Thanks so much for all you do,

My name is Shaelyn. I am eleven years old and I go to Westbrook School in West Milford. When I heard about TREP$, I made a big list of things that I could make. I thought about it and in the end I tried making rock candy. My Dad and I got a bunch of recipes for rock candy off the internet. We chose two recipes to make. All of the recipes said the rock candy formed over about a week and had to dry in a cool place to form properly. It also had to be left alone and not touched or moved.

I made lots of different flavors like peppermint, cinnamon, strawberry. watermelon, lemon and strawberry-melon mix. Only one of the recipes worked. The other failed and came out crumbly, but it still tasted good. Since it tasted good, I named the candy from the failed recipe "rock candy rubble" and was still able to package it for sale.  I still managed to sell a good tasting product even if the texture did not come out right. I called the other candy "crystals". I also filled a few small cups with the tiny leftover pieces and sold them as candy rubble cups. We bagged the rubble and crystals and used different colored twist ties to tell the difference between similarly colored flavors like melon and strawberry/melon.  I priced my candy at $1.75, $1.25 and $1.00 and called my business Krazy Krystal Kreations.

A lot of people bought my candy. The candy cups sold out but there were less cups than rubble or crystals. I had lots of fun. Two girls liked the lemon candy so much that they came to my house the next day to buy some more. Next year I will try to make the candy again for TREP$ and hope to have both of my recipes succeed! Having one recipe fail taught me to be think creatively so I did not have to start all over but still managed to be able to sell what I made to some happy customers.

Use of the TREP$ name without our permission is illegal.  If you would like items with TREP$ on them please ask us and we will look into offering them.  This is how the aprons, calculators, banners and buttons became available.  To be fair to you, we make them VERY affordable.  Please be fair to us and respect our trademarked name.  (One exception- signage to publicize the marketplace.  Go For It!  Even though we offer banners, you have our permission to make signs to bring in a crowd!) 

Thanks to a request from Carina in Cooperstown, we are now offering TREP$ Team Buttons for your Teachers and Parent Volunteers to wear at the Marketplace.  $20 for a dozen.

Click here to order, or request them when you order your workbooks and aprons.