*anti-black friday for life!*

even though i would love for you to come shop today, it is 'buy nothing day' and i understand that you may want to steer clear of the big box stores on this most busy retail day.  you can always support your local, vegan, indie business...like ours and feel good about your purchase power.  i am not running crazy sales but i do have a sale bin of cute tees and misc. for you to paw through.  i have some great stuff that would make for easy holiday gift-giving to the vegan or veg in your life.  so if you are local stop by and check us out!  

our ad in submerge magazine running through the new year! 

 

*the animals THANK YOU*

the animals thank you this year for not exploiting and murdering them.  be a voice for the voiceless and go vegan.  give the gift of life this winter holiday season: it's easier than ever to live vegan.  this is my holiday wish for you and your loved ones.

happy tofurkey day!  hope yours is spent with people you love and vegan food you relish.

{what's new in pictures.}

*small business saturday is coming!*

i got approved for an ad sponsored by amex running on facebook to help small business by the very first "small business saturday" november 27th.  black friday...mreh.  cyber monday...pssssht.  come out and support your small indie business people on saturday.  click the link to "like" the FB page and support your little gal or guy trying to live the dream!  :))

*coming soon!*

oh so many things to look forward to this week.  i am staring at my master list of vendors and products that are ordered and en route and i am so anxious!  some items are being restocked such as the soycurls and soygo to-go individual creamers.  we are also getting another round of zenthreads screened scarves with new designs (makes a wonderful gift...for yourself! haha).  of course this weekend we sold out of both cheddar and moz teese but we still have some nacho sauce, and those should be here any day now.  we have plenty of dandies on hand but will be restocking those always.  never fear.

let's talk about what's coming.  {are you sitting down, sacramento?  you have no idea what you are about to be experiencing!}

since i pushed the refrigerator on the selling floor i can carry cold case items now...and now we are talking sweet and sara marshmallows and treats.  such as:

 the marshmallow sampler like a slice of heaven.  and the smores, above, are one of the best things i have ever eaten.  mmmm smores....

next up we have sheese.  it's an imported item from scotland, and boy do those scots {my people!} know vegan cheese.  

we were lucky enough to try this product while living up in portland at our fav vegan grocery foodfight!.  you want to try this for cooking, entertaining...stuffing in your face.  it's DElicious.  and best of all it does not come from mourning, suffering, or raped mother cows.  there is no such thing as happy humane milk...all those "happy CA cow" commercials were filmed in europe and i doubt they are treated any better anywhere, actually when it comes to mass production of a product.  our cows here suffer in untold ways...please consider going vegan if you haven't already.  milk is not kind.

also, i have been wanting to try this hickory flavored bacon salt for a while. i thought hickory was the only vegan flavor but i got some whack information LOL.  all flavors are indeed vegan and i intend to carry them all now! 

{for all the bacon-loving hipsters who think it's so funny to laugh about little piggies making delicious bacon, ham and *shudder* spam, i dare them to slaughter their dog or kitten and throw some of this up on it.  ;p  there is nothing funny about the suffering and eventual murder of pigs who are by all accounts MORE intelligent than our companion dogs (specisim=violence) and more like a two year old human animal than a dog.  to treat them the way we do is all but human.  and to laugh about it and jump on the bacon hipster train just shows what little brain rattles around up in that empty head of theirs.  educate yourself, watch earthlings, get off the train, think for yourself, and go vegan.  or you can eat your "pet", cuz there is no moral difference in your kitten and your bacon, dumbass.  

 my almost 13 year old daughter just said "the truth will set you free".  from the mouth of babes...

*the vegan girl's guide to life*

the book has been out for a couple weeks, and i have almost fainted from anticipation to get my hands on copies for the shop and today is the day.  you can pick up your copy here at nfbveganshop.com on-line and in person.  then i want you to turn to page 82 and wave hi.  that's me {and i can't wave back, k}!

this book is CHOKED and i mean stuffed full of vegan personalities, info and recipes.  a PERFECT guide for n00bs :)  or people like me who love to learn about the person behind the project/product.  i am seriously stoked to be in such great company.  these people are MY heroes, and i hope they will be yours too!

i will update when i know when she will be coming for a book signing, but i so happy to have the author melisser stop in for a night of food, conversation, pictures, drinks and veganocity beyond your wildest dreams. :)  {again, dates tba but it will be after the new year.  she's a busy lady!  and she lives in vienna! amazing.}

*picard for life!*

i just thought this was a little too funny not to post somewhere that i can link back to when a picard-style face-palm is totally appropriate :)

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i wouldn't even know who to credit this for, just know it wasn't  MY genius...it was theirs.  :)

*a little cross self-promotion*

our other blog was feeling sad and neglected, so i just updated it with our latest food venture to the loving hut out in elk grove.  if you are from the sacramento area and vegan, you might want to check it out. it's not the fanciest food blog on the planet and we are way to busy/lazy to have signed up for vegan MOFO but it's still our little food blog we like to give some blog lovin' too time to time.  :)  {blog love:  awwwwww}

i am hoping to get my copies of the vegan girl's guide to life early next week.  I haven't seen it yet and i am really excited {read:  anxious}.  i have heard from friends who have seen it and they didn't laugh at my lameness/geekiness too much.  actually they were quite kind, quite kind.  honestly i am in such great company in the book melisser could have photographed me picking my nose and drooling and i would be happy as a clam as long as i was mentioned in there somewhere.  there is a great interview with her on super vegan talking about, among other things, the women she featured in the book.  and your's truly is one of them.  {unbelievable}

in shop news, i have an unbeatable selection of the vegandish pottery in right now, just in time for holiday.  if i got one of these as a gift i would probably pee myself out of pure joy.  seriously.  they are just SO lovely and you can see the workmanship and pride.  i just love looking at them!

also i am getting in some more grocery randoms that would be perfect additions to your very vegan thanksgiving meal like gravy packets and so on.  speaking of, if you are unable to cook the traditional meal for yourself please consider sugar plum vegan's thanksgiving pre-order suggestions.  there is a meal size and price for everyone.  check it out and get your meal or just a pie or dessert order in soon!  

 i leave you with a picture of me on halloween.  i was a vegan zombie.  i was in the process of eating GRAAAAAAINS.  funny, my makeup job didn't show up very well in this picture and i looked just like i always do:  kinda dead.  ha!  enjoy!