If you know someone with a lot of heart, we’ve gone big and remade our hearts huge! Our new Humungous Plush Heart is in stock, a handsome 11″ tall and ready to snuggle — or beat. Check it out, or snap up one of the original life-size hearts before they run out, we have only a few left!
Archive for the ‘I Heart Guts’ Category
Our Hearts are Full
Posted: Thursday, August 19th, 2010Molar Dilemma
Posted: Monday, August 16th, 2010
We get a lot of great ideas from our customers here at I Heart Guts, but one of my personal favorites came from a dental student in Michigan, who begged us to make tooth t-shirts reading “Flossin’ Ain’t Just for Gangstas.” Now while we still haven’t made these shirts, I did make this one-of-a-kind drawing, along with a bunch of other special doodles — including brains, lungs and kidneys – all up for sale in the I Heart Guts store. Maybe you’ll give one of these special friends a good home?
Comic Con Scene
Posted: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Some photographic highlights from Comic Con: As you may or may not know, San Diego Comic Con International is something like a geek Halloween, where everyone dresses up as their favorite characters. We loved this cute manga-esque nurse with pink hair (we forget the name of the actual character — anyone?); a dude dressed up as a Transformer by scrawling “Optimus Prime” on a box and tossing it onto his body; and this scary doctor figure who threatened to tear our hearts out (also not sure who this character is…).
Also on hand at the Con were lots and lots of cute things, like these new plushes from So So Happy; my baby daughter sleeping atop the I Heart Guts t-shirt table, (okay, I am a little biased, of course, about her cuteness), who was a real trooper in the booth; and of course the colorful Ugly Dolls booth!
And of course there were guts! The DKE Toys booth showed off prototypes of our new Huge Heart (see the liver next to it to see the scale), I met the pimpingest Darth Vader and Boba Fett ever, and there’s our display of plushes on the right. I was lucky enough to have help in the booth from some of my dearest friends, Shelayna, Chuva and Pollyanna, so we had a grand ol’ time talking to people, selling guts, and handing around the baby. The Chronicle Books booth honored our Spill Your Guts journal and mix and match stationery set by placing it between their awesome unicorn journal and Porn for Women. We were also flattered to be called “the coolest booth at Comic Con” by G4 TVs Alison Haislip. Yay!
Soft Organ Fun
Posted: Friday, July 30th, 2010
Other makers obsessed with making anatomy soft and cuddly include these bright and appealing organs by Fur Will Fly. So cute! And they were smart enough to make them the correct size in relation to each other. Look for these on their Etsy site soon.
Artist Alison Kuo showed her soft and interactive fleece organs at the Box 13 gallery in Houston, Texas, last summer. The daughter of a doctor who minored in biology, Kuo probably grew up knowing more about the human body than your average kid.
Also in the realm of artsy awesomeness are these hand-stitched guts by Mandy Roos. Hung together, these three organs comprise a dedication to Jim Henson, who died from organ failure due to streptococcus pneumonia. We doubt he had a black heart, though.
Kidney Bling
Posted: Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Check out this Elsa Peretti bean necklace by Tiffany. We saw it and immediately thought of kidneys! She used this same organic shape when designing jewelry for Halston in the 70s.
We Heart Comic Con!
Posted: Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
If you’re hitting up Comic Con this weekend, we sure would love to meet you at our booth #621, where we will have plush guts galore, limited-edition treats and more! Stop by for some great deals on tees, toys, pins and other gutsy goods. You can get a sneak peek at some prototypes for new guts pals at the DKE Toys booth, where they’ve got samples of bigger and better guts (pictured) on display — plus an incredible art scavenger hunt starting noon Thursday. Stop by and say hello! Here’s a shortlist of some of our favorite booths:
STORES WE LIKE
cardboard spaceship 4534
giant robot 1729 1731
kidrobot 4529 4531
munky king 4539
strangeco 4629 4728
SPECIAL FRIENDS
chronicle books 1506 1508
dke toys 4732 4734
CUTE STUFF
bored inc 609
conduct happiness 4830
fat rabbit farms 4521
giant microbes 735
spicy brown 4832
STUFF WE LIKE
adult swim 3351
max brooks 4403
kinokuniya bookstores 5549 5550
sharpie/prismacolor 5102
upper playground 4631
Kick Cancer in the Balls
Posted: Friday, July 9th, 2010
We’re working with the Jailhouse Saloon outside Houston, Texas, to raise money for Matthew Gallagher, who is 21 years old and has stage 3 testicular cancer. His insurance is crapping out on him, so his friends are getting together to raise money to help cover the aggressive treatment he needs to beat the cancer, which has spread to the rest of his body. We’re talking 8 hours of chemo a day. The photo is of his niece, who loves her Uncle Matt, and is wearing one of the I Heart Guts fundraising tees that reads “Don’t Let Cancer Mess With Your Testis” on the front and “Help Matt Kick Cancer in the Balls” on the back. Our guts are crossed that they make enough moolah to make a dent in his deductible. If you’re in the Houston area July 18, go to the benefit!
Like a Lady
Posted: Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Here’s two things men don’t need — a machine that helps them menstruate and a foot nipple. Fantastic.
Gut Puppets
Posted: Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Do you do your best learning via puppetry? Then look no further than Steve Petra’s organ-filled puppet show, It’s Alive: How Our Organs Work. This Long-Island-based ventriloquist brings the brain, heart, lungs, stomach and guts to life in his elementary school presentation all about the body. I wouldn’t cross the heart though, he looks pretty tough (thought wait until you see him in a pink dress). Check out his video, you can’t be my friend until you’ve seen a roomful of elementary students scream “We’ve got guts!” {Thanks, Rob and Heidi!}
Bone Up On Anatomy
Posted: Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Many of you have written in to suggest making some sort of graphic showing where all the guts and glands live in the body, and I’ve finally gotten around to creating one. It’s even got rollovers so you can learn more about, say, your pineal gland, should you have time to squander. For the purposes of simplicity, we’ve made the body a hermaphrodite — she’s got a uterus to go with her prostate and testes! We’ll call her/him Hermie.
