Next week, we’ll be posting an interview with the president & creative director of the toy company eeBoo. While you’re waiting, check out some of my favorite eeBoo stuffs.

1. Composition Books, $10 Jeeze, how cute are these?
2. Good Habits Job Chart, $17 I have purchased a lot of chore charts in my day. Usually in January. (Not kidding.) Praise still gets my teeth brushed. Even self-praise. And I haven’t made my bed in a week.
3. Fairytale Spinner Game, $17 Yesss, games that tell stories! Maybe this is mostly for kids but I like it anyway.
4. Nemo & Princess in Balloon Sketchbook (+ Colored Pencil Set), $18 Much better than that yellow one with the wooden drawing doll torso.
5. “This Land is Your Land” US Wall Map, $20 For recording locational information. With stickers.
6. Sweet Stationary, $10 20 sheets of paper, 16 envelopes, & 2 sheets of stickers. I don’t know if I could really own this because even mere pictures of candy make me tear my house apart in search of sugar.
7. BONUS ITEM: Nature & Observation Notebook, $12 Envelopes and pockets for specimen collecting & more!

I psyched you out with that one, didn’t I? Stickers & Thanks-Giving rather than and Donuts?

So, a few weeks ago my kind associate Tricia interviewed Susan Eslick, the Creative Director at Mrs. Grossman’s. We loved Susan & all the Mrs. Grossman’s people, and after the interview, Tricia and I were even more sticker-obsessed than usual. And, each having recently acquired stickers, we wanted to do a follow-up post.

Since I am now frightfully unemployed, I was thinking of inexpensive ways to say thank you, you’re cool, and happy birthday, without spending too much money. Stickers are a GREAT way to do this. They are also very helpful around Thanksgiving when it’s advent calendar making time (wait, you don’t make advent calendars on thanksgiving?!).

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, here are some ways you can give your stickers (ps if anyone doesn’t like to get stickers, you should probably not be friends with them):

1. Hostess Gifts. Especially if you have to travel a long distance (say, the 500 mile journey I’ll be making this Wednesday), it’s hard to carry things like fresh flowers or fresh fruit. I am completely enamored with Mrs. Grossman’s line of Extraordinary stickers, which are PERFECT for this. (Look at the image above: Do you see how big that flower is? Almost as big as my face! THAT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY STICKER. Also, look at those grapes. You could almost eat them!)
2. Place Cards. Susan herself said she liked a side of irony with her stickers, so adding some funny stickers to table place cards could certainly entertain you and your guests alike. What about a big pile of fast food for a Thanksgiving place card?
3. Sticky Birthday Surprises. So, even though I’m not employed anymore, I faintly remember what it’s like to have to consider the birthdays of many co-workers. Even if you just know someone peripherally, it is imperative that you recognize their birthday. Giving a birthday sticker — or better yet sticking stickers around the birthday girl/boy secretly throughout the day — will certainly show that you’ve remembered them.
4. ADVENT CALENDARS! I am from a family of complicated-tradition makers. One of those traditions is making advent calendars thanksgiving weekend. (Yes, I have made advent calendars for people who don’t celebrate xmas. EVERYONE loves opening doors.) We pick names out of a hat and have to make a calendar for that person. We have template that we cut out with an X-acto knife, but since I can’t find that at the moment, I found this template online for you. What do we put in the doors of our advent calendars? Magazine cutouts, funny inside jokes, and lots of stickers! Our favorite thing to do is tear stickers apart and combine monsters and cheerleaders, xmas stickers and halloween stickers, etc.

Can you think of any other ways to give with your stickers? Susan likes to put them on waiter’s checks!  Tricia has discovered that they are a lovely addition to her baristas’ tip jar!

ALSO, I just discovered this feature on the Mrs. Grossman’s site where you can FAVORITE different stickers. Here are my favorites thus-far, and here are Tricia’s favorites. (And no, Mrs. Grossman’s is not paying us to be obsessed with them. We just are.)

Notice that new link near the “About” page? That’s a link for Stickers & Donuts Downloads including desktop background wallpaper, a Mac Dashboard Widget (it can also be widgetized for other uses), & a printable sticker sheet! Also, checkout the Subscribe page, which lets you know all the ways you can stay updated with S&D (News Feed, widget, or email)!

Stick Up, New York! features a huge gallery of stickers, stickers, stickers stuck everywhere across NYC:

“New York is covered by stickers. The exhibition gives an impression of New York’s sticker scene…. Mailboxes, traffic lights, public signs and walls, stickers are attached to nearly everything. Even though they were not supposed to be there. Showing either promotion art or political statements they still represent one of the most familiar trademarks of the urban jungle.”

(Reminds me of the collection of Street Writing photos.)

Imagine a big online magazine of black and white drawings and graphics created by all different artists. Now imagine printing the whole thing out. On sticker paper. If that doesn’t get your heart pumping, I don’t know what will. (more…)

Even though I wanted Urban Outfitters’ City Stickers, I didn’t come away from Urban Outfitters empty handed. Instead, I picked up a free nine pack of VOTE stickers. I just scanned in some of my vote stickers (above), and then checked out the Urban Outfitters “Pick a Winner” blog, which includes some lovely examples of what some artists do when it’s time to get political. (I imagine I’ll feature some of the posters on Stickers & Donuts soon.) (more…)

I love Esty, and I love these hand cut-out donut stickers with little faces on a splash of frosting. (more…)

Urban Outfitters is currently giving away free stickers at stores (and coupons for 10% off online purchases, in case you wanted to know), including stickers from the My City Sticker Project.

“Urban Outfitters asked 18 artists and designers to describe their city in sticker form. Each contributor took a unique slant on the “My City” theme, creating a collection just as diverse as the cities they are from.” (more…)

*** Buy them:  100 for $3 or 500 for $9 ***

DELARGE offers printable stickers (made to print on specific Avery paper sizes, a very convenient feature), downloadable posters, fonts, and wallpaper all for free. It’s a more urban feel than I usually go for in my graphic selections, but it’s well done and I don’t know about you, but I once spent two days trying to track down some classic “HELLO my name is” stickers from places like Staples, but it was DELARGE who offered up the goods in the end. (more…)