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Take a garden stroll through some of our favorite finds of bites, bottles, & bees. The Beehive Shoppe blog called Rooster & Bee is a collection of the very best of bees.

🐝 10 FUN Busy Bee Crafts

Dena Kennedy

Whether you’re looking for some fun crafts for kids.. OR adults… you’ll love these adorable, fun, and creative bee craft ideas!

1- Footprint Bee This adorable idea from Crafty Crafted uses skin-friendly paint to create all kinds of cute artwork using hands and feet. Check out these fun ideas!

2- Painted Bee Garden Rocks CarolinaHoneyBees.com offers a fun and easy tutorial on how to paint cute bee rocks for your home or garden. You can paints large or small rocks using crafty acrylic paint or spray paint. Such a colorful and easy way to brighten up your outdoor garden or indoor space! (Thank you to Charlotte Anderson from Carolina Honey Bees for this cute idea.)

3- Ideas for Recycling Tin Cans Look at these fun & creative ways to recycle tin cans! From making cute bees to hang from your trees… to wind chimes.. to wedding decorations.. to an outdoor grill… check out 50 ways to recycle your tin cans from DIYNCRAFTS

4- How to Paint a Bumble Bee We have step by step instructions on how to paint a bumble bee. Click here to download the easy instructions here at the Beehive Shoppe

5- Honey Bee Slime for Kids We’ve found a fun & easy recipe to make slime which includes gold glitter and craft bees - so so cute and fun for kids and adults alike! This is a great thing to do at a bee themed party! Click here to get the recipe and instructions from KimandCarrie.com

6- Recycled Toilet Paper Roll Crafts This is a really cute and easy idea to use toilet paper rolls to create a fun craft project comes from EasyPeasyandFun - Perfect to keep kids busy on a rainy day!

7 - Bottlecap Bumble Bees These step by step instructions on how to make cute bee magnets from WoliCreations are so easy and fun! Simply paint some used bottle caps to make refrigerator magnets or other decorative things… CLICK HERE to get the instructions.

8- How to Paint a Terracotta Bee Pot What a fun way to brighten an indoor plant, outdoor garden, or bee themed party decorations! Follow these simple instructions from Kippiathome to paint your own bee themed terracotta pot. CLICK HERE

9- Pet Bee Pom Pom Craft This craft project is surprisingly easy and so fun! Mollymoocrafts has come up with an easy to follow tutorial to make this cute bee pom pom. They make a great craft project to keep the kids busy for a few hours, or really cute party favors or gift ideas. CLICK HERE to follow the tutorial…

10- How To Face Paint a Bumble Bee We’ve found a wonderful tutorial on YouTube for how to do a cute bumble bee face painting.. so fun!

New York City - Beekeeping in the Big Apple

Dena Kennedy

The Beehive Shoppe was in New York City this week - we came across a few beehives around the big apple and thought we would share this photo-blog of beekeepers in the big apple.

Col. Sanders 20 Favorite Recipes cookbook - 100% FREE

Dena Kennedy

This fantastic collection of vintage recipes includes classic American cooking from Col. Sanders - founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. From Butter-Thin Pancakes to Old Fashioned Huckleberry Cake you’ll love remaking these wonderful recipes.

Butter Thin Pancakes - Pecan Pie - French Fired Parsnips - Kentucky Biscuits - Chess Pie - Lemon Sponge Cake - Roquefort Dressing - Col. Sanders’ Special Dressing - Old Fashioned Buckwheat Cakes - Carrot Almond Rings - Transparent Squash - Creamy Tomato Soup - Puffy Meat Pattys - Bean Salad - Southern Spoon Bread - Kentucky Style Buttermilk Pie - Mrs. Sander’s Dinner Rolls - Harland’s Waffles - Hot Water Crusts - Old Fashioned Huckleberry Cake.

EASY DIGITAL DOWNLOAD: This is a digital download of the entire vintage cookbook. It's easily viewed on any pc or Mac computer, I-pad or other tablet devices or on your smart phone. Print off any recipes or simply keep them on your device. You'll love how easy this is.

CLICK HERE OR THE ON THE IMAGE BELOW

21 Plants that Save The Bees: Here's an easy way to help

Dena Kennedy

Helping bees is easy and very important. Just a small change in your garden or around the yard can make a huge difference. Here are 21 things you can plant this year to help your local bee population.

Image of 21 plants that feed bees in the garden.

Thank you Hannah - Save the Bees! by Hannah Rosengren http://www.hannahrosengren.com/help-save-bees.html

Beekeeper Elisha Bixler gets 22 Million TikTok Views

Dena Kennedy

She’s perhaps the most famous beekeeper in the world and she’s making a big difference:

ST. PETERSBURG — First things first: If the bees get angry, is it a stand-still situation, as when one meets a wild bear? Or is it a run situation?

“It’s run,” said Elisha Bixler, slipping into a beekeeping jacket and veil. “Just run.”

Bee colonies can kill, and some are so aggressive they can’t be saved during removals from homes. But many bees have no interest in us. Having settled in walls and ducts and compost bins, they can be moved to an apiary, where they’ll make honey and pollinate local flora.

That’s where Bixler comes in, sprightly and intrepid, recording videos on a cell phone clogged with so much honey, it only works on speaker.

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Beekeepers Go High-Tech to Prevent Hive Thefts

Dena Kennedy

Police investigating stolen bees and beehives on beekeepers property

NEWS: Not far from Silicon Valley, a technological boom is occurring among beekeepers desperate to find new ways to avoid hives being stolen by criminals amid a dwindling supply of bees across the US.

Nearly 60,000 bees stolen from US supermarket’s headquarters

Beehive Thefts are becoming so common in the Central Valley area of California that beekeepers are using GPS tracking devices, surveillance cameras and other anti-theft technology to safeguard their honeybee colonies.

According to the Associated Press, 1,036 beehives worth hundreds of thousands of dollars have been reported stolen in California, including a heist in which 384 beehives were spirited away in Mendocino county.

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🐝 How to paint a BEE for beginners

Dena Kennedy

How to paint a BEE for beginners

We have found some fun instructions for how to paint a bee or bumble bee. Painting a bee on rustic wood or watercolor paper is easy and fun. If you download and print off these simple instructions you can paint a few bees for practice and then you're all set to paint bees on anything you want. We would love to post your success with painting bees by sharing with us your images. CLICK HERE to download the instructions

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🐝 Creative Bee Murals

Dena Kennedy

Look at all of these wonderful artistic bee mural ideas! We really appreciate this beautiful art 🐝…..

🐝 SO CUTE! Bee and Beehive Themed Halloween Costume Ideas and Pumpkin Carvings

Dena Kennedy

Happy Halloween! We have gathered cute bee and beehive themed halloween costume ideas - and fun pumpkin carving ideas - we hope you enjoy these fun ideas!

🐝 The Beehive State's FAMOUS Green Jell-O Recipe I Digital Download

Dena Kennedy

Here at the Beehive Shoppe we love to remind our customers of some of the things that the Beehive State is best known for…. fry sauce, funeral potatoes, and most certainly Green Jell-O! Our Green Jell-O recipe(s) even inspired multiple pins for the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics…

CLICK HERE to download a free recipe card - along with a 25% off coupon for your entire order at BeehiveShoppe.com..

Thanks for stopping by!

Thank you to Mormon Culture blog for the cute green beehive jello image!

DESERET NEWS ARTICLE I You can find all things bee at The Beehive Shoppe... except the shop

Dena Kennedy

Entrepreneur Dena Kennedy’s new website features ‘cute bee stuff’ that bee and beehive lovers across the country are flocking to.

Dena Kennedy, owner of Beehive Shoppe, packs up cards for a customer at her office in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday, July 30, 2021.Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

Dena Kennedy, owner of Beehive Shoppe, packs up cards for a customer at her office in downtown Salt Lake City on Friday, July 30, 2021.

Kristin Murphy, Deseret News

The email, like so many of them, came unbidden into my inbox.

It had pictures of cakes and cupcakes shaped like beehives. I was about to hit delete when this line caught my attention: “Thank you so much for supporting our little hive! We are a female owned & operated small business. We make all our note cards and art prints right here in our little Shoppe in Salt Lake City, Utah.”

Ever on the lookout for the new, the unique and the innovative — which is to say something to write about — I wrote down the address of The Beehive Shoppe, planning to check out this business built entirely around bees.

I drove to the address on the email: 12 Market Street in downtown Salt Lake City, just a few steps west of Main Street and a few doors up from Market Street Grill … and found nothing.

The Melting Pot fondue restaurant was on the corner, but no sign of a beehive shoppe.

Assuming another company had been done in by COVID-19, I was about to leave when on a whim I decided to walk inside the office building and climb to the second story. And there, behind door 290, I finally found what I came for.

The Beehive Shoppe isn’t a shop at all. It’s a 400-square-foot standard business office with a printer, a computer, packing materials, shelves stacked with “cute bee stuff” and a desk in the middle, behind which sits one very busy, uh, woman.

Turned out the “we are a group of women” is using the royal we.

All by herself, Dena Kennedy launched Beehiveshoppe.com this past March: an online-only business featuring a website full of all things bees. There’s bee jewelry, bee artwork, bee home decor, bee kitchen wares, bee cookbooks, bee refrigerator magnets, bee aprons, bee keychains, bee salt and pepper shakers and especially bee notecards, because if you’re a lover of all things bee you don’t write a note without it being next to an illustration of a bee. There’s even a bee blog.

Some of this bee stuff, the notecards and the art prints for instance, Dena designs and makes herself, printing it in the 400-square-foot office. The rest, she scours the websites of companies that market things with a bee theme.

She considered opening a brick-and-mortar store to display all her bee wares, but passed when she looked at what people are charging for rent these days. And it is, after all, the 21st century. Entrepreneurs can do just fine with a virtual presence.

She occasionally has people like me, usually a bit older, usually a bit technology challenged, who show up at 12 Market Street befuddled that there’s no actual store, and, like me, eventually find her in her office.

“I should probably put out some kind of sign,” she says.

Then again, she’d have to find the time. An average of 30 packages go out of her office every day, most of them via the U.S. Postal Service. And if Dena doesn’t send them, well, they’re not going to send themselves.

She could hire an employee, but for the moment, “I kinda want to keep it this way,” she says, “I have come from so much big, busy, chaos over the last 20 years, I’m really enjoying this being kind of a hobby that makes money. I don’t want right now to grow out of this beautiful light lovely awesome downtown office.”

Newly single, with three grown married sons, Dena sold a hotel she was partners in in Nauvoo, Illinois, during the pandemic, moved back to Utah (she grew up in Orem) and started thinking about starting a business centered around something she loves. Bees and beehives was that something.

“I can’t totally explain why they affect me like they do, but I just love bees and beehives,” she says.

From selling bee-themed items when she was running her hotel, she also knew she was not alone.

“People who love bees and beehives, they love bees and beehives,” she says. “They’re kinda crazy people. And there are a lot of them.”

She compares the obsession to fans of Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

“Anybody who loves Harley-Davidson, you know you can get them a gift that is in any way Harley related and they’re going to love it,” she says. “It’s the same thing with people who love bees and beehives.”

Setting her business in Utah, at least virtually, ties in nicely with the state emblem, the beehive, and with the local culture. Although out of the 50 states, Utah ranks only seventh in beehiveshoppe.com sales in the five months she’s been in business, behind Texas, California, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Her favorite part of her new business, she says, is “getting to hear the feedback from my customers, other crazy bee people.”

Curiously, the only thing she doesn’t sell are actual bees and beehives.

“I’ve always wished I could be a beekeeper,” she says. “But I haven’t learned that skill or had the opportunity, and I can’t very well put them on the roof here. So I’ll have to move to a farm with a barn someday.”

Some things you still can’t do virtual.

The Beehive State's BEST Peach Cobbler w/ Honey Drizzle

Dena Kennedy

This super easy summertime recipe will surely be a new family favorite! It’s so easy and delicious… and with fresh summertime peaches it makes for a perfect dessert to share. Download the recipe card for free and pass it around to your friends and family- CLICK HERE or CLICK IMAGE BELOW

EASY DIGITAL DOWNLOAD:  This is a digital download of a high resolution recipe card you can print and pass around to your friends.

Crowd Pleaser! Grandma's Honey Muffins

Dena Kennedy

These yummy muffins are a sure crowd pleaser! We hope you enjoy them too!

Grandma's Honey Muffins

Ingredients:

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup sugar

3 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 large egg, room temperature

1 cup 2% milk

1/4 cup butter, melted

1/4 cup honey

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400°. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In a small bowl, combine egg, milk, butter and honey. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.

2. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 15-18 minutes. Cool 5 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack. Serve warm.

3. Freeze option: Freeze cooled muffins in freezer containers. To use, thaw at room temperature or, if desired, microwave each muffin on high until heated through, 20-30 seconds.

  • Thank you to Taste of Home and Darlis in Wisconsin for this delicious recipe!

🐝 Beehive State - Utah's Famous Cheesy Funeral Potatoes

Dena Kennedy

I grew up in Utah - which means I’ve had every version of Utah’s famous cheesy funeral potatoes that have ever been conjured up! We serve them at family dinners, outdoor summertime picnics, holiday meals… you name the event, we Utahns bring funeral potatoes!

Since The Beehive Shoppe is based out in Utah… “The Beehive State” - we thought our customers from around the world would enjoy a FREE recipe card of the very best version of funeral potatoes that we know of!

CLICK HERE to download the free recipe card - and feel free to share it with all of your friends and family 🐝

ENJOY! Dena Kennedy (owner, Beehive Shoppe)

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