This is a guest post by Joe Bagley of Papercuts By Joe. He has selected some wonderful gifts for Father’s Day, or any day, to show love and appreciation to a man in your life. Enjoy this post and please, feel free to comment!

Father’s Day is tricky, I know.  Sometimes finding a meaningful gift, or heck, finding something they don’t already have, is almost impossible!

Alyna has asked me to write this post to share some of my work, and hopefully help you all to find a special something for that father or father-figure in your life.  Unless noted, all pieces are shipped unframed, but cut to standard frame sizes so getting them framed will be extremely easy and inexpensive. You can pop any of the pieces in a frame as soon as they arrive, and they will be wall-ready in less than a minute.  I photograph …read more

I first heard about Matter of Trust on NPR. Then a neighbor also shared the story of the hair booms with me as well and I thought it worth sharing here. Just because you are one person doesn’t mean that you can’t help with the oil spill. Your donations of hair and especially nylons will help Matter of Trust make hair booms that will help soak up oil from the recent spill. Your donation is a gift and you can find out more here.

Happy gifting!

Transformers. I read that word and the old commercial with the robotic voice singing “Transformers! More than meets the eye…” automatically plays in my head. They’ve been around a while but kids still love them!

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What inspired this post? My boyfriend promised his eight year old nephew a present. Every time his nephew visits from California, my boyfriend’s mom goes into grandma mode and gets out all the old toys from the attic. Her grandson’s favorites? The old Transformers! He always wants “Uncle Alex” to play with him or help him transform them or play with him some more. At the end of the trip, he is always trying to get Uncle Alex to give him a Transformer (or five!) and he sometimes gets to take …read more