Gamble Acres: Supernatural in 1:6 Scale

Cocktails A sordid tale of crafting dozens of tiny odds and ends in a quest for more alcohol for my dolls. But first, Ellen Harvelle demonstrates how to muddle Angostura Bitters, a sugar cube, and water to make an Old Fashioned: I feel we need the history of the Old Fashioned, and also an explanation of that bottle she's holding in the first photo: Colonists from Europe brought their methods of distilling alcohol to the New World.  By the early nineteenth century, simple mixed drinks of whiskey, sugar, water, and bitters were  popular with tipplers.  The year 1806 saw the first use of the name 'cocktail' in print.   By the1860's, bartenders were adding fancier ingredients to cocktails.  These new-fangled drinks were very popular, but some folks began to ask for "the old fashioned kind" of cocktail.  The standard recipe for an Old Fashioned was published in 1895.   Today, the Old Fashioned is considered a classic cocktail.   Fun fact...

For MerMay 2023, I decided to go with a Seven Seas theme, and dressed dolls from my collection in homemade traditional garb. I did a few of the prompts, using the Seven Seas mermaids, photos from the previous year, and random dolls.  Below, FISH STORY: Below, Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico react to being called shallow.  I thought I was so clever using the smallest (thus, presumably, the shallowest) of the seven seas.  I think the prompt for this photo might have been HAGFISH. Below, I re-used photos from MerMay 2022 for the prompt of SALTY.  I get almost all of my dolls from thrift stores, and when my collection gets too big, I re-donate some of the "supporting cast" dolls.  Thus Kiki the mermaid shipping out with the "Salvation Navy."  I crack myself up. Below, Atlantic and Caribbean discuss their SEA-CRETS: Thanks to posting the photo above on Instagram, I finally learned the origin of a little folk doll my great-uncle had brought back from Europe for ...