You know how you get those scrubs for your bath that come in old timey glass jars, and sometimes with a tiny wooden spoon, and it’s salt or sugar and oil and then a bunch of smelly stuff and you are always so excited about these quirky glass pots of goo to rub all over your bod in the shower, so you buy one even though they’re kind of expensive and you use it for two seconds before you’re weaving all over like a drunk baby giraffe on ice skates because the oil is coating the bottom of your tub, and if you’re lucky you regain your balance and manage to keep upright until the slick stuff is washed away, but if you are me, and I am, you wind up fallen over, half out of the tub with the shower curtain yanked down and wrapped around your upper torso while the shower hits you square in your naked, sorry behind, and you think to yourself from under a suffocating layer of fabric and vinyl, “I am never buying that stuff AGAIN!  Ev-ar.”)?

Please, for the love, say this isn’t just me.

So ANYway, this scrub from Metropolis Body will NOT give you Drunk Baby Giraffe Syndrome, because it’s made with only the tiniest amount of oil.  (I asked the very friendly lady* who made it if she had even used any at all.  It was being sold at the Renegade Craft Fair.)   I applied a little to the back of my hand, and was surprised at how dry it was. It’s unlike anything I’ve seen before; it’s not goopy, it smells great, and it doesn’t come in a cute-but-totally-driving-up-the-cost glass jar, which, by the way, GLASS IN THE SHOWER? It’s bad enough to worry about concussions from falling without being afraid of stitiches, too.  You know?

They’re offering a 20% discount code now unti June 27, so you have a week to snag this stuff at a reduced rate.  Use the code 20sale.

*UPDATE: Her name is Megan.

**Disclaimer: I’m not getting paid for this, and they didn’t ask me to blog about it, either. I’m just spreading the love.**

Night Owl Paper Goods is a stationary company based in Birmingham “Owlbama” (their pun, not mine… I love puns!) They use the phrase “modern yet folksy” to describe their company, and I’ll add “sustainable” to that list, too. They make two kinds of greeting cards: paper and wood. The paper letterpress designs are printed on “100% reclaimed & recycled cotton from the garment industry” which have a luxurious feeling to them that you normally associate with fancy but eco-UNfriendly paper.

Their unique wood cards are printed on thinly sliced, sustainability harvested yellow birch. The birch slices are also turned into business cards, journal covers and custom wedding invitations. They’re pretty cool!  My favorite product was the wood postcards which you can buy with one of their cute designs or blank so you can DIY.  They go right in the mail with a postcard stamp, and are just as easy to write on as paper.

I met Jennifer and Alan at the National Stationary Show this year, and they were kind enough to give a Night Owl Paper Goods discount code to The Amber Show readers good now until June 30, 2009. So go shopping! (The wood cars are especially rad for Father’s Day!) Use the discount code Amber* to receive 20% off.

*(dude. How cool am I? )