Yesterday was my daughter‘s friend‘s birthday party, so she made a card, and had a request for a chicken jockey from Minecraft, and an ice cream cone with hearts keychain.
We made a keychain out of leather but that’s not featured here because it didn’t come out very well. 
Gotta love a well done simple project. Nice work!
I bet your daughter loved working on it with you!!
Looks great
Happy birthday, daughter!
And that’s a special gift her friend will treasure. Love it!
This is so cute!
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My daughter has fun designing last-minute gifts with me, this was created right before we had to leave for the party.
I remember when I was a kid that I would unwrap presents at a party, though that doesn’t seem to be current etiquette at any of the other kid parties that I’ve attended, so I really don’t know if she liked it or not.
We also made her a giant bag of freeze dried skittles
Which freeze dryer do you have?
Last night we were eating at Culver’s (a local fast food burger joint) and they had limited time desert, Concrete Mixer with Skittles. It was frozen custard mixed with freeze dried Skittles. It was really good.
Harvest right, the medium one
The best freeze dried candy I’ve had so far was caramel m&m’s. They blow up and are so good.
I need to try that, I haven’t tried anything with chocolate because I had read that it doesn’t change much.
I googled a picture of freeze dried m&m’s:
I had to google it because there sure aren’t any left from when I bought them
Who knew home freeze drying was a thing?
Who knew there are still people that didn’t know! 
I have this one too. Love it!
I looked into freeze drying a couple years ago, but couldn’t justify the cost. So I bought a dehydrator instead. 
But why freeze dry candy? Just because it looks cool? (no pun intended! 
) And if freeze drying makes things larger, that doesn’t seem very practical if you’re trying to save storage space.
Tell me you’ve never had freeze dried candy without telling me you’ve never had freeze dried candy
It’s delicious and the texture is fun. As for why it’s so good I suspect it’s because the process of expanding the candy exposes more surface area so the flavor hits you more quickly and intensely.
You’re right about the cost. I don’t want to sling skittles[1] to try to recoup the cost, mostly I’d want it to make freeze dried bananas and other fruits for myself. Trader Joe’s bananas are amazing but they’re kind of expensive. I think the current generation of freeze dryers are too expensive to justify for me.
especially because you can buy them freeze dried directly from Mars. They saw the sources of bootleggers and just decided to sell them and cut out the middleman. It’s a race to the bottom. https://www.skittles.com/freeze-dried — $6 for 5.5 oz. No home makers can beat that. ↩︎
I guess if you want to make light weight camping food without water and save the meal for 25 years it makes sense. We have mainly used it for candy, which makes them crunchy and like a flavour explosion. We will never recover the cost of the machine due to motivation, but it is fun to have.
