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Art Collecting Just Got Fun. And Functional.

The Golden Birthday. The First Kiss. The New Job. The Milestone Anniversary. Life is filled with big deals. The stuff that sweeps us off our feet and the moments we remember forever. We often mark these occasions with greeting cards, because emails and text messages just won't do. But the worst is being stuck without a card and having to make a last-minute trek to find the right one in a rush. Blechh. Talk about a major downer and an epic pain in the butt. Life is busy enough without this extra hassle. …

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New Jelly Bean Inspired Greeting Card Sets

It was the classic dilemma of childhood. You walk into a candy store, greeted by the jingling bell tied to the front door. Your feet shuffle across the black and white tiled floor to the glass case showing off its colorful assortment of sugary goodness. Holding everything from fudge to to gumdrops to saltwater taffy, it was willing to part with its carefully guarded yummy treasures -- at a price. You'd plunk your handful of pennies down on the counter and begin the thoughtful deliberation. Sadly, the days of being able to buy candy for a penny are behind us, and the old fashioned corner …

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Red Rover Approved Clothing

I collect t-shirts. I love 'em. Except for when I play dress-up at weddings and funerals, I pretty much wear one every single day. I even wear a t-shirt when I speak, which absolutely horrifies my more uptight, more "properly dressed" speaker friends. I have nothing against ties, I just don't want them strangling my neck on a regular basis. As a graphic artist, one of my favorite things to do is design t-shirts. It's one thing for an artist to have someone point out how much they appreciate a particular work, but it's another thing entirely to have them like it enough to actually wear …

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Old School Love for New Tee

Our "Old School" Hopscotch T-Shirt is getting lots of love. First this schoolyard classic was top of the Daytee voting two weeks ago, and now it receives some bloglove from a cool t-shirt-loving blogger, Coty Gonzales. I'll confess I was never a huge hopscotchist (hopscotchianado? hopscotcher?). Maybe it the gravel driveway we had growing up or maybe it was my clumsiness that doomed me to skinned knees with all that hopping about, either way I certainly don't have the fond memories Coty has of hopscotching in Hawaii: I have to admit, in elementary school I had some mad Hopscotch …

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Have You Ever Washed Your Face with a Fudgesicle?

Sometimes I wonder if we'll ever have enough money to make a Super Bowl commercial. Maybe one starring a dancing lizard or Justin Timberlake. And then I wonder that even if we did, would I be crazy enough to spend it in such a gratuitous manner? We'll cross that bridge when we get there, I suppose. Until then, we'll continue to operate with a shoestring marketing budget that is short on cabbage and long on weird ideas. Which is actually a good thing. And very childlike, indeed. When I was a kid, afternoons often evaporated in a whirlwind of exciting adventure fueled by little more …

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