Who's the Boss?

October 16th, a Sunday, is national Boss's Day.  This is our opportunity to salute the Top Dog, the Head Honcho, the Big Cheese!

Now, what I am suggesting is not a casual cheers of the Coors Light while sitting down to take in a day's full of football; rather, as with most observed holidays - I recommend that this Sunday holiday be observed the following Monday, October 17th.  This also happens to be Evel Kenevil's birthday - and if you do it right - you can rock both like the daredevil I know you are!

As with most holidays, a gift may be in order for National Boss's Day.  Something practical would be great, allowing your boss to keep up on those innovative and dynamic qualities that allow him/her to rock your professional world.

This Evel Knievel Lego Minifigure lanyard is great for the real fearless leader in your life:  

Or perhaps your boss is the down and dirty type...  Another option is the Evel Knievel napkins - for those boss' that dare to do the dirty jobs!


However you choose to celebrate this day of all days for your boss, remember one thing: this person controls your paycheck.  Go big, or go home!

*This day is especially excited for those that are self-employed.  My "go big or go home" advise still applies...

Under-appreciated foods week!

 

 This week is the time to celebrate two of the worlds under-appreciated foods. Eggs and Mushrooms.

October 11 is World Egg Day! Eggs tend to get a bad wrap. Are they good for you? Are they bad for you? Yes. No. Yes. Maybe. Who knows, and furthermore who cares. Today is a day to celebrate these self-contained packages of awesome. So scramble, fry, beat, boil whip these little devils to your heart's content. Then sit down and check out some of our egg-themed Etsy goodness...


Whether you're looking to dangle some sparkle or some silly from your earlobes we have found egg-themed earrings to fit both criteria.

Enamel Earrings- Fried Eggs

Swarovski clear egg briolette crystal earrings with sterling silver hook with touch of swarovski pearl - 

 

Eat your eggs by candlelight with these unique eggshell candles. 

 

Limited Time - Natural Egg Candle - Half Dozen - Werewolf Scented

 

Or decorate your home with any one of these egg-celent items. 

 

Ceramic Egg Collection

Easter Egg and Toothpick Holder - SALE

Porcelain Egg Planters, Wheat Grass Kit, Egg Sprouts Set of 6

Once you're done its time to rest up for the weekend when it'll be time to celebrate mushrooms! Sure they like dark, damp places, and they usually smell kinda funny - but when it gets down to it, they're always the most fungi (*insert groan here*) at the party.

 October 15 is Mushroom day and there are some very fun mushroom themed items out there on Etsy, so go find them!! Here are a few to get you started. 

Glow in the Dark Mushroom Growing Habitat Kit

Glass Mushroom Garden - Whimsical colorful glass mushroom

Woodland Forest Magic Mushroom ' leaf ring '

 

 

Magical Mushroom Cushion Cover

October is a month for ribbons, pink and red to be specific, and to raise awareness of two major diseases.

Hot Pink Owl Screenprint & Breast Cancer Awareness Tote Bag

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I'm a pathologist and a great deal of my job involves looking at breast biopsies and determining whether or not the sampled tissue contains cancer or not. I'm also a woman and that means I have a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer myself.


With almost 6,000 Etsy items supporting breast cancer awareness it is difficult to chose favorites so I encourage you to browse through on your own. In the mean time here are some items to get you started.

Pink Crystal & Silver Ribbon Breast Cancer Awareness Necklace

Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Awareness Stretchy Bookmark

Pink Ribbon Campaign/ Breast Cancer Awareness Print Polar Fleece Socks

October is also AIDS awareness month. Here is a bit of Red Ribbon action from some of our friends at Etsy.

Red Ribbon HIV AIDS awareness ribbon dangle earrings

AIDS Awareness ASL Hand Sculptures

Tatted Awareness Ribbon Pendant Necklace

Read a Child a Book You Like Day

Do you read to your kids? Do you read to your sibling's kids? Do you read to your friends' or neighbors' kids? Do you read to kids???

My personal experience with reading to children is that there are about five books at any given point in time with which the child is in love and will insist that you read to them over...and over... and over... and OVER... again. Well tomorrow is your day to choose the bedtime story and it gets to be a book that YOU like! While it may be tempting to read some Poe to little Johnny or Susie let's at least try to remain professional and keep the title age appropriate. With that in mind, here is a list of child appropriate stories in no particular chronological order.

Read part of it for free HERE

All my friends are dead. When I first saw this book I thought - OMG that is AWESOME! Then I thought, Wow... *snicker* That might be kinda rough for a kids book. Then my 3 year old nephew read it to me and giggled uncontrollably as he told me "All my friends are bread!" As it turns out, this book is pretty hilarious. For both kids and adults. Available at Amazon this qualifies as a book I like.

     

Where the Red Fern Grows is the first book I read growing up where I identified with the characters enough that I cared about what happened to them. I'm not going to say that I cried like a baby, but I'm not going to say that I didn't either. This book is definitely for the more mature "child" and is more of a marathon than a bed time story, but it ranks highly on the "books I like" list.




Anything by Dr. Seuss is probably a good bet, and for the most part they have at least some educational value be it learning to rhyme (One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish), understanding that being different doesn't make you better (The Sneeches), that the environment is something that should be protected (The Lorax), or that you should eat your greens (Green Eggs and Ham). It is hard to go wrong with "The Doctor"

For the adult children in your life a quick list of adult books that I like follows:

The Hobbit
The Dark Tower (series)
Lord of the Flies
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
1984
Dracula
World War Z

Don't Dream It... Be It!

At the late night, double feature, picture show! 

Folks September 26th is the birthday of the sweetest transvestitey-ist to ever hail from Transexual Transylvaniay-ist rock musical in the history of ever. On this day in 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show film debuted. It was awesome then. And it's still awesome now. So grab your tap shoes, a wicked-badass pair of sunglasses and get ready to do the Time Warp again! Here is a list of party favors and merchandise to make your Rocky Horror Celebration the envy of everyone.

Rocky Horror Lips Necklace

Rocky Horror V-Neck

RHPS Survival Kit

One Hit Wonders

Tomorrow is one-hit-wonder day. For your viewing pleasure is a series of videos from some of my favorites from my one-hit-wonder playlist.

 

This is CLEARLY not an exhaustive list, but I tried to include a little something from each of the past four decades so hopefully there is something for everybody. Make sure to post some of your favorite songs from the elite class of musicians briefly great enough to be called one-hit-wonders!

Band-Aid

Women are inspirational - there's no question about it.  The Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo, Band-Aids.  Wait...  Band-Aids? 

You got it.  In 1921, a cotton purchaser for Johnson & Johnson noticed that his wife was getting a lot of cuts in the kitchen. Earle Dickinson watched as his better half worked around the bulky adhesive and gauze she used to cover her knicks, and noted her frustration as those active hands worked their way out of the ill-fitting bandage.

Let's assume that Earle was trying to do his wife a solid, and wasn't just paranoid about open wounds in his kitchen.  Using his cunning, some inspiration from his lovely counterpart, and the backing of Johnson & Johnson - on September 22, 1921 the modern-day Band-Aid was born! 

Dear Earle -

Thanks for Band-Aids, man.  On a daily basis, you help moms bandage boo-boos, give paper-cuts the proverbial finger, and offer protection against shoes that rub in all the wrong places.  Who would have thought that some sterile adhesive, a little gauze and your dream of covering your clumsy wife's bleeding hands in the kitchen would have amounted to so very much.  Your continued accomplishments with J&J were well warranted.  Salute!

Did you know?...  Band-Aids didn't take off until Johnson & Johnson started giving them out for free to Boyscout troops.  Then, and now, Band-Aids are great donation items!  Homeless and women's shelters are always in need.  In honor of Earle, pick up a few boxes of Band-Aids to donate this month!