Union Eight Announcement and Sales

Something big has been taking place behind the scenes that has left us really excited! Peacock Cards has teamed up with seven other graphic artists/entreprenuers from around the United States to form Union Eight, the first large scaled cooperative formed in the print on demand arena. This unique co-op approach at penetrating the online marketplace will help to bring you the best selection, the best designs, on the best products available anywhere. To kick off this exciting event, Union Eight members are offering you several days of sales. Our prices have never been lower and will never be lower than what we are offering in select galleries Monday, November 17th through Wednesday, November 19th.

Union Eight members will be holding special sales with prices the lowest of the season today
Monday, November 17th through Wednesday, November 19th.

Lowest prices of the season at Stick
Figures Shop on Monday, November 17th, at Toddler's
Place on Tuesday, November 18th, and at Christmas
Shop on Wednesday, November 19th!

Lowest prices of the season 3 Day Sale at Small
Potatoes Gallery.

Lowest prices of the season 3 Day Sale at All
Sagart Shops.

Lowest prices of the season at Cowpie
Creek
on Monday, November 17th, at Stick
People on Tuesday, November 18th, and at Veggie
Shirts on Wednesday, November 19th!

Lowest prices of the season 3 Day Sale at Funny
Maternity T-Shirts and Funny
Baby T-Shirts and More.

You can also get FREE STANDARD SHIPPING on orders of $45 or more through 12-05-08 by using coupon code HOLIDAYSHIPS at checkout!

Beauty is a Light Switch Away

If you've been reading any of my twitter posts in the past couple of months you probably noticed that I have been doing a lot of walking on my treadmill. I got my treadmill soon after I moved here which is close to a year now, and I walked on it quite a bit for the first couple of months, but then got so busy with work (ok, yea, I know, excuses!) that I sorta quit doing it this spring. But I started up again a couple of months ago, well, actually it was about mid July I think so it's been about three months that I've been trying to walk on it every day, but of course there are days I miss for whatever reason. I try for one of those reasons NOT to be because I just didn't feel like it or I felt too lazy to.
My daughter told me tonight that she read somewhere that Lance Armstrong was asked about his training and what he did on the days it rained. His reply was something along the lines of "I put on my raincoat and go". NO excuses. He didn't say "oh well, on those days I just skip" or some such thing. No. He has no excuses. It made me think how easy it is to make excuses. I was too busy. I had to work. I had a headache, was too lazy, too tired, had somewhere I had to be, my toe was sore, my foot was sore, my knee was sore. Not anymore. For the past three months I have missed very few days and the times I did miss, I really did have a good reason (notice I said reason, not excuse? lol).
I have found that the more I walk, the more I want to lose weight...fast. I imagine myself being slender and gorgeous, and then I remember that I'm now over 50 and if I ever do get slender, I certainly won't be gorgeous. I'll take the slender! Gravity and mother nature can be brutal on a girl! I saw these funny T-shirts at SagArt T-shirts and Gifts that cracked me up and had to share them with you.

Lousy Beautician T-Shirt
by sagart1952

Instant Beauty T-Shirt
by sagart1952

Dirty Word Exercise T-Shirt
by sagart1952

So if you're looking for humor T-shirts, you know you can find them at SagArt T-shirts and Gifts which is a proud member of Union Eight .

You Big Turkey!

I just looked down and saw that it's 30 degrees right now according to my weather bug, which is always right incidentally. 30! Thirty! That is technically cold enough to snow! It's not that uncommon at all where I live in the UP of Michigan to get snow before Halloween. I remember several Halloweens when it was an absolute blizzard. It usually melts and then arrives back again sometime mid November to stay. And then we'll see plenty of the white stuff right through April at least. I'm not exactly looking forward to it. Icy roads, more flu and colds, chapped lips and hands, heating bills, shovelling, scraping ice off windshields, what's to love? Well, there is the first snow, that's always very pretty. And of course there is building snowmen, sledding, the taste of big soft snowflakes falling on your outstretched tongue, the way the world seems to just slow down, moonlight on a clear winter night, the glisten of the sun off a frozen, iced branch. Ok, there are some good things. And then, there's always Thanksgiving and Christmas!
I have some good memories of Thanksgiving. It's always been a tradition in my family for someone to have big meal and have everyone over for dinner. The past several years my daughter has been the one to invite everyone, and things change as families change, but one thing is always a tradition with my family and most perhaps on Thanksgiving, and that is having a big dinner complete with turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. The smell of a turkey cooking while watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade...yum!
It kind of makes one wonder just how many turkeys are cooking that day across the US. I'd imagine quite a few! And so I did a bit of research to find out. According to Turkey Trivia at infoplease.com, the US Department of Agriculture says more than 45 million turkeys are cooked and eaten in the U.S. at Thanksgiving—that's one sixth of all turkeys sold in the U.S. each year!
It's no wonder the turkeys are revolting! It's no wonder they are threatening to hide the murder weapon and hiring lawyers! No, I haven't gone insane, but I have had more than my share of laughs looking at these hilarious Thanksgiving turkey designs offered by Thanksgiving T-shirts And Gifts!

Mens T-Shirt - Thanksgiving Turkey Lawyer
by thanksgiving_tshirts

Kids T-Shirt - Thanksgiving Turkey Run
by thanksgiving_tshirts

T-Shirt - Funny Thanksgiving Turkey
by thanksgiving_tshirts

Ok, I'm laughing hysterically and it's almost 2 am!

I'm laughing pretty hard here and wondering if the people who live above me can hear it. It's 2 am after all, I should really be asleep, not browsing around looking at T-shirt sites. This site I'm browsing right now, SagArt T-shirts and Gifts , has some of the funniest T-shirts I've ever seen! Take a look at this one for instance!

Retirement Oat Bran T-Shirt
by sagart1952

Maybe I'm finding it even more funny because I'm getting up there in age? Yikes! I'm not ready for my wild oats to turn to oat bran just yet! Ok, browsing this funny T-shirt shop a bit more and I came across this one.

Toadly Insane T-Shirt a subsidary of Union Eight

Now I don't know about you but that Toadly Insane T-shirt makes me giggle uncontrollably! It's just too cute and too funny. Oh well, I'll go to sleep with a smile on my face and probably dream of big eyed frogs with even bigger lips, or perhaps I'll dream of oat bran. I vote for the froggie!