Flying fruitcakes

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 24, 2009
We flew from San Francisco to Washington, DC today.  The flight went smoothly, and I slept through about half the flight, spending the other half knitting the toe of a sock and reading through wedding ceremony suggestions.  Now I’m in Maryland, visiting my dad.  I just finished wrapping Christmas presents for my family! including three [...]
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OK, back to work!

By Tien Chiu | Published: December 1, 2009
Sunday I invited several friends over for a chocolate-packing party.  Six of us took four hours to pack the chocolates into candy cups, the candy cups into boxes, the boxes into postal shipping boxes.  In total there were 70 boxes, but only 56 of them were slated for mailing; the vultures chocolate packing friends took [...]
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Presenting the 2009 fall collection

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 29, 2009
For your viewing pleasure: I still have a lot of prep work to do before the packing crew arrives, so I won’t write more right now – gotta run and get these inserts printed!!
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Hard choices

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 28, 2009
I got up this morning and did some experimental packing.  It turns out that, by stacking the candied ginger and dried apricots on top of each other, stacking the citrus peels, and issuing miracle prayers to the chocolate-packing gods, I can actually fit 33 items into the box.  I currently have 25 items finished, with [...]
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Nine down, twelve to go.

By Tien Chiu | Published: November 27, 2009
I made chocolates for 13 hours today, with a 3-hour break at lunchtime to help Blossom break down his AVL loom for his move to Oregon.  I prepped eight more flavors of centers, and dipped four or five of the previously prepped centers, bringing my total to 21 flavors of chocolate bonbon, nine completed and [...]
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