Peppermint Mandala

Katie W. requested a peppermint mandala after the peppermint printables the other day. I hope she likes this one. TG likes it quite a bit.

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Lots more mandalas to color

Peppermint Printables!

I could probably modify the recipe above into a good jar gift for people like the Turnip Girl (also known as Dea occasionally) who look forward to this time of year just for all the places that have peppermint chocolate things. More about that in a minute. First, a printable peppermint themed gift box, and some blank printable cards you can use as recipe cards, gift tags or just as very festive note cards!
Click on the images for the larger version, print on card stock. For the box, cut, score, fold, glue. For the cards, cut them apart using the crop marks as guides.
More peppermint printables

The Turnip Girl has peppermint in common with her great-grandma. Grandma always had peppermint candies on hand. TG may be 17, but peppermint chocolate love goes back years for her. As far as cocoa goes, she loves the stuff, but only drinks instant very occasionally. She has a definite preference for homemade. She also always wants to whip the cream for it herself. She'd rather I make the cocoa, but whipped cream is her domain. She uses either a whisk or an old-fashioned hand operated egg beater. We have a stand mixer, and it gets used only very rarely. She suggests adding in the sugar and peppermint near the end, that way, if you accidentally break the cream, you have a good plain butter that just needs to be washed and have salt added.  In the winter, she chills her bowl and whisk by putting them out on the porch for a few minutes. BRR!
She requested more peppermint printables after seeing 1D on a peppermint stage recently on TV. She's not a 1D fan really. She kind of likes their music, but she loved that peppermint stage.

Beaded ornament and matching paper box

You can find instructions for the ornament here. The paper version is something I made up to make it easier to understand how the ornament goes together, but it would also make a good favor box I think. To make it, print out the template on paper or card stock, and glue the blank tab inside the other side of the box. Then tape down the tabs to close it. I lined up the lines so that it will all line up right if you tape them on the outside. I used paper for the version above and didn't score or fold the lines. 

Print at 100 ppi. Click the images for the larger versions.

The blank version is for you to decorate, I think it would be great filled with candy as a place card!

Peppermint Twist Box

I actually have a couple peppermint twist boxes up on my printables page, the first one is a 2x2 box, the second is a tea box made for holding tea bags, and the third is an earring box.
This is just a standard 3x3x1 inch box.
I was thinking about doing some bag toppers with a similar design for putting peppermint hot cocoa mix in.
Click on the image for the full sized version. I hope you like it!
I also think I want to do more tea bag boxes. They are some of my favorites and my daughter has taken to drinking a lot of herbal infusions lately.
She tested out one of the shortbread recipes I'm working on for a new e-book and accidentally melted the butter. It wound up being different than my usual flaky light shortbread. Smoother and less flaky, it baked up thinner as well. Tasted great, it was just different. Not better, not worse, just different.