CP Junior Jersey Sale, Also Store Closing

Repeating what I wrote in my "CHM Biz News Blog." (Note the link to this blog in the sidebar here)...

My "For Women Old Enough to Know Better", a.k.a. grannygear, store, will be closing by August.

However, this "For Women Old Enough..." store is still open as I speak, and with a Junior Jersey Blow-Out Clearance Farewell and Closing Sale, at that.

I have marked my Junior Jersey prices way down throughout the "For Women Old Enough..." store. Add my mark-down to CafePress's Junior Jersey mark-down starting today, and you've got lots of savings. Take advantage - after all, school and Fall are coming before you know it. Get your nifty cheap Jerseys now.

Back to the "For Women Old Enough..." store... This CafePress Premium Store originated when CafePress offered me a free six-months deal for me to upgrade my Basic Store (a free store, but with limited options) to a Premium Store. I took up CafePress's offer, even though I was already busy with my first and original CafePress Premium Store, Music Stuff & More. "For Women Old Enough..." store did well those first six free months, so I kept it. It has always more than paid its way, still does, but I like the idea of consolidation now - it's easier, more convenient, simpler, for me and, I believe, for you customers. Oh, and there'll be one less store to make payments on...

You will now find your favorite graphics and merchandise from "For Women Old Enough..." store @ my Music Stuff & More store. (As you may have noticed, many of these graphics and merch have been there already.) Look in the "& More" area for your favorite non-musical - also women-oriented - graphics. I'm in the process of "revealing" them soon, after I get them all tidy and ready-for-primetime.

So, "For Women Old Enough..." is open now as I write, with great deals on Junior Jerseys throughout the store, but will no longer be open in August. I haven't figured out yet what to do with this "For Women Old Enough...", a.k.a. Groovy Ladies, Blog. It will remain open and running until I can figure out what to do with it, a decision which will be made sometime before long... Input regarding this blog is very welcome!

Please visit - and enjoy the extra Junior Jersey savings - @ "For Women Old Enough..." store.
And, Music Stuff & More store.
And, my brand-new www.zazzle.com/chmayer, which is Music Stuff & More @ Zazzle.

Please note that I am newly on Facebook. Feel free to send me a Message or give me a Facebook Poke. You'll find me under my real name. And, both my CafePress store and my new Zazzle store can be found on my Facebook Profile.

Take care. Keep cool.

Green tea protects against heart disease: study - Yahoo! News

Green tea protects against heart disease: study - Yahoo! News (Reuters)

Yet another report about the value of green (also dark) tea.

Neat thing about tea, unlike coffee, it doesn't matter if it's hot, cold, or room temperature.

Drink up!

The New Stuff - Grafs & Merch

Images of just a couple of my many new items... Above, the new Raspberry Baseball Cap with the new "InfiniStitch Embroidery." Below is one of the Obama graphics, somewhat obviously. This graphic looks great on buttons - I know, I ordered ten mini-buttons myself and am very pleased with how they turned out.

A few links to some of my new graphics and new merchandise:

See Music Stuff & More store's "Sales & Features" and "NEW NEW NEW" section and 2008 Election & 4th of July (Americana, generally, also includes Obama stuff). And still more Obama stuff in the "& More" section

I have mentioned previously the new *Pink* color for maternity tops, I hope. Also new: pet bowls, in both large and small sizes. Find some in the "NEW NEW NEW" section mentioned above.

Don't Forget Mother's Day

Shop at the For Women Old Enough...store or at Music Stuff & More for gifts for Mom, Grandma, or, heck, yourself (if you're a Mom or Grandma, you're very entitled to treat yourself, don't you think? You've earned it!).

See a section with Mother's Day Gift Ideas from my Music Stuff & More store

Also check out Moms Rule and I Heart Mom graphic merchandise and Grannies Rule, I Heart Grandma, and other loving Granny merch (Find Phat Granny and Groovy Grandma merch here as well.)

Hormone use linked to cancer risks - Yahoo! News

Hormone use linked to cancer risks - Yahoo! News (AP)

Yet another news release pointing to the harmful effects of hormone replacement therapy.

Turns out it's not "just" about breast cancer, but also lung and other cancers...

Just do your best to avoid the nasty stuff (Prempro, Premphase, etc.). There are other, better solutions to menopausal miseries most of the time. (Heck, even using a fan can be a huge help for hot flashes - what a concept!)

Signed,

Breast Cancer/Prempro & Premphase Survivor

SALES & FEATURES : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

SALES & FEATURES : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

An update!

Please note the Valentine section here. : )

Are you ready to vote in your Primary? I'm mailing my ballot in today or tomorrow and I still haven't been able to commit - Hillary? Obama? FWIW, I'd be happy with either.

If you're either an Obama or a Hillary fan, you might want to check out...

Democratic Progress (as well as American eagles...) in this store

or

Democratic Progress found in my Music Stuff & More store (lots more merch here)

Stopping By & Update

Hope all are keeping cool!

The "limited time" "Buy 3 Shirts, Get 1 Free" CafePress promotion is over now.

I have been hard at work re-organizing my CafePress premium stores, as you may notice, also adding new graphics and merch. Been busy putting together Back-to-School Features as well (which I had better complete RSN!).

I've been in the process of marking down my Value T-Shirts.

My Value T-Shirt mark-down is for two reasons:

1. CafePress will be increasing its price for printing on a second side later this month. What this means is that either we shopkeepers can pass along the price increase to you guys (!), we can cut our mark-up (!!), or we can remove the graphics on the second side (a ton of extra work on top of an already heavy workload at the busiest part of the online retail year). I most likely will do the first and third: pass along the mark-up, plus start removing some - but not all! - of the second graphics. What this means is that all my merch printed on two sides will be slightly more expensive, but you'll start to be seeing prices drop as I remove the second graphics from many items. BTW, I have many, many items (most?) which have only one graphic, so they will not be affected in any way, price or otherwise. So....to make a long story shorter, my offering the Value tees at a lower price, may compensate a little for the increased price of the two-graphic items. (I'm giving it a shot for now, anyway. Running it up the flag pole; seeing if it will fly.)
2. The economy. It's getting a little ugly out there. The stock market has been like a roller-coaster this year - you have to hang on tight, and it's starting to get a little sick and nauseating. Then there's all those "sub-slime" (thank you for this apt word, Jim Cramer) and otherwise screwed-up mortgages and other "creative" financing/credit crunch. Gasoline prices, higher food prices... It's not a time to expect people to want to throw around their cash. It's a time where someone might be more interested in spending $9.99 for a tee she really likes and can afford, while, perhaps, the more expensive shirts have to be passed up (especially those with that added two-graphic CafePress mark-up!). The more flush among you won't care, but I do have sympathy for those who are uncomfortable shelling out more than $9.99 for a T-shirt at this time.

Telling you far more than I should, it's good news/bad news for me when I sell stickers, buttons, magnets, Value Tees, and the like. Good news in that I made a sale and that someone has appreciated and is now enjoying my stuff. But a little disappointing in that I'm making only $1 or two on the sale. (The more expensive items bring me $5 or more...)

Anyway, I'm way long, too long here. Just updating you, and wishing you well. Keep cool!

New Merch & Other News

I've been literally under the weather lately (bleeping climate change affecting my eyes, lungs, and sinuses - the downside of living in SoCal), as a result I haven't been keeping up with all my work as well as I'd like.

Can't believe I didn't post here yet about the arrival of the new Junior spaghetti tank tops and the new maternity tops, many of which have been in the For Women Old Enough... store for a while now. I do plan to add yet more. Check them out in "Sales & Features" The maternity tops come in black or white. The new spaghetti tank tops come in pastels as well as in white. See still more of this merch in the "Moms Rule" sections, and elsewhere in For Women Old Enough..., as well as in the Music Stuff & More store.

Here's some other - this is brand-new - news regarding all my CafePress stores from my CHM Biz News Blog (and please subscribe while you're there).

Of particular interest For Women Old Enough... (both you and the CafePress store), are the new Junior Jersey T-Shirts, which will be replacing the soon-to-be-former Junior Baby Doll T-Shirts. These are expected to be of higher quality - and will be offered in pink or blue, as well as in white. These new Jerseys ought to be in my CafePress stores within the next few days, according to CafePress, which is doing the bulk of the adding (quicker for you, easier for me - good news all around).

To view these changes at my family-friendly, women-friendly, children-family other CafePress store - a bigger one, frankly (huge!), please visit Music Stuff & More

I also recommend, once again, subscribing to my monthly CafePress newsletter. I'm really good at getting this newsletter out every month for years and years now, and still am, come heck or high water. It's probably the best way to keep up with what's going on regarding my CafePress stores. (Yes, I'm still working on my website - !, and still upgrading my blogs...).

You'll find my monthly CafePress Newsletter subscription/sign-up thingie in a box there on the right sidebar here, as well as on my CafePress premium stores' Storefronts.

Yet more, on a personal note: Yes, I've seen the new "Pirates", I'm happy to report : )

And, Friday's my birthday - no milestone, though. Yes, that makes me a Gemini. Not surprising, I am pretty much of an airhead. ; )

Be well, and do have good weather.

SALES & FEATURES : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

I hope that you moms out there had a good Mother's Day!

SALES & FEATURES : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

A "For Women Old Enough..." store update:

This Page linked to above will give you a good summary of what's new in the store. But, I'll also make a list here:

~ From now on, ALL of my totebags in both of my CafePress premium stores (that would be "For Women Old Enough..." as well as "Music Stuff & More") will be sold at the reduced price of $14.00. This is to encourage bag re-use, yet another way we can help our planet - and, ultimately, ourselves.

These CafePress canvas totebags are good for re-use, being strong, easily washable cotton canvas. The bags can also be used as shoulder bags. (I've a couple of these bags myself, so I do have personal experience with using them.)

~ Along that line, surely you've seen the World in the "For Women..." store. No, really, the Planet Earth. CafePress merchandise with a high-quality NASA photo of the Western Hemisphere of the Earth graphic is now available in both of my CafePress premium stores.

~ There is brand-new CafePress merchandise available. I've been starting to add the maternity tops (in both white and in black) and the new Junior spaghetti tank tops (in nice colors) to both of my CafePress premium stores. Also, I continue to add other merchandise (always working at catching up) to both stores.

~ As I've mentioned previously, here and/or in my monthly CafePress newsletter or CHM Biz News Blog, some CafePress merchandise is about to be discontinued.

In fact, if CafePress doesn't remove the U.S. Custom Postage right away, I should/will, because the price of postage is changing this week, while this postage is not (being 39 cents). All in all, I recommend not buying the CafePress Custom Postage - or for that matter, the soon-to-be-discontinued CafePress Postage Pals. Actually, these postal items may already be unavailable.

CafePress apparel to be discontinued in early June include the Junior camisoles, the Junior baby-doll T-shirts (to be replaced with new Junior jerseys - stay tuned), and the light-blue trucker hats.

Note that the black trucker hats will continue to be available and are not being discontinued.

= "For Women Old Enough to Know Better" store
= "Music Stuff & More" store

Woman crashes car into Huntington Beach store

Article - News - Woman crashes car into Huntington Beach store (Orange County Register)

This is an old lady who is not acting like a groovy lady.

She drives a better car than I (2006 silver Accord), however, mine (2000 not-silver Accord) is in better shape right now, since mine has not been driven through the front of a drugstore.

The good news is no one was hurt - the driver's airbag wasn't even activated.

Unfortunately, this is yet another in a long, too-long, string of "pedal-confusion" accidents caused by elderly drivers.

I do think the time has likely come for drivers to be more rigorously tested, say, upon their 75th birthday. Illinois already does this, I think all states should.

Woman, 95, to be oldest college graduate

Woman, 95, to be oldest college graduate - Yahoo! News (AP)

Well, good for her!

The story of this woman (see above) certainly shows that it is never too late to complete a degree.

Yet another groovy lady to add the the string of them in the news lately.

P.S.: Did you hear that the NYC dirtbag who beat up the 101-year-old lady (as she was on her way to church), stealing $31 from her, has been arrested? On drug charges, not surprisingly. Real tough guy - beats up the extreme elderly, then rides off with his take on a stolen little girl's pink bike. Loser...

These two tough NYC women this guy attacked that day are also groovy ladies in my book. They even fought back. Walker as weapon?

Grandma makes emergency landing in field

Grandma makes emergency landing in field - Yahoo! News (AP)

I love stories like this. From the article...

She [the forementioned grandma] said she flies a couple of times a week and plans to fly again. But she worried about what her children would say now.

Fits in with the recent story posted here re the 102-year-old golfer who hit a hole-in-one.

Good for both of them!

(Makes me feel lazy and inadequate somehow...)

Hormones can raise breast cancer risk

Hormones can raise breast cancer risk - Yahoo! News (AP)

Yet more verification of the nastiness - no, the danger - of HRT.

From this article...

"After rising steadily through the 1990s, the breast cancer rate dipped from 2001 to 2002, from 138 cases to 135 cases per 100,000 women. After the federal Women's Health Initiative study reported in July 2002 on the health risks of hormones, use of the pills plunged.

So did the breast cancer rate the following year — to 126 cases per 100,000 women. It was the steepest fall since the government started keeping records in the 1970s.

The drop was seen in all of the cancer statistics registries reviewed in the study, and no other cancer rate changed as dramatically — strong signs that hormones were playing a role, specialists said."


I resisted my doctors' entreaties to take HRT for years (they started in at me when I was only 45!), and I only give in because doctors urged it as a prevention against osteoporosis - which I got anyway!

Doctors were really suckered in by the drug companies on this, I believe, BTW. Related, I also believe doctors didn't handle this well.

Anyway, whether or not HRT was entirely the cause of my tumor I can't answer, but I do know that the tumor was "very strongly receptive" (quoting my pathology report) to hormones. OIOW, whatever the cause, it was indeed a fact that the HRT was feeding my tumor royally and generously. Every pill I took, every patch I put on, was feeding my tumor. : ( I can't believe I went to so much trouble and expense to feed and grow my cancer.

No wonder some women like me have sued these people. You can tell it makes me angry. I don't dwell, though, what's the point? I do warn others about HRT, though, when the subject comes up.

102-year-old Calif. woman hits hole-in-1

102-year-old Calif. woman hits hole-in-1 - Yahoo! News (AP)

Don't you love a good-news story?

Amazing.

Hope you had happy holidays.

BRAND-NEW Kids & Plus-Size T-Shirts : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

BRAND-NEW Kids & Plus-Size T-Shirts : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

Find more of this merchandise elsewhere in this store, with more being added. Find this merchandise being added in my other premium store as well - Music Stuff & More