Greggo Magnets Join the Fun At Tuesdays And Thursdays

Taking fridge magnets a notch above the usual, Greggo Magnets creates themed magnet sets for the artist and intellectual just waiting to express themselves on everyone's favourite home appliance!

The die-cut images are printed on a 7" x 9" ;sheet - ready for you to pop out and express your own magnetic personality.

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UglyWorm Little Uglydoll

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Seeds

There are times in life when we feel as if we are just drifting over empty fields without a purpose, without direction. Our instinct tells us we should be doing more but without sore muscles or calluses we have no way to really know how many seeds we have already planted. Then, one day, green shoots appear, burst through the mud, reminding us of all of the work that we have done, and how much we will reap.

Coming Soon To Tuesdays And Thursdays : Envirosax

We discovered Envirosax a the New York International Gift Fair in 2007 and, aside from falling in love with the Australian accents of the staff, we fell in love with the brilliant concept of Envirosax!

Unlike the bulky grocery sacks that are sold through some of the grocery stores, Envirosax roll up into small rolls - about the size of a large prescription bottle - making them easy to stash in the glove box, messenger bag, even a purse! And the little snappy thing on each bag secures them once rolled.

The grocery carrying angle is great, but we found that these compact bags are perfect to stash with us when we go to the Farmer's Market, local street fairs where we are sure to buy too much!, craft fairs, even garage sales! And since they are waterproof, they are come in super handy for wet swimsuits and towels after a day of fun.
Rolled up the bag measures 4” x 1.5” Unrolled it's dimensions are 19.5” x 16.5” The bag itself weighs only 1.4 ounces but can carry a whopping 44 pounds!

Envirosax are a new addition to Tuesdays And Thursdays - watch for more brilliant styles to arrive soon!





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Bergino Handmade Baseballs - New York City Map

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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Now Playing On The T&T iPod : Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse / Valerie

We love Amy Winehouse, but you know what would make our ordinary day extraordinary? Figuring out what Amy is hiding in that beehive!

Carrot mythology

Carrots are a great source of Vitamin A. Vitamin A deficencies can result in poor eyesight and other occular conditions. However eating more carrots and taking Vitamin A supplements does not improve vision.

The rumor about carrots improving eyesight was started as a part of disinformation campaign during World War II. The Royal Air Force was using an early form of radar and did not want the Nazis to know anything about this new technology. So to explain why British pilots had such an impressive records of hitting their targets, the Home Office explained that the pilots were eating large amounts of carrots.

We find seemingly ordinary stories like this to be extraordinary - from time to time we'll share more stories on the Tuesdays And Thursdays blog roll.

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Charlie and Lola - Giggling Everyday at Tuesdays And Thursdays

Based on the Lauren Child’s books and made famous by the CeBeebies Television programme Lola and Charlie are just now being discovered in the United States on Playhouse Disney.

Charlie and Lola are 8 inches tall and giggle just like the real Charlie and Lola when you press their tummies! Lauren Childs created the characters after an encounter with two similarly aged children on a train in Denmark. The antics of seven year old Charlie and his sister Lola “who is quite small and very funny” embody the fun and discovery of young children and the bond between a brother and sister.


Charlie and Lola just joined all the fun at Tuesdays And Thursdays!


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Carmen Performs at Tuesdays And Thursdays

One of the greatest French Operas, 'Carmen' (1875) tells the story of a beautiful gypsy with a fiery temper who leads many men to their downfall. Escomillo, Don Jose, Carmen and the Bull! Comes with a music box inside that plays the Toreador song, too! This is a teriffic little puppet set. Each Puppet is approx. 4" tall.
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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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Wisdom From The O

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
- Oprah Winfrey

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The Velveteen Rabbit Gift Set - Now At Tuesdays And Thursdays

The Velveteen Rabbit is a children's novel written by Margery Williams and illustrated by William Nicholson. It chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit and his quest to become real through the love of his owner. The book was first published in 1922 and has been republished many times since.

Our Velveteen Rabbit is designed with elegantly simple lines, a shimmery velveteen coat, soft creme anglaise colored spots, and a snow-white belly. Pink satin ears, button-thread whiskers, sparkling eyes with embroidered trim, hand-stitched details, and a silky chenille tail complete this masterpiece.

This complete package holds a Velveteen Rabbit soft toy and a smaller soft cover version of the original The Velveteen Rabbit book, perfect for easy presentation.

The Velveteen Rabit is surface washable. Air dry, rabbits do not enjoy being tumble dryed.

The rabbit stands about 8 inches tall - his ears add about another 1 or so to his height.

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Wizard's Castle JUMBO Sticker Set

Open the tote and unfold hours of imaginative play!




This 9" x 9" carry-along tote includes 80+ reusable stickers and a jumbo 3-foot play scene that can be played flat or folded as a stand-up play environment. All items fit easily into the tote for play again and again.

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Advent Colorform Fun at Tuesdays And Thursdays

Our At the North Pole Advent Calendar is a fun, creative way to count down the days to Christmas! First choose your favorite 24 stickers (bears, reindeer, snow angels, skiers, stars, snowmen, etc.) and place them on the calendar squares. Each day of Advent, move one sticker from the calendar onto the calendar board's background picture to build a scene. On Christmas Eve, add Santa. The stickers are reusable, so you can vary the scene year by year. Make it a tradition!

Illustrations by Kelly Murphy.

Hangable 12 x 18" calendar board

Reusable vinyl stickers

Ages 4+

Available now at Tuesdays and Thursdays

Now Playing On The Tuesdays And Thursdays iPod : Coldplay / Viva La Vida

Coldpay - sheer brilliance!

We don't sell music, but since Coldplay has made so many of our ordinary days extraordinary we jsut had to share!

Italiano! Magentic Poetry Italian Edition

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

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.

On The T&T Bookshelf : Bottlemania by Elizabeth Royte

"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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Amy Smyth Made It Recycled 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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E=MC2 as Albert Einstein makes an appearance at Tuesdays And Thursdays

Albert Einstein Little Thinker Are you tired of all those cute but essentially brainless "beanie" dolls? The folks over at the Unemployed Philosophers Guild were too, so to offset that trend they designed the "Little Thinkers" line of beanie toys. Let the Little Thinkers add a little culture and humor to your life - or even to the students in your life! 11" tall and oh, so smart! Now available at Tuesdays And Thursdays!

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Now Playing On The T&T iPod : Maroon 5 / Pure Imagination

Maroon 5's brilliant cover of Pure Imagination featuring video clips from Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium - this song has made some of our ordinary days extraordinary and we hope it will do the same for some of yours.

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Great Quotes Worth Sharing : Wisdom From James 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

The Remedy is a Winner at Williams Sonoma

The latest collection of cocktail mixes at Williams-Sonoma include some bases on modern classics from Manhattan's sophisto-hot-spot Eleven Madison Park. Perfect with frozen vodka, “the Remedy” is a mix of pure honey and spiced ginger, brightened with fresh lemon. Sheer brilliance and a winner no matter what ails you!

Every once in a while we run across something sold elsewhere that, because it has made our ordinary days extraordinary, we feel compelled to share. Find the Remedy at your nearest Williams Sonoma store or online at Williams-Sonoma.com

Peach Boy Isahababies by Aisha & Co

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Finding A Colorful Soulmate 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

Where The Wild Things Are Hand Puppets

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Now Playing On The Tuesdays And Thursdays iPpod : Joss Stone "L-O-V-E"

Nothing like a little blue-eyed soul from Britain to make an ordinary day extraordinary!

Garden Fairies 100 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle In A Collectible Tin

Our challenging 100-piece puzzle comes in an irresistible (even to adults!) hinged storage tin. (Only the storage tin is metal, by the way.) The artwork is great and the puzzles are fun!

Julia Breckenreid illustrated the poppies, dragonfly, butterflies, and fairies of the Garden Fairies Collectible Tin Puzzle. 100-pieces to put together with your friends.

100-piece puzzle measures 18 x 12"

Storage tin measures 7-1/16 x 6 x 2"

For ages 6+

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Coming Soon To Tuesdays And Thursdays : Envirosax

We discovered Envirosax a the New York International Gift Fair in 2007 and, aside from falling in love with the Australian accents of the staff, we fell in love with the brilliant concept of Envirosax!

Unlike the bulky grocery sacks that are sold through some of the grocery stores, Envirosax roll up into small rolls - about the size of a large prescription bottle - making them easy to stash in the glove box, messenger bag, even a purse! And the little snappy thing on each bag secures them once rolled.

The grocery carrying angle is great, but we found that these compact bags are perfect to stash with us when we go to the Farmer's Market, local street fairs where we are sure to buy too much!, craft fairs, even garage sales! And since they are waterproof, they are come in super handy for wet swimsuits and towels after a day of fun.
Rolled up the bag measures 4” x 1.5” Unrolled it's dimensions are 19.5” x 16.5” The bag itself weighs only 1.4 ounces but can carry a whopping 44 pounds!

Envirosax are a new addition to Tuesdays And Thursdays - watch for more brilliant styles to arrive soon!