Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Dove January Warehouse Sale


What a way to start of 2009! Recently we changed our name from Dove Chocolate at Home to Dove Chocolate Discoveries. We have slowly been transitioning our packaging to our new name and logo. So in honor of that, during the month of January we are selling off all of our product that still has the Dove Chocolate at Home packaging. Same great product, just a different package. The items on the list are the ones on sale for 50% off or more! Contact me starting January 1 to take advantage of this sale!

Monday, December 1, 2008

Dove Chocolate December Special


We have a great special going on in December with Dove Chocolate Discoveries! You get our incredible tasting Chocolate Covered Almonds for half off! Normally $18 a box, you can get them in December for $9! Makes a great gift or stocking stuffer! Our deadline for orders to be guaranteed for holiday delivery is December 15 at 9:00 a.m. Visit my website: http://www.dove-chocolate-discoveries.com/davina to check out our full product lineup and then e-mail me at chocolatedavina@yahoo.com to place your order.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Dove Chocolate November Specials



We have fabulous specials coming up in November for Dove Chocolate!




Our Shaken Martini Special:




Get our fabulous martini mix and our brand new Dove Chocolate Discoveries Martini Shaker! This shaker is only available with this bundle, it is not sold separately in our catalog. Plus, you get two martini recipes.






Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Dove Chocolate Opportunity Video

Have you been thinking about becoming a chocolatier? It is a lot of fun! The parties pretty much book themselves!

There is a great new opportunity video that we have that discusses the "Chocolate Advantage"

Check it out here!
http://www.dovechocolateathome.com/corporate/public?page=/jsp/site/join/advantage.jsp

You can easily sign up to be a chocolatier on my website: http://www.dovechocolateathome.com/davina

I would love to have you on my team!

Dove Chocolate October Special


We are going to have a great special for October. You can get all the ingredients you need to put together our fabulous mousse and make it look like you slaved all day making dessert when really it only took you 10 minutes! With this special we can all be like Martha! Contact me to book an October party or to order your Mousse Magic Bundle!

Friday, September 12, 2008

Stella & Dot in Cosmo


The writer of Sex and the City is featured in the October Cosmo wearing our gorgeous Kelly cuff! We all know she has fabulous taste! Get your Kelly cuff today!

Stella & Dot in Family Circle


Check out our great Sophie Bracelet that can also be worn as a necklace by adding the matching necklace in the October issue of Family Circle! Shop on my website http://davina.stelladot.com/ to get your Sophie today!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Stella & Dot September Sign-On Special


Join Stella & Dot in September and get $450 in free jewels to start your jewelry display! WooHoo! A great time to join, to earn extra money for the holiday season! Contact me with any questions. http://davina.stelladot.com

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Stella & Dot Jewelry Parties (Phoenix)


I am looking for ladies that would like to hold a Stella & Dot jewelry party in the greater Phoenix area. You will get to have fun with your friends, chatting and trying on jewelry and you will get to earn tons of jewelry for free!


And to add icing to the cake, I will bring Dove Chocolate Martinis to the party! WooHoo! Where did you think the name of my blog came from! Chocolate and Jewels: the best combination!

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

September Special for Dove Chocolate at Home


The September Special for Dove Chocolate at Home was released! Check it out below! Contact me to book your party or place your order!


Sunday, August 10, 2008

August is National Brownie Month!

Did you know that August is National Brownie Month?

In honor of that, anybody who e-mails me at chocolatedavina@yahoo.com and orders a box of our delicious Dove Chocolate Truffle Brownie Mix you will receive free shipping! That is a savings of $10!!!

Here is the history of the brownie!

The brownie, one of America’s favorite baked treats, was born in the U.S.A.—we just aren’t quite sure where—although evidence points to New England in the first few years of the 20th century. Although cake-like and baked in a cake pan, the brownie is classified as a bar cookie rather than a cake. There are thousands of recipes, both “cake” types and “fudge” types. Either is perfectly correct—and delicious.
It’s easy to see that the brownie got its name from its dark brown color. But as with most foods, the origin of the brownie is shrouded in myth, even though it is a relatively recent entry to the food pantheon, first appearing in print in the early 20th century. The legend is told variously: a chef mistakenly added melted chocolate to a batch of biscuits...a cook was making a cake but didn’t have enough flour. The favorite, cited in Betty Crocker's Baking Classics and John Mariani’s The Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink, tells of a housewife in Bangor, Maine, who was making a chocolate cake but forgot to add baking powder. When her cake didn’t rise properly, instead of tossing it out, she cut and served the flat pieces. Alas, that theory relies on a cookbook published in Bangor in 1912, six years after the first chocolate brownie recipe was published by one of America’s most famous cookbook authors, Fannie Merritt Farmer, in 1906 (and the Bangor version was almost identical to the 1906 recipe).
The actual “inventor” will most likely never be known, but here’s what we do know:
Sources: Not Always Correct
Quite a few sources cite the first-known recipe for brownies as the 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catalogue, but this was a recipe for a molasses candy merely called brownies. The name honored the elfin characters featured in popular books, stories, cartoons and verses at the time by Palmer Cox; the Eastman Kodak Brownie camera was also named after these elves.
Larousse Gastronomique, regarded by many as the ultimate cooking reference, states that a recipe for brownies first appeared in the 1896 The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, written by Fannie Merritt Farmer—but that was for a cookie-type confection that was colored and flavored with molasses and made in fluted marguerite molds. However, as verified by Jean Anderson in The American Century Cookbook: The Most Popular Recipes Of The 20th Century, the two earliest published recipes for chocolate brownies appear in Boston-based cookbooks—the first in a later edition of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.
You can buy a copy of the 1896 BostonCooking-School Cook Book.
Culinary historians have traced the first cake “brownie” to the 1906 edition of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, edited by Fannie Merritt Farmer. This recipe is an early, less rich and chocolaty version of the brownie we know today, utilizing two squares of melted Baker’s chocolate. We don’t know if Fanny Farmer obtained the recipe from another source, printed it as is or adapted it, or provided the name.
The second recipe, appearing in 1907, was in Lowney’s Cook Book, written by Maria Willet Howard and published by the Walter M. Lowney Company of Boston. Ms. Howard, a protégé of Ms. Farmer, added an extra egg and an extra square of chocolate to the Boston Cooking-School recipe, creating a richer, more chocolatey brownie. She named the recipe Bangor Brownies; we don’t know why. Perhaps the original brownie recipe, published by Ms. Farmer, was submitted by a housewife in Bangor; or that said housewife improved upon that recipe and this was the one published by Ms. Howard. This is discussed more thoroughly in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America, which is the “Encyclopaedia Britannica” for food lovers—two volumes and 1,500 pages on the history, manufacture and marketing of food in the U.S.
While the first brownie recipes were published and variations began to evolve in the first years of the 20th century, it took until the Roaring ‘20s for the brownie to become “the bee’s knees” of baked chocolate treats,* a position it maintains today.
Alas, unlike the immortality accorded to Ruth Wakefield, who invented the Toll House cookie in the early 1930s, the brownie’s originator will probably never be known.
*“The bee’s knees” is a Jazz Age idiom meaning something or someone considered extremely special. According to Mark Israel of the University of Ottowa, 1920s U.S. slang had a slew of similar phrases with the same meaning, including, but not limited to, “the cat's pajamas” and the less familiar “the eel’s ankle,” “the clam’s garter,” “the kipper’s knickers” and “the sardine's whiskers.”

New Jewels are Here!

The new Fall Jewels have been released at Stella & Dot!

Check out the on-line catalog to see these stunning new jewels!

http://davina.stelladot.com/luxejewels/party_info/catalog/lookbook

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Another Fall Sneak Peek


Here is another fall sneak peek from Stella & Dot. The Dot Bib Necklace is going to be available in Black! Only 4 more days until the complete fall line is revealed!

Friday, July 25, 2008

Monday, July 28 is National Milk Chocolate Day!

Monday is National Milk Chocolate Day

So whether you decide to take the day off to celebrate or invite friends over for a Milk Chocolate Soiree, Dove Chocolate at Home® invites you to celebrate!

Top 10 Reasons to enjoy DOVE
Chocolate at Home® Milk Chocolate

10. Our Cinnamon Dusted Milk Chocolate Almonds are mini desserts.
9. Chocolate is a fruit! Seriously!
8. It makes everything taste better!
7. It can be enjoyed at breakfast, lunch and dinner.
6. It can be enjoyed as an appetizer, main course, and dessert- even better!
5. You can sip it, dip it, drizzle it, or shave it, but you better consume it!
4. Milk Chocolate Mousse cradled in our Milk Chocolate Dessert Cups topped with our chopped Milk Chocolate Covered Almonds - mmmmm!
3. Rim your Dove® Chocolate Martini glass with it for added enjoyment!
2. You can enjoy it as a Customer, Host or an Independent Chocolatier!
1. Do you really need another reason?

Coco Necklace in People Magazine


Check out the New CoCo Necklace from the soon to debut Fall Line in People Magazine's Style Watch August Issue!


Monday, July 21, 2008

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Fall Jewel Sneak Peek


Stella & Dot is proud to have been featured in Redbook magazine for three consecutive months!

In this month's issue of Redbook, the August issue on newsstands now, you can get a sneak peek of some of our fall jewels! Check out pages 134-135 of Redbook to see some of our new jewels!

I have posted a picture here as well. Our fall jewels are not going to be released until August 1, but because of the write up in Redbook the jewelry on these pages of the magazine will be available in the next few days! Keep checking back here to find out when they are up or keep checking my website, so that you can get your new jewels as soon as they hit the website!


Friday, July 18, 2008

July Special from Stella & Dot


And here is the July Special from Stella & Dot!


I have an open party so if you would like to take advantage of this awesome party perk, e-mail me with what you would like! The party will be open until July 30.




July Special from Dove Chocolate at Home


Here is the July Special from Dove Chocolate at Home. It is a fabulous deal! Contact me to get your Cool Savings Drink Bundle.


Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Working on Blog

I am new to this whole blogging thing, so be patient with me as I get my blog up and running!

This blog will be about both of my awesome businesses that I am apart of!

Stella & Dot-Fabulous trendy, irresistible jewelry

Dove Chocolate at Home-Fabulous products from the best chocolate in the world: Dove!