dangerous place and you always need to know where your towel is- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) Yep, we had fun :D

No money and Facebook Cash

I am a Facebook addict. Ok, I admit it!!! I get on about once a day and talk to people I haven't for a while, look at profiles (profile "stalking" if you really want to be weird like that), see what people are doing in their lives, etc. However, I also play... the games...

I know, ultra waste of time and most of the time, crappy graphics, but they are just fun. And they try and get you buy stuff with real money all the time on these games. "Buy shovels so you can dig for buried treasure!!!" "Use Facebook Cash and get a totem to make your crops grow!!! "

These offers are screaming in your face "BUY MEEEEEEE!!!!!" And then also whispering with the fine print "I'm a waste of your time an money!!!!!"

Now, I know that I'm not the only one in the world who has a friend who is a constant complainer on how much money they "don't have". Well, this friend, as long as I can remember, always has spoken about how hard it is for her and her family to have a happy normal life because they don't have the money to have all the nice things that they want and have to squish in a tiny apartment, etc.

Ok, so here's the reason I'm bringing up these two situations that seem like they have nothing in common with each other.

So, my friend and I play a few games together online, she has always been ahead of me because, well, she's been playing them for longer. Or so I've been led to believe. Now, when I'm playing these games, I like to visit other people's homes (in case you're facebook illiterate, you can visit other players homes and get money and experience points by doing certain chores or activities in other players houses). In this particular game, you can gain both coins and XP by traveling into the multiple rooms of your "friend"s home.  Now, as I'm playing, ads are popping up telling me to buy this and that with facebook cash. I'm finally in my friends house (the one who is always ahead of me) and I decided to look around her house more to see what she has... slowly, I begin to notice a Facebook Cash item, here, and there, and there... oh, there's one over there too... How else is she able to get these items? There's no way to win them, she just has them.

So, let me ask you, is it logical to always be talking about how much money you DON'T have and then all of the sudden buying worthless pieces of color that you will NEVER use in your whole life?? Yes, I understand that the 2-D furniture makes your room look "pretty" but, really? Let me just remind you... THEY AREN'T REAL!! YOUR PETS WON'T EVER GIVE A CRAP IF YOU DON'T HAVE PRETTY FURNITURE!!!!

Anyway... The End.
Love,
BroadwayChick