MERRY CHRISTMAS

Thanks to everyone who has visited our blog this year, we hope you have enjoyed it.  In January we will continue to share interesting and fun things with you about our favorite little friends.  Please continue to join us throughout the year for more info, recipes, pictures, links and what-nots.

New Recipes!

Check our Recipe page for these two new yummy treats.

                                 
 Nut & Honey                      Holiday Honey
 Topping                                      Caramels        

Gift Giving Ideas

 A Honey Gift Bag or Basket makes a great gift.  They are fun, practical and creative.  Personalizing them for your family and friends makes them a well remembered, healthy, heartfelt gift. 

You can make them any size with anything in them.  There are a variety of honey and bee related items to make it a bee themed gift.  Try honey soap, honey butter, honey sticks, dippers, honey candy, beeswax candles, different varieties of honey and a card with your favorite honey recipe.  Add an ornament or decoration for Christmas, add chocolate candy for valentines, a baby toy for a new mom, a book for a reader, bible verses for your Sunday school teacher.  Do you know a football fanatic, put honey, salsa and chips together,
the list is endless.

A favorite basket item of our customers is honey with pecans or walnuts.  If you can't find any for sell, just buy the nuts and make your own.  This is good to eat by itself and it's also a great icecream topping.

Beeswax candles are the purist burning of all candles so they are the best for the environment.  Most of the time they are sold as molded (shaped) candles, occasionally you can find them in jars.  Rolled beeswax candles are simply sheets of beeswax with a honeycomb imprint, rolled in different thicknesses and lengths.  These are used mainly for decoration as they burn much faster than a solid candle.

 Don't know what to use for a container?  Gift bags in organza drawstring bags are our best sellers, but you can really use anything.  The basket in the picture below is a simple market basket, lined with seasonal fabric.  Place a rubber band around the edge and tuck the fabric in.  One of my favorite containers to use is an open, small wooden box, antique or not.  Browse an antique store for a decorative glass bowl or a metal container, whatever suits to person receiving it.

More great reasons to give honey are that it is a natural moisturizer and an excellent throat soother.  You can also be sure that it won't be re-gifted.  Check out The National Honey Board for some wonderful honey recipes that you can make to include in your gift baskets or simply enjoy yourself.  They even have a whole section for honey recipes to use as gifts including Holiday Honey Caramels, Ginger-Infused Honey, Honey Turtle Sauce, Honey Spice Oatmeal Cookie Mix, Nut and Honey Topping and Whipped Honey Butter. 

Don't forget about the rest of the year.  A honey gift basket is also appropriate for a housewarming gift, graduations, birthdays, wedding gifts, anniversary, congratulations, get-well wishes and any other occasion you can think off.  They will be appreciated as a lovely, handcrafted gift.

Get National Honey Board - Gift Recipes here.


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