Monday, December 4, 2017

OOAK is Done and Etsy shop is back open!



Thank you to everyone that made the one of a kind show so wonderful on our 5th year! Thank you to all the wonderful new and old friends I got to make at the show. 

I also wanted to let you all know that my etsy shop is back open until the 15th so I hope you can get your orders in before that. My shop will be closed over the holidays and reopen on Jan. 2nd. Please take note of the shipping deadlines!
Canada Post Shipping deadlines:

★Within Canada DEC. 11, 
★USA DEC. 9, 
★EVERYWHERE ELSE : DEC. 8 
Past this date I can't garantee your item will get to you in time. Or pick faster shipping. 

Sunday, November 19, 2017

Discounts and Where to find me at the OOAK


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Its been crazy getting ready for the show! Want to see me craft as I get ready for the show follow me on Twitch

Sunday, November 12, 2017

GIVEAWAY! OOAK Show Tickets and Miniature Peppermint Earrings




Its that time of year again! I can't believe one of a kind is almost here! Please keep in mind that this giveaway is only open to anyone that lives in or around Toronto. Or anyone that will be in Toronto between Nov. 23rd to Dec. 3rd. I hope you will take part in the giveaway, and good luck to everyone that takes part.

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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Now on Twitch Creative!

Hi Sweets~ I now have twitch where you can watch me craft live, chat, be part of the community and more! I can't tell you how much I am enjoying myself on this platform. The community here is unlike any other. The support from other creators and more. I love how its a lot more interactive, also that you can support the creators you love most right on the platform is super wonderful too! I have many things in store for my community giveaways and more, so I hope you will follow me. Thank you for the ongoing support!

You can follow me here! 

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Episode 10 - Happy Thanksgiving




Welcome back to our 10th podcast. Happy Thanksgiving! We wanted to do a special podcast for everyone since its Thanksgiving in Canada right now. We wanted to talk about food, prep and what we eat while seeing family. Also how to deal with them eating meat.
Come back for our next podcast where we discuss more about health, how society is impacting it, and more vegan news!
Links in this podcast:
Roast: www.isachandra.com/2011/11/seitan-…akes-and-leeks/
Happy Herbivore Cook Book: www.isachandra.com/2011/11/seitan-…akes-and-leeks/
Candle cook book: www.amazon.ca/Vegan-Holiday-Cook…e+holiday+cookbook
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You can listen to our podcast directly on our website or you can listen and subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher! Also, if you like what you hear, please rate it on iTunes and Stitcher, and don’t forget to leave us a friendly comment!
♪Opening Theme ♪ By Jeffrey Ware (my twin brother :D) You can message to him if you need any work done. www.facebook.com/jeffware87

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Episode 09- VegFest 2017




Welcome back to our 9th podcast. Come along with us as we talk about Toronto Vegfest 2017. Vecado: Plant Based Pet Foods, and Sea Shepherd. Throw in some dashes of Toronto Based Vegan restaurants we love, and you need to try out. Chris mentions a super strong Vegan Weightlifter, Clarence Kennedy. Plus lots more during this fun episode.
Come back for our next podcast where we discuss more about health, how society is impacting it, and more vegan news!
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You can listen to our podcast directly on our website or you can listen and subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher! Also, if you like what you hear, please rate it on iTunes and Stitcher, and don’t forget to leave us a friendly comment!
♪Opening Theme ♪ By Jeffrey Ware (my twin brother :D) You can message to him if you need any work done. www.facebook.com/jeffware87

Friday, October 6, 2017

Patreon Updates!

Hi Sweets, I just wanted to send a quick little message to everyone to let you know that I have updated the rewards, raffles and giveaways on my Patreon page. I really do hope you will take a look and think about joining the Sweets Club! Thanks so much for your ongoing support. Talk soon.


Wednesday, October 4, 2017

CandiWare Now On Twitch!

Hey sweets!
How was your weekend? I have been having soo much fun chatting live on twitch! I even have my own CandiWare emojis just for my chat page. If your into live chats or streaming. I really hope that you will come and follow me on Twitch. I can't wait to talk to you all there! As for now I will be posting every Friday night, its a Crafty Chat night. See you there!


Sunday, October 1, 2017

One Of A Kind Coupon Code



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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Etsy Made In Canada Toronto Show


Thank you to everyone that made MIC a wonderful successes! I had a wonderful day and it was so wonderful to meet new friends and see old ones. I can't wait to see you all at OOAK very soon.




Thursday, September 21, 2017

Etdy Made In Canada


Hi everyone! I just wanted to give you a quick update that I will be hosting my work at this years MIC show. I am also an organizer so I helped with workshops and volunteers! So happy to be able to help. So if your around I would love to see you. Please come by and say hi to myself or Chris. See you then with new stock, and display too! Find out all you need to know about the big day here. 

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Episode 08-Potato Diet for weight loss, Vegan Ice Cream in the UK



Welcome back to our 8th podcast. Come along with us as we talk about Penn Jillette's weight loss, Ben and Jarry's vegan ice cream in the UK. Chris talks about working through injuries in the weightlifting section, and we finish off talking about oil and what that can do to the skin.
Come back for our next podcast where we discuss more about health, how society is impacting it, and more vegan news!
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You can listen to our podcast directly on our website or you can listen and subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher! Also, if you like what you hear, please rate it on iTunes and Stitcher, and don’t forget to leave us a friendly comment!
♪Opening Theme ♪ By Jeffrey Ware (my twin brother :D) You can message to him if you need any work done. www.facebook.com/jeffware87

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Simple Italian Dressing


This is a quick and easy Italian dressing that's also oil free! Sometimes I need something more then just vinegar so this is my go to dressing. I hope you enjoy it

Ingredients:
  • 1 cup low-sodium vegetable stock or use my recipe to make your own.
  • 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
  • 1 tbsp dijon mustard
  • 1 1/2 tsp agava 
  • 1 clove or garlic
  • 1 tsp Italian seasoning
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp pepper
  • 1/4 tsp paprika
  • 1 tsp to 1 tbsp xanthan gum

Steps:


  1. Place all ingredients in a blender blend on high for 10 seconds.
  2. Add more xanthan gum ass needed add slowly. This is what makes the dressing more thick. 

Etsy Sale Labor Day



Etsy just launched something new on there website. You can now list your full shop on sale! They have an event for #LaborDayWeekend So I wanted to take part in the SALE 15% off my whole shop! This sale is only for 5 days so enjoy it. Last day of the sale is Sep. 4th!  Talk to you all very soon.

CandiWare Shop

Whats your fav. item in my shop? I would love to know. What items would to like to see more of?


Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Foodie Enamel Pins


I start this process by coming up with the drawing of my CandiWare designs.
Then I sent them in to a company in Niagara falls.
There was a little back and forth about size of the pins also the colours and how much they would cost.
I then finalized my designs and sent them in to be made.
While I was waiting for them, I made a simple but very much so in my company themed CandiWare card backing for the pins.
They just came in the mail and I couldn't wait to take photos of them and also add the backing. 
I am so happy with how they came out. 
Find more about how I make my pins and a full video about them here. 
♥You can also find them for sale in my Etsy Shop!








Sunday, August 27, 2017

How To Keep Clay Clean



Hi Sweets~ This was a requested video, I hope you lean a lot on how to keep your clay dry and clear of dust. These are my absolute methods for cleaning unbaked polmyer clay or cold porcelain. Let me know what tip was most helpful or that you like the most! Happy tip of the month! Let me know if you have any other tips of the months you would like me to work on. Find the full video here!


Don't forget to subscribe! 
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Doughnut DIY KIT || Polymer Clay Tutorial



I have a new kit out! I really hope you enjoy this new video and kit that goes with it.
This is my 2nd DIY miniatures kit. The first being my Cupcake kit. It did so well at last years OOAK show that I thought it was time to make a new one. Please let me know what you think.

Find the video here.
Find the kit here.

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Patreon Day 2!



I just uploaded a new video that went live where I talk more about why I am starting a Patreon and what you would get out of it. I would really love feedback. So if there is a level I should have and don't. Or a better reward then please let me know. Leave a comment under this video. Thanks everyone.


Sunday, August 20, 2017

Patreon Launch Day!

                           



Hey friends, I've got some awesome news! I just joined Patreon! In case your wondering, Patreon is a simple way for you to contribute to my tutorials, and get great rewards in return. % off my etsy shop, live chats and a lot more. Go checkout my page! Please let me know what you think, I would love input into my page! Hope your having a wonderful day!









Saturday, August 19, 2017

Vegan Gluten Free Prune Cake


This is a simple recipe for everyone that wants to enjoy something yummy and cake like! This was such a hit with vegans and non vegans. I just know everyone in your family will love it too! BTW you can sub prunes for apple sauce. You need one of these items for its pectin content.

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups rice flour
  • 1/4 cup tapioca starch
  • 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • 1 cup pitted prunes
  • 1 cup water for the prunes
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 cup nut milk of your choice
  • 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 3 tbsp ground flax + 9 tbsp or about 1/2 cups water
  • Low Sugar Strawberry Jam mine is homemade! (optional) 

Steps:

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  2. Grease bundt pan and set aside.
  3. In a small pan boil several cups of water. Remove from heat and 1 cup water to prunes. Let soak for 15- 20 minutes or until prunes have softened. Add prunes plus the water into a vitamix or blender. Set aside.
  4. Combine the flax with warm water. Set aside. 
  5. Mix 1 cup nut milk with the apple cider vinegar also set aside.
  6. Combine rice flour, tapioca starch, xanthan gum, sugar, cinnamon, cloves, salt, and baking soda.
  7. In a bowl combine the flax and milk mixtures.
  8. Slowly add flour mixture to wet mixture and stir just until combined.
  9. Stir in prunes.
  10. Optional step add some strawberry jam to the bottom of the bundt pan.
  11. Next spread batter into bundt pan.
  12. Bake for 70-75  minutes. Check cake at one hour and bake additional time if needed or until cake starts to pull slightly away from the pan. This cake is very dense and moist so the toothpick test is hard to do on this one.
  13. Let cake cool in pan for 10 minutes than remove from pan to cool on wire rack.
  14. Also optional add some icing sugar mixed with lemon juice on top.
Veganized this recipe from Lynns Kitchen

Monday, July 24, 2017

Good Bye To Shopify

Hello everyone,

I wanted to talk about having a shopify, and also why I no longer have one. First I would like to say that I thought it was pretty good. It took me all of family day to get my shop up and running. I had my shop open till last month. Now lets get into what I thought of there platform.

If you have a very strong following and lots of  sales its wonderful, of course right? Well that wasn't the case for me. I guess I have been pushing my etsy shop for 9 years, that I was finding a bit of a struggle to get buyers to jump ship. I did find that if I did have a sale that the buyer did buy more then one item. The many programs on there website do encourage buyers to invest more into your line. There shipping page and getting your clients to become part of newsletters was a lot easier too.

At the end of the day the lack of sales and the high price for there serves was far to much to keep my brand on there platform. I do know it works for many sellers but as of right now I am not one of them. I guess I'm an etsy girl to the better end!

Please let me know if you would like a more in depth look at both etsy and shopify. I want to help out my fellow artist/ sellers out there. Do you use one of these platforms or one of the other eCommerce sites out there? I would love to know what you use.

Sunday, July 23, 2017

Episode 07, Canada Food Guide, Eating Clean Is Useless, Ont. Food Truck




Welcome back to our 7th podcast. We've had a bit of a break due to technical difficulties, but we're happy to be back for this episode! Come along with us as we talk about questionable, yet thoughtful articles about health, the new Canadian Food Guide, and Vegan Food Trucks in Huntsville. I talk about my new max lifts in the weightlifting section, and we finish off talking about seeing loved ones eating poorly and the frustrations it brings.
Come back for our next podcast where we discuss more about health, how society is impacting it, and more vegan news!
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You can listen to our podcast directly on our website or you can listen and subscribe on iTunes or Stitcher! Also, if you like what you hear, please rate it on iTunes and Stitcher, and don’t forget to leave us a friendly comment!
♪Opening Theme ♪ By Jeffrey Ware (my twin brother :D) You can message to him if you need any work done. www.facebook.com/jeffware87

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Vegetable Scraps Broth



Ingredients
A full freezer bag of left over vegetable clippings that you would just toss away.
Things not to add would be starch items like potatoes of any kind. Everything else is welcome!
Skins, clippings, peals, the list can go on and on. If you are unsure of if you can add an item just message me.

1/2 tsp of what ever kinds of spices you wanna add.
So
paprika
salt
rosemary
turmeric
thyme
basil
anything else you want

Steps

Add the vegetable scraps and 8 cups of water to your pressure cooker* add the spices then add on your lid and let the pot come to pressure. Once it does turn it to low and let it simmer for about 25 min. Once its done you can release pressure or like I do just turn the heat off and let the pot come back down from pressure on its own. Once you can take the lid off add all the veg to a straner to try and get all the broth out. Let that cool. Once cool you can add to zip lock bags like I do or even add it to ice cube trays if you want little cubes of broth. 

I love making my broth, saves me money, homemade, and is never the same twice since you may not have the same craps all the time. I hope you try this out yourself. If you do please let me know what you think.

* If you don't have a pressure cooker you are more then welcome to try it in a normal pot just keep in mind that it will take more time at least an hour to cook your veg.
Enjoy!


Thursday, March 16, 2017

Reno In The Works




Like I sad in the last blog. Chris and I are in the early stages of doing a full reno on our house. I find it kind of funny when I tell people, what we plan on doing. The first thing they say back is: "OMG thats a gut job!"... Ya I know, when I say reno I mean it! I guess they just didn't think it was going to be that big of a job. Anyways our homework the other week, was to take the drawing of what our place looks like now, and go over them with what we want our space to look like. I am super happy with what we came up with. We will be sitting down with our architect next week to flush out the plans a bit more. From there we will be sending this to committee, which is pretty much the city looking over the plans and what they have to say. That process is a 5 min meeting. But once you book your meeting it can be a year long wait for them to look at your plans. This is why we are happy we started working on our house plans this early. Hope to have more news for you soon. I am also vlogging our plans so once our house is done I will post a youtube video! Cool Right?

In other news I had my first big sale on my new Shopify shop! I am so happy about this. I am also working on knitting a infinity scarf I am very new to knitting. I am also working on a project bag for my knitting. I will post those up next week. I hope you will come back for that update!

Talk to you next week!

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Blogging Again!



Its been a bit since I have talked about how I am doing. I am feeling like this might be a good time to try and do a blog a week talk about life things/ whats new. As you all know I have been working very hard on my shopify website.

About my shopify. I am working though a how to build your brand/ sales workshop. One of the challenges is building a website outside of Etsy. This is so that you can have more control of your website and also to get more analytics. I have always been of the mind of sending your buyers to one place. So setting up a new shop outside of Etsy, which I have been part of for 9 years, is hard for me. I jumped in with both feet and over the feb. long weekend, I worked the hole weekend to get my new shop up and running. So far I have only had one sale. I say its a start! I'm going to try it for a few months and see how it goes. I'm almost done the challenge workshop so we will see how it goes.

I also started a new job in animation that I had never done before, at the start of the year. I was getting a lot of anxiety and stress, at the start. I felt like I was doing everything wrong. I think this was because my pas job, I was there for 5 years. You just get used to old ways. Where as at my new job I felt like I was tossed into the deep end and didn't know how to swim. Now it has been 2 months and I feel that things are coming together. I'm super happy about that.

In other news: I have my jewelry in a small shop in Toronto called Old's Cool General Store , The Toronto Etsy Street Team I am part of has a gallery space for the next year. Also Chris and I are in the early stages of doing a major reno to our house. More to come on these topics later!

Talk to you all soon.

Monday, February 20, 2017

Grand Opening Sale

I am so happy to let you all know that I have a new home for CandiWare! I have just made my own website for you to find all my minis.

If your wondering whats going to happen to my Etsy don't worry I am still keeping that open. I just wanted a new place that I could customize more. Now I can run things like loyalty programs, better discounts and coupons.

I would love to know what you think. I have been very hard at work for the weekend. Sale runs for a week so I hope you will take advantage of the sale.

Thank you for the ongoing support, you really mean the world to me!

Saturday, February 11, 2017

Our 6th Plant Basted Podcast, Vegan



Welcome back to our 6th podcast. We're back after a long break, and couldn't be happier to continue to share our Vegan lifestyle with you. On this episode we talk about our 3rd trip to Doomie's, and indulging in the delicious food and drinks there. Nutriton Facts new video on viruses found in milk, and Dr. Klapper's new video on the milk industry. Tennis Star Venus Williams has gone Vegan, and we let you know how she did at the Australian Open. Chris is back in the gym and lifting. Hope you enjoy. Come back in 2 weeks for our next podcast!
Links to the new articles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mf7KtDquyM
Find our vegan recipes here: www.candiware.com/p/vegan-recipes.html
Watch me make dinner every night on snapchat: www.snapchat.com/add/candiware
Or Pariscope: www.periscope.tv/CandiWare/
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