visions of sugarplums

I saw this in a Mary Engelbright book years ago, although I can't remember which one. Fast and sweet. Of course there's no way to use the whole bag of gumdrops, so there's plenty of extras to taste test. But be sure to keep them up high; they are very appealing to small dogs and humans.

P.S. Thank you so much for all of the sweet comments yesterday. I will make sure my mom sees every one.

Posted by Alicia on December 12, 2006 07:50 AM | Permalink

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One Christmas Eve when I was about 6 we returned from church to find the dog had knocked over the Christmas tree to eat some gingerbread men that were decorating it. I think he ate the tinsel too.

Posted by: Mama Urchin | December 12, 2006 08:26 AM

oh i love this idea. (we would have the small human problem here too!)

Posted by: tracy | December 12, 2006 09:07 AM

darwin keeps taking off our candy canes and walking around the house saying, "candy bars? candy canes? candy bars? candy canes?" and if you don't get to him soon enough, he starts eating them *with* the plastic.

Posted by: capello | December 12, 2006 09:30 AM

Cute idea! I had to chuckle at the "small dogs and humans" part. This is why we don't have candy canes on our tree.

Posted by: beki | December 12, 2006 10:39 AM

Very sweet. I'm pretty sure our golden retriever would knock over the tree trying to eat those little sweet treats.

Posted by: sally | December 12, 2006 10:51 AM

small dogs and humans! yeah - i would have a hard time walking past that tree without pilfering a few myself.

Posted by: erin | December 12, 2006 03:04 PM

So cute! Yes, those would have to stay at the top of the tree around here (along with all the other ornaments, at this point).

Posted by: amy h | December 12, 2006 04:44 PM

cute !!

Posted by: diana | December 12, 2006 05:40 PM

that is very cute. i have never seen that before.