Another sign of the season would be all these wonderful craft and holiday festivals! They are such a great excuse to get out of the house on the weekends! My first festival was this past weekend at Standley Lake High School in Westminster. Now, I would have announced this earlier but I barely had time to get myself together in time for opening day! You should just be happy that I managed to show up with my hair washed and my clothes intact! Boy was I a hot mess last week! Another reason for my madness was setting up at the Cherry Creek Mall. We will be showcased for the next 2 months so you can stock up on all your holiday goodies! We will be located in the store across from Neiman Marcus so check it out folks!

So…I am here to finally update my favorite honey lovers on this weekends holiday show. Come visit me at the Highlands Ranch High School on Sat 10:00-5:00 and Sun from 11:00-4:00. There will be lots of food, crafts, fudge, holiday decor, fudge, kettle corn, jewelry, gift ideas, fudge and your favorite honey girl! You can come bring me some fudge if you want!! I won’t mind!

I will also be at The Ranch on the 20th and 21st which is located at the Budweiser event center in Loveland. I’m sure there will be fudge there too! So all in all you have no excuse to not stock up on your favorite Beeyond the Hive products! We will also be debuting Jamie’s newest candles! They are awesome and I am kinda tempted to hoard them all for myself…but I won’t! I hope to see you over the next couple of weekends! I love hugs, fudge and honey so come on by:)

Here is more info if you need it! http://applewoodartsandcrafts.com/

Yep, a little honey love makes the world go round!

 This is one of our most favorite customers “Crazy Elaine”.  We affectionately call her “Crazy Elaine” because she is crazy about our beeswax lotion.  So much in fact, she comes to the same festival EVERY YEAR just to see us & stock up on her favorite lotions.  We love Elaine so, so much & her enthusiasm & positive energy alone is worth the trip to Crested Butte every year.
 
This girl was the cutest “hustla” I’d seen in awhile.  She loved honey, but didn’t have any money so, to use her words she offered to “walk my puppy for a pounder.”  How could I deny such a cutie pie?

 
These lovely ladies were lovin’ the beeswax candles.
 
And this is my Mama supporting her favorite daughter (sorry Jacy, but you had to find out sooner or later).
 

All in all, it was a fabulous festival & I can’t wait to do it all again next year.
 
I’ll even bring my puppy back just in case the cutie pie hustla comes back.  I fully support young entrepreneurs!

Here is my new fryer! I decided to get a “cheaper” one until I know how to use this sucker! It worked perfectly and it really is a “cool daddy”! 

 These are the ingredients. This is all you need to get a little closer to yummy goodness!

1 can of corn……….1 egg……….milk……….1-1/2 cups flour…….2 tsp baking powder……….3/4 tsp salt 

Step 1) Drain 1 can of corn and put into a measuring cup. You see 2 cans in the picture above but that was my “backup” can in case I messed anything up!

Step 2) Add enough milk to make a cup. Well…my corn surpassed the 1cup mark so I just added enough milk to reach the top of the corn. Just add some milk now and you will see that I added more later!

Step 3) Sift together 1-1/2  cups of flour, 2 tsp baking powder, and 3/4 tsp salt.

 Step 4) Beat the egg…beat it like you mean it!

 Step 5) Combine beaten egg to the milk and corn mixture.

Step 6) Add to dry ingredients and stir until moistened.

This is when I noticed that I didn’t have enough milk to create a creamy batter.

So add more milk to make your batter look this this!

Not too runny and not too thick. Almost like a pancake batter!

Step 7) Deep fry time! Just spoon some batter into your deep fryer. I was a little nervous at this point because I didn’t know how much to put in or if the batter would even hold together! Just play around with it but it was easier than I thought! If I can do it you can too!

You want these lil fritters to fry until they are a deep golden color. The first couple of fritters I fried weren’t completely done in the middle so I made sure they were nice and crispy!

Once they are all crispy place on a plate with a paper towl so any excess oil can drain. Don’t these look yummy! 

Now…you are probably wondering what this has to do with honey…well, it may sound weird but you put honey on top just like a biscuit! I think I ate so many before dinner that I was completely full! I love me some corn fritters and I think you will too!

This is perfect for the fall and the boys will love em too! It is so easy and I’m glad I gave it a try!

Anyhow, back to my story. I’m not sure if any one else goes through this but when there is a change in seasons I always have to start a new project! Well, this season has brought me to creating the most perfect lip balm! Call it what you want…I prefer lippy lip…but I am itching to work on some good recipes for your chapped lips!  Here in Colorado the cold air brings dryness to my skin and lips. A girl can’t put enough lotion on and I find myself putting on chap stick every second of the day. I can’t leave home without some sort of lippy lip. I can never settle on a “go to” lip balm so I constantly buy new ones trying to find my perfect lip-mate! We found the perfect lotion recipe (click here to try it)  but now we just have to come up with a great lippy lip/ lip balm/ chap stick!

Can you believe that ALL of these lip tubes were found either in my truck or my purse? Can you imagine what it would look like if I roamed around the house? Looked in other purses and or bags I might have? Stay tuned…I might just spend my Friday night looking for every tube of chap stick I own! Now don’t get me wrong. I kinda like some of these lip concoctions. They go on my lips nicely and look quite pleasant afterwards…at least I think so. But they all leave my wonderful, kissable, luscious lips feeling even more dry and cracked than when I started! I am determined to solve this world crisis! It’s an epidemic really! Here at Beeyond the Hive we are out to provide solutions to this worlds toughest dilemmas! BTH wants to answer the tough questions…20/20 style!

Well I guess I have my friday night all scheduled out! First I will tune into MSNBC to watch my favorite show Lockup, look for all my lippy lip I have purchased within the last 28 years, give my manmeat a quick update on my madness, hang out with my in-laws, and start concocting some lip balm recipes! I’m kinda wild can’t you tell? I’m gonna do it! You just watch and see!

For a limited time our 3lb Clover Alfalfa honey will be on sale! Get it while supplies last! 

Regular: $9.25       Sale: $7.00

Price will be discounted in your shopping cart! Enjoy!

Click here to take advantage of this sale:)

 My favorite produce stand in that area is Knapps Farm Market which is located on the corner of US 50 and Highway 71 just west of Rocky Ford. The Knapps family have been selling our honey for many many many years! Ever since I could remember I was making deliveries in the summer time to stock their shelves and to take home as much produce that I could! They are family owned and operated and I love how you can always spot a few of the family members working each and every summer! The Knapps Market is also known for their variety in produce. They offer homegrown okra, eggplant, numberous varieties of cucumbers and pickles, tomatoes, honeydew, watermelon, cantaloupe, sweet corn and several other tidbits of produce…including Beeyond the Hive products!

Ohhh how I love these sweet sweet melons!

 And these too! I’ll take them all!

I bought some of these…cut them, threw them in a pan with honey and my in-laws now love me a little bit more!

They are open daily from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. If you are in the area you better stock up before they close in October! Remember to not only support your favorite beekeepers (us of course!) but also your local farmers! We need you…really! We can’t do this without you! We work oh so hard to feed you so get your cute lil hiney over to your nearest produce stand! Oh…and if they don’t have Beeyond the Hive honey you should kindly request it:) We won’t mind! We love our devoted customers!