I am a chocoholic creating chocolate themed jewellery as I explore Canadian chocolate one bar and bonbon at a time

Bonbon with cacao bean in it next to a bronze cacao bean necklace.

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100 Gifts for Chocolate Lovers

100 Gifts for Chocolate Lovers, part two of ten. Need help finding the perfect gift for the chocoholic in your life? Check out all these Christmas, holiday, and gift ideas.

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Chocolate is my Muse

#ChocolateIsMyMuse Chocolate is my muse as is a big part of what inspires me to create art.

by canadianchocoholic September 21, 2021

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100 Gifts for Chocolate Lovers

Do you know what today is? It is 100 days until Christmas! I am not sure where the year went, but it feels like it sped by. Whichever holiday you celebrate is coming up and that means everyone is on the hunt for gifts for loved ones, friends, and family. I have looked far andContinue reading “100 Gifts for Chocolate Lovers”

by canadianchocoholic September 17, 2021

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🍫 I opened this bar recently, and I must have m

🍫 I opened this bar recently, and I must have misplaced it because I can't find any of it.

🙂 Some bars of chocolate are unique to themselves and this is one of them.

🍫 I may have eaten it all. Maybe?

🎁 I highlighted this bar from @chocolatenaive and 9 other gifts for chocolate lovers in this week's blog.

🔗 100 gifts for chocolate lovers is an ongoing blog series featuring fun unique gifts for all the chocolate eating people in your life. 1-10 & 11-20 are up on the blog now, with new blog posts coming each Thursday for the next 8 weeks.

🧡 I'm here to help you find those fun gifts for the holidays!

#100GiftsforChocolateLovers #newblog #cacao #cacaopulp #beantobar #giftideas #chocolateblogger #miniseries #holidaygiftguide #Beantobarchocolate #chocolatebarwrappers #thinkoutsidethebox

🙂 Hello! ⁠ ⁠ 😎 I have new glasses… and

🙂 Hello! ⁠
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😎 I have new glasses... and take goofy photos.⁠
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😲 I can't believe how much my hair has grown in the last year and a half. ⁠
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📷 The first photo is from earlier this week and the second one is from February of 2020. My hair had just been cut, and was short! The red in it was from December of 2019 and you can just see a touch of the pink in today’s photo, it has faded well, but it may be time for something different soon!⁠
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🍫 My chocolate habits haven't changed, I am still starting each day with a few sips of drinking chocolate.⁠
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📆 How have you been and what changes have you noticed over the last year or so?⁠
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#howareyou #whatsnew #timeforahaircut #drinkingchocolate #newglasses #goofy #throwback #tbt #thenandnow #smile #enjoychocolate #smallpleasures #chocolateeveryday #chocolateforbreakfast

🍫 Happy Fall, happy #nationalwhitechocolateday,

🍫 Happy Fall, happy #nationalwhitechocolateday, happy September, happy happy!

❔ Do you have a favourite white chocolate? I'd love to know what your go to white chocolate is. Tell me below!

#whitechocolate #chocolate #chocolateeveryday

🎁 Yes, I know it's early, but if you are like m

🎁 Yes, I know it's early, but if you are like me and like to be prepared be sure to check out my blog for some great ideas for holiday (or anytime) gifts for the chocolate lover in your life.⁠
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🙂 I've tagged the businesses I have showcased in the first 10 ideas on my blog, watch for a new blog every Thursday with ten more gifts for chocoholics.⁠
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🔗 Link in my profileto read the blog, find it at CanadianChocoholic.ca⁠
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#giftguideforchocolatelovers #chocolategifts #canadianchocolate #beantobarchocolate #giftsforchocolatelovers #ilovechooclate #instachocolate #sharechocolate #chocolate #givechocolate #giftguide #artandchocolate

🍫 Strawberries are one of my favs and we have b

🍫 Strawberries are one of my favs and we have been enjoying them all summer long.

🍫 Obviously I put freshly ground cacao nibs on them!

🍫 What is your favourite thing to put chocolate on?

#chocoholic

🚶☕🍫 this month I have begun my mornings wi

🚶☕🍫 this month I have begun my mornings with a new routine.

🚶 A walk outside to enjoy the fresh air.

☕🍫 Followed by some drinking chocolate.

🌳 The fresh air is a lovely way to begin my day.

🌦️ Rain or shine it's been a great new routine to add this fall.

🍫 What routine do you begin the day with? Are there new ones now that September is here?

#heart #love #drinkingchocolate #septembervibes #fall #autumn #chocolate #hotchocolate #coldchocolate #bubbles #morningroutine #momentofcalm #mornings #slowmornings #nightowl #walk #morningwalk

🍫 I recently picked up this 70% Pangoa @oboloch

🎄 100 Days until Christmas!⁠ ⁠ 📆 The yea

🎄 100 Days until Christmas!⁠
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📆 The year seems to have flown by.⁠
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🎁 I just posted the first part of my blog, 100 Gifts for the chocolate lovers in you life, on my website.⁠
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🎁 I want to help you find some amazing gifts for those special people in your life, no matter what holiday you will be celebrating.⁠
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🙂 Each week for the next ten weeks I will share ten ideas of gifts for anyone who enjoys chocolate. Bars of chocolate, books, unique finds, jewellery (or course), clothing and so much more!

🔗 Link in my bio! ⁠
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🍫 Save this post for later, share with friends, and check out the blog!⁠
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#chooclateblogger #giftsforchocolatelovers #chocolatejewellery #chocolatebooks #chocolategifts #chocolateaccessories #canadianchocolate #christmasgiftideas #chocolategiftideas #artandchocolate #blogger #ottawablogger #chocolateclothes #chocolatebooks #womeninchocolate #chocolate #chocoholic #holidaygifts #holidaysarecoming

🌿 It's been a quiet yet productive summer here

🌿 It's been a quiet yet productive summer here with lots of dreaming in hammocks in between productive and not at all productive days.

🌊 I've been going with the flow and taking things day by day as I navigate through many migraines. On good days I gaze up at trees or get out on the water on my SUP. On not so good days I hide in the dark quiet spaces. Finding balance.

🌲 I am excited to start sharing some of the prep I've been doing for the upcoming holiday season. As a product based home business the next few months are my busy season, and I look forward to and enjoy it each year.

🍫 Chocolatey things are coming, and as always, my newsletter subscribers will get a first look at all the new things when then are available. Link in my bio to sign up!

🙂 Thanks for following along! I love having you as part of my journey!

📷 This photo is me in a hammock while co-working @yogaattic and the trees are a photo of my view.

#relaxing #daybyday #hammocks #trees #selfie #cacaopodnecklace #canadianchocoholicjewellery #septembervibes #chocoholic #chocolateaccessories #chocolatejewelry #smile #gooddays #chocolatealways #ottawasmallbusiness
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🍫📓 @chocolatenotebook has been front and cen

🍫📓 @chocolatenotebook has been front and center on my desk the last few days, as @chocolatedriven, @laurenonthewknd, and I work on the third edition, and as always I can't help but enjoy the pattern of cacao pods that adorn it's cover.

🍫 Lots of chocolate bars have unique patterns as well! I love admiring a patterned bar, and personally the more detailed a pattern the more I love it. I'm #allaboutthedetails

🍫 Some of my favourite patterned bars would be the wood pattern on Palette de Bine bars, and the intricate pattern on Soma bars. Dick Taylor bars also always get me too!

📷 PS - all those yellow tabs are things to tweak in the next edition.

❔ What is your favourite pattern on a chocolate bar?

#tttt_2021 #tttt_pattern #chocolate #thechocolatenotebook #work #illustrator #cacaopods #chocolatenotebook #artandchocolate #womeninchocolate #chocolatejourney #lovechocolate #chocolatejournal #patternsinchocolate

🙂💌🍫 I am always so excited when I am putt

🙂💌🍫 I am always so excited when I am putting finishing touches on the contents of the envelopes for @HappyMailforChocolateLovers.

💌 Yesterday I was working on September's envelopes and I just wish I could share with you all that's in them.

😉 I will, just not yet.

💌 I can however share all about the outside of the envelopes. The big grey one covered in cacao pods and flowers, and the smaller folded pink envelope with a heart closure.

💗 So other than a touch of pink, my lips are sealed about the contents.

💌 Envelopes will ship out early next week and I have two extras available in my shop that you can buy as a single envelope instead of subscribing monthly. #shipsworldwide

#chocolate #chocolatemail #ilovechocolate #pink #cacao #envelopes #shippingsoon #happymail #giftsforchocolatelovers #chocoholic #sendjoy

🍫 A sterling silver cacao pod next to a cacao f

🍫 Cacao flowers are so amazing.⁠ ⁠ ❔ Did

🍫 Cacao flowers are so amazing.⁠
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❔ Did you know that they are smaller than your pinky finger nail and then grow into cacao pods that are as big as a football?⁠
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🙂 That’s pretty cool!⁠
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❤ They are so delicate and tiny, intricate and detailed, I honestly love them to bits.⁠
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🌸 I did not happen upon any the few times I was under cacao trees previously, in Atlanta and in Maui, I saw cacao trees but no blossoms were about. Luckily I caught the cacao tree in bloom in Montreal earlier in August, such a wonderful sight.⁠
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PS - I also wore a cacao wood bracelet made with the contents from July's @HappyMailforChocolateLovers envelope.⁠

🎨 This mini DIY was included in July’s Happy

🎨 This mini DIY was included in July’s Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers envelope.⁠
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🍫 Cacao wood beads in two different sizes, 4 different stringing materials, a print out on knots and who knows what you can create!⁠
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🙂 I put together this fun bag of goodies to allow you to create what you wanted. A few bracelets or maybe just one. A necklace, a bookmark, or maybe even something I haven’t even thought of.⁠
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❤ Patreons also received a link to a DIY video just for them if they wanted more ideas and as a visual how to.⁠
I’d love to see what you created!⁠
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🍫 Also, I happened upon these beads in a bead shop, and as sad as I am to hear of a cacao tree being cut down the reality is it happens often as cacao isn’t always a lucrative crop. I was happy to find them, and personally I have made several things out of them, including a mala.⁠
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❔ Have you ever seen something made with cacao wood?⁠
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🍫 Origins of cacao.⁠ ⁠ 🌎 Sometimes you s

🍫 Origins of cacao.⁠
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🌎 Sometimes you see these written on packaging of craft chocolate. It lets you know where the cacao was grown, sometimes even who grew it.⁠
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🗺 Each cacao origin can produce different flavours within its beans, and personally, Madagascar has always been one of my favourite chocolate origins, perhaps for sentimental reasons.⁠
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🍫 On a recent chocolate shopping trip in Montreal I chose 3 different bars of chocolate made with cacao from Madagascar and I can't wait to dive into a side by side tasting to see how they taste next to each other. #chocolategeek⁠
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❔ When you purchase chocolate do you look for an origin on the chocolate bar wrapper?

#beantobarchocolate #singleoriginchocolate #madagascar #beantobar #chocolate #cacao #ethicallysourced #favouriteorigin #instachocolate #chocolatebars

🙂💌🍫 August had some fun Digital Happy Mai

🙂💌🍫 August had some fun Digital Happy Mail!⁠ Also, how did we get to the end of August already?
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📆 A calendar with photos of some bonbons and a maze were just two of the digital items subscribers received this month.⁠ To check out the maze watch my reel over @HappyMailforChocolateLovers⁠
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❔ Did you know that Digital Happy Mail is $5 CDN a month and usually has 5 different digital items to help you celebrate chocolate?⁠
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💻 Digital Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers arrives in subscribers’ inboxes on the 1st and 15th of each month.⁠
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🍫 Join today, it's super easy to sign up! Link in my bio! It also makes a great gift!

🎁 If you'd like to purchase a year at a time instead of paying monthly I'm happy to help, send me a DM and we will make it happen.

▶️ Check yesterday's reel for some of the fun things digital Happy Mail for Chocolate Lovers has included.

#digitalhappymail #giftsforchocolatelovers #happymail #giftideas #chocolategifts #chocolateismymuse #chocolateandart #subscribenow #chocolateartist #instachocolate #toyourinbox #digitalgifts #printables #calendar #celebratechocolate #ottawa #chocoholic

⁠ 🍫 A little piece of chocolate can bring a w

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🍫 A little piece of chocolate can bring a whole lot of joy.⁠
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❤ I love a good mini chocolate bar. Great for tossing into my purse, into my hat pocket (see yesterday’s post), great for trying something new, and perfect for gifting to folks who are new to chocolate.⁠
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🍫 These bars range from 5 grams to 25 grams.⁠
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❔ Are you a fan of mini chocolate bars? If so, is there a size that is more ideal for you?⁠

🛍️ I picked all these minis up in Montreal @etatdechocmtl

#minichocolate #sweettreats #chocolatetoshare #beantobarchocolate #canadianchocolate #minibars #perfectsize #biteofchocolate

🏄‍♀️Summertime finds me on the water. My

🏄‍♀️Summertime finds me on the water. My SUP (Stand Up Paddleboard) lives on the roof of the car for months. This means I can head out to the water at a moment’s notice. An hour spent on the water is one of my happy places. I always feel refreshed and full of energy to create after being on the water. It is my favourite form of relaxing.⁠
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👒I have this hat, that I picked up in Tofino during one of our trips there when we lived on Vancouver Island, and it is my go to hat for being out on the water. It is so faded and is no longer black, but it fits perfect, doesn’t blow off in the wind, provides shade when I am paddling into the sun, and has a little pocket, perfect for a mini.⁠
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🍫 I recently picked up some @raakachocolate minis @etatdechocmtl and they are the perfect size for this little pocket. This means I can actually pull out a piece of chocolate while still standing on my board and enjoy it. I do have to be sure that on sunny days I pull out the chocolate sooner than later though.⁠
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❔Where do you enjoy chocolate in the summer. Is it different that where you eat it the rest of the year?⁠

🙂💌🍫 Sign up now to receive September’s

🍫 The holiday season is fast approaching.⁠
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❔ Are you ready for it?⁠
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🎁 I have been busy working on creating art with #chocolateismymuse in mind.⁠
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📿 I have jewellery pieces, necklaces, earrings, and pendants available.⁠
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📄 I have paper and print items, cards, postcards, screen printed cards, mini notebooks, big notebooks, and even stickers.⁠
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👩‍🎨 I have fabric art, custom designed fabrics used to make tote bags, zippered pouches and mini gift bags.⁠
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🎨 I have a great selection of items that are all chocolate themed. Great gifts for friends or the chocolate lover in your life. They would also be ideal for on your shop shelves to sell alongside your chocolate if you have a chocolate shop.⁠
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❔ Curious? Want to know more? Visit my website or DM me and I can get wholesale info to you. Want it on your shop shelves before the holidays? Now is the time to start talking about it!⁠
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📷 Shown are some of the notebooks I screen print with my original designs.

#chocolategifts #chocolateshops #chocolatemakers #handmade #originaldesigns #chocolateart #chocolatejewellery #screenprints #artprints #chocolatestickers #chocolatecards #chocolatejournals #cacao #ilovechocolage #chocolateaccessories #chocolategift #wholesalechocolateart

☀️ Summer days are perfect for reading a good

☀️ Summer days are perfect for reading a good book and munching on a great piece of chocolate.

🍫📙 Today my chocolate and book pairing even matched! Rereading a favourite book and enjoying a bite of Madagascar milk chocolate.

❔ Have you paired any books with chocolate lately?

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