10 Facts About Sea Stars

1. There are thousands of sea star species
2. Sea stars are not fish
3. Sea stars are Echinoderms.
4. Not all sea stars have 5 arms
5. Sea stars can regenerate a lost arm
6. Sea stars are protected by armor
7. Sea stars do not have blood
8. Sea stars move using their tube feet
9. Sea stars eat with their stomachs inside-out
10. Sea stars have eyes

Great gift  ideas for Boat & Sea lovers

• Complete your summer look with this lovely and beachy summer jewelry piece. 
• Limited Collection. Super carving pendant. Size 2.5 inches by 2.5 inches 
• Inspired by nature... This pendant has amazing details yet is still minimal in style
• Pendants are popular in all different lengths, and can be worn singly, as a focal point, or layered for a Unique Look

"Ahoy" Brooch Collection 

If you are looking for elegant and unusual gifts; look no further!  It arrives in a cute little organza bag that is perfect for gifting:)

Dressing up infant for an outing is one of the biggest joys of parenthood and shoes always finish any outfit. CooShoe Collection from Happy Avenue is suitable for babies who don't walk. These shoes offer no support for the baby's foot and haven't have hard sole. Collection comes in very small sizes, made out of soft flexible fabric and decorated with 3D bold details. Purpose of CooShoeTM Collection is to teach parents "how to put shoes on a baby" and show your baby's cuteness.

We guarantee you will be delighted. 

CooShoe - Something to Coo About:)TM

Whatever you will choose, have a HaPPy Day!

Orders are shipped in 24 hours for the 50 states. (inc. Alaska and Hawaii). We can even have them sent direct to your friend or loved ones all wrapped up. Simply print "gift order" when check out. It's easy and so convenient to order a last minute gift. 

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10 Fascinating Facts About Butterflies

10 Fascinating Facts About Butterflies

Everyone is familiar with butterflies, but how much do you really know about 

these beautiful creatures? 

1. Butterfly wings are transparent
2. Butterflies taste with their feet
3. Butterflies live on an all-liquid diet
4. A butterfly must assemble its proboscis as soon as it emerges from the   chrysalis
5. Butterflies drink from mud puddles
6. Butterflies can't fly if they're cold
7. A newly emerged butterfly can't fly
8. Butterflies live just 2-4 weeks, usually
9. Butterflies are nearsighted, but they can see and discriminate a lot of colors
10. Butterflies employ all kinds of tricks to keep from being eaten

Butterflies are a source of joy and inspiration to many. Find gift ideas with a butterfly theme

Affordable Gift Ideas for Butterfly Lovers:



CooShoe Collection: Dressing up infant for an outing is one of the biggest joys of parenthood and shoes always finish any outfit. CooShoe Collection from Happy Avenue is suitable for babies who don't walk. 

Big, Bold and Beautiful Brooches, Unique Brooch Jewelry Collection 
Modern Butterfly Brooch, Size 2.2 inches by 2.5 inches. Mate Golden Finish. Fun piece that is discreet in style but will add just enough sparkle to catch the eye

Scarf Pendant: This piece is thin and dainty. Has a polished silver tone finish and slides easily onto most scarves giving a simple stylish touch. It arrives in a cute little organza bag that is perfect for gifting. Please note; price given is for the pendant only and does not include the scarf shown in photos.

Whatever you will choose, have a HaPPy Day!
Orders are shipped in 24 hours for the 50 states. (inc. Alaska and Hawaii). We can even have them sent direct to your friend or loved ones all wrapped up. Simply print "gift order" when check out. It's easy and so convenient to order a last minute gift.

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Everyday sights of nature bring us joy, wonder, and perfect ideas!

CooShoe Collection/Crib Shoes

CooShoe Bell Collection/Shoes With a Sound Effect:)

Because frogs come out in the rain, people used to think that they fell to earth in the rain! And in nineteenth century England, people tried catching them to prove it. 

The world's biggest frog is the Goliath Frog  in West Africa (Cameroon). Their body can be one-foot long. The smallest frogs in the world are less than half-an-inch long.

Certain frogs can jump up to 20 times their own body length in a single leap. 


Frogs absorb water through their skin so they don't need to drink. 


In the Seychelles, there is a male frog that carries its young around on its back until they become adults. 


In recent years, a painkiller with 200 times the power of morphine has been found in the skin of a frog. 






CooShoe "Little Froggy" Collection was inspired by fascinating facts about frogs! 

Collection comes in very small sizes, made out of soft flexible fabric and hand-crafted with 3D bold details. Purpose of CooShoeTM Collection is to teach parents "how to put shoes on a baby" and show your baby's cuteness.  Size: 0 - 3 months.

Orders are shipped in 24 hours for the 50 states. (inc. Alaska and Hawaii). We can even have them sent direct to your friend or loved ones all wrapped up. Simply print "gift order" when check out. It's easy and so convenient to order a last minute gift.  CooShoe - Something to Coo About:)

Helpful Tips for Parents/Fairy Tales about frogs:

- The Leap-frog

- The Frog-Prince

- A Frog for a Husband

- The Maiden and the Frog

- The Wonderful Frog

- The Frogs Desiring a King

- The Hares and the Frogs

- The Frog and the Ox

Tea Time

Tea is a gourmet beverage 
that pairs very successfully with all types of food. 

Flowering Green Tea Bloom

When you drop one of these tea balls into the clear glass teapot with hot water an amazing transformation takes place as the ball opens and blooms into a beautiful flower. Let the flower steep for a few minutes and the fragrant tea is ready to sip. 

Blooming Teas make for a truly unique gift and provides a wonderful and personal tea experience. A perfect birthday, get well or anniversary gift.

Blooming Teas may be steeped up to 3 times for 15 pots of tea!

Green Tea Jasmine Pearls

Wonderfully jasmine fragrant pearls are soothing to drink and magical to watch as they slowly unfurl into beautiful leaf and bud sets. Smooth green tea from China, Jasmine Pearl green tea is made from the finest tips of tender young buds, gently steamed after plucking, and hand-rolled into elegant pearls. 

Pink Rose Bud Tea

                                                      Pink Rose Bud Tea

Tea is made from real rose buds, plucked when they are young and then dried. Lovely and highly enjoyable beverage. This kind of tea is beneficial to heart, brain and good for colds, coughs and kidney complaints. Regular drinking pink rose tea can help you to keep young and beauty. Tea has a soothing, fresh, flowery aroma and taste that even the dourest tea drinker will appreciate.

Orders are shipped in 24 hours for the 50 states. (inc. Alaska and Hawaii). We can even have them sent direct to your friend or loved ones all wrapped up. Simply print "gift order" when check out.  It's easy and so convenient to order a last minute gift.

 

We Love Strawberries!

Nothing says summer like a bright, colorful patch of strawberries. There are several theories on the derivation of their name. One has it that early English children threaded berries onto straws and sold them in the marketplace "by the straw." Another claims the name represents the spreading nature of the plant runners which are strewn, or "strawed," over the ground. 

FUN FACTS ABOUT STRAWBERRIES:

Giant strawberries can be as large as apples, measuring 8-10 centimeters in length. 
Strawberries make muscles work better. 
Strawberries have more Vitamin C per serving than an orange. 
Strawberries at room temperature are sweeter than cold strawberries. 
In California, they grow all year round. 
Strawberries are hand-picked because each fruit ripens at a different time.
Where many fruits have only one seed on the inside strawberries have 200 seeds on the outside. 
Strawberries are the only fruits to have their seeds on the outside.

Dressing up infant for an outing is one of the biggest joys of parenthood and shoes always finish any outfit. CooShoe Collection from Happy Avenue is suitable for babies who don't walk yet. 

CooShoe "Sweet Strawberry" was inspired by fascinating facts about strawberries! Strawberries have been a rich part of our lives for quite some time, and anyone who's ever had one can understand why!

Collection comes in very small sizes, made out of soft flexible fabric and decorated with 3D bold details.
Purpose of CooShoe Collection is to teach parents "how to put shoes on a baby" and show your baby's cuteness. 

CooShoe - Something to Coo About:)

Make a wish on a butterfly's wings!

According to legend, by whisper a wish and giving the butterfly its freedom, the wish will be taken to the heavens and be granted. Since a butterfly can make no sound, the butterfly can not reveal the wish to anyone but the Great Spirit who hears and sees all...

People have been fascinated with butterflies for thousands of years. Butterflies  have been a symbol of beauty and called "flying flowers".


HappyAvenue Team loves butterflies and had gathered some strange Butterfly Facts to share with you. 

• Worldwide, there are over 25,000 species of butterflies.

• Butterflies taste with their feet. Their feet are actually tiny receptors which allow them to "taste" the food that they are standing on.

• Butterfly wings are transparent. A butterfly wing is actually formed by layers.  These layers are so thin you can see right through them. 

• Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.

• Some butterflies, such as the Northern Pearly Eye, will fly at night.

• Butterflies don't have lungs.

• Butterflies live just 2-4 weeks, usually.

• Monarchs can fly a 1000km without stopping.

• Male Monarchs never make the return journey the following spring.

• Butterflies live on an all-liquid diet.
Speaking of butterflies eating, adult butterflies can only feed on liquids, usually nectar.

• Butterflies can attain a flight speed of up to 50 kph.

• Butterflies are cold-blooded and will not fly if the temperature is below 50 degrees.

If you love butterflies you'll love these gorgeous butterfly Scarf Accessories. They would make great gifts for yourself or your loved ones.

Wear this exquisite charms as a reminder of your inner beauty.

We put together a few ideas for wearing Butterfly Charms:

Love Hello Kitty? You’re Not Alone!

There are currently about… 22,000 Hello Kitty products on the market!
This cute mouthless character is a billion-dollar enterprise, the biggest selling brand of the Sanrio Company Ltd, which was founded is 1960 by Shintaro Tsuji.

Well, it all started in the early '70s. Sanrio was trying to develop its own in-house design department. Hello Kitty was "born" November 1st, 1974 and named "Kitty White". The first product released with Kitty image was a small clear vinyl coin purse that retailed for 240 yen in 1975. Kitty was brought to the USA in 1976.

In the mid-1980s kitten-mania swelled and she became one of the most recognizable Japanese characters on Earth. She is part of the Japanese pop culture of "kawaii" (cute).You can found her image on everything from pin badges to computer accessories.

The main designer for most of Hello Kitty's history (Yuko Yamaguchi) said: "She is inspired by fashion, movies and TV in creating new designs".
Hello Kitty was originally marketed only to young girls. However, in the 1990s company start selling products for teenagers.  2009 marked the collaboration between apparel and accessory brand Stussy and Hello Kitty: new collection included T-shirts, keychains, and hoodies. Anyone can wear Hello Kitty accessories, as long as you don’t overdo it.

In 2010, Hello Kitty entered the …WINE  market! White Kitten with a red bow on her left ear and no mouth:) continuing an expansion of products targeted at older audiences.


Some fun facts we've picked about Hello Kitty:
- Although she was created in Japan, Hello Kitty lives in London, England.
- Hello Kitty’s weight is equivalent to three apples.
- Hello Kitty does not have a visible mouth because she speaks from her heart.
 -There is also a Hello Kitty restaurant that may be found in Taipei, Taiwan.
- There are some reports that Bill Gates once offered $5.6 billion for the rights to Kitty.
- In Yuanlin, Taiwan, a new hospital has recently opened that is entirely Hello Kitty themed!
- Celebs who love Hello Kitty: Christina Aguilera, Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz, Mariah Carey, Heidi Klum, Lindsay Lohan, Mandy Moore, Kelly Osbourne, Sarah Jessica Parker, Gwen Stefani, Steven Tyler, Miley Cyrus and many other celebrities:)

Love Hello Kitty? You’re Not Alone!