Discovering New Jersey : County Administration Building Paterson NJ

Built in 1899, the Passaic County Administration Building in Paterson New Jersey was completed while the city was still a thriving industrial center. The building's style is akin to those found along the canals in Amsterdam and reflects the Dutch heritage of many of the original settlers of the area.



And you thought New Jersey was all about toll roads, garbage dumps, and oil refineries? Join me on this journey as I discover how much of the Garden State is hidden away just waiting to be discovered.

Discovering New Jersey : Morris Canal Park In Clifton NJ

Historical Marker, Morris Canal Park, Clifton NJ. The Morris Canal was envisioned and built in the 1820's to carry iron from the Delaware River, across New Jersey, to the Hudson River and New York City. Little remains of the canal save for markers stating the canal once flowed here. Morris Canal Park in Clifton include a portion of the canal as well as the towpath.

Looking north at Morris Canal Park in Clifton NJ. The towpath has become a popular place for walkers, and ducks.


The banks of the Morris Canal in Clifton NJ are largely overgrown with native and non-native species.

Once wide and deep enough for canal boats filled with Iron Ore, little of the Morris Canal remains. Note the duck in the middle of the image - the canal is now so shallow that the water only reaches the ducks "knees."

In a very shallow and muddy portion of Morris Canal Park, Water Iris thrive, apparently to the delight of dragonflies.

A large tree, fallen across the water, has become part of a Hosta Garden. In so many ways this planting speaks volumes about the cycle of life.

A memorial Japanese Garden in Morris Canal Park Clifton NJ.

Savannah Bee Company Royal Jelly Body Butter is now at Tuesdays And Thusdays

In a great gift box with the a story about Royal Jelly and the Queen Bee. Royal Jelly, the most precious product from the hive, is combined with Beeswax and Propolis to nourish and moisturize the skin.

Royal Jelly is packed with Vitamins, Proteins, Lipids and Amino Acids. These promote the skin's elacticity and create a smooth, natural appearance. Rich, softening Pecan butter and a delicate, natural Blackberry scent add the final touches to this luxurious formula.

Honeybees provide natural and environmentally friendly and natural solutions to everyday needs.

No animal testing No Petroleum based ingredients No parabens or preservatives No synthetic fragrances No artificial colors

The presentation box as well as the heavy glass jar and aluminum lid are all recyclable.

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Ishababies Mocha Boy Climbs Trees In Montclair

Typical Boy! Ishababies Mocha Boy could not resist the urge to climb the trees at Yantacaw Brook Park in Montclair NJ.


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Painted Lady In Montclair NJ

After decades of painting homes in monochromatic palletes homeowners are finally starting to paint their homes in the manner intended by the original builders. In Montclair NJ these painted ladies are making their appearances everywhere.

Where The Wild Things Are Hand Puppets

Where The Wild Things Hand Puppets Are In Stock And Ready to Ship

from Where The Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
Four soft and cuddly 14" hand puppets based on Maurice Sendak's classic book, are now available at Tuesdays And Thursdays:


Max,
Bernard,
Sipi,
and Moishe



Written in 1963, Where The Wild Things are has become an American Classic, and one of our favourite books! The book tells the story of Max, who one evening plays around his home, "making mischief" in a wolf costume. As punishment, his mother sends him to bed without supper. In his room, a mysterious, wild forest grows out of his imagination, and Max takes a journey to the land of the Wild Things. We'd love to tell you more of the story, but that would spoil the ending...


The puppets are 14" tall. Your hands work the head and arms (mouths don't move)
One of the features we really like is that these hand puppets can sit upright on their own, so they can double as stuff animals and sit on your bed or bookshelf.


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Poppies and Peonies. A Limited Edition Giclee Print by Shelly Bedsaul

Limited Edition giclee print
#2 of 100
Hand signed and numbered in graphite
Epson Brite White watercolor paper
Epson Ultrachrome archival inks
Paper size: 8 x 19
Image size: 6 3/4 x 18

From the artist : I started this 2 years ago, procrastinated and finally finished it in 2009. I loved the challenge of working with basically two colors, the red family and green, and still maintain depths and contrasts, without being flat.

My technique, though time consuming, is simple. I start with a preliminary sketch in graphite. When my design is satisfactory, I ink the sketch, using a black, 05, pigma micron pen. I use Prismacolor pencils. Each area is a layering of about 5 different colors, going from dark to light, until the paper is totally burnished. Once the coloring is complete, I re-ink to make the line work a true black. It is then sprayed with workable fixatif to seal, protect and prevent wax bloom. The substrate is archival rag board.

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Ze Super Zeros Join The Fun At Tuesdays And Thursdays

Ze Super Zeros have super powers ... but they also have flaws that negate those powers. (a great lesson for children who often forget what they can do and instead focus on what they cannot do) Zonk the Monkey, for instance, is a self-proclaimed "super climber," yet he's also afraid of heights. Oh my!




Each of the super zeros wears a mask - as all super characters should - and their capes are detachable! Find the collection of Super Zeros at Tuesdays and Thursdays.



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Bananagrams Shipped Free From Tuesdays And Thursdays

Tuesdays and Thursdays offers Bananagrams with Free Shipping to All US Addresses

Bananagrams is a FAST and FUN word game that requires NO pencil, paper or board. All you need is a table. One hand can be played in as little as 5 minutes. Great family fun as well as being educational! Bananagrams portability makes it perfect for travel. Just grab the pouch and go!


Place all 144 tiles face down on center of table. These tiles are referred to as the "BUNCH". For games of 2-4 people, each player takes 21 letters from the bunch, keeping them face down. For 5-6 players, 15 letters are taken. For 7-8 (or more) players, 11 letters are taken.

Any one player says "SPLIT" whereupon all players turn their own tiles face up and proceed to form their OWN collection of connecting and intersecting words. The words may be horizontal or vertical, reading left to right or top to bottom. Each player may rearrange his/her own words as often as desired. Players DO NOT take turns, but play independently of each other and at the same time.

After playing at the New York Toy Fair (and missing an appointment with another supplier because we were having so much fun) we just knew that we had to offer Bananagrams for our customers! You'll go bananas for Bananagrams !

The FREE SHIPPING OFFER to all US addresses comes from the Tuesdays And Thursdays is available in our eBay store.

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Finding A Colorful 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

The Savannah Bee Company is coming to Tuesdays And Thursdays

Pacifica Tuscan Blood Orange Is A Hit At Tuesdays And Thursdays

TUSCAN BLOOD ORANGE solid perfume, candles, and gift sets by Pacifica

Blood orange is loved for it's absence of bitterness with rich, juicy flavor and bright raspberry and strawberry notes. Italian sweet oranges flesh out this naturally beautiful essence.

Pacifica perfumes are formulated with natural ingredients to be paraben-free and vegan using the highest quality botanical ingredients and their signature Pacifica fragrance blends with essential oils. Pacifica body care and candle products are all made in the USA, Portland Oregon actually.


So what's so deal with blood oranges? A favorite of many orange connoisseurs, the blood orange, with its sweet, deep red flesh, is believed to be the result of a mutation that occurred in 17th-century Italy.

align="center"> Grown for centuries in the Sicilian region, the orange plays a very important cultural role in Italy. Oranges are used in foods, drinks, liquors, and celebrated at festivals. A red streaked sky at sunset is known as a "blood orange sky." The scent of oranges also evokes images of Tuscany, the heart of medieval Italy. Boasting enchanted towns such as Florence, Pisa, and Siena, Tuscany is littered with castles, the ruins of walled villages, and landscapes doted with orange trees that can be detected in the slightest of sea breezes. Additionally, the blood orange is used as an antidepressant, aphrodisiac, and in various tonics. As the Tuesdays And Thursdays website is currently under renovation, we are proud to offer Tuscan Blood Orange and a variety of other Pacifica Products in our Amazon store.


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Ishababies Mocha Girl Is Pretending She's Maria Von Trapp

It's too bad we didn't have an audio recorder in the park as Mocha Girl started singing 'The Sound Of Music' on a small hillock in Brookdale Park Montclair NJ. (but she says they are alive with 'Noosic', after all, shes still in diapers!)Mocha Girl is available from Tuesdays And Thursdays

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Bananagrams - The Award Winning Anagram Game is at Tuesdays And Thursdays

Bananagrams is a FAST and FUN word game that requires NO pencil, paper or board. All you need is a table. One hand can be played in as little as 5 minutes. Great family fun as well as being educational! Bananagrams portability makes it perfect for travel. Just grab the pouch and go!


Place all 144 tiles face down on center of table. These tiles are referred to as the "BUNCH". For games of 2-4 people, each player takes 21 letters from the bunch, keeping them face down. For 5-6 players, 15 letters are taken. For 7-8 (or more) players, 11 letters are taken.

Any one player says "SPLIT" whereupon all players turn their own tiles face up and proceed to form their OWN collection of connecting and intersecting words. The words may be horizontal or vertical, reading left to right or top to bottom. Each player may rearrange his/her own words as often as desired. Players DO NOT take turns, but play independently of each other and at the same time.


After playing at the New York Toy Fair (and missing an appointment with another supplier because we were having so much fun) we just knew that we had to offer Bananagrams for our customers! You'll go bananas for Bananagrams !


Bananagrams is now available at Tuesdays and Thursdays - Making Ordinary Days Extraordinary

Celebrate Earth Hour By Creating The Earth Mosaic

So What Exactly Is Earth Mosaic?

Earth Mosaic is a South African based effort to create a mosaic image of the earth using photos submitted from around the earth.

The Earth Mosaic project started out as one man’s idea to do something significant, involving photography. Something global. After mentioning his idea to a friend who suggested doing it on Earth Day, just like that, the project had an aim and a deadline.

Here’s your chance to be a part of something totally awesome:

Mark your place in the world on a full colour picture-mosaic map of Earth, made entirely of images capturing special and ordinary moments, around the world, in just one day.


Calling all photographers & Earth-lovers …help record a day in the life of our planet, in pictures.

Find out more at EarthMosaic.org


And remember – the pictures can be of special or ordinary events, anywhere in the world.





Earth Mosaic 22 April 2009

Where The Wild Things Hand Puppets Are Now At Tuesdays And Thursdays

Where The Wild Things Hand Puppets Are In Stock And Ready to Ship

from Where The Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
Four soft and cuddly 14" hand puppets based on Maurice Sendak's classic book, are now available at Tuesdays And Thursdays:


Max,
Bernard,
Sipi,
and Moishe



Written in 1963, Where The Wild Things are has become an American Classic, and one of our favourite books! The book tells the story of Max, who one evening plays around his home, "making mischief" in a wolf costume. As punishment, his mother sends him to bed without supper. In his room, a mysterious, wild forest grows out of his imagination, and Max takes a journey to the land of the Wild Things. We'd love to tell you more of the story, but that would spoil the ending...


The puppets are 14" tall. Your hands work the head and arms (mouths don't move)
One of the features we really like is that these hand puppets can sit upright on their own, so they can double as stuff animals and sit on your bed or bookshelf.


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Where The Wild Things Are Hand Puppets Now At Tuesdays And Thursdays

Available now at Tuesdays and Thursdays

Celebrate Earth Hour by Creating the Earth Mosaic

So What Exactly Is Earth Mosaic?

Earth Mosaic is a South African based effort to create a mosaic image of the earth using photos submitted from around the earth.

The Earth Mosaic project started out as one man’s idea to do something significant, involving photography. Something global. After mentioning his idea to a friend who suggested doing it on Earth Day, just like that, the project had an aim and a deadline.

Here’s your chance to be a part of something totally awesome:

Mark your place in the world on a full colour picture-mosaic map of Earth, made entirely of images capturing special and ordinary moments, around the world, in just one day.


Calling all photographers & Earth-lovers …help record a day in the life of our planet, in pictures.

Find out more at EarthMosaic.org


And remember – the pictures can be of special or ordinary events, anywhere in the world.





Earth Mosaic 22 April 2009

Find You 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

Bergino Handmade Baseballs Now At Tuesdays And Thursdays

Remember Your First Baseball Game?

Walking up to the ballpark, walking through the turnstile, an an older gentleman tearing your ticket, ... and then you spot it, the sign directing you to YOUR section. You walk through a long dark tunnel, and when you emerge your jaw drops and your eyes open wide - you see it, the most brilliant diamond ever created. Brilliant green outlined in red clay. And now matter how many times you do it, your reaction is the same.

Baseball is magic. Baseball is beautiful.

Bergino Handmade Baseballs are beautiful and come gosh darn close to capturing all the magic of your first game.


Now Available at Tuesdays and Thursdays

Peach Girl Ishababy Joins The Fun At Tuesdays And Thursdays

Inspired by the essence of tangy preserves and piping hot cobblers, the Peach flavor evokes the wonder inherent in the Ishababies® family.

Play with her lush lemony locks! Take her anywhere, cuddle with her, and tell her your deepest secrets!

Each Friend is made with a 100% super soft cotton exterior, all new interior and detailed with elegant simplicity. Ishababies® are child-safe, lead free and have no buttons or hard surfaces. They are great fun for kids of all ages! Ishababies® are distinguished by their 8 ‘flavors’ with a girl and boy in each one.

For babies and kids 3 to 103, this soft-sculptured companion is the best friend they'll ever have. Peach Girl is 10" tall and like all members of the critically acclaimed Ishababies® family, her purpose is to add joy and balance to each life he touches. Plus, we think the diapers are hysterical!



Contains all new materials, filled with polyester fibers.

Isha (short for Aisha) means life. Ishababies® represent the uniqueness of each of us within the global village. Each of the Ishababies® has his and her own special eye, hair and complexion color, without representing any specific background or ethnicity.

For Isababies creator Aisha Bailey, this is a special calling. Her acclaimed Ishababies® are among the first such line with a global range of characters to be designed by an African-american woman. To her, it is most important that the Ishababies® family "creates a strong sense of appreciation of oneself and others for all people everywhere". The Ishababies® theme is "One World...All Flavors"®.

For ages 3+ but we are sure even adults will love her. Among the reasons why we love Ishababies is all facial features are embroidered - so even if a younger brother or sister grab your Ishababy, there is not a chocking hazard. All genuine Ishababies have the artists signature and trademarked diaper on their bum, er, we mean bottom.

This is Peach Girl. She is one of 16 members of the highly acclaimed Ishababies® family all available in our store. (and while we are currently undergoing renovations (i.e. new servers are being installed) you can find all the fun from Tuesdays And Thursdays at Amazon.com!

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Poisson d’Avril

Bonne Poisson d’Avril

(I'm not entirely sure why April Fool's Day in Quebec is called Poisson d’Avril but the idea of doing something completely imature with fish does have a stinky yet entirely funny appeal to me!)