Featured Product

Featured Product

Sitting Black Fairy Fountain with Owl
(SS-G-91428)

Today's Featured Product is a Black Fairy Fountain.  This item is part of our Fairy Fountain collection, which boasts an LED lit crystal ball, intricate detail on the owl, fairy, and fountain well, and is hand-painted to provide a beautiful finish to the item.  These fountains are a nice complement to any garden, room, or fairy collection.  One benefit to having a fountain is the calming and stress-lowering effect provided by the constant trickling and flowing of water pouring out.  Aside from the relaxing sound of water (which helps cancel out unwanted noise), other benefits from a water fountain include:

College World Series

Nickel Allow and Copper Baseball Figurines
(SS-BA-85053BN)

Summer is officially here, and that means that America's Pastime is in full swing!  The College World Series is back and is almost down to the Final 4!  The University of Texas, Austin, Florida, North Carolina, Vanderbilt, Virginia, South Carolina, the University of California, Berkeley, and Texas A&M are the only teams remaining in Division 1.  Congratulations to those teams!

A little history on the College World Series (CWS)...it began in 1947, with the first two years having the final games played in Kalamazoo, Michigan.  The inaugural winners were the Cal Bears, who defeated Yale 8-7 to become champions.  In 1949 the CWS moved to Wichita, Kansas, before finally settling down in Omaha, Nebraska in 1950.  The CWS has remained in Omaha since 1950, with the games being played almost entirely at Rosenblatt Stadium (1950-2010).  This year, 2011, marks the first year that the games are being played at the new stadium in Omaha, TD Ameritrade Park.  You can find some more interesting facts about the CWS at The College World Series of Omaha Website.

Summer Time is Coming!

 Is everyone getting ready for the best time of the year?  That's right, summertime is almost upon us!  To get my house ready for summer, I've pulled out the barbecue, dusted off the surfboards and hung up some new wind chimes!  I love the look and sound of wind chimes during the summer, and Steal Street has several new chimes available just in time for summer!  There are animal wind chimes, American-themed wind chimes, motorcycle wind chimes, hot air balloon chimes and more!  Check out the pictures for some of our new wind chimes and stop by Steal Street Wind Chimes to pick out the ones you would like for your home!

Father's Day History

Spring is giving way to summer, and with that, so comes Father’s Day.  Did you know the first observance of Father’s Day was on July 5, 1908 in Fairmont, West Virginia?  It was organized by Mrs. Grace Golden Clayton to celebrate the lives of the 210 fathers who had been lost in the Monongah mining disaster on December 6, 1907.  The beginning of a national celebration of Father’s Day was actually not until June 19, 1910, when Sonora Smart Dodd of Spokane, Washington organized a day of observance for fathers after Mother’s Day was established.  Initially met with criticism and the fear of becoming a joke, Father’s Day was not officially made into a national holiday until 1972, six years after President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation honoring fathers on the third Sunday in June.