Joe uses tumblr, facebook and word of mouth to promote his T-shirts, and sells through big cartel. We love his designs, let us know what you think!

He says he has new designs and ideas going on all the time and that soon he wants to offer a service where, for a small fee, people can send him a design and he’ll make it into a screen print and print it up for them.

You can find his images or buy T-shirts through the following links:

Crucial Times Clothing facebook page

Crucial Times Clothing shop

Crucial Times Clothing tumblr

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Mothers Day is Sunday, May 13, 2012.  Jewelry has been the gift of choice for Mothers Day since the holiday was created in 1908 (President Woodrow Wilson made it official in 1914). According to Stauer Jewelry (), the right combination of precious metals and gems serves as the perfect reminder that motherly love lasts all year long while flowers or chocolates are quickly gone and forgotten.

Research by Brand Keys predicts a return to more traditional gifts this Mothers Day including candy, flowers and most notably, jewelry. Estimates are that consumers will spend an average of $163 on allMothers Day gifts this year, up 10% from last year. In addition, according to the National Retail Federations 2012 Mothers Day Survey, 31 percent of consumers plan to buy jewelry as a gift this year, spending an average of$97.19 on jewelry alone.

In order to keep with offering valued items at below average prices, Stauer has created a variety of last minute specials.  When ordered by May 8, delivery is assured to arrive in time for the celebration (in-stock items only).

The classically beautiful Stauer Aria Pearl Necklace is a 28″ strand of lustrous white cultured pearls with a .925 sterling silver magnetic clasp layered in gold. Currently, the Ari

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Consider a piece of fine custom jewelry that is personalized just for them.

And consider a really nice discount to go along with that creative gift selection. Use the coupon code mday12 at checkout and receive a 10% discount off your entire order. Order by April 24th and we guarantee free delivery by Mothers Day.

Now, what piece to get her/them hmmmm.  Heres some creative ideas.

This simple, yet so elegant, stacking name ring with (or without) birthstone is one of our most popular pieces. Such a nice contrast to those oh-so-fussy name/birthstone rings.

Another big favorite is our Family Spiral Birthstone pendant for grandmoms, or moms with big families! I

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For a long time, Havaianas have remained part of our summer wardrobe staples.  The makers of colorful Brazilian sandals have finally introduced their first flagship store in Hong Kong in Tsim Sha Tsui’s LCX bringing you 1,334 square foot of flip-flop fun.

With over 100 styles including classics and limited editions, the stores beachy ambiance ushers in a season of cheerful summer days. The

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The front row of the press pre­view today was a who’s who of fash­ion journalism’s elite and included Anna Win­tour and exhi­bi­tion sub­ject, Miuc­cia Prada, they sat a mere three rows in front of me, Sally Singer, Hamish Bowles and Susy Menkes (in pur­ple from head to toe) two rows ahead, and every­one else was seated in ran­dom order to hear the open­ing remarks of cura­tors, Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton. Mr. Koda, Cura­tor in Charge, is always a plea­sure to lis­ten to, he wields the kind of author­ity that is com­pelling and unas­sum­ing at the same time. He is truly one of the very few “fash­ion insid­ers” who is authen­ti­cally inter­ested in what peo­ple think about fash­ion, rather than impos­ing his view­point and for­get­ting the pop­ulist influ­ence that style and trends absorb by osmo­sis. I do enjoy lis­ten­ing to Mr. Bolton as well; his view of the exhi­bi­ti

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Silver Charms bring more than good luck! To date Nina Designs has funded over $20,000 in microloans for women artisans in Asia, Africa and Central/south America. Economic independence is a key factor in escaping poverty. Thank you for helping us provide loans at 0% interest to women who are using their creativity to improve the lives of their families.

Siriporn is a young woman in Thailand who supports her parents through her jewelry designs. Can you recognize yourself in her description of the creative process? I walk slowly and survey the environment around me – even small grass flowers growing beside the road, the caterpillar on the tree branch. I have looked at them until they turn into butterflies. All of these serve as inspiration to create my jewelry.

Nilda Amaro Oscanoa used her loan to repair her looms. S

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Im a brand new user or www.99designs.com. I discovered the site thanks to Tim Ferris, who used the site to post a contest for his new book cover.

Heres how the site works: you post a contest for a design job need a business card designed, a site, a book cover or like in my case an ad banner for your business? All you need to do is post an ad aka a contest and depending on the price youre willing to pay thats how many designers will submit their entries. You rate them everyday, make comments about the corrections, etc. You can even create a poll with the designs and ask your friends to help you.

Rating and choices do take a lot of time. My recommendation would be to try and spend time to draft a very specific draft of what is it that you have in mind.

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Of all the weirdoes in the world, the one that fascinates me the most is the secretarial types. These are the ones that refuse to budge and change their styles even after serving their bosses for decades in the same company. Right with their ageing boss and their ageing skin, their sense of style gets pretty outdated too. If you were looking for something that would signify secretarial style, Yves Saint Laurents A Line Leather Skirts gotta be the one that u must buy.

It comes with hundred percent leather exteriors and hundred percent silk interiors. Perhaps it is to symbolize the leathery and rough disposition that a secretary is supposed to possess and also the silky and seductive interiors a secretary must possess in order to please the boss in every possible manner. The skirt is pretty long and boring too, just like it is meant to be. Somehow, I find this skirt pretty annoying in terms of style, inspiration and design.

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Pierced Ear Cuffs

Below are three of our most popular ear cuffs for pierced ear cartilage. To wear these cuffs you will need a piercing somewhere along the ear rim, such as a helix piercing. The barbell goes through your piercing and holds the cuff in place. They give you an edgy look that can be as cute or tough as you like, depending on the style of ear cuff that you choose.

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Leslie wanted to have several West African Adinkra symbols placed on our 25mm Vertical Pendant. These symbols are wonderfully bold and distinctive graphical icons that are a perfect fit for our jewelry. Each symbol represents a phrase or concept.

Leslie chose the AKOMA, WAWA ABA and SESE WO SUBAN symbols which roughly translate to heart, perseverance, and change. Her resource for the symbols was which has crisp images available.

We think Leslies sterling silver Adinkra pendant came out beautifully, and, were happy to report, so does Leslie.  I wanted to let you know that I got my pendant today and it is absolutely perfect!!! ~

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Wear a beautiful piece of jewelry with an amazing story behind it from Choo Yilin Artisan Jewelry. Yilin Choo is the Director and Chief Designer and work with non-profit groups and is an advocate of sustainability. Through her jewelry designs Yilin Choo seeks to bring sustainability and lavishness together through her jewelry collection that has an amazing story.

Choo Yilin Artisan Jewelry has four collections: The Tree Collection, The Flower Jade Series, The Bezel Series, and The Jade Series. All of these collections are beautifully handcrafted and exquisitely unique.

Yilin Choo designs pieces based on coral instead of using real coral because the mining of coral is incredible harmful to the environment. Her pieces that use coral as inspiration are a tribute to coral reefs and the crucial role they play in the ecology of our earth.

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So how can a man get to be fashion conscious and clothing comfortable?

One way is to use the support of social media. Many more men are learning to try on clothing and then send a photo to their friends and family members for an instant vote on whether to buy the garment or not.

Another way is to create outfits online, using new platforms like pinterest, to pull together clothing boards for special events or to plan holiday packing lists, and then get others to have input to the suggested choices. This is

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Brooke Astor was among the last of the “Grand Dames” of New York matron soci­ety. When she lent her name and her finan­cial sup­port to an insti­tu­tion, the endorse­ment was a seal of approval that inspired the gen­eros­ity of oth­ers. Mar­ried for the third time to Vin­cent Astor, the only son of John Jacob Astor IV who died on the Titanic, she led a life devoted to phil­an­thropy and tak­ing plea­sure in par­ties most of us only get to read about the next morn­ing. She did all of this until age of one hun­dred, per­haps a wee bit longer, and passed away at 105 in 2007. In her will, her tomb­stone was to say sim­ply that, “I had a won­der­ful life.”

Evi­dence of Mrs. Astor’s plea­sur­able days also take tan­gi­ble form in the way she dec­o­rated her homes, the art she enjoyed, and yes, her jew­elry too. The lion brooch below is rem­i­nis­cent o

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