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This Easter Feed Your Kids’ Imaginations
This time last year we posted here with the headline “Skip the candy and feed your child’s imagination.” And some of you were like, what? Skip the candy? And you know what, you are right! Bring on the candy! Bring on the chocolate eggs and the chocolate bunnies - and not those crappy hollow ones but the big, thick solid ones that you can get down off the top of the fridge and gnaw on after the kids go to bed. Ok, chocolate bunny: check. What else? One chocolate bunny does not an Easter basket make. We need to fill...
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Warning: Spring Break Ahead!
You know that long weekend we just had? That one we call President’s Day in America and Family Day in Canada except for in Manitoba where it’s Louis Riel Day? That February long weekend where we get three whole days to spend with family, four days for those of us who are lucky enough to get a school holiday tacked on?This year we began that long weekend the same way we do every year: with heroic optimism. And then after a few days we felt the same way we do every year: cooped up and frazzled. So (like we...
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Found: Awesome kids to solve spy mystery
You know that expression “There’s a light at the end of the tunnel - and it’s a train”? That’s how we felt in November when we launched our new mystery, Spies, Lies and Serious Bad Guys. We got slammed with orders all through the holiday season. We’re finally picking ourselves up, dusting ourselves off and getting around to some of the things on our to-do list, like posting a detailed product description on our website. If you have been waiting to find out more about what exactly comes in the spy mystery, you can click here.Spies is our most challenging...
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The Answer Is Always Love
As you may or may not know, we mail all of our letters and packages on Tuesdays. And next Tuesday just happens to be Valentine’s Day. We’ve got the date circled with a big red heart and we are thinking all about love. Ok, we are trying to think all about love. We don’t know what it’s like where you live but here it’s been the grayest winter on record. It’s like a giant elephant sat its great gray butt on top of the city and won’t get up. That kind of thing weighs on a person. At a time when the...
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Important information on holiday ship dates
Due to extremely high demand, we have now filled all of our available ship dates through the end of December. You can still order a Mail Order Mystery, but the earliest available ship date is January 10. If you’d still like to give a Mail Order Mystery as a holiday gift, you can download the printable gift note from our website and give it to the child receiving the mystery. Their first installment will then ship on January 10th. Just remember, January 10th is the date the first installment will ship, not the date it will be delivered. We are...
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Gummies for Dummies
Yes we know sugar is terrible, and yes of course we are always telling our kids to eat less of it. But our kids recently found this recipe for homemade gummies that are so much fun to make and eat that we figured you might want to try it out. How to make Homemade Gummies (by the King of Random) All you need is Jello, gelatin, corn syrup and silicone ice cube trays. Back in the old days ice only came in cubes, remember? But nowadays you can make ice shaped like pretty much anything - robots, yetis, tikis,hearts, sharks...