Mable's Unique Shopping Blog

16 Million Color Party Lamp

Sean — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:17:14 +0000

Made to make a statement and add some color to your life; introducing the 16 Million Color Party Lamp! This lamp cycles through millions of colors, shades, tones and comes with a remote for total control. Powered by Earth friendly LEDs rated for 100,000 hours of use this will be your best party friend for years to come. Choose from an ambient glow to a bright beam of pure white light or any primary, secondary, or tertiary color.

Get this Color Changing Party Lamp with a lifetime guarantee from Hammacher today.
Batteries are included!

How Star Wars Tricks Kids into Meditating

Lauren — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:00:09 +0000

Say hello to the sneakiest and perhaps most useful “toy” a parent could want for her child:

What could it possibly do that’s so exciting to me? It teaches kids to use the Force! Well, kinda. What it actually does is shows kids how to access their alpha brainwave state. That’s what we experience when we get “in the zone” doing something interesting, or when we enter a very peaceful meditative state. We slow down from our usual (beta) brainwave speed and experience clarity and inner calm. The Force Trainer basically teaches kids to meditate! Studies abound on how meditation – or just slowing down and “being present” – can drastically improve our health, happiness, and lives. And calmer kids equal calmer parents

Star Wars certainly doesn’t explain the product this way, but look at the kid’s face in the commercial. That’s one chill padawan.

In case you’re wondering more about the technical details, here’s how it works:

“The wireless headset reads your brainwaves through dry sensor technology and can determine the differences between alpha, beta, gamma and delta waves. This allows a chip inside the Force Trainer to use an algorithm to interpret the data and translate it to physical action, which in this case moves the Training Sphere into different sections of the cylinder.”

$89 (was $119.99)

Light Takes Flight: shadow projecting lamp

Lauren — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:30:05 +0000

The simple play of light and shadow can be so mesmerizing. This new shadow projecting lamp from Brooklyn based Lumen uses a flock of birds to create it’s beautiful shadow play. Measuring a wee 5″ x 2.5″, the shadows it projects get larger as you move the lamp away from the wall. It makes a great conversation piece for living room display, yet I envision placing them on a nightstand (or uber sleek Lumen shelf). I’d just love to have my own flock of birds next to my bed And since it’s oil powered, there are no power cords to tie it down and no electricity being used. This lamp is (almost) free as a bird…
$47.99

Last Minute Costume Shopping

Sean — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:05:33 +0000

Quick! There’s still have a chance to get an awesome Halloween costume ordered today and delivered by tomorrow for the big Friday night Halloween party. Of course you can get it delivered in time for Halloween night as well. Guaranteed Halloween Delivery – See BuyCostumes.com for details.

Super BONUS!: Orders over $100 get free premium shipping.

Top Halloween Costmes 2009

Sean — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:59:02 +0000

Did your costume make it on the top Halloween Costume list for 2009?

There are less than 2 weeks until Halloween 2009 and right about now we should all be going into super happy Halloween mode while we try and find the perfect Halloween Costume for the year. So to help narrow down your choices I present to you the official Mable’s 2009 Top Halloween Costume List. It’s full of the best, sexiest, and most popular costume ideas for everyone in the family.

We broke it down into Men’s Women’s Boys and Girls featuring the top 5 costumes from each group. Check out the sneak peak for each group.

Girls Costumes
#2 top young girl costume is Hannah Montana Costume
Boys Costumes
#3 top young boys costume is Star Wars Clone Troopers
Women Costumes
#5 top women’s costume is Egyptian Queen Costume
Men Costumes
#4 top men’s costume is Sherlock Holmes Costume

Whether you need an awesome costume idea or are just curious about what the trends will be like this Halloween, check out our entire Halloween costume section.

Willy Wonka Costume: Johnny Depp or Gene Wilder?

Sean — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:29:55 +0000

Willy Wonka is the legendary candy man who in 2005 made a comeback to take a new twist on the mysterious chocolate factory. Johnny Depp starred as Wonka in the 2005 remake, but the new look didn’t seem to sit well with everyone who watched it. Although there are many big fans of the remake out there who enjoy dressing as the new Willy Wonka.

For the old school fans out there be sure to check out Mable’s Willy Wonka Costume page to find the more colorful Gene Wilder / 1971 rendition of Willy Wonka. You could even call it the original Willy Wonka costume, but stores call it the Candy Man costume.

More options and even high-end hand made costumes can be found on eBay.

Wonder Woman Halloween Costume

Sean — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:00:57 +0000

It’s all about the little things that really make a Halloween costume “the best costume ever.” Case in point; our post about Wonder Woman Underoos and the new for 2009 Wonder Woman Wig .

Both are the perfect accessory to your Wonder Woman Costume for Halloween and any other day of the year.

Sexy tip: Wear your Wonder Woman underoos underneath your costume and when the night is over some lucky Halloween goer gets to see the sexy side of the Amazon Princess Diana of Themyscira.

Free Travel Adventure with Caretaker’s Gazette

Sean — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:20:33 +0000

Would you accept free housing in the Caribbean or Hawaii in exchange for the skills you already enjoy doing? So would I. That’s why I want to tell you about how we just found our new favorite newsletter; the Caretaker’s Gazette. It can quickly be described as a newsletter for property caretaking and house sitting jobs.

I admit that doesn’t sound very exciting right away. But what if I told you about the very real possibility that you can vacation/staycation in “the house of your dreams” in “the location of your dreams” for weeks at a time? Usually they just ask for upkeep in the garden and around the house while the owners are gone. I love it; that’s the new economy in action!

See samples of the type of ads in the Caretaker’s Gazette.

Each time we receive a newsletter from the Caretaker’s Gazette (usually every 2-3 days) we know it’s ripe with possibilities before we even open it. It’s like opening a card from your Grandma and you just know some cash is gonna fall out when you open it. I love that feeling.

From Alaska to Australia and everywhere in between the Caretaker’s Gazette covers the globe providing a wonderful service for all. Subscribe today and enjoy the excitement of finding the perfect situation for you.

Do What You Love & Feel Good Doing It

Lauren — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:46:25 +0000

“Follow your joy” is amazing advice. That’s how we find out who we truly are and what we really love… and we get to have a great time in the process. We have been following our joy, which has meant putting effort in new places. That also means that things we used to really love – like blogging about cute indie & vintage products – are not being worked on much right now. And you know what? That’s totally OK.

But yesterday I surprised myself with an idea for Mables.com that was actually a joy to work on. On the left side of the site I swapped out the rotating banner ads and replaced them with positive affirmations. No products or services to promote: just some much needed positive thinking for anyone who stops by. In sales, making the customer feel genuinely good about herself is rare. It’s more profitable to use fear so a person feels (subconsciously or consciously) like a dork who needs to shop herself to perfection.

So take a deep breath… and enjoy these reminders of how awesome and loved you are. All is well.

To see all 5 messages, visit any of the category pages on Mables.com and take a look at the left hand side;

Wild Divine Makes Meditation Fun

Lauren — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:47:24 +0000

Did you know there is no “right way” to meditate? Anything that allows you to become relaxed and centered is the “right way” for you. Maybe that’s a walk around the block, singing along with an uplifting album, or sitting in your favorite chair and just breathing deeply. Yet no matter what meditation methods you prefer, our bodies respond in the same ways when we enter a relaxed and centered state. It’s called coherence: a highly efficient psychological state where all the systems of the body work together in harmony. Thanks to biofeedback machines we can actually measure how “coherent” our bodies are. Wild Divine offers 2 products that allow the user to instantly measure their coherence level, and even better, to learn to bring their body to coherence at any given time.

Both of Wild Divine’s products combine biofeedback data with an enlightening interactive format. Their flagship product, Healing Rhythms is described as a “guided training program” and is better suited for adults and teens. The Passage: Journey to Wild Divine is presented as a beautiful interactive game and is adventurous fun for all ages. (There is another game – Wisdom Quest – that can also be used with The Passage.) Here’s a video clip of The Passage:

Even if you have never meditated before, the very act of watching your biofeedback levels will begin to bring you into a state of calm. Playing with the games will bring anyone into a deeper state of inner peace. The manufacturers don’t talk about the health benefits much, but that’s the part I find especially amazing. The biofeedback unit measures the Heart Rate Variability, and HRV is the best predictor of future mortality and morbidity than any of the standard risk factors (cholesterol, smoking, exercise levels, etc). That means using a Wild Divine product helps us learn to be relax while transforming our health, too. Now that’s holistic health care.

Besides the game versus training format of the two systems, my research shows one other consideration. The Passage game system does not come with detailed graphing abilities, but separate Grapher Expansion software is available. This is the package I will be purchasing, because I want the flexibility of lots of game play but still have the option to just quietly watch my body’s rhythms. Plus, I can add the Wisdom Quest game later if I want.

This certainly isn’t the only way how to meditate, but it is an innovative new tool that promises to open humanity’s understanding about the body-mind connection. Have you tried any of the Wild Divine biofeedback products? We would love to hear your feedback!

Image courtesy of Hector Landaeta.