Our Imagiplay puzzles will last much longer than all those chocolates and won’t give kids any cavities, pimples, or messy, pudgy cheeks.

These colorful, eco-friendly puzzles are hand-crafted and hand-painted with non-toxic paint. Made of rubberwood, they’re tough and sturdy.

Our Imagiplay Counting Bunnies Wood Puzzle shows Mommy Rabbit with her bunnies lined up to get the carrots. We like that kids will see that carrots are a nutritious reward. And that they should promptly give up their Easter chocolates to their parents for immediate “disposal” (heheh).

Counting Bunnies Puzzle measures 14″ x 4″ x 1″. $13.99

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We also have the Dog Family and Cat Family wood puzzles. These also make great gifts for dog- and cat-lovers to put on their desks. Some cat-lovers already have full-size, hair-shedding cats stretched across their keyboards and paperwork all the time. These wooden cats are hassle-free and take much less space.

We love dogs and wish more people could bring their dogs to work. Our Dog Family puzzle is a perfect fit for any office. They sit and stay.

Cat Family Puzzle measures 6″ x 4.5″ x 1″ $11.99
Dog Family Puzzle measures 6.5″ x 4″ x 1″ $11.99

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And finally, we have our adorable Counting Snail puzzle. Admittedly, the puzzle appears a little trickier for younger kids to put together. Just remind the kids that not everything has to happen quickly. Just ask snails. With some patience and dexterity, they can assemble the Counting Snail’s shell skillfully.

Counting Snail puzzle measures 6″ x 5″ x 1″ $12.99

See all our Imagiplay products at Happy Clam Store.

In April we wish all our Jewish and Christian friends a blessed holiday.

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For those of us who are way too lazy busy to do P90X – just throw on a Body Dreams Muscle Shirt or Bikini Cover Up and you’re good to go!

Rock these T-Shirts at the beach, lake, hotel pool, or even in the boudoir (that’s a fancy word for that room where your bed shares a space with the treadmill that you never use).

So, go ahead, enter the Caption Contest on Happy Clam Store’s Contest Page HERE and caption any (or all) of the images. You can enter as many different captions you want.

The contest ends March 6, 2011. The winner will be announced and contacted on March 7 and he or she can choose which T-Shirt to shamelessly flaunt. Click Here for our complete Body Dreams Collection and product details.

Share this contest with friends and family. That way, if they win, they can thank you forever for giving them a hot new body without the painful surgery, medieval gym equipment, and the starvation diet of empty-headed celebrities.

Kurt G., from Los Angeles, ran a 5K in our Muscle Shirt and quickly attracted some of the Laker Girls. You TOO can have groupies!

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BFFs deserve acknowledgment for being our exuberant cheerleaders, our conniving partners in crime, our spontaneous bartenders, and our on-call psychologists.

We have a giggle-inducing selection of Anne Taintor greeting cards. If you’re familiar with Anne Taintor products, you already know that it takes a special person to relate to the clever, irreverent humor associated with the retro graphics. So if you’re amused by our greeting cards, there’s no doubt your best friends will have a similar reaction.

Here are 7 designs to express your special connection with your fun friends:

“I believe we have an opportunity to make some extremely poor choices”
(Inside – Blank)
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“What part of ‘I’m hungover, go home’ don’t you understand?”
(Inside – Not everyone understands me as well as you do)
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It would, of course, have to look like an accident. (Inside – Blank)
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“You be Thelma. I’ll be Louise.” (Inside – Have a smashing birthday!)
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“I feel a sin coming on” (Inside – Blank)
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“Ta-daa! Now let’s have a cocktail” (Inside – Or two)
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And appropriately – our favorite card for sharing bad news:

“#%&@*!!!!!” (Inside – Words fail me)
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Be the friend who always knows just what to say; keep several cards handy for instant mood-lifts and pep talks. We’re running a Blog Special Offer on our greeting cards. Get one FREE greeting card with any purchase of Anne Taintor greeting cards. (One free greeting card per customer.) Just select TWO cards and you’ll receive $2.50 off at Checkout. Please use the Code SASSY-SMART. Expires April 9, 2011.
Check out all our Anne Taintor Greeting Cards.

Anne Taintor Greeting Cards are $2.50 each and measure 5″ x 7″. Happy Clam Store sends each card in a protective sleeve. Because our customers are also our BFFs.

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Gather your tax documents and throw them in the “Total Crap/Other Crap/More Crap” folders. I bet the humorless IRS guys will let you off the hook, just for making them giggle like schoolgirls.

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Our favorite set is the “Useless/Nothing/Nosy” pack because each one effectively deals with a typical day at the office. Not our office, of course, but all the cubicle-dwellers not unlike “The Office” set.

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For Procrastinators of America, the “Do/Ponder/File” set takes a load off the pressure. Just make your selections on the folder covers and you’ve accomplished so much already before the lunch hour!

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And for the emotional organizer in you, our “Never/Makes Me/Immediately” folders hit the spot. Our suspicion is that psychiatrists and life coaches everywhere secretly use these files for themselves.

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And the most truthful of all is our Stuff/Documents/Bills folders. Each file heading seems interchangeable with the others, so it requires less sorting. That’s what we like about them – a feature that helps us clear off our desk faster and with less effort.

Happy Clam Store offers so many office-related products to keep the chuckles reverberating all day. Give your boss, your co-workers, and employees a break from their monotonous, drone life. Share the goofiness. Be the change. And Happy New Year!

Knock Knock File Folders
Set of 6 letter-size folders/2 of each style
$8.99

More Happy Clam Store products for office tomfoolery

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Our Toysmith Circus Sam Balancing Toy entertains and teaches kids basic physics involving weights. You can balance this clown on his hat, his toes, his nose, his heels and on one foot (or two)! So many poses to try out; just use your imagination. He’ll even balance on your finger, your nose, your pencil eraser…

Sam and his stand measure 8 1/2″ high and nearly 10” wide.
Comes with one Sam the Clown, platform, pole, base, and instructional booklet. Toysmith Circus Sam is on sale through December 2, 2010, for only $8.99. Regular price is $10.99.

Next up is our Hogwild Monkey Benders. We love these guys! They’re a gang of 4 colorful monkeys with magnetic feet and hands so they can be posed acrobatically on metal surfaces, together or separately. Stores in the banana-shaped tin container for extra cuteness.

Depending on the kid playing with them, these monkeys can find themselves in alot of mischief. At our store booth, where we allow kids to try out the toys, we caught the Monkey Benders creating havoc for Circus Sam as he struggled to maintain his balance. Sam was rescued just in time! Hogwild Monkey Benders is on sale through December 2, 2010, for only $11.99. Regular price is $13.99.

And to help you – er, your child – carry around these tricky toys, be sure to check out our Loungefly Smurf lunchboxes. The Smurfs movie will be coming out next year, so your kids can be the first to walk around lookin’ fly with Smurfy-Smurf style.

Loungefly metal lunchboxes have printed and embossed graphics. Measures 8” x 7” x 4”. Smurf lunchboxes are on sale through December 2, 2010, each for only $10.99. Regular price is $12.99.

Find more Lunchboxes and Tin Totes HERE.

And take a look-see at our other toys HERE – just in time for the holidays!

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Great Job Meschelle!

This is Happy Clam Store’s second contest. The first contest was held in July and the winner of our caption contest, which was held on Facebook, was the fabulous Ann Tucker of Oklahoma. She’s also the humorous and sage author of the Ann Tucker Blog. We gave away a Body Dreams T-Shirt just in time for summer lounging.

Happy Clam Store runs funny monthly contests so our customers, readers and fans have on-going opportunities to win fun, quality prizes. And it’s always going to be easy to enter. We won’t ask for your first-born or a down-payment for that boat we’ve been eyeing.

All you have to do is “LIKE” our Store’s Facebook Page and you’ll automatically be notified of the next contest!
Click Here to LIKE it now.

Also, if you’re interested in the 2 products that we’ve given away so far, check out the details for them so you’ll know you’re getting quality goods:

• Fred Food Face Plate




• Body Dreams T-Shirt

Be sure to contact us so you can receive the DISCOUNT CODE for 10% off your entire purchase!

Always Have Fun,
Happy Clam
www.happyclamstore.com

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Here’s an example of what I did with my breakfast. If only I had sausages for eyebrows. (For my bagel-face, not my real face!)

And here’s what you can win when you enter on Facebook:

Here’s a chance for junior to play with his food and exercise his creativity at the same time! So bring on the mashed-potatoes and peas…the possibilities are endless! Food Face is mid-size and crafted from hotel-quality, food-safe, high-fire ceramics. It’s individually gift boxed with lots of inspirational (not to mention wacky) food art.

Wouldn’t YOU have loved this when you were a kid? (Psst…you can always “borrow” it while the kids are in school.)

This item can also be purchased directly from our Happy Clam Store HERE. If you know any kids who are half Picasso/half Martha Stewart, this is the gift they’ll love. Now see if they stop giggling long enough to actually eat their dinner.

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Our Toysmith Old World kaleidoscopes are quality-made, solid (not flimsy) cardboard. I’ve put up many a ‘scope to my discriminating brown eyes; and for the price, these are worth it.

Looking through our ‘scope is like marveling at stained-glass windows. In fact, a little girl checked one out at my booth and told me that it looked like the ceilings at a church she had been in once. Not only was that an outstanding description, but obviously, this young girl was well-traveled, as there aren’t too many local churches with stained-glass ceilings. So basically, this lucky kid had been traipsing around Europe while I’m over here hanging out in the hot Valley selling kaleidoscopes and goofy shirts.

Then a boy came by and peered through a ‘scope and instantly shouted, “Dad! Look, this is cool!” I instructed him to aim it towards the sky so the colors showed even more brilliantly. His dad then reached over, while the kid was looking through the ‘scope, and slowly turned the “object box” (the part of the tube that holds the colored beads). The kid went nuts with amazement and yelled out “Wow – I didn’t know you could turn it! It changes!”

Of course his dad and I chuckled. We were thinking the same thing. Today’s kids are so into all the digital technology and gadgetry. Something as low-tech as a kaleidoscope can still bring moments of wonder and awe.

Come by our booth and get $1.00 off your kaleidoscope. Or visit the Happy Clam Store HERE. The Discount Code word is LOW-TECH.

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Forget those fad diets! Slip one of these on and you are good-to-go. These shirts are great for the beach, the lake, the pool, and even for just lounging around the house. Oh, YEAH – wear it loud and proud, baby! We dare ya to get the newspaper from your driveway wearing one of these. Or answer the doorbell while striking a Miss America-in-the-swimsuit-competition-pose.

In fact, for the guys – walk around in this Muscle Shirt and then run for Governor of California. You’ll get our vote.

The sale price of $18 is valid through July 10, 2010. The Body Dreams shirts are 50/50 cotton/poly blend and fits up to Size 16 for women. Men’s Muscle T-shirt only available in Large and X-Large sizes.

You’re welcome to come by the booth and try one on. Of course, we’re going to ask if we can take your picture – because we can’t afford to hire Abercrombie & Fitch models. Well, who wants to look like them anyway?

Click HERE to check out all the styles. Our favorite is the Cherry bikini. There’s a cherry “tattoo” on the back side.

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• wear sunscreen
• watch out for sharks
• don’t get Lyme disease from ticks
• listen for rattlesnakes
• and for god’s sake – don’t get lost or kidnapped or I swear I’m gonna be one Mad Clam!

Anyhoo, on June 26 and July 3, 2010, if you find yourself in the northern San Fernando Valley, in lovely Southern California, stop by the Happy Clam Store booth at El Cariso Park, in Sylmar, just north of Mission College.  We’ll be there from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Come check out our fun toys, kids’ books, and gifts for grown-ups who still haven’t lost their sense of humor in this economy.  At least come by and say “Hi” and let me know how your summer is going.  I might re-apply some sunscreen on you if I think you need it.

Have a fabulous, safe summer!

Always Have Fun,

Happy Clam

Cirque De Simi 2010, Simi Valley, California
“Epic!”

Happy Clam Store is based in Simi Valley, Ventura County, California. Our booth “floats” around the San Fernando Valley and we’re always searching for new venues, events, and farmers markets. Someday, Happy Clam’s dream is to permanently dock a brick-and-morter store at the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard. (Because we’re happiest on the California coast.) Until then, find us online at www.happyclamstore.com

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