You Say It's Your Birthday

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This is it! We've been selling lollipops for one whole year, and we're still around! Yay us! Forgive us for being so thrilled, but this is a Big Deal.

To say thank you to all of you, our customers, twitter followers, facebook fans/likers, blog readers, friends, and family, we will be giving away Greatest Hits collections to 5 lucky people today.

All you have to do is leave your non-anonymous comment in today's blog post telling us what your favorite flavor is. At 5pm Pacific Time, we will choose 5 commenters at random and notify you that you've won. One comment per person please.

Here's to another fabulous year!

Greatest Hits

Introducing our Greatest Hits collection! For the holidays this year, we wanted to showcase the favorite flavor from each of the six collections that we've had for sale in 2010. The collection has two of each of the following flavors:

• popular Salted Caramel (from the Spice Rack)
• yummy Pistachio-Marshmallow (from the Adventurer's Pack)
• kid-riffic Pomegranate (from early-2010's Fruit Basket)
• inviting Maple Sugar (from the Breakfast Tray)
• fragrant Honey-Jasmine (aka the Love Triangle's Sweetheart)
• warm Root Beer Float (from Celebration Time)

These are perfect for you to sample your favorite flavors from each pack or to introduce your friends to our lollipops!

We'll be giving away 5 of these special collections tomorrow on the blog! We'll have them at the EtsyRain craft show for the first time on Oct 16th-17th, and list them for regular retail sale on Etsy on Monday Oct 18th. 

Look for details in tomorrow's blog post!

The Return of Hockey Friday - Only on Wednesday

Yes, yes, it's only Wednesday, not Friday. But there are other things afoot on Friday (hint: it's our 1-year anniversary!), so this week's Hockey Friday is destined to be on Wednesday.

The NHL season starts tomorrow! Philly plays Pittsburgh tomorrow night for their season opener, and San Jose starts its season with a game against Columbus in Stockholm on Friday.

I've no idea what the prospects for either team are this year, though I'm confident that both TCC teams will meet in the Stanley Cup finals (like they *almost* did last spring). And then our company will be torn asunder by hockey rivalry. Or something.

Go Sharks! Go Flyers!

Do you need a last-minute gift favor for your hockey party? Consider teal Teaberry lollipops for your Sharks party, or orange Tangerine-Clove lollipops for your Flyers event.

Lollipops Are Antennae #2

A small alien with lollipop antennae visited some SETI satellite dishes during the same field trip as yesterday's post.

Math Geeks!

Susan and I are both recovering math majors. So when we got this picture of a little field trip some of our lollipops took, our hearts just about melted. (For those of you who don't know, Alan Turing was a mathematician who also happened to be a key player in developing computer science. He was also a Big Deal Codebreaker during WWII.)

Eye Candy: Isabella Rossellini

When I was in college, I used to buy women’s magazines such as Cosmo simply to collect Lancôme advertisements featuring Isabella Rossellini. The woman is the very definition of Eye Candy. I found this scanned-in ad on flickr:

Yup, I had that one up in my dorm room.

credit: veronique3 on flickr