Hey GladRags Users,

We are having a kickass sale on all Color Day 3-packs, Color Pantyliner 3-packs and Color Nightpad 3-packs. Also all Moon Cup Kits and Keeper Cup Kits.

To take advantage of this sale,  just be our Facebook friend and you'll see the coupon code. Or you can follow us on twitter.com/GladRags and get the coupon there.  And tell your friends to follow and friend us  too, so they can start saving the world every 28 days.

Deals like this just don't come along very often. It ends Saturday night so jump on it now.

Hey Gabbers! In case you haven't noticed, it's time again for the grandmother of all art shows, the Venice Bienale.  Here's some images I found from the 2005 event, when the Guerrilla Girls were invited to contribute a piece.  From a distance, you may think this is a lovely, elegant chandelier, suitable for the most formal ballroom in all the world.  Up close, you realize that the Guerrilla Girls are up to their usual antics.  Hmmm….I wonder if they're GladRags users and this is what they saved in just one year?  (Only their hairdresser knows for sure…..) Read more about the Guerrilla Girls and their years of great social activism on behalf of all artistic woman by clicking here.

Hey GladRag Gabbers!  I heard the most inspiring interview on the radio the other day that I am telling everyone I know about it.  I am a huge fan of National Public Radio, listening to it for much of my days in the studio.  One of my favorite shows is the Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper.  It took a while to grow on me, but I love learning all kinds of interesting facts and cooking tips, so now I am a regular listener, podcaster, and weekly free e-newsletter subscriber.  For example–here's one thing I bet you didn't know that I learned on this show:  cracking an egg on the rim of a bowl is actually more prone to get egg shells in the egg than if you crack it on a flat surface like a countertop.  Try it if you don't believe me, but it's true–the egg will form a perfect crack right around the middle if you use the latter technique. The show that played last weekend was an interview with  author Dan Buettner and his book  The Blue Zones.  This book is a fascinating study on longevity in the habits of four groups whose members frequently make it into their 100's.  Among the behavior patterns of this elite crowd are things like: maintaining close friendships, gardening, eating simply.  To listen to the interview online, click here. (This show was dated June 6, 2009.)

While looking around the internet, we found a mention of GladRags in a someone's flickr photo stream.  She takes pictures of a number of images in her life.  This one happened to be of her laundry, including a number of GladRags pads.  As she states in a comment, for a second she wasn't sure if she should post it, because people might be grossed out, but decided that people should not be grossed out by periods. What a novel concept! Certainly many people are grossed out by menstruation and menstrual blood. The origins of this disgust are complicated and sometimes deeply rooted.  In a delightful follow up to our recent naysaying post, flickr's BlindTurtle challenges these assumptions and feelings. See her photo, thread, and discussion here. But we think pictures of GladRags in the laundry basket is a great image – quite a contrast to the image of a pile previously used disposable menstrual pads. That's a sight even the non-squeamish of us don't want to visualize for long.  We would love to see your GladRags laundry too, so please share!

I have weiner on the brain.  Yes, you heard me right: weiner. No…not….get your mind out of the gutter, girlfriend!  I mean adorable precious kissing machine Weiner Dogs, also known by their formal moniker: Dachshund.  I am the proud owner of one Dachshund/German Shorthair mutt, a rescue dog from our local Humane Society.  I recently commissioned my cousin Tripper Dungan, a great artist in his own right, to paint me a special sign for my driveway gate.  In addition to his painted panels and upcycled construction materials, Tripper is also locally known for his shadow puppet shows where he makes all the puppets from discarded cardboard from cereal boxes (!) and puts on a hilarious evening of eye-popping fun.  To see a sample of this, click here to see the video he made with his shadow puppets for a local band. To bring this story all the way back home to the GladRags Gab audience, it's time for another tampon craft project!  That's right, get out that box of tampons you never use any more since you saw the light and switched to GladRags.  Here's the finished product to get you inspired and click here for full instructions, courtesy of a hilarious blog called Crabbymommy.

This is a well written and interesting look at one woman's journey learning about and using the Moon Cup.  She goes from feeling ashamed about mentruation to frustrated by the options to the discovery and love of the Moon Cup.  Check it out on her engaging blog Sian and Crooked Ribs.