September

We are finding it hard to believe that it is September — summer just plain never lasts long enough. As is our wont, we did a little research on the month and it is packed full of important holidays. The only one we will actually close for is Labor Day, Monday September 6th, but you will find us celebrating a few others as well: September 19th — International Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 22nd — Elephant Appreciation Day, and on the 26th — International Rabbit Day. It's also "Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month" so come on down to Joie and buy your favorite writer a gift — maybe our Writer's Block, or for those not quite ready for Twitter — a Paper Tweet notepad. With the writing business going the way it is, maybe our new "Keep Calm and Carry On" first aid kit would be better... it has plenty of room to add a few shots of your favorite nip and some aspirin. 

We ordered lots of wonderful new things at the New York Gift Show and they are already hitting the shelves. From Fred: Bonehead comb and brush sets, Freeze and Chillbot ice cube trays, and their clever take on gingergbread men: Ninjabread men cookie cutters. We have two new talking keychains: StarWars In Your Pocket, and Sarah Palin In Your Pocket. (We needed something to replace our George Bush merhandise!) and we found our best selling Bucky Balls now come in silver, gold and black. After 9 months, our beloved singing goat is back in stock and we discovered yet another new singing animal company... watch for new furry singers soon!  

Our summer sale is now over, but we will keep a small section of sale items up through September — and in other news, the morning glories we planted out front in early June finally produced a dozen morning glories... at the end of August. The vines are going strong though, climbing right up the maple tree and wrapping around all of our sunflowers and threatening any cars that dare park beside them. To close, we hope you all had a great summer... and that we will "see you in September."