Buy a shoe, give a shoe

My dad worked in the art department (correction - he WAS the art department) for a small chain of retail shoe stores in the midwest for over 30 years before moving on to something new 4 years ago (which they just successfully sold this year to move into semi-retirement. Congrats Mom and Dad!). Because of Dad's job, I used to get to "shop" in the warehouse, having my pick of hundreds of name brand shoes at employee pricing. Oh, how I miss those days.

So while I don't have a fetish, nor a closet stuffed with footwear, I do like shoes (but I have to admit I don't understand women who go shoe shopping when they already have like 50 pairs in their closet - two everyday wear and one dress pair is enough, right?).

Because of this appreciation for a good pair of shoes, I really liked this site. TOMS Shoes combined the idea of footwear (important) with helping others (very important). While I'm not a huge fan of the appearance of the shoe, I love the idea, so thought I would share it!

Uncreatively Creative

Is it just me, or is this an extremely uncreative idea? Everyone has a day - Earth Day, Mother's Day, Administrative Professional's Day, Nurses Day, Sweetest Day, Anti-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Day (ok, I made that last one up). So how creative is it to come up with a day for creatives?

If they really want to be creative, they should do something on the equivalent of February 30th every year.

Or celebrate creativity on every day beginning with "M' and ending in "Y" in every month that begins with "M" and ends in "Y".

Or celebrate creativity on the 11th of the 11th month at 11:11 (oh wait, that's Veteran's Day).

Or celebrate creativity everyday! Now THAT's a creative idea.

A fresh approach

I appreciate it when people take a fresh approach to something ordinary. I think that is one thing (of many) that attracts me to Jesus. He was routinely taking the mundane things that people took for granted and breathed fresh life into them. Whether it was religious traditions like the passover or daily jobs like farming, Jesus had a way of making you think about these things in new ways.

In our day and age, websites are extremely common. So how do you make your site stand out? Here's one author's very creative attempt to combine humor, out-of-the-box thinking, and advertising into one website that will attract attention and readers. I have no idea if she is a follower of Jesus, but I can't help but think this site makes Christ smile.

(Thanks to Seth Godin for the link)