The Mouse's Mint Julep Recipe

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup sugar
• 3 tsp lime juice concentrate
• 3 cups club soda
• 6 Tbsp creme de menthe syrup (not liqueur)
• 6 oz thawed lemonade concentrate
• mint leaves
• pineapple slices
• maraschino cherries
• bamboo skewers

METHOD
Dissolve sugar into club soda. Add lime juice and lemonade and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and add creme de menthe. Chill.

To serve, combine 3 parts syrup to 5 parts water. Add mint, and skewer two pineapple slices and a cherry. Serve chilled (add ice cubes if necessary).

Makes approximately 2/3 gallon

No need to turn blue... the wait is over

"Can you turn into a mermaid on a blue moon?"

That is a question I recently saw posted on WikiAnswers.  And that is not the first time I have seen that concept float by.  The good news is that would-be little mermaids need never wait for a full moon again to experience the joys of mermaidenhood.  

Siren School offers Mermaid Camps to merminions ages 8-12 and mermaidens ages 13-17.  Here you will flip your fins, learn mer-language, do sea crafts, and basically dive into the mermaid life.

In addition to mermaid events, Siren School will offer fairy and other magical experiences for young ladies.  

All in-house camp events are based in coastal Long Beach, California.  But if a group of 8 or more young ladies would like to pod together, the camp experience can travel to where you are!

For details, visit the L'il Mermaids camp page. 

Put a Christmas Sock in It!... or vice versa

Avast ye scurvy dogs, not so fast.  Where der ya think ye be goin'.  The holidays not be over yet.  There still be plenty of time to share yer treasure with captain kids who have no booty of their own.... nor even a ship to sail on to call home.


So grab ye one of them thar Christmas Stockings and fill it with 12 items, one for each day of the twelve days of Christmas.  We be delivering them on January 5th -- that be the final day of the Christmas season, and a day when most kids'll be thinkin their holiday luck and loot have already run run out.


Well don't just sit there.... start collecting yer 12 bits of treasure to share... scoot!  Or I'll be tying ye to the mizzen mast!


And be sure to stop by ye olde Facebook page to tell of yer victory... there be a pint of grape grog waiting fer ye there.