Amy Smyth Made It - Something Else For Which To Be Thankful

Why not start a tradition of showing your friends and family that they are one of the many things for which you are thankful by starting a new tradition and sending a Thanksgiving Card?

Face of card reads " Thanksgiving Reminder: Remain Perky" Inside reads: "Even after Turkey, Happy Thanksgiving"


Package of 10 Cards and Envelopes made in the USA with recylced paper. Created by renowed Virginia artist Amy Smyth. Find more of Amy's brilliant cards and invitations in our store.

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Oh the Places You Will Go ! Poster at Tuesdays And Thursdays

Dr Seuss is brilliant - Oh The Places You'll Go - can you think of a better expression to be said upon graduation, a new job, or relocation?

Available now at Tuesdays and Thursdays

Now Playing On The Tuesdays And Thursdays iPod - Tenth Avenue North "Love Is Here"

A New Music Discovery that made some of our Ordinary Days Extraordinary - so we just had to share!

Abima Little Uglydoll

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Christmas Cocktails Invitations - Amy Smyth Made It

Christmas Cocktails Party Invitations

 Pack of Ten Invitations and Envelopes

These invitations read "Christmas Cocktails" and feature fill-in areas for "date and time" "where" "hosted by" and "rsvp"

 Each invite measures 4 1/2" x 6 1/4" Created by renowed Virginia Artist Amy Smyth, these invitations keep with the spirit of the season by featuring snow dusted pinecones, pine sprigs, and red berries (are they holly berries or cranberries from the martinis - guess you will have to go to the party to find out!)

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Magnetic Poetry - Christian Kit - Now At Tuesdays And Thursdays

Profess your piety with the Christian Kit--a collection of over 240 reverent words designed to give expression to Christian themes and ideas. Your fridge can say prayers with words like joy, everlasting, almighty and temptation.





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Magnetic Poetry Stand - now at Tuesdays And Thursdays

Take a break from work or study and create poetry from the comfort of your couch or desk with this portable, all in one Magnetic Poetry kit. Included are an eclectic collection of over 200 word tiles (including dizzy, garden, giggle, lunch, music and ricochet), a portable 10 x 13" metal board and a sturdy base—everything you need for spontaneous wordplay.

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Favourite Words : Raconteur

Raconteur


noun

a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly

In keeping with our goal of making ordinary days extraordinary, from time to time we will be adding more new, interesting, and sometimes forgotten, words to the Tuesdays And Thursdays blog roll.

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Peaco Little Uglydoll

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Happy Independence Day

New York City Handmade Baseball by Bergino

On the ball highlights include: Central Park, Rockefeller Center, Greenwich Village, Soho, Little Italy, Chinatown, Financial District, South Street Seaport, Brooklyn Bridge...

Handmade to professional standards. Unique gloss wraparound artwork.

Includes clear plastic cylinder packaging.

Availbable now at Tuesdays And Thursdays

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Peach Boy Ishababies by Aisha & Co

Now Available atTuesdays and Thursdays

Max the King / Where The Wild Things Are Poster

Our growing collection of Where The Wild Things Are Gifts and Posters are available now at Tuesdays and Thursdays

Chuckanucka Little Uglydoll

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When The Green Movement Has Gone Too Far

TOO FAR Christmas Cards

Pack of 10 Cards and Envelopes

Face of Card reads "When Green Movement Goes TOO FAR" and features a Christmas Tree topped with an energy efficient light bulb. Inside reads "Put A Star on th Tree and Have A Happy Holiday"

Made in the USA using recycled paper with at least 50% post consumer content. Recycled paper used for both the cards and envelopes. Created by renoned Virginia artist Amy Smyth.

Find more brilliantly funny cards and whimsical invitations from Amy Smith in our store.

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The Hour Is Approaching

9 Months From Today is Earth Hour 2009 - Stay Tuned For Details

Italian Magnetic Poetry now at Tuesdays And Thursdays

Magnetic Poetry World Series Kits are the international versions of the popular American phenomonen. Each was created by native speakers of the respective language, and care was taken to bring out the poetic delights of their mother tongue for natives and learners alike.

Available now at Tuesdays and Thursdays

Curious George Alphabet Poster now at Tuesdays And Thursdays

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Magnetic Poetry - It All Started With A Sneeze

It all started with a song and a sneeze. Dave Kapell, founder of Magnetic Poetry, was suffering from writer's block while trying to compose song lyrics. To overcome this problem, he wrote down interesting words on pieces of paper and rearranged them, looking for inspiration. What he hadn't figured into this experiment was his allergies. One good sneeze and any progress was sent flying across the room. Dave decided to glue the words to pieces of magnets and stick them to a pizza tin. Then he got hungry and the now magnetized words made their way to the refrigerator door. Before too long, Dave wasn't the only one rearranging his would-be song lyrics. When friends came over, Dave noticed they started to move the magnets around, amusing themselves by writing the first magnetic poems.

After seeing his friends having fun, Dave thought he might be able to sell his word kits at a local craft fair. He made up 100 kits and set up shop at Calhoun Square, a mall in the Uptown area of Minneapolis. All 100 kits were gone after 3 hours. That night, he recruited as many friends as pizza and beer could draw and made up more kits--all of which sold as rapidly the next day.

From these beginnings, Magnetic Poetry® has now sold over three million word kits, over one billion word tiles--growing from the Original Kit to a kid's line of kits, to foreign language kits, to Voice/theme kits.

And since March 2008 Magnetic Poetry has been a part of Tuesdays and Thursdays - Making Ordinary Days (and refrigerators) Extraordinary

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Making Ordinary Getways Extraordinary : Virgin Atlantic

Making Ordinary Days Smashingly Extraordinary
Sometimes the best way to make an ordinary day extraodinary requires getting away from it all. Our favourite places to get away usually can be reached on Virgin Atlantic

A caffeinated boost to make ordinary gardens extraordinary

One of the more brilliant things done by Starbucks, and not known by many people, is the "Grounds For Your Garden" program. In virtually every company owned Starbucks across the US Starbucks saves the used grounds for gardeners. Rose afficianados know well how spreading coffee grounds as a top dressing on the flower beds produce the most brilliant blooms, but virtually every other plant in the garden benefits as well. The grounds are always bagged up - reusing those bags in which the whole beans are shipped to the stores - so getting them home is easy.

Besides using the grounds as a top dressing for blooming plants, grounds have also been scattered around the base of foundation plants. On occassion, when there is a bit too much carbon based items in the compost (primarily all those dried leaves in Autumn) an addition of nitogen rich coffee grounds sets the compost back into balance. Aside from the benefit to my garden, the program also keeps millions of pounds of waste out of landfills.

Sometimes its little things like this that can make ordinary days, and ordinary gardens, into extraordinary ones!

Great Quotes Worth Sharing : Wisdom From Jame Michener

“The main purpose of life is: To have a job in whose purpose you can believe; To have friends whose immediate purposes you can trust; To have some spot on earth to which you can return as home; To be at the same time a citizen of a larger world.”
- James A. Michener

Wedgehead Little Uglydoll

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Enchanted Writing

Sugar and spice and everything nice - but sometimes a young lady has a secret that she wants to share, but wants no one else to know.

A lock and key diary is a traditional part of growing up and makes a great gift. Many styles are available featuring images of favourite characters girls love. At Tuesdays And Thursdays one of our favourite styles is the Fairy Writing Lock And Key Diary. It's an Enchanting Gift!

It's 5 1/4 x 6" hardback journal, with:240 lined pages, Padlock with 2 keys and comes in an Acetate gift box.

Amy Smyth Made It !

The latest addition to Tuesdays And Thursdays is a humorous collection of cards and invitations from Amy Smyth!

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12 Days Of A San Diego Christmas

A Boxed set of 15 5" x 7" cards featuring San Diego icons arranged like a Christmas Tree!

A seagull in a Balboa Park Tree, 2 Perky Pandas, 3 Jolly Sailors, 4 Swaying Palms, 5 Golden Sunsets, 6 Trollie-a-Rolling, 7 Surfers Hanging, 8 Bouganvillea Blooming, 9 Avocados Dancing, 10 Dolphins Leaping, 11 Chargers Blocking, 12 Sunburned Tourists.


Coming Soon to Tuesdays and Thursdays

Madonna's English Roses Lock and Key Diary

Now available at Tuesdays and Thursdays - Making Ordinary Days Extraordinary

Paddington Bear Joins The Fun At Tuesdays And Thursdays

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A Lesson From Robert F Kennedy

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert Kennedy

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Children know this. Children live this. So why do we as adults forget this important lesson?

Daring to fail greatly starts in infancy: pushing our bodies to roll over, to see our world from a different vantage point that WE decide. Of course later on there is walking. Boom! Fall down. Get up and do it again, know that a fall could happen again. Babies, and even the adults around them do not see the falls as failures, they all seem to know that it is a part of the process of learning to walk. So why is it that we as adults are so afraid of the stumble in our lives?


Are we afraid of failure, or is our fear more deeply rooted in the words and reactions of others who may see us on that journey? Does the reaction of others, or our perception of the reaction of others really matter? In that vein does failure even matter, perhaps failure is a perception as well. Thomas Edison referred to all the attempts at creating a lightbulb '1000 way of how not to make a light bulb.' Of coure there are all those lab workers who crash cars into walls, looking for failure points, all in the name of learning how to make a safer automobile.

Perhaps the biggest misnomer of failure is its absoluteness. The Kennedy family has had more than its share of triumph and tragedy, but every member of the family picked themselves up, often multiple times in their lives, and worked to complete the tasks at hand. Failure doesn't have to be final, it can be a speedbump on our journey, a chance to slow down and really examine all that is around us, then continue on the journey, toward success.

Way Out Wax - Coming Soon To Tuesdays And Thursdays

Way Out Wax was founded in 1992 with a vision to produce hand-crafted works of art utilizing socially and environmentally responsible business practices. Their products are a reflection of our beautiful natural surroundings and the lifestyles of those who make them, embracing good health and maintaining the balance of nature. The people at Way Out Wax firmly believe in the "Triple Bottom Line" (People, Planet...then, Profit) and strive to create an alternative working atmosphere where creativity, flexibility and respect are given top priority. It's their goal to build lasting friendships with our customers, our community and one another.

Plus, their long lasting candles smell fantastic!

Way Out Wax candles have made some of our ordinary days extraordinary - they'll be joining the Tuesdays and Thursdays lineup shortly.

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