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Fun Office Supplies Make Even Mondays Fun

by Joi

Why? Not? The The Butt Station -Desk Accessory : Tape Dispenser Pen Memo Holder Clip Storage. is one cute little mamma jamma.

I’m all about surrounding yourself with things that make you smile, even in the office or home office (some would say it’s even more important to do so in work areas – for obvious reasons!).

This little desk workstation – or butt station, if you will – holds your pen, tape, memo, and paper clips. But it holds something even more valuable than all of these put together – fun. It’s sure to be a conversation-starter in your office and would make delightful, hilarious gifts around Christmas.

Each one is less than $10, so you can buy one for yourself AND someone on your gift list.

Product Description

This started off being just a gag gift for a co-worker but everyone is wanting a butt station! A fun art deco desk accessory that includes a pen holder, tape dispenser, memo/card holder, paper clip holder and just a great conversation piece all in one! Stands… or sits… about 5″ high and comes in a variety of colors including the ever popular neon green, neon orange and bright blue.

Go to The Butt Station -Desk Accessory : Tape Dispenser Pen Memo Holder Clip Storage. and order your’s today!

The Funnest Bookends On the Shelf

Bookends for the Home, Home Office or Office

by Joi


The Flappers Sculptural Bookends

I love quirky, unexpected decorations – whether they’re in the home office, yard, bathroom, kitchen… Anything that makes me smile when I look at it and makes someone do a double-take has to come home with me.

The The Flappers Sculptural Bookends, above, certainly fit the bill. Their from Design Toscano (seriously, do these people make anything that doesn’t make me giddy?).

From the Website:
The Flappers Sculptural Bookends (C. 1920’s) Inspired by John Held, Jr.
Quality foundry cast iron collectibles
No one epitomized the glamorous era of the Flappers quite like illustrator John Held, Jr. Managing to capture the spirit of newfound freedom in his campy illustrations for The New Yorker, Held’s work was born in 3-dimensions in this pair of heavyweight bookends cast in iron and hand-painted in his signature style. Choose this functional work of decorative art to enliven the décor of any era.

5½”Wx1½”Dx9″H. 3 lbs.

The Perfect TIME for Whimsy

Office Clocks That'll Make You Smile

by Joi

Granted, I spend almost as much time at my computer as I do my coffee maker and, therefore may be biased, but I’m flipping for these Command Key Clocks. Seriously, how great are they?

Each one is just $20 – an absolute bargain for such an original and whimsical office clock.

Product Features

Approximate 10″ square
Requires 1 AA battery (not included)
Attractively packaged for giving

Click through any of the clocks shown in the widget below (or the individual pictures above) and take a closer look. I just can’t tell you how much I love these guys.

Halloween Fun in the Office? Um, Why Not?

by Joi

I’m as bad as any kid, anywhere, when it comes to having fun with Halloween which is kind of odd considering the fact that I’m not just chicken shyte, I’m straight-up chicken shyte. Premium.

Maybe it has something to do with all the chocolate, laughter, fun, and chocolate.

Whatever the chocolate-covered reasons, it’s a fun time of year. You can bring the fun right into your office with these OUTSTANDING Halloween decorations from Design Toscano. They’re ideal for the home, office, or home office – just don’t invite me over because they’d scare the wits out of me. Told you. Premium.

Roswell The Alien Plaque (Above)

Mr. Bone Jangles Skeleton Sitter – Set of Two (Above)

Gaston, the Gothic Gargoyle Computer Climber Statue (Above)

Poison Pen Gargoyle Desk Accessory (Above)

Westminster, the Iron Desk Gargoyle

There. That should be enough for 3 straight weeks of sleeping with one eye open. It won’t break my personal best – 6 months, courtesy of Snakes on a Plane.

If you love Roswell The Alien – and who wouldn’t? – Design Toscano has a line of Roswell products including a garden statue and even a Roswell the Alien end table. Classic.

The Fish Aquarium for the Cool Office or Home: Most Unusual!

by Joi

I’ve been cruising the web, “window” shopping if you will, like I”m being paid to do so this morning. I have no idea how I even landed on the site or saw the amazing Fish Hotel pictured above but I thought it was just unusual and spectacular enough to share with my fellow Office Freaks.

The Fish Hotel Fishbowl in White by Umbra®would make a gorgeous addition to any office or room.

Watching fish is unbelievably relaxing and if that’s not called for in offices, I don’t know where it is called for.  Sorry, I’ve had one of those weeks.  Could you tell?

This unique Fish Hotel Fishbowl by Umbra can be stacked to create a hotel effect for your fish or can stand alone as a unique conversation piece.

Features:

  • Outer Material: ABS Plastic Outer Shell
  • Inside Square: Glass
  • Design by Teddy Luong
  • Fishbowl can be stacked to create a hotel effect
  • Inner square is removable for cleaning
  • Can also be used for plants, candles, or storing small accessories
  • Size: 7 1/2”square x 8”deep

Little turtles would also be kind of cute in these wouldn’t they? I love these to distraction, but our cat, Alexa, is… how should I say… gluttonous.   I’m afraid she’d stay up at night figuring out ways to get to the best fish dinner she ever had.

However, I can totally see great little plants – great little inedible plants that wouldn’t interest el gato grande whatsoever.

Click through the image above or the link (also above) to take a closer look.  This is one of the coolest things I’ve come across in a long time.  What an amazing Christmas gift it’d make!  I’m pretty sure it’s on Alexa’s list. Alexa will often get between me and the computer screen (like she’s doing in the pic below) and stare at me until I give her a few of her treats or a full on meal.

A few minutes ago, she tried a similar approach on my husband and he missed the boat entirely.  He just said, “Hi, baby” and went to take a shower.  Men.

Alexa “When do we eat” Sigers

A Whimsical Table that You Have to See to Believe

by Joi

At the risk of stepping on any toes, this may be the most outstandingly original and whimsical table ever made.  The Stilettos Anyone? Sculptural Table is outrageously fun and, let’s face it, kind of sexy.

This table, which gets my “Most Unusual” vote of the month is from Design Toscano.  They have a habit of creating things that make my jaw drop.

Them.  Starbucks. My mother-in-law.

From the Website:

Sure to kick up a little fun, this sassy work of midnight haute couture brings a bit of high-heeled style to home or gallery! The 16″ dia., ⅜” thick, pencil-edged glass sits atop a single, strappy,jet-black patent leather stiletto to become functional art and a daring statement piece!

16″Wx18″Dx21″H

Hot foot your way over to the website, Stilettos Anyone? Sculptural Table, for a closer look.

Easter Island Sculpture for the Desk

by Joi

Just look at that handsome face – you know you love him. The Easter Island Moai Monolith Sculpture – Desktop is yet another deliciously fun, highly original, and down-right breathtaking must have from Design Toscano.

Does everything this site sells have to make me fall in love? I swear, every item I’ve done a story on is a complete and total head-turner… the sort of desk decor or desk accessory that causes everyone to do a double take.

These people simply don’t mess with ordinary. And neither do office freaks. The one currently writing or the ones currently reading.

Easter Island Moai Monolith Sculpture
Inspired by the 380 A.D. originals weighing more than 10 tons!
Assumed to be depictions of local chiefs, heroes, or gods, the giant statues on Easter Island are some of the world’s most intriguing archeological artifacts. Cast in quality designer resin and finished to look like rough, chiseled stone, this exclusive replica sculpture adds a South Seas accent in your home or garden.

Desktop: 5″Wx5½”Dx9″H. 5 lbs.

See Easter Island Moai Monolith Sculpture – Desktop for a closer look.

The Coolest Clock of All Time – You Know I Had To

by Joi

Swing Clocks

As you’ve probably guessed, I have a gravitational pull toward the outrageous and the unusual.  Swing Clocks fit this bill beautifully.

Product Description
When Galileo Galilea first envisioned using the regular motion of the swinging pendulum in a timepiece, he had no idea what implications keeping accurate time would bring us – computers, timesheets, general relativity… Granted, he didn’t create the first pendulum based timepiece.

That honor falls to Christiaan Huygens (the man, not the Saturnian space-probe). See, the pendulum swings at an incredibly predictable rate, as long as the pivot remains still, the force of gravity is constant, and the length of the pendulum is fixed.

Sure, if you want to go all non-Newtonian on us, you can also include distance from a gravity well, but let’s just keep things simple? Anyway, since the motion of the pendulum is highly predictable, we can mark each cycle of the swinging bob as a measure of time, and consequently keep track of our inexorable grind towards the heat-death of the universe. Hooray! Still, it’s usually the pendulum that drives the clock – what if the entire clock was the pendulum? Done and done!

This super-cool Swing Clock mounts on your wall, and sashays back and forth, marking the passage of time. Watch as your friends take hilarious double-takes once they realize the clock is apparently floating and swinging itself. Granted – it’s just a timepiece.

It’s not likely going to help you with a thorough understanding of general relativity, though if you wanted to put one in a spaceship and accelerate it to a fraction below light-speed and return, that might work.

Sigh. I’m just so completely in love with this clock. Anyone can make time fly. A few people can make time stand still. But making it swing? Now that takes a serious set of skills.

See Swing Clocks for more information.

Taking the 7 Link Challenge

by Joi

Darren Rowse, at ProBlogger, has issued a really cool challenge for bloggers.  It’s such a cool challenge that it zapped me out of my antihistamine fog (cursed allergies).  Seriously, before logging onto Problogger, I was sort of just staring off into space wondering if I was awake, alive, asleep – or if I’d come up with my own state of being.

Or not being, as it were.

Darren’s challenge is the Seven Links Challenge and it involves using the following categories to link to different posts on your blog.  It’s a great way to get the creative juices flowing, highlight old posts, and provide a  fun post for your readers.

It’s proven beneficial to me in an unexpected way, too.  As I poured over some old posts, I saw that I had a lot of housework to do.  I had zero idea what I was doing early on with titles, keywords, and so forth.  Not that I’m top of the line now, mind you, but at least now I’m aware there is a line!
Your first post – Willow Fall’s Computer Desk with Hutch Can you say embarrassing?  I still had on my blogging training bra.  And the last hoorah of a sentence.  Seriously?  When I saw what my first post would be, I nearly backed out of this exercise all together, but I figured, what the heck… I’ve been pulled out of my trance, I might as well go with it….

A post you enjoyed writing the most – This one! I always enjoy the one I’m in the midst of the most.

A post which had a great discussion – Cell Phone Holder with Mermaid Boobies Oh, that Daisy.  She had me at “implants.”

A post on someone else’s blog that you wish you’d written - 8 Habits of Highly Excellent Bloggers by Celestine Chua.  Seriously, this post was so outstanding, I felt like I should have been charged for reading it.  I took notes!  I considered copying the article in its entirety and posting it on my Self Help blog.  But my visitors would have been tipped off right off the bat – I could never have come up with such a great title.  As we’ve proven, here, my titles are the stink.  If you’re in a bit of a hurry right now, at least go to this post and bookmark it for later.

Oh, and have pen and paper ready.  The lady will take you to school.

Your most helpful post – De-Clutter Your Desk
A post with a title that you are proud of – Work Out at Your Desk With Jillian Michaels, I Dare You Not To Oh, I just kill me!  Seriously, I’m not a title writer (obviously).  I sit and stare at that long white rectangle sometimes for minutes on end – with it just staring back, mocking me.  At least, prior to the most recent WordPress upgrade, it just stared back.  Now it cops a sarcastic attitude: “Enter title here.”  I’m pretty sure they put this feature in just for me and my title struggles.
A post that you wish more people had read – A Wooden Cabinet for the Funkiest of Office Freaks – How could anyone not want this amazing piece of furniture in their office or home?  It’s outrageous and I love it.

To read more about the 7 Links Challenge, visit Problogger.

Cell Phone Holder with Mermaid Boobies

by Joi

Well, it’s Friday and you know what that means, don’t you?  Time for mermaid boobies.  I dunno, I guess it’s a new tradition I came up with.

Whatever, I’m running with it.

Product Description:
If your Mp3 player or cell phone is often “lost at sea,” you’ll want to catch “Madeleine the Mermaid” to anchor it into port! Slip your Mp3 player, phone, or remote control into this hand-painted, designer resin sculptural resting place for safekeeping. Though we can’t guarantee they’ll never be castaways again, Madeleine will do her best to provide an artistic lounge for your treasures!

5″Wx2″Dx5½”H. 1 lb.

The immodest, finned beauty at the top of the post is the Madeleine the Mermaid Mp3 or Cell Phone Holder and she’s simply perfect for Mermaid boobies Friday.

Cut me some slack, it’s been a long week.

Click through for a closer look. I know you want to because you’ve had that kind of week, too. Written all over your face.

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