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It’s happy hour at last!
It was a lot of work.
A lot of work and countless cocktails.
But several months and many, many many bottles later my long-awaited (by me, anyway) cocktail recipe book, published by Chronicle Books, is finally available in our web store and in fine gift and book stores everywhere!
This summer’s favorite chez Taintor has been El Presidente. But as the evenings cool (which they are already doing here in Maine, by the way) I’ll be shaking up more Merry Widows, Peckerheads, and Brazen Hussies. I wish I could invite every one of you over for cocktails!
The Pickleback
If you haven’t visited the new products page on our web store in a while, go there right now! Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day giving, we’ve added 3 fun new flasks and 2 fabulous new coaster sets.
And if you think the festivities may leave you with a bit of a hangover, you might also want to pick up a few sets of St-Patrick’s-Day-green shot glasses.
You’ll need them when you pour yourself The Pickleback! Dill pickle juice, which is full of antioxidants, healing salts, and minerals, has long been used in Poland as a cure for the common hangover. The Bushwick Country Club (in lovely Brooklyn!) christened this surprisingly delicious combo, using Old Crow bourbon and McClure’s dill pickle juice. In honor of the day, I suggest you make a small substitution:
The St. Patrick’s Day Pickleback
- 1 shot Jameson’s Irish Whiskey
- 1 shot good quality dill pickle juice (I like Bubbie’s)
Drink the Jameson’s. Now drink the pickle juice. Yum!
At Long Last Luggage Tags
Our fabulous new luggage tags are in stock at last! Just in time for your summer vacation.
I think this is our best collection yet! Check them out:
At Last!
I apologize for being missing in action for so long! Let me know if you want to see my list of excuses.
But I’m back with such exciting news that you’ll forget all about my two weeks of total silence. Yes, our new products for summer ’10 are finally here! (Well, most of them are. Keep your eyes open for another introduction at the end of the month.)
I am most excited to introduce our new Taintorettes, Henrietta Warrick Chase and her sister Janet Warrick Webster! As you all know by now, it is next to impossible to find images of non-Caucasian women in 1940s and 1950s print media. But thanks to Amber Doe, Gal Friday, I found another way to inject a little diversity into my line. When Amber came to work for us she asked if she could use her grandmother’s picture on her business card. (I use the woman from “hurrah! at last I’m 50!”)
I loved Amber’s card so much…
that I asked her if her grandmother would consent to becoming a Taintorette. And she said yes! Henrietta and Janet are the very first Taintorettes who were never professional models… though they are certainly as beautiful as any professional models I have seen.
Please welcome Henrietta…
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and Janet…
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Thank you, ladies!
And check out our other new magnets and sticky notes too. Read more
Don’t Fence Me In
It was one year ago – while I was in New York exhibiting at the National Stationery Show – that my soul mate Pepper went blind.
After he had cataract surgery in June I had to keep him caged or on a leash (absolutely no running or jumping), away from dust (we live in New Mexico: Land of Enchantment… and Dust), and out of the sun for THREE MONTHS! (i.e. the entire summer)
So every evening after the sun went down I would take him for a short walk and this is what I would sing:
Three months of leash-walks and massacring this song (no, I don’t sing as well as Willie) did amount to some good: Pepper can see! And this Shopper:
