Our Lemon Shark Juicer is in the June issue of Food Network Magazine in a feature devoted to Shark-related kitchen products. They even used their beautiful photo of the Lemon Shark Juicer as the issue’s cover image:
Sometimes there’s nothing we like better than a rich bite of cake slathered in sweet frosting.
So many people enjoy cake so very much that USA Today recently published an article by Bruce Horovitz about the trend in birthday cake and frosting-flavored products currently on the market. Included among the products they mentioned was our very own frosting-flavored Cupcake Toothpaste:
Novelty product maker Archie McPhee’s Cupcake Toothpaste hit the market in 2011. Spokesman David Wahl says one dad e-mailed his kid’s comments to the company: “He says it isn’t like he’s brushing his teeth anymore — he’s frosting them.”
Taking care of your pearly whites while enjoying the sweet taste of frosting sounds like a dream come true, which is exactly why we made it happen.
Click here to read the entire article.
Don’t forget to check out more of our fun and unusual toothpaste and dental floss items.
[Photo via Archie McPhee Seattle]
Last year this dapper little monkey made international headlines when he was found wandering unescorted inside a big-box store in Toronto, Canada wearing a miniature shearling coat and a look of existential ennui.
The small and stylish primate was first spotted in the parking lot outside the megastore before he made his way inside and began roaming around, where he was photographed by numerous shoppers. Although some people initially thought it might be a prank or promotional stunt, it soon became apparent that the little fellow was on the lam.
The daring little guy was someone’s pet rhesus macaque, thought to have been inside a crate which was inside a car located in the store’s parking lot. After cleverly making his escape, he set out on a brief adventure before eventually being captured by Toronto animal services. (In case you’re wondering, no, he didn’t buy anything.)
Canadian police said: ‘It’s a smart monkey.’
As the monkey’s story spread, an internet meme was born and soon photoshopped images began appearing online placing the fashionable simian in all sorts of unlikely scenes.
We were inspired by this intrepid and impressively well-dressed primate, who not only escaped his confines and ran amok through a superstore, but also posed for photos that would later spread across the internet like wildfire. This is why we decided to celebrate such a wondrous and weird occurrence the best way we knew how, by creating a lingonberry scented air freshener in his likeness. He’s 4-1/4″ (10.8 cm) tall and comes with a string for hanging inside a bag with an illustrated header:
This is our attempt to pay homage to an act of primate rebellion and undeniable simian swagger. You have to admit, in the end, aren’t we all just monkeys trapped in a society that we didn’t make and don’t understand? When we see him standing there in his tiny coat we realize that he is us and we are him.
Plus, monkey in people clothes! Awww…
And don’t worry about the monkey. At last report, while still in the care of animal services, he had recovered from the stress of his shopping adventure and was in good health and, we’re guessing, already shopping for next season’s jacket.
(Quote and photos via Dailymail.co.uk)
There may not be any food that’s better than bacon, but did you know that it might also hold the key to longevity?
Pearl Cantrell of Richland Springs, Texas recently celebrated her 105th birthday. That’s an indisputably awesome accomplishment, but it gets better. When asked how she’s managed to live so long Pearl replied:
“I love bacon, I eat it everyday”, says Pearl, “I don’t feel as old as I am, that’s all I can say”, she explains.
Still feisty and full of life, Pearl has been through a lot, and has plenty of reasons to complain or even give up. After mothering seven children, outliving three of them, losing a husband, and enduring decades of physical labor, she still has a smile on her face.
“I would go to the field and work till dinner, then come home to fix dinner, then I would go back out to the field and work again until supper”, Pearl tells us.
But Pearl’s daughter, Anno, says complaining is the last thing you’ll ever hear her mother do. “She’s taught us to work hard and to get up every morning and think about living. She’s never thought about dying”, says Anno.
Pearl Cantrell, all of us here at Accoutrements would like to wish you a belated Happy Birthday! We think you’re awesome and we’re glad you love bacon as much as we do.
Photo from Archie McPhee Seattle
What better way to start a whole new week than with a friendly greeting from Jenny, Melody, Jan, Shana, Sabrina, Kerry, Yana, and Jerilyn, your Accoutrements Customer Service team?
Click here to check out each of their current Staff Picks. Take it from us, this group has great taste. You might even discover an awesome product you never new existed.
We were pleased as punch when our friends over at Laughing Squid recently posted about one of our favourite new products: the Creepy Horse Man Dashboard Wiggler.
It’s the perfect thing to make your car just the right amount of creepy. Whatever you do, don’t try to beat the Creepy Horseman in a staring contest. We’ve tried and he never, ever blinks.
“If you have to ask why you need this, don’t ask us, we can’t explain.”
We’d like to share a few recent sightings of one of our favorite products, the Inflatable Unicorn Horn for Cats. Cat’s love it!
The fun began when Redditor Alterx shared this fantastic photo:
Which prompted Redditor k41y17 to share a photo of her own cat clearly enjoying his/her own fabulous Inflatable Unicorn Horn:
A short while later Redditor iCareMuch shared a photo of their cat wearing the horn too:
Can you believe just how much these cats are enjoying themselves?
But wait, there’s more!
As if that trio of unicorn kitty photos wasn’t great enough, we then spotted this awesome sticker in the Hawthorne District of Portland, OR:
Do not provoke the neon unicorn kitty. He’s busy being awesome.
(Unfortunately we don’t know the name of the artist responsible for making this fantastic piece of adhesive street art, but we love it all the same.)
So there you have it. Uni-cats are popping up all over the place and we couldn’t be happier about it. Stay tuned for future sightings of the Inflatable Unicorn Horn for Cats.
Why yes, you will look adorable while you’re eating a cola-flavored Mustache Lollipop. It’s a truly delicious disguise.
When we started selling our Squirrel Coffee Cup (which is exactly what it sounds like, a tiny coffee cup for squirrels), people doubted that it would be used by an actual squirrel.
Well, thanks to Kristine R, we now have photographic proof:
We’re not sure what kind of coffee was in the cup, but we’re guessing hazelnut.
This gif was created using photos taken by Kristine R from her excellent Tumblr page entitled A Squirrel’s Life!
