Black Friday Shopping Starts When?! I Will Shop Small Business Saturday

Black Friday Shopping Starts When?! I Will Shop Small Business Saturday

Black Friday shopping starts when?! It's Thanksgiving morning as I am writing this and by all accounts there are already sales in progress. Wow. As for me, I am choosing to avoid this shopping experience and instead wait for Small Business Saturday...

https://shopsmallneighborhoods.americanexpress.com/

There are lots of reasons to support small businesses, but to me the most important reason is that by supporting our neighbors we are supporting our neighborhoods and communities and that translates right into the supporting our country. Let's show them some love and save some dollars to spend in the small local stores. I will choose that myself...and if I wait long enough, maybe Black Friday will fall on Wednesday next year.

Glue Dots

Glue Dots

I must admit that after posting something every day for a year, once I crossed the one year mark I decided it was ok to be a little more sporadic with my posts and share only when things really speak to me and I am moved to do so. Well, today I was moved...by glue dots.

 

 

Ah, glue dots (which, incidentally, are incredibly different from glue spots). And as it turns out there are about ten different varieties of glue dots. I know because I spent a fair amount of time today in the local craft store looking at the choices. Some were too big, some were too small, some were micro, some were super strong, some were permanent. These removable dots (as Goldilocks would say) were just right. I believe they will be perfect for the project I am currently working on. I know I have friends who have nightmares over the sheer volume of glue dots they have used to hold various bulk projects together. But I am new to glue dots, so for now my project still is quite a novelty and I look forward to applying these sticky circles to hold all the pieces together. And best of all... 

 

...these glue dots are made in the USA...yea!

Take This Out To The Ballgame

Take This Out To The Ballgame

Last week I noticed one of my co-workers coffee drinking out of this tumbler...

 

She said she got it at a baseball stadium. I was impressed and asked to give it the once over. On the bottom it was marked as being produced by Whirley Drinkworks of Warren, Pennsylvania. So I looked into this a little more. Check out the awesome video on their website http://whirleydrinkworks.com/ that shows more about the many plastic products they make right here in the USA...and take this out to the ballgame!