Candy Making

And that fresh taste - while the candy was still warm?

Oh so tasty.

Don't get me wrong, you can buy some pretty good store candy - but it just never tastes as good as candy you make yourself.

And, when you make candy yourself, you can use a spoon and scrape the mixing pan clean. Yum...

Design Psychology for Your Office
Jeanette Joy Fisher 

Using Design Psychology in your office increases both happiness and productivity. Here are some interior design tips on how to make your office a more pleasant and productive place:

Provide Friendly Lighting

Begin your office makeover with lighting, the number one design detail for happiness. Overly-bright overhead lighting can cause problems with eyestrain, headaches, and fatigue. You can install dimmers and add task lighting where needed to correct that situation.

Using home-style lamps lends a friendly atmosphere to an office space and improves productivity. Home-like table lamps provide a feeling of comfort, because our minds are accustomed to that type of lighting. Floor lamps are also another good supplemental light source, and have the added benefit of freeing up work space on desks.

Use iridescent blue colored light bulbs to cool the space in summer. Likewise, amber bulbs warm cold offices during cool weather.

Use Creative Colors on the Walls

Many colors effectively enhance creativity, including soft grays, warm tans, and silver blues. Because gray is the only color without an after image left in our brain, soft grays provide great backgrounds for in-depth thinking. Warm tans reinforced with far-horizon desert or beach paintings sustain concentration. Silver blues and cotton-candy pinks inspire fantasy, making these colors perfect for writers.

Overall efficiency can be improved by using sky and navy blues, black accents, and muted greens.

Decorative wall paint like glazing adds a greater sense of dimension to a room. The subtle striations in these finishes make the walls appear to recede.

Dress Your Office to Impress

If you're dressing your office to impress your clients, use over-scaled office furniture, welcoming home-style lighting, and large landscape paintings (to add a sense of visual depth). Combine those elements with tropical foliage to bring nature indoors, which relaxes you and your guests. Bookcases filled with books and closed files signify that you are knowledgeable and organized.

Consider how you want your guests to feel. If you want to look like an expert in your field, display your credentials. Relax guests with something unexpected that portrays your humility like a photo with you in a silly costume. If you have a known degree, don't intimidate your guests with cluttering framed degrees and lots of awards. Be selective with wall hangings, less is better for concentration on the important item in the space -- the people.

Using the techniques of Design Psychology can transform your office into a more productive and enjoyable space for yourself, employees, and clients.

(c) Copyright 2005 Jeanette J. Fisher. All rights reserved.

One of my favorite candy recipes for cold weather is peanut brittle.

PEANUT BRITTLE
1 pound (2 cups) sugar
1 teaspoonful lemon extract
1/2 pint (1 cup) golden syrup
1 gill (1/2 cup) water
2 heaping teaspoonfuls baking soda
1/2 lb. (2 cups) shelled peanuts
1 lb. (2 cups) sugar
1 oz. (2 tablespoonfuls) butter
1 teaspoonful glucose
Cook the syrup, sugar, water, and glucose until it commences to thicken and bubble; then add the butter and peanuts and stir constantly until the nuts begin to brown. Remove from the fire, beat in the lemon extract and the soda, and stir through quickly until it foams up.
Pour out on a well-greased slab and roll out very thin. Then break into pieces.
Wonderful...

From the big book of Bon Bon Recipes.

Candy Recipes

Special Sweets: Pure Fun Confections Organic Cotton Candy "Pure Fun (tm) Confections Organic Cotton Candy & Candy Canes: Better For You Candy, Kosher, Vegan & Fair Trade" -- CAPSULE REPORT: Launched in October 2005, Toronto-based Pure Fun Confections created a play book for making candy the right way. The small but sweet line of five flavored cotton candies and a candy cane is good for you, made with evaporated organic cane sugar and other organic ingredients. While the products will be beloved by kids and you'll be happy to have something so wholesome to give them, don't dismiss this candy as kid stuff! It works on waffles, in cocktails, and in ways you'd never think to include lesser, "junk" candy. J.D. MULLANE - Bad karma kills my firm handshake I had fun making light of Bill Clinton's handshake when he visited here. Shaking the former president's hand is like grasping a mitt of cotton candy.Comment Cotton prices steady on moderate demand by spinners Cotton prices remained steady on moderate spinners' demand, traders at the East India Cotton Exchange today said. Following were the spot new cotton rates per candy in Rupees: Bengal Desi: ... Cotton Candy Machine Maker Full Size Cart NEW buySAFE Guaranteed - PESA Merchant - Platinum PS Cotton Candy Machine Maker Full Size Cart NEW   DescriptionCotton Candy Machine Full Size for Home, Organization, or BusinessBrand New UnopenedM.S.R.P. $ 599.99"Old Fashioned Carnival Cotton Candy Cart" resembles the early 1900's carnival and circus style cotton candy carts. Great for fami MOONWALKS & COTTON CANDY M MOONWALKS & COTTON CANDY MACHINES Two MOONWALKS with accessories. 15x25ft. 2years old. (Used 6times). EXCELLENT CONDITION. $2,000/obo. Two COTTON CANDY MACHINES. 1 BRAND NEW (Never used) with accessories! $600/for both. 386-473-6581. Making Healthy Life Choices At The Candy Store This article is about making healthy life choices, which include selecting sugarless candy and chocolate when you have a sweet tooth or craving.

Would you like to receive a delicious candy recipe each week? Sometimes we send several recipes so you have a choice.

Just leave your name and email address below.

Your information is safe. We will ask you to verify your email address before we send you anything.

And we don't share the information with anyone else.

Thanks - Enjoy