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Damn Life is Good!

November 7, 2010 by Chris

The other day my favorite nurse that I work with at the hospital introduced me to this really cool line of clothing called Life is Good. The clothing comes with some fantastic sayings printed on them.

Most of the items on this site are generally intriguing, but the one’s that interest me the most are the guitar or music related products on the site. If your looking for some distinctive gifts to give someone then I think this is something to take a better look at.

The Life is Good company is based in the US, but has outlets in Canada as well. My friend tells me that any time she travels to the US, she is always aware of the location nearest her destination so she can do some window shopping.

The company carries everything from hats/caps, big cotton sweaters all the way to some cute doggy accessories. A couple of years ago we picked up this great coat for our dog Midnight that reminded us of something that Edith Bunker would wear going to church with good ol’ Archie. Man did that thing turn some heads when we took her for a walk in our neighbourhood! I only wished that they had some of their doggy cloths that came with some of the guitar or music sayings on them.

My favorite one is this sweater that says “Remember the Music is not in the guitar”. It has this stick man figure on it (BTW, Stickman is my old nickname) playing an acoustic guitar while sitting down. Don’t ya get it, the music is in the musician not the guitar? They also carry some neat embroidered Caps as well. Check out the Guitar Tree and Jake Campfire, their hilarious man!

Has any one out there been to one of Life is Good outlets? Tell me what you think is the craziest saying they have!

Keep on Jammin’




Filed Under: Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Humor, Recreation, Shopping Tagged With: accessories, apparel, caps, clothing, dog, dog bowls, gift ideas, gifts, guitar, guitar tree, hats, jake campfire, life is good, men, Remember the Music is not in the guitar, sweaters, women

The Electric Guitar Lighter

April 5, 2010 by Chris

These guys in Japan have come up with the coolest looking electric guitar lighter ever! The detail on this thing is fabulous to look at. The one overall feel that this guitar has is a hypnotic one. It’s the same effect, to me anyways, like watching a bonfire while camping. It’s also like looking at one of those boats that are built in a glass bottle and wondering to yourself how do they get that thing in there? (BTW, how in the hell do they get them in there?!).

Electric Guitar Lighter

Electric guitar lighter

electric guitar lighter

electric guitar lighter

It looks like a classic old B.C. Rich guitar that was quite popular in the 80’s with all those big hair bands of the time. It comes complete with genuine imitation strings, pick ups, control numbers, you own electric guitar lighter stand and what closely resembles a Floyd Rose double locking system with fine tuners!

I think that it would be a hilariously funny gag gift for any guitar player! If your into it, then check out the link or look at a similar electric guitar lighter at Amazon! I have never dealt with this company before so I can’t attest to how good their services are.

Keep on Jammin’


Filed Under: Entertainment, General, Humor, Recreation Tagged With: birthday gift, electric guitar, electric guitar lighters, fathers day gifts, funny, gifts, guitar, guitar lighter, Humor, humour, lighters, presents

I got a Match PIK for a birthday present

August 7, 2009 by Chris

I recently received a belated birthday present from a volunteer at our hospital.

She came up to me in my work area and told me to close my eyes and hold out my hand. I thought it was a joke and I thought it would be nice to be at the butt end of one for a change, so I did what I was told. She then dropped what seemed to feel like a piece of cardboard in my hand and excitedly opened my eyes! What I found was what looked like a match pack, but the wording on it said Match Pik?

At that time, everyone around me was looking at me including Connie and they were all smiling. I thought wow, a pack of matches, how nice?! She then said “Happy Birthday Chris!”. I followed up with “Oh, you shouldn’t have!”.

Upon further examination of this bright red pack of matches that I just accepted as a birthday gift, I saw the words “Jim Dunlop USA” near the bottom of it. At this point I was thinking to myself “What the hell is this?”.

matchpik

Looking back at Connie, she was laughing at this point and said “Open it!” When I did, I found six .88 mm grey guitar picks inside! What a fabulous gift! I’ve never seen anything quite like this before so I gave her a little hug and we all had a laugh at my expense.

Keep on Jammin’

Filed Under: General, Guitar Equipment, My experiences, Toronto Tagged With: .88 mm guitar pciks, accessories, birthday gifts, gift, gifts, gifts for guitarists, guitar accessories, guitar gifts, Jim Dunlop guitar picks, jim dunlop USA, Match Pik

Great gift ideas at Designer Gifts

May 27, 2007 by Chris

Designergifts.com is a new online store that is owned by onlinestores.com. It think they’re trying to get a feel as to how people respond to the items that they are selling as well as the look and feel of the site.

Personally I’m very happy with the way the site has been designed. The menu system is easy to navigate, there’s a good selection of categories and sub categories in the menu that will take you to the sections that you’re interested in with ease.

Product wise I’m also pleased with the selection. I’ve visited some so called “gift stores” before that only have maybe 20 items to choose from. Designer Gifts is nothing like the other stores that I’ve visited and quickly left. No, it’s got a huge selection of items. They have a Cheap gifts section but there’s nothing cheap about the gifts displayed there. The items appear to be of high quality and I’m fairly sure that if I were to go into a department store and find a similar item it would be more than twice the price.

Along with quality gift items you’ll also find an area that sells deluxe greeting cards. There are cards for all occasions in that area and the cards are very nice.

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Being a guy, I spent more time looking at the Gift ideas for men portion of the site. There’s some great gift ideas to be found in that section. You can buy personalized gifts like army knives that could be engraved, flasks, Bath and body gift ideas for men, and even gift baskets for men. I actually really like the look of the gift basket that I’ve shown above and wouldn’t mind one bit if someone wanted to get that for me as a gift. Hey, my birthdays coming up a little more than a month you know.

They do have some high tech gift items like the MP4 players and Digital picture frames, but I suppose they could stand to get a few more gadgety types of items in their lineup. In fact, I really do think that that would be my only suggestion.

The prices seem very reasonable, and as I said earlier the items look to be well made and of high quality so I’d be happy to either give or receive a gift from Designer Gifts. How about you? Why don’t you go visit the store and see what you think.

Filed Under: Sales and Marketing, Shopping Tagged With: cheap gifts, designer, gift ideas, gifts, gifts for all occasions, gifts for men, gifts for women, good prices, Online store, quality gifts, shipping

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