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“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito.”

- Anita Roddick, Founder, The Body Shop



It's often the little things that can make ordinary days extraordinary.

Accessorizing To Make Ordinary Days Extraordinary

Typical Sunday at Tuesdays and Thursdays, instead of taking time off we attended Accessories The Show at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City and made some very interesting contacts with a few vendors.

The show is more fashion oriented that the shows we usually attend, but in-between all the handbags and jewelry we came across a few things that hold a great deal of promise for us. Details on our discoveries will be coming soon!

Now Playing on the Tuesdays and Thursdays iPod : Emma Bunton, So Nice

Oh Baby Spice!

We don't sell music, yet, but Emma has made of some of our Ordinary Days Extraordinary, so we just had to share!

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UglyDog Uglydoll

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Jeero & Fries

Jeero loves fries - they're Jeero colored!

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Amy Smyth Made It Christmas Cards

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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All You Need for the Best Birthday Bash

Eric Carle Birthday Kit
Hosting an unforgettable party has never been easier! Featuring Eric Carle's beautiful artwork, this all-inclusive birthday kit is packed with goodies and fun-filled suggestions for snacks, crafts, and games.

Includes: 24-page booklet with party-planning tips, recipes, and games; 20 festive party-favor bags; 20 colorful crowns; decorative "Happy Birthday" banner; Pin-the-Tail-on-the-Elephant game; and more than 50 stickers.

Eric Carle is an acclaimed and beloved creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for young children. Since The Very Hungry Caterpillar was published in 1969, he has illustrated more than 70 books, most of which he also wrote. Eric and his wife Barbara currently divide their time between the Florida Keys and the hills of western Massachusetts.

Available now at Tuesdays and Thursdays

Ishababies Are Here !

You'll love this soft plush doll!

Play with her raven tufts! Take her anywhere, cuddle with her, and tell her your deepest secrets.

This 12" velvety girl with raven cloud-like puffs and Mocha body will charm her way into your life! Contains all new materials, filled with polyester fibers. She comes with her own suntop, colours of clothes vary , but right now we have the pink suntop in stock just like the top pictured here.

Ishababies are for children ages 3 and up. One of the brilliant things about the line is that the facial features are embroidered, so there is no rish of chocking hazards if a younger brother or sister gets hold of them.

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Mad Men - Season 2 - Starts Sunday! (We Can't Wait!)

Sometimes

Sometimes in order to move forward we have to stop looking back, move away from the known and comfortable, all we have to do is keep moving on, even if we feel uncomfortable, vulnerable again, you may never feel ready to move on, but you have to, because that’s how we grow, and growing is what it’s all about.

A bedtime story sounds right about now ...

Goodnight Moon Gift Available now at Tuesdays and Thursdays

IceBat Little Uglydoll

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"A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." - economist Paul Romer

This new take on “neccesity is the mother of invention” and ya know, Paul Romer has something there.

Think about it, virtually everyone in the US has felt the increase in oil prices in some capacity. Sure, there are people who are doing without certain things in their daily routine, but for most of us, this time of upheaval is an opportunity to, well, seize opportunities.

In some part of the country, the number of people using mass transit and carpooling has increased to the point that traffic, and the dreaded traffic jam, has diminished. Not only can the people who out of neccessity must drive get places more quickly, but ambulances, and fire brigades, and other emergency responders can move about more freely.

The increase in food prices has forced some people to eat lower on the food chain which is actually healthier.

It’s easy to hang out the “Why Me” banner in times like these, but instead, hang out the “Why Not” banner! With energy prices going up, winter heating is sure to be more costly this year, so why not take advantage of long summer days to insulate your attic and weather strip the windows. Air travel is crazy expensive (and more crowded and filthier than ever) – so why not jump on line and do a little research on weekend getaways in your area; and don’t discount the fun of the local church carnival – as hokey as those things may be, they are fun.

The only crisis in wasting a crisis, is missing all the opportunities it presents.

On The Tuesdays and Thursdays Bookshelf - Bottlemania

"With sales having already surpassed those of milk and beer, and second now only to soda, bottled water is on the verge of becoming the most popular beverage in the country. Only now, with the bottled water industry trading in billions of dollars, have we begun to question the environmental and social fall out of what we're drinking."
"Elizabeth Royte finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that bring bottled water from nature to our supermarkets. As she visits filtration plants and natural springs, Royte lays out the issues that surround the seemingly simple matter of what we ought to drink: Who owns the water that flows underground, and is it right for corporations to profit from it? How do the manufacture, transportation, and disposal of plastic water bottles affect the environment? Is the stuff coming from our taps okay to drink? If not, what can we do to make our water safe and tasty? And while everyone acknowledges that we must protect public water supplies from pollution, what should we do about privatization?"--BOOK JACKET.

Bottlemania is one of those books that not only left us in shock because something so simple and necessary for life, water, has become a commodity, but also many resouces including oil are used to bring us "branded water." We're all about making ordinary days extraordinary, but the folks who bring us bottled water have taken that concept to an extreme. (So run out to the local Barnes and Noble and pick up a copy today; and in the meantime, spend a little of that money that eventually would have been flushed in our store - 'cause we really make ordinary days extraordinary!)

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Run For Your Life - The Bunnies Have Escaped

This video clip is so ridiculously funny we just had to share!

Finding A Colourful Solmate At Tuesdays and Thursdays

Life is too short for matching socks, especially when you can wear these fun and beautiful socks! Multipatterned and colorful mismatched socks for children, adults, and now babies from Vermont's Socklady.

Marianne Wakerlin, the Socklady is the founder and owner of Sol Mate Socks. The company is named after her mom, Sunny, who taught Marianne how to knit. Marianne continued to knit for the next 40 years, but it wasn’t until she started knitting socks that her real passion was born.

"I found it exhilarating, designing a pair of socks that didn't match and were knit in random patterns with multiple colors. I loved my finished socks!" Within a few years Marianne had knit over one hundred pairs of socks for family and friends, and she decided to turn her hobby into a business. Her colorful and complex patterns are knit in the USA at a family owned knitting mill, hand finished and mismatched.

Solmate Socks are a part of the fun at Tuesdays and Thursdays

Madona's English Roses Lock and Key Diary

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Now Playing on the TuesdaysAndThursdays ipod - Estelle "go gone"

A funky soulful song of empowerment from the across the pond!

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