Planning a picnic can be as simple as spontaneously hitting your local sub shop and grabbing a couple of sandwiches and a bag of chips. Or it can be as elaborate as scheduling months in advance so you have time not only to create mouth-watering dishes fit for a king, but also the time to craft decorations the queen will adore.
If you tend to the former but would love to do the latter, you need to check out Festive Picnics featuring:
* A guide to gourmet picnic eats plus craft ideas for making outdoor meals festive and fun.
* Features 8 recipes for picnic barbecues and 6 thirst-quenching recipes for cool picnic drinks.
* Plus menu suggestions for holidays and themes such as a beach party, a bike/hike outing, and more.
* Also included is a handy picnic packing list.
Inside this 112 page book you will find great full color photographs of many of the crafty decorations and yummy dishes.
Eating al fresco was never so cool. Get yours today and enjoy a moveable feast!
With the 4th of July holiday coming in the United States and picnic season in full swing for the Northern Hemisphere many folks are planning fun outdoor events featuring family, food and fun! And sometimes fireworks like this finale from the Rhythm and Booms celebration in Madison:
Whether you host a big backyard barbecue or pack up a car full of goodies for cooking out at the park, this Picnic Table Condiment Set is perfect for corralling the essential condiments.
There are places at this miniature picnic table for salt & pepper, ketchup & mustard containers.
Not only an adorable tabletop al fresco dining decoration but also can become a centerpiece for your everyday table.
A price that won’t break the picnic budget for $17.95, today only the Monday Madness price is $12.57 - you’ll save enough to buy some fancy plates.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse
Friends have always been a very important part of my life. I went to college with my two best friends from high school. I work for two of my best friends from college. I treasure my friendships and know that I am a better person for all the people that have been my friends.
I want to point to two great products for you to use to reach out to your friends and celebrate your friendship.
The first is our Friend Vouchers. This fun play on a coupon book includes 20 vouchers for things like “Honest Opinion” and “Treat for Dinner” on perforated card stock for easy redemption. “Road Trip” and “Party Assistance” are my favorites. Empower your friends to call on you for whatever they need.
The second comes from our very popular Between Me and You series of journals: Between Me and You Girl. A great gift for a friend celebrating a milestone birthday or even just as a pick-me-up for when life hands you lemons. Spiral bound hard cover full of interesting questions you’d forgotten you wanted the answers to, like:
What do you think is the most important thing we have in common?
If you could give me just one bit of advice, what would it be?
What do you think our next adventure should be?
I recommend you buy two so you can fill one out to give to your friend and give her a blank one to fill out for you. You’ll cherish the thoughtful answers you receive as a gift and give your friend a great keepsake.
There are tons of cool gifts for your friends - check out all the fun new stuff today!
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably. ~William Penn
This great thoughtful gift set combines a Kim & Jason matted print with an 11 oz. coffee mug and a bag of Starbucks® House Blend coffee. The 8×10 print and dishwasher safe mug both feature Kim and Jason carefully preparing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the quote: “Friends always stick together.” The 2.5 oz. bag of ground coffee brews a standard 10- to 12-cup pot of coffee, guaranteed to get you going in the morning.
“A true friend is like the shade of a great tree in the noonday heat,” said Margaret Fishback Powers. This full color print is a great gift for your most treasured friend. Matted in an 8×10 black aluminum frame.
A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow
This week’s Monday Madness item is great for those times when you’re sitting with your friends sharing laughter and life: Girlfriends Tea Tin!
Each whimsically designed tin contains 24 bags of quality English Breakfast black tea, tagged with insightful and humorous quotes that your girlfriends will appreciate.
Bag Ladies Teas are best served up hot, with a dash of humor and a little light-hearted sisterhood, to help you “steep” through life’s everyday dilemmas and delights. 100% natural ingredients with absolutely no preservatives.
Two dozen cups of tea complete with chuckles for $11.95 make a great gift to give. Our Monday Madness price of $8.37 you should befriend yourself!
I’m gonna wrap up this week’s tribute to Dairy Month with a focus on milk.
Here’s some links to sites loaded with information about moo juice, there’s also celebrity milk mustaches, games & other fun stuff too:
Even the Dark Knight is a part of the action.
There’s all kinds of cool things about milk and what’s more childlike than making chocolate milk?
Our awesome Moo Mixer is just the thing for adding a little zip to the fun of mixing up cold refreshing chocolate milk. It smoothly combines milk with your favorite source of chocolate with it’s cool mixing whisk. Check out the infomercialtainment video we created to show exactly how great the Moo Mixer Supreme is:
What kind of Wisconsin company would we be if we didn’t celebrate cheese?
Indeed we have several items that make great gifts for those that delight in dairy and those who hail from the land of cheese.
I will kick things off with our “Say Cheese” Print. Featuring the Kim and Jason characters enjoying a country moment, this colorful 8×10 matted artwork paints a charming portrait of dairy life.
Need a card to go with that print? Try our fun any occasion card from the Jelly Bean Greeting Card collection entitled: “Grilled Cheese.”
Speaking of grilled cheese, we’ve got a great cookbook full of wonderful gouda-ness. The 108-page Grilled Cheese cook book features 50 fabulous recipes utilizing creative combinations of cheese and bread.
Another cheesy card, “Mysterious Wonders” is a fun one for birthdays.
Back in the kitchen you can whip up delicious dishes with the Macaroni & Cheese cook book. Recipes for everything from main entrees to side dishes fill the 132 pages. Featuring 24 mouth watering color photographs, this book is a must have for new cooks and veteran chefs alike.
Don’t forget our wonderful Mouse Cheese Grater to help you bring those blocks down to shreds.
Since 1937 June has been celebrated as National Dairy Month. Starting out as a way to help stores promote milk, it wasn’t long before all of the items in the dairy aisle were included.
As a part of my 4-H responsibilities, I gave demonstrations around the county of recipes using dairy products. I enjoyed preparing dishes that featured cheese - they were easy and popular with the groups to whom I was presenting.
Using blocks of cheese and grating while prepping was recommended but difficult to do. I think with our Mouse Cheese Grater it would have been easier and a lot more fun!
Reminiscent of the mice from the board game Mousetrap, the grater is hidden on the underside of the mouse.
The plastic shape captures all the grated cheese making it easy to use in your recipes or as an add-on for your favorite dishes.
Normally priced at $9.95 the Monday Madness price for June 16th is only $6.97!
Catch this mouse for fun addition to your kitchen tools!
