What I want.....

I love when we get "Other" Items, you know those items that we place under general merchandise. Not only do we have the most unique toys and kids clothing around, but we also have the most awesome everything else. right now i have my eyes on these new miniature roses that we just received, not only do they come in sweet modern packaging, they also fit into my 1 year plan.
You might be wondering why a plant is apart of my life plan. Well heres the scoop. The boyfriend and I have been together for a while. However he lives in Maine. So we are on a very strict 2 week plan ( every two weeks we meet in new York or Maine or somewhere in the middle). However we will soon be sharing a place, and I'm trying my absolute hardest to get him to buy me a puppy. Theres only one problem he thinks i'm lacking in the "caring for another living thing" department. So my plan is to buy a plant and keep it alive for............ however long plants are supposed to live. If i keep it alive he said he would consider the puppy purchase.

Don't worry I'll keep u posted.

Fun Weekend Activity

Check out this very cool treasure map project:

http://www.unplugyourkids.com/2008/06/22/make-paper-old-treasure-maps-craft/

My Favorite Thing

It's true. These Jane Jenni pins are my favorite items in the whole store. Unfortunately, whenever I buy a few the kids I babysit for steal them all off of my bag. They too cannot resist the awesome power of the Jane Jenni pin.

The best commercial........

Many people have seen this already.....it is not new. But I thought it may be entertaining for everyone!!!!!

Gennaro wants our son in organic clothing with flowers, not gas guzzling cars......

I took home a really cute Smafolk onesie with this car design on it....I thought it was cute & "boyish". So I showed it to Gennaro & he hated it. He wanted something more "green" as in environmentally correct and maybe with flowers... He said boys can wear flowers and that basically I should not be forcing cars onto him. I said we drive a car & boys like cars. He said well they also like flowers...

Calvin and Hobbes Makes the World Go Round

I am a big C&H fan. I think this is a perfect way to wrap up a Monday, don't you?

J Schatz egg lights....the item no one knows we sell!

These J Schatz egg lights are amazing.... we have 2 at the 5th ave. store. No one knows we sell them, what they are, etc.... Why you wonder??? Well they are really hard to display and we do not have a dark room to turn them on in. I guess a photo like here would be good.. They are also really fragile. Too bad, because they are so nice!

Blog-O-Rama

Hola Area-Cadettes. I'm taking a break from organizing our 5th ave sales section (horrors!) to check in on our lovely blog. We have big plans for this blog! The dream is, of course, to one day take over the world, but in the meantime we'll settle for widespread international fame. It helps that we have such cute things to blog about - Monchichis, anyone? The latest plan, according to the Big Cahoona herself, is to start bringing digital cameras with us to work and offering to take pictures of our lovely customers. This way we can digitally record what's selling well AND spread the fame around a bit. We can hang signs around the stores - "Check out our Area Kids Blog! You never know, you may find yourself there!"

So staffers, if you have cameras and any photography skills whatsoever, show them off on our blog! Today the blogosphere, tomorrow the world!

Happy Un-Birthday!!!!!

So i was just refolding some shirts when i came across the (very cute) Alice and wonderland glow-in-the-dark tee and i remembered that today is my un-birthday! Happy un- birthday to me! And if today is your un-birthday, Happy Un-Birthday to You!

Area "Boys" Petition

Every time I go shopping with my best friend, he always gets annoyed by how many more options for girls there are over that for boys. I always joked that no one cared about boys and it's completely a woman's world. As true as this may be, Area Kids needs more of a selection of boys clothing. Yes we do have quite a varied selection of Tea, Altru and Junk Foods items, but Area really does need to start catering to the little 'fashionistos' that dare to be just as cute as their female counterparts. I felt so badly for a customer this morning, who is about ready to pop with her first child - A BOY! She complained that it was so hard to find clothing for her little munchkin. Although I helped her pick out the cute, blue striped Splendid polo, a few Appaman shirts and Dr.Seuss onesies, she still hoped to find more. I promised her that I will try to do my very best to help get more clothing for boys at Area Kids, and I hope this won't be a hard feat. So, I hereby start an Area BOYS clothing petition, and I hope I don't get fired for this blog.