Come say hi (and place a huge order) at the NYIGF!

Are you a wholesale gift buyer? Are you going to be in NYC this weekend? Do you think our stuff is funnier than the bees' marginally laughable knees?

If you answered yes to all of those questions, come visit us at Booth #4245 at the NY International Gift Fair from August 19-23. We've got show specials and are unveiling a brand new line of letterpress coasters called Cocktail Notes!

If you visit our booth, you'll get a free half-dozen cards with any order over $200! What a steal!*

*A steal that comes with any order over $200.

And if you visit our booth and say the word "rhubarb," Joel will do a dance for you. (We haven't told Joel about this show special yet.)

Thanks, Old Tom Fools! Hope to see you in The Big Apple!

FABulous news!

We are having a pretty good day considering it's Monday. Usually, Mondays are reserved for dragging ourselves out of bed, screaming obscenities at our monitors, keeping the coffee pot on repeat, and single-handedly downing an entire half-gallon of Edy's mint chocolate chip ice cream for lunch. Mind you, today is no different, except that we opted for strawberry instead of mint chocolate and we're pretty psyched that our products are being featured on fab.com.

What's fab.com, you ask? It's a super swell web store that features different daily deals from design-y companies. Our wallets can confirm that we've been big fans of fab.com for a while. Everything is always offered at a pretty decent sale price, so we've managed to pick up some fun prints, shirts, art, and jewelry at a severe discount. Follow this link to see our Fab shop, but if you don't have an account, you can't peruse the site. We encourage you to sign up and poke around! Hey, it's free to look. Maybe you'll find that chic square pizza cutter or diamond-encrusted space helmet cat bed you've been looking for.*

Anyway, back to us.

Fab.com will feature Old Tom Foolery cards, posters, shirts, and more for the next few days, so order now if you want to save. (Not to hint or anything, but you never did send your elderly neighbor lady a thank you card for the "Kittens Monthly" subscription she got you for Christmas.) While you're at it, invite your friends to join Fab using your special code (see site for details), and you can get credit to spend on the site. We can't think of a better way to spend a Monday!

*If these exist, please leave me a link in the comments. I will buy them today, and I don't even own a cat or a pizza.

In a Holidaze

Wow, the holidays are coming up fast. We know this because everything is covered in seizure-inducing blinky lights and Christmas music has been playing in Target for 6 1/2 weeks. Also because it’s four degrees in Minnesota as I write this post.

Four.

Degrees.

Four.

"I'm gonna go ahead and stay home if that's cool."

Thanks to our good friend Jack Frost, we are doing every ounce of holiday shopping online this year. Relaxing at home in our jammies and sock monkey slippers with a big ole steamy mug of hot cocoa totally beats putting on pants and going to a crowded store in the freezing cold. Did you know that you can do the same thing? It’s awesome! (Slippers optional.)

You can even order fun gifts from Old Tom Foolery if you want. In addition to holiday cards (which you still have time to send, procrastinator!), we have bunches of boxed card sets, posters, t-shirts, tote bags, and notepads that make awesome gifts. Our Typestache line is always a hit with our fellow design nerds, and we also have a new line of Words of Wisdom vintage posters that are guaranteed to class up any wall.

See how wisdomy this homeowner looks?

Don't forget, you can still save 15% on all orders over $30 by entering the coupon code OHMYGOD. Pretty rad, right?

So stay inside this winter and shop from the couch. We won’t tell anyone about that stain on your sweatpants.

Sweat Up In My Creases

Check out this disturbingly funny little video made by some ad friends of ours. It's a timely one, too--the mercury hit 103 Fahrenheit degrees in Minneapolis earlier this week. (Talk about swampy creases.)

Speaking of sweat, get 15% off your order at the Old Tom Foolery website now through June 30th by entering coupon code HOTSWEATYSUMMER at checkout.

Sweat Up In My Creases from Sweat Up In My Creases on Vimeo.

Old Tom Foolery's Sale of the Century

Purchase any three cards or three boxed sets from our online store and we’ll give you a fourth style for free. Just let us know which additional style or boxed set you’d like by writing it in the "message to buyer" section on the PayPal checkout page. Sale ends December 15th, 2009. Go nuts!