Wholesale Lollipops

Would our scrumptious lollipops and beautiful packaging complement your shop? Interested in whether or not we sell wholesale? Yes, we do sell wholesale! If you're interested in our wholesale prices, please contact us at thischarmingcandy@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you!

Photo by Jessie Oleson, also known as Cakespy. These are our lollipops in her cute cupcake librarian mug in her gallery on Capitol Hill.

What We're Listening To This Week

Susan:

I listen to a lot of peppy and upbeat music when I’m in the commercial kitchen. The next day, I’m often craving something really different; this week I turned to the ambient instrumental rock of This Will Destroy You. I realize I’m about to sound like a jackass and/or a phony music critic, but seriously: these are broody and romantic journeys of EPIC SOUND. Perfect whether it’s a rainy night or a mellow morning with a gorgeous cup of tea.

Kate:

I've been on a Holly Cole kick this week. It's smoky vocal jazz, perfect for listening to in the car at night or on a rainy day. It's lovely sunny-and-70s California weather this week, but the smokiness makes me wish it were going to rain sometime soon. The first of her albums that I ever heard was Dark, Dear Heart and that one's still special to me, but they're all good. Her version of Little Boy Blue always makes me smile.

How about you? What are you listening to this week?

Delicious Things We Didn’t Make

This past weekend I had a small window of time in which to check out Seattle’s newest outdoor craft marketplace, The Seattle Square at Occidental Park. It combines vintage and craft vendors, a live DJ, and – best of all? – mobile food trucks, yay!

I’d actually had a big breakfast that morning, so unfortunately I wasn’t as able to go nuts as I would have wanted. I also needed my food to be portable because I didn’t have much time to spend down there. So, I had to make the tough call to skip out on ice cream from Parfait and got cookies to-go from Street Treats.

Dang, those were good cookies! I can be something of a traditionalist when it comes to cookies so I had to get a chocolate chip cookie as kind of a litmus test. Hooray! it tasted great, it was soft but not mushy, and was crisp without being dry. Even better was the berry bar-cookie. The berry layer was sweet and gooey, the cookie itself was nutty and crisp.

My only regret? I didn’t decide to add a coconut brownie or lime poppyseed cookie to my order. On the bright side, it gives me an excuse to stalk the truck on an ongoing basis…

Sign o’ The Times

After Urban Craft Uprising last month, we wrote a little post about how much fun we had at the show and while working together all week. That post had a picture of us and our booth. I want to call everyone’s attention to the INSANELY AWESOME BANNER behind us:

Here it is again, before we got all the candy out on display:

Boy, it really helped define our space and draw people’s attention! Serious praise must be heaped down on several folks for helping us make this happen:

• Justine Kamionsky, as usual, for the amazing branding and visual design. The lollipop garden along the bottom of the banner makes me SQUEEE like mad.
• Acclaim Sign & Display in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. We found them to be incredibly helpful and knowledgeable when we were researching our options and shopping around. The finished product speaks for itself – the banner is gorgeous, obviously, and very high quality that delivered on all our specifications.
• Moxie, one of UCU’s organizers, gets a standing ovation for helping us figure out a way to get the banner to stay upright (an important feature) when our original solution failed.

I can’t wait to set it up again! I’m strongly considering leaving it up in the house all year round :-)

Strange and Unusual Lollipops

Yes, those are ants in that lollipop from China. They're in there on purpose - they "supposedly have a spicy peppery taste similar to chili peppers."

This is from a story last summer on Food Network Humor, that we somehow just found out about. We like unusual flavors, but some of these are too far out there, even for us.

Curiously Awesome

One of our friends posted a link to this 5 pound gummy bear on Facebook the other day. The website's tag line is "purveyors of curiously awesome products" and I have to agree on both the curious and awesome parts of that description.