Countdown to Halloween: Lily's Candy Stash

Lily here.  I promise promise promise I didn't do anything to the candy.  Really.  I swear.  None of the candy went anywhere near my potions lab.  The owl can vouch for me.  It's been keeping a very close eye on all the goodies, and there are an awful lot of goodies.

We've got four major groups of candy right now:  the penny candy, the chocolate, the candy boxes, and the candy bars.

First off, the penny candy.  The jars came from Joann's, and are perfect for penny candy at a store.  The candy itself is actually oblong glass beads wrapped in paper.  They're maybe 1/2" long and a 1/4" in diameter.

We've got 4 sorts of bubble gum, tootsie rolls, and 5 flavors of fruit chews.  Gorgeous candy, but not the best to find in your trick-or-treat bag.

The chocolate is a much better haul.  We've got Hershey's (with a wrapper from 1908), Nestle Crunch (the wrapper dates to the 1950s), Kit Kat bars (1960s wrapper), and a pile of Hershey's mini chocolates in 4 varieties.

These are all made from rectangles of craft foam, first wrapped in a scrap of aluminum foil and then wrapped in the paper wrapper.  The little pumpkin gift box is the freebie for the day.  It's another Canon Creative papercraft design, shrunk down to doll size.  It holds quite a bit of candy too!

Pumpkin Gift Box

Instructions from the Canon Creative site

Next up:  a very large assortment of vintage candy boxes.  There's 25 designs in all, all sized to fit in a doll's hand.  They're all stuffed with seed beads to make a lovely rattling noise when you shake them and give them a realistic weight.

Do we have enough varieties?  I think we need more than 25 types of candy, don't you?  I really want some Atomic Fireballs.  Are we missing your favorite old-fashioned candy?  Let us know so we can remedy that oversight.

And finally, the chocolate bars.  The full size ones that you really want inside your trick-or-treat bucket.  The good stuff.  These are made from craft foam with a paper wrapper.

We went all vintage with these candy bars.  All the wrappers are from the 1930s and 1940s, depending on when the candy first came into production.  The human ended up doing quite a bit of research when she was looking for the vintage wrappers.

Did you know that the 'Three Musketeers' candy bar used to actually be 3 tiny candy bars in the same wrapper?  The three flavors were strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate, but during World War 2 and rationing, they cut the strawberry and vanilla bars and just left the chocolate one we still have today.

Eventually, eventually we will convince the human to make us Reese's peanut butter cups...maybe for Christmas...