He not only says he loves me, he shows it with his actions. He loves my kids. He is sincere. He is kind. He is generous. He genuinely cares about people. He is a great thinker. He can fix anything, even chocolate making equipment that wasn’t engineered properly by the…
Like me, you may have a son or daughter that you just sent off to college for the first time or sent back to school for another year of enlightenment. I remember that those early days and weeks can seem a little……well, overwhelming. Whether you have a homesick freshman…
Is your mouth watering after two nibbles??? I know mine was during the time I spent at Cocoa West. I like to call it market research. It’s my job to develop a broad range of tastes and be aware of what other fabulous chocolates are out there in the market,…
If you have been in our shop or visited our web site, you already know that I love to use color on the chocolates I create. The problem with airbrushing cocoa butter is that, like chocolate itself, it is very finicky. Cocoa butter is that fat that comes from the…
We’re up to our ears in Easter bunnies! They just keep MULTIPLYING!!! Not knowing what else to do, Nancy eats them as fast as she can. HELP!!! Come get a Petit Easter Bunny quickly before Nancy weighs 300 pounds!!!
It’s almost here! You may not be getting ready for the holidays yet, but we most certainly are! We’ve been working like crazy to get ready to share gift ideas and new chocolates we created just for this holiday season. Tomorrow kicks off our three day Holiday Open House. We…
It has been a fun couple of weeks in the SL kitchen! To be completely honest, this is my most favoritest………(No, you won’t find that in the dictionary. I’ve been in a creative mood and sometimes there aren’t words in any of the languages I know that adequately describe my…
This is our friend Sam McIntosh and his super duper amazing smoker rib cooker wagon. (He did not ok this wording, but we hope he won’t mind our description.) The combination of Sam, all the great Pettisville Meats staff and the shiny, incredible BBQ apparatus equals one thing—slobber all over…
Congratulations to Justin and Dessa! They celebrated their marriage and shared the love with their friends, family and guests via some Stella Leona chocolates created especially for the occasion. These specially created heart boxes were tasty gifts for the bridal party. We were so excited about them and…