Bacon Soap (Relax; it smells like vanilla.)

Double Hot Cocoa Shampoo, Shower Gel, and Bubble Bath; Melting Marshmallow Creme Body Soufflé, Ooey Gooey S’mores Flavored Lip Shine $24.95 from Philosophy.

And more…

Not every fan of the Great Big Mouse (AKA Mickey) can make it to Great White Way (AKA Broadway) to take in one of Disney’s stage adaptations of their beloved screen musicals. But now, thanks to Disney on Broadway’s new Web shop, the exclusive merchandise previously only available to patrons of Broadway’s slate of shows can now be purchased by anyone.

Read on to find out how you can win this Little Mermaid Snow Globe!

Stream of consciousness thoughts on LittleMissMatched socks, available for the whole family:

Three socks.
Two feet.
One sock stays home.
None of them match.
That makes it fun.

Luke Sutton’s in the business of making people happy. . . which is probably why the t-shirts he sells are emblazoned with his drawings of an adorable anthropomorphic heart and not of a crying puppy. Crying puppies, I’ve found, do not make people the least bit happy. The adorable shirts are an irony-free declaration that in a cynical, heartless world, it’s OK to have a heart–especially if said heart wears yellow sneakers and a giant smile.

My wallet is like that really overused line from Forrest Gump: You never know what you’re gonna get. It’s small and has no individual card holders, so I can reach in for, say, my Visa card and pull out my driver’s license. Or I can reach for my ATM card and pull out my Bamberger’s card. And that’s a little weird, because Bamberger’s hasn’t EXISTED since 1986.

My wallet could learn a lot from the pocket wallets available at Mercys Mark’s ETSY shop.

Not really ugly

Ugly dolls are cute, cuddly

Irony, get it?

Each Ugly doll comes with a short backstory and enough charisma to charm the pants off of children, hipsters, Seniors, and perhaps even the most cynical of creatures: the teenager.

What can you find on Etsy? A community of artists who, as a whole, care about their customers and their products. I’ll be writing regular posts about my ETSY finds, both because of the unique selection of gifts available through the site, and because I think it’s important to support individual artists.

To start, I’d like to recommend Savor. Savor is the creation of Lisa, a computer tech and soapstress in Northern Cal who’s managed to fuse her love of cooking and her mastery of glycerin to create some really fabulous soap products.