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Many posts ago we admitted our love for all things Twilight.  And since the third Twilight movie is coming out in ONE WEEK it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that we’ve been thinking a lot about it lately.  It has been causing all kinds of distractions and daydreams.  For example, last week when we should have been doing some dusting or tagging or customer servicing, we just sat around thinking about how we REALLY want them to shoot the next two movies in Portland. That daydream led to yet another daydream about what it would be like if Kristen Stewart (yes, we are totally team Bella) came to the shop.  We imagined ourselves throwing up a little in excitement and then trying to act nonchalant while simultaneously telling her how we totally relate to her because everyone thought we were really snotty when we were growing up, too. But in fact, we were just kind of shy and also didn’t want to hang around people we didn’t really like just to “fit in”.  Phew!  That was a long daydream.

We know that all this Twilight/Kristen Stewart talk may cause many of you to judge us in a negative way but we don’t really mind.  We all have our biases. (Ours are against people who wear overalls while not employed on a farm and those who use the word “re-doubling”). We proudly admit that we are total suckers for all that teen angst, two worlds collide, true love mumbo-jumbo.  And for your information, Twilight was not the first or last story to have our hearts all a-flutter.  Other awkwardly lovely, teeny, star-crossed stories we’ve gone gaga over include:

Romeo and Juliet – (zeffirelli’s version is a classic)
My So Called Life – (in bed for days when they canceled this)
Dirty Dancing – (on a constant loop in the VCR during the summer of ’88)
My Life as Liz – (a recent single season goodie that had us glued to the screen)

Anyway…

Didn’t someone say something about a giveaway?

In honor of our crush on Kristen Stewart, the movie release of Twilight Saga: Eclipse and to all good things that create daydreams, we would like to give our blog visitors a chance to win a $20 gift certificate.  (Out-of-town entries will have the option to receive a surprise daydream-inspired gift.)  You can leave a comment here or head over to our Facebook page and tell us about the thing that you’ve been daydreaming about lately.  Now that you know all of our heart’s deepest secrets – it’s time for you to dish a few of your own.  You have until July 1st.

p.s. If you can get us a personal, face-to-face interview with Kristen Stewart, you automatically win the giveaway.  Plus a $500 gift certificate.  That is not a joke.

or those of you who haven’t been in the shop recently, we thought a mini tour of some mini things might be nice.  While most of us aren’t looking for a living room couch and even fewer of us are in the market to buy an eggplant colored fridge, we can usually all treat ourselves (or our friends) to some of these little goodies:

For the Word Nerd or Font Freak:
letter tiles, calligraphy pens,
a book that teaches us the long lost art of letter writing
and a glass tray with a swirly alphabet

For the Simple Scientist:
a glass cloche, porcelain petals, vintage pyrex-turned-vase,
and a love-filled test tube on a sweet silver tray

For the Wedding Guest or Happy Housewarmer:
a lustreware vase and pitcher, decorative spindles
and cards for corresponding