Mud Puddle Books

I bought the «decorate santas Christmas cookie plate book and kit». This item is the biggest rip off ever and I will never buy another product from this company. I bought it two weeks before Christmas so my 6 year old could decorate it. It seemed really cool. Well first off the plate is so small that you can only put one cookie on it! After opening it and going through the book of picture of ideas I noticed that the kit only came with 3 markers and the book had lots more colors than the 3 it came with. I emailed the company to see if I could get more markers with no response. So 4 days before Xmas we decided to do the plate with no more markers cause I never got a response from them. My son opens the black marker to start to color on the plate, the tip was white. After holding the marker up to the light we noticed their wasn’t even any ink inside the marker. We proceeded anyway with the red and green marker. After he finished we followed the directions and placed the plate in the oven so the markers would dry to the plate and they wouldn’t come off. After 25 minutes the plate looked like crap. The makers dried all out and came off the plate. I called the company with no answer and was able to leave a message. The next day I got a response asking me if I could provide my address for more markers. Are you kidding me? The day before Xmas eve they wanted to send me markers so I could decorate the plate after Xmas. Lol I did respond and let them know the issues with the marker and plate with no response. What a rip off and a waste of $ 10. Don’t waste your money on their products.

Partial list of the Rules of the IBF (International Bar Flies)
— from «Barflies and Cocktails», published in Paris in 1927:
1. The IBF is a secret and sacred fraternal organization devoted to the uplift and downfall of serious drinkers.
2. Members must buy — if not at the moment, sometime. What is a decade among friends?
5. Members bumping their chins on the bar rail in the act of falling are suspended for 10 days.
11. Remember, nothing is on the house but the roof.
12. Those who decide drinking is a menace are welcome at all times. But just keep quiet.
Mud Puddle Books has taken the love of vintage cocktail books and started a new little venture — reproducing vintage books ranging from «Barflies and Cocktails» to «Recipes of American and Other Iced Drinks» (originally published in 1908 by Farrow & Jackson in London). And of course «The Modern Bartenders Guide» originally published in 1884.
Want to see how they made a Manhattan in London in 1908? It’s a little different than what you think.
BTW, IBF was started by Harry McElhone (of Harry’s New York Bar in Paris) and two other esteemed drinkers.
So a little toast for the IBF:
Here’s to a long life, and a merry one,
To a quick death and a happy one,
To a good girl and a pretty one
To a cold bottle and another one.