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Elderflower liqueur is made from elderflower's which are small, white starry flowers that bloom through the spring and summer. The flower is delicate and tends to lose its fragrance when processed. Elderflower liqueur has a sweet, fruity aroma with subtle hints of wine and floral notes. St. Germain Another name for the Elderflower Cocktail is the 'St. Germain Cocktail', as the most well known elderflower liqueur brand is St. Germain. According to their website it is a "liqueur created in the artisanal French manner from freshly hand-picked elderflower blossoms." Actually now owned by Bacardi Ltd, it is still produced in an...

  I had a bunch of strawberries that were about to go bad and you just can't let those delicious berries go bad, so what's the solution? Make it into a delicious cocktail like a Strawberry Gin Smash Cocktail. If you like gin you'll love this drink, but I did a few tweaks to the recipe. I found it a little too strong (for my taste) in the gin department, so I added another squeeze of lime and a few more muddled strawberries. Yum Yum Yummmmmmy!    Ingredients:   1/2 tsp. sugar 1 lime wedge 3 fresh strawberries, 2 hulled...

Okay, I had to try a cocktail called Skull Smoker even though I'm not a super big beer fan, but tickle me intrigued. I've seen and even sampled a few sips of beer based cocktails (usually when my husband gets excited and orders the wrong thing on the cocktail menu without reading the description), so I decided to use the few beers I have left in the fridge for experimentation time!  I looked at the ingredient list and it has things I love, rum (check!) and lime juice (check!) and it's easy to make (check!!). The verdict, I liked it!...

This Beachcomber cocktail recipe is adapted from the original Beachcomber that is printed in the Trader Vic's Bar-Tender (1947) book.   Ingredients: 2 oz. Light rum 3/4 oz. Triple Sec 3/4 oz. Lime juice 2 dashes Maraschino liqueur 1/4 tsp. Simple syrup (optional) Method: You can blend ingredients with one cup of ice into a blender or shaken in a cocktail shaker and strained into a glass. Either way it's a great summery drink!   Cheers! -Meagan Kyla

Here is part 3 of our blue bathroom re-do. Please do read the other parts here: Part 1 Part 2. It probably took as long to do the little stuff as the big stuff! If you've been following along, then join us on the home stretch! The Sink Area We now had a nice refinished sink top but nothing to put it in...   Here is the old console (and toilet.) Notice the huge space on the left of the console sink....   We decided to slavage the 60-70s era console by filling in the detail, repainting it, and replacing...

Cinco de Mayo or 'The Fifth of May' is right around the corner and it's a time to celebrate freedom with cocktails, friends, family and food. Though a traditional tequila margarita would have done the trick, a popular drink in Mexico, the Paloma Cocktail, is what I'm raising in honor of 'The Day of the Battle of Puebia' as remembered on Cinco de Mayo. Paloma is Spanish for "dove" which is symbol for peace, thus making this the perfect cocktail on this day of remembrance and celebration. Ingredients: 2 oz. Tequila 6 oz. Grapefruit soda (Squirt or Goya grapefruit soda)...

We are always so excited and happy to have our in-store events that not only bring in awesome talent, but gather people around to support local artisian's. We had the pleasure of having Leslie Andrews hang out with us in May to share her kitschy plates along with her laugh-out-loud framed cat butt art and her infectious laughter. We asked Leslie about Warning and what inspires her creative process.     How did you start making these hilariously awesome plates? I've had a passion for plates since discovering the ones done by Fornasetti. I saw some one had made their...

The little black dress went to Chopin and Schumann, with accents of pink and heels of black.   Then classical guitar at a garden party, beyond the mansion in the back.   It took me to stomp out some country, with boots of red and a jacket of blue.   It was there with me in San Diego, at No Doubt with Blink 182.   It hung with cool cats of big band, elegant and retro.   Then a festival with flowers in my hair, dancing in the meadow.   Add a cardigan and tutu, for Lowest of the Low....

I was a little concerned about this cocktail having so many ingredients as I don't  normally drink cocktails that contain a mixture of liquors, but I was pleasantly surprised with the taste of the Miami Beach Iced Tea. The mix of subtle sweetness of the simple syrup combined with the tartness of the lemon juice makes this drink go down very easy and you will be wanting seconds. It's an interesting variation on the traditional Long Island Iced Tea with the color reminding me of the waters of South Beach. Oh to be laying on a beach right now. Sigh.......

  We always have a big bag of little clemetines in our house, so I was wondering if there was something I could whip up in cocktail form, so after some Google searching I came across the Clementine Cocktail. When I read that this recipe included fresh clemetine juice, I busted out the trusty muddler and rolled up my sleeves. Time for some fresh juice a-squeezing!   I wasn't too sure on how to get "fresh squeezed" clemetine juice out of these tiny little fruit's, so I decided to muddle pieces of the clemetine in order to get the two...