New Christmas Ornaments

Ssshhhh….It’s a secret.  Don’t let the CFO know, but we ordered some really cute Christmas ornaments to go in our baskets and on our jars.  I promise they are really going to add a special touch to them; you will want to get your order in early before we run out!

When they come in and he questions why we are still shopping since we were supposed to be on restriction, we’ll just say that we ordered them “a long time ago” and he’ll never know the difference!  You know that saying, what a man doesn’t know won’t hurt him! LOL

Vice-President Brent (my son away at college) is coming home for the first time this semester and he is sad that we don’t have any brittle to make.  He said he would have loved to stay up with us until midnight this past Monday, washing pots and doing all the maintenance jobs.  Oh well, maybe next time!!

BUT WAIT, if you get your order in tomorrow for the October special, we will make it this weekend and he will get to help.  Please don’t disappoint Brent…get your order in today!!

OCTOBER SPECIAL!!

Hello all – welcome to the October special edition of Butler’s Brittle.  For the month of October we will be running the following special on our LUSCIOUS brittle:  Buy an 8 oz or 1 lb. bag of either peanut or pecan brittle and get a 4 oz bag of peanut brittle FREE. You read that correctly, I said FREE!  I checked with the CFO to see if it would be okay to run this great special and he thought it would be a great thing to do, with the way the economy and things are now days.  Sooooo…don’t miss out on this great special.  There are several ways you can order….you can email us at butlersbrittle@yahoo.com, you can leave a comment with your email on the blog and we will get back with you, or you can contact us through facebook.  You can even go to our etsy shop at www.etsy.com/shop/butlersbrittle.  If you are local in the San Antonio/Floresville area, you can let us know and we will make a custom listing for you so you won’t have to pay shipping.

I also have some other great news…Butler’s Brittle now accepts credit cards.  That’s right, we will accept your MC, Visa, Discover or American Express card.  So if that’s how you’d like to pay for it, please let us know and we will take care of it for you.

I think that’s all the good news for today so be sure to get your orders in so you can get your FREE brittle.  Thanks from……

Luscious?

Can you say luscious?  That’s the word I used to describe our brittle last night about 10 pm, as I was deliriously stirring pots.  Since we live by our motto, always made fresh, one pot at a time, we needed to fill some orders for Kentucky and Fredericksburg.  We ended up making about 55 lbs, which isn’t very much, but with only 2 of us in the factory for most of the evening, it took a little bit longer than necessary.  The weather was great though, a nice dry, crisp fall evening, absolutely perfect for brittle making. 

We also had visitors to the factory, and we had to have security check to make sure they were there to actually see the factory, and not steal our secret recipes, but we were happy to have them!!!  By the way, if you are ever in our area, give us a call and we will be happy to give you a tour, heck we don’t even charge!!!  And you just might get a sample!!

Hope to see you soon or we would love to fill an order for you!

Fabric Fetish

Well we’ve got some good news….since the CFO (my fiancée) is working this week, which means he isn’t around to keep a check on the shopping, we made a trip to Hancock Fabrics to check our their 53% off Christmas fabric!!!  I (CEO Tisha) have a fabric fetish!!  How I love to find new and cute fabrics for our jars and decorating.  I had such a hard time picking them out, put I stuck to the 12 new ones shown in the pictures below.  Heck, I could have bought about 20 more, but I called the office manager (Lauren) and she said we have enough fabric to last the next 3 years!!!  Anyways, we hope you like them, or some of the other ones we’ve already shown and are ready to place your orders.

Don’t forget that we would be very happy to make you a customized jar or basket for fall or Thanksgiving.  (Really cute fabric and cellophane)  It would be a great gift to give your host or hostess if you are going someplace for the holiday.  And of course, we would be most jubilant to make your Christmas gift giving easier with bags, jars, mugs, and baskets, really anything you can think of!  Thanks for reading along with us and happy autumn.  Well, at least that’s what the calendar says, here is South Texas, it’s a very crisp and cool 90 degrees with a humidity level of 71.  Now that’s chilly!!

Bardstown, Kentucky

Butler's Brittle has become the talk of the town!! We are quite popular in Bardstown, Kentucky! I recently visited my grandparents at their new restaurant where they sell Butler's Brittle, and would you believe after one weekend they completely sold out??!!! We believe it! After all, Butler's Brittle is the best "this side of well....anywhere!"  You can find our brittle at C & C County Cookin' on the outskirts of Bardstown. If you need the address here it is:

102 Flamingo Dr

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Bardstown, KY 40004

And to all of our loyal customers in Bardstown, don’t worry, your next shipment of brittle will be on its way soon! If you have not tried our brittle you better hurry and head to our Etsy Shop! www.etsy.com/shop/butlersbrittle ! You better order two bags...that's if you are planning on sharing :)

Have a great day!!

Butler's Brittle is going places!!!

One of our favorite places to shop is Canton, TX. We love all the booths, and the atmosphere! We have recently decided it would be a great place to sell our brittle! We sent our application off, and now we are just waiting with bated breath to hear if they will have room for us this year. We would be going for the December Market which is Decemer 3rd-5th. We are so anxious to hear back! We have put together some cute holiday items that we would feature at this show, and for our local sales.  Once we get news that we will be going to Canton we will be sure to let you know! So stay tuned to our Facebook and Blog!

We are always very thankful to God when we receive much needed rain, but Butler’s Brittle needs the rain to stop for a little while!  When it is hot and rainy, like it has been here in South Texas for the past 10 days, it is very hard to make brittle.  The brittle does not “dry” like it should and it gets sticky to the touch.  Since we here at Butler’s Brittle want our customers to get the freshest and best brittle possible, we won’t make it in these conditions.  If you have placed an order or have won a contest and are waiting on your brittle, please be patient with us, we will get it to you as soon as possible!

Now, in the winter when it is cold and raining, that’s another story.  The cold actually helps to “dry” the brittle and it still turns out great.  We have made many a hundred pounds of brittle in cold and wet weather. So, if we could pick our perfect weather, we either want sunshine and 60 degree weather, which we won’t have a for a while, or sunshine and 90 degree weather, but never rain and 90 degrees!!!  Hurry up fall, we’re waiting on you!

Speaking of hundreds of pounds of brittle, our estimate for Butler’s Brittle for the past year is about 3,000 pounds!  Wow, now that’s a lot of brittle, being made one pot at a time. And yes, you can count on us to always make it fresh, one pot at a time! Hope you all have a happy and blessed week.

We're on shopping restriction!!

Well, Lauren (office manager) and I (CEO) went shopping yesterday at Michael’s again because “they have 50% off coupons and we might need something for the brittle company!”  Of course we found all kinds of cute things to buy including some really nice fall baskets and Christmas ribbons and tins.  Heck, everything was already 40-50% off so we had to “find” something to use our coupons on!  We reported back to the CFO (my fiancé Kyle) when we got back, and we are now restricted from Michael’s, Hobby Lobby and Joann’s for the rest of the month!  Oh well, we can always find something good to buy online!  Here’s to happy shopping for Butler’s Brittle!

SPOOKALICIOUS SAMPLER BOXES!!

We have told you over and over how excited we are for the Spookalicious Sampler boxes from our good friends over at Sampler Village. I have some pictures to share with you that will keep you wanting more! If this does not persuade you to buy a box, I don't know what will! You can see that our brittle is in the pictures, which should be an even greater reason to purchase one of these amazing boxes!

Let me remind you how you can purchase your very own! Head on over to http://www.samplervillage.com/ on September 21st at 8 AM EST. You can purchase your box from their website, and also see what vendors are participating in the following months! Here are the pictures!

These boxes will be limited so hurry and mark those calenders for next week!!

Our order came in!!

We have been so busy trying to brainstorm ways to spread the word about the brittle! We finally got it! CAR MAGNETS! What a better way to spread the word than actually going out to the streets! We also ordered a large banner for our next show we are going to be at! We were so pleased with our purchase we just had to share!

We also took a few pictures of some of the newer items we will be selling this season! Please let us know what you think!! We LOVE your thoughts!!

Here is our new banner with the car magnets!

Here is the banner by itself!

These are two new items we have. We will have cute Christmas mugs

and baskets this year!

Here are just a few of our many mugs with some brittle in them

ready to be decorated!

Our Fredricksburg, TX Shop

Butler’s brittle is in full swing.  We are anticipating the re-opening of the shop in Fredericksubrg, Texas where we sell a very large amount every month.  We will start supplying them in another 10 days or so.  This shop is a large supplier of various kinds of pecans; they come in pretty much in kind you are looking for from shelled to candied to whole. I am told by the shop owner that he has customers that come by just to purchase our brittle!  This is also where we buy our fresh, Texas grown pecans from.  They are from pecan orchards in San Saba and Poth, Texas, a little town about 15 minutes from us!!

We have been working on our fabric cutouts and decorations for our Christmas items.  If you haven’t seen our gift baskets or decorated jars, stop by our etsy shop and take a look. www.etsy.com/shop/butlersbrittle   We have about 25 different Christmas fabrics to choose from for the jars, and 8 or 10 different cellophanes to pick from for the baskets. We love to do custom orders; it’s what we’re best at!!

Our Lucky Winner

This past weekend we had a Facebook Contest. We have chosen our winner! Congrats to Sis. Connie Vann-Colar! We are so happy to have you as a follower!
We have been so blessed with all of the wonderful feedback! Our Facebook Fan Page is up to 178 "Likes" which we LOVE! We enjoy watching the numbers continuing to climb!  Today was a very special day, because we have been lucky enough to participate in the Sampler Village Spookalicious Sampler Boxes! Our samples were mailed out today and we cannot wait for them to go out!  You can order your box at www.samplervillage.com ! They go on sale on September 21st, so go get yours!
We also will be featured on another website in the next few weeks. You can be watching for us at http://www.armywifelifeandreviews.com/ ! We will continue to give you updates as we know more about when we will be hosting a give away!

Have a great week!

We have a WINNER!!!!

The giveaway has ended on Sampler Village! Congratulations to Donna Culbreth! We are so excited to send you your basket! Here is what our lucky winner has won!!

We hope she enjoys her basket!! REMINDER: Sampler Boxes go on sale at http://www.samplervillage.com/ on September 21st! We are so excited to be a part of the Spookalicious Sampler Boxes this year! You cannot miss out on this box! Mark your calenders today!!!

Have a great weekend!

Just want to share...

As you know, last weekend we were in the "brittle factory" cooking up a storm! We got all of our give aways out and in the mail on Tuesday, and we CANNOT WAIT to hear what our friends have to say about it!

We wanted to share some pictures with you from this weekend!


Here are some new baskets we made up...great for birthdays, Mothers Day, and teacher gifts!!

This here is a shot of our new labels! We love the new BB!

This is the peanuts cooking! YUM!

This is a sheet of pecan brittle cooling before we break it up for packaging!

These next couple of photos are of a set up for a trade days in Canton, TX. We love seeing all of our products come together so well!

Here is an up close photo of our label on our pecan brittle.

And last, but not least, here are some of fall jars! They are too cute!

We love to hear from you, so please leave us a comments! Thoughts and suggestions are always welcome!

Have a great week!

Our Holiday Weekend....

The brittle factory was open this weekend, working on orders and items that we are giving away. One of the giveaways was a very nice fall basket of peanut and pecan brittle that went into a church auction. By the way, it brought $150.00!! Below is a picture for you to check out.

Things have changed at the brittle factory, but they are all for the better. We are now using sealable bags, and we bought a special sealer for to do this. It took a little bit to get used to it, but we have it down pat now!! Lauren and Kirsten are the official sealers, they told me to stay away, and continue cooking!!

Our labels have changed too, we wanted a new look and came up with the back to back “B” as our main focus. We love it -- what do you think?

Butler’s Brittle will be in the next Sampler’s Village box that you can purchase. We will be making our brittle for this on Sunday and shipping it out on Monday. Please check out this website if you are interested in ordering one. They are awesome! http://www.samplervillage.com/ .

You also still have a day to enter over at the Sampler Village Blog, to win a brittle basket! You can also check that out at http://www.samplervillage.blogspot.com/ !

WINNERS!!!

Thank you so much for all your wonderful comments! We love hearing from you! Because we are Butler's Brittle, you know we can never have just one winner! We have chosen two! Congratulations to RENEE AINSWORTH WATSON AND PAMELA MEDEIROS! I will contact you shortly!!

Thank you for all of your entries! Be watching for our next contest! You never know what we will be doing next :)

Have a safe and happy holiday weekend!!!

I WANT TO WIN SOME BRITTLE

Ok the time has come! Another contest!

YAY!  You made it to the blog! All you need to do is leave us a comment below about why you should win some brittle, and what kind of brittle is your favorite! We would love to hear from you ! So, if you have a "brittle story" you would like to share, you may do so as well! We want you to be creative and unique! Good Luck!!

REMEMBER! The contest ends tomorrow, so be checking back to see if you have won!

We have a WINNER!

Butler's Brittle is so happy to announce that we have chosen two winners from our Facebook Contest!! Congratulations to Amy Jo and Kim! They both won a 1 lb. bag of Peanut or Pecan Brittle, THEIR CHOICE! Way to go ladies!

Also, we surprised two more brittle friends, Traci and Brenda, who worked very hard at suggesting friends to us! They will be receiving a special surprise from us as well!

Thank you to all who participated!

HUGS

How Pecan Brittle was born......

Making brittle started out as a necessity after I became a single mother of 2 young kids. Now it has become our passion and our pride. We originally started making only peanut, but about 5 years ago someone asked if we could make pecan. We thought about it and said “what the heck” and gave it a try. We now have our “die hard” peanut fans and our “die hard” pecan fans. Personally, I’m addicted to both! Since we have grown the business so much over the past 10 years, we have enlisted the help our dear and wonderful friends Lauren and Joan. Lauren is the genius behind all of our social networking and Joan will soon be packaging and decorating. We all have a great time together, so it doesn’t seem so much like work!


We enjoy going to the different craft stores to find new and exciting ways to package and decorate our brittle. Be on the lookout for new and exciting stuff this year!