Us girls here in Carousel like our style to be in mint condition so we thought we’d share with you some of our Yumi (more like YUMMY!) greeny pastels as well as some recipes on how to make your own mint lip balm and delicious mint juleps to brighten up your April days.

We adore the Yumi Collar Blouse in white and minty green.

http://m2.ilovecarousel.com/yumi-collar-blouse-by-yumi-green.html#!prettyPhoto

And since those temps haven’t quite reached summer highs we’ve also got the Yumi Boat Print Cardigan in a pastel that will make you feel springy all day…

http://m2.ilovecarousel.com/yumi-boat-print-cardigan-by-yumi-green.html

So what would make us feel even more fresh? Some homemade mint lip balm of course! We found out how to make it at www.toriejayne.blogspot.com

What you’ll need:

Cool mint lip balm
Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons of white beeswax pellets (1/2 tsp for leaves)
• 4 tablespoons sunflower oil (1/2 tsp for leaves)
• Few drops of cool mint flavour oil
• Teal food colouring

Packaging

• 6 small acrylic pots
• P1 address labels
• Self adhesive clear film
• Aqua washi tape

Equipment

• Mini leaf mould
• Pipettes
• Microwavable glass jug
• Microwavable small glass jar
• Metal spoon
• Scissors
• Sharp knife

And here’s how to make it:

Start by placing the beeswax pellets and oil in a glass jug and heating in the microwave on low to medium power until the beeswax pellets have melted. Remove jug from microwave and stir with a metal spoon. Using a pipette, add a few drops of mint oil. Add a tiny amount of food colouring to jug of liquid. Stir mixture with metal spoon and continue adding colouring till you achieve desired shade and colour is even. Using a clean pipette, transfer lip balm to pots.

In a small glass pot, melt half a teaspoon of beeswax with a teaspoon of oil in the microwave until beeswax pellets have melted. Add a drop of cool mint oil and stir with a metal spoon. Then using a clean pipette, fill leaf mould with lip balm. As soon as the lip balm turns white, use a sharp knife to remove excess from back. Wait a minute then turn out leaf on to top of aqua cool mint lip balm. Repeat until all cool mint lip balms have a white leaf atop. Leave to set for one hour.

Wrap washi tape around each jar to secure lids. Double click on the artwork above, which will open it up in a new page, and print onto a sheet of P1 address label. Cut a rectangle of self adhesive film large enough to cover all the labels and adhere to printed labels. Carefully, using a sharp pair of scissors, cut around edge of labels then remove backing paper from the labels and attach to bottom of cool mint lip balm jars.

And what better way to cool down than a Mint Julep?

Here’s how to make one, according to DrinksMixer.com: