D0 YOU NEED 2008 NEW YEARS GLASSES?

Here at Shades of Fun, we have a lot of special occasions covered with low cost fun ideas. What's our gig? Sunglasses, of course! Let's start off with Quinceañera Gifts. Yes, that is the Hispanic name for the coming of age ceremony, generally celebrated for 15-year-old girls. We love the tiaras, dresses, rhinestones and sparkle!

Having a birthday? Need great birthday gift ideas? Or perhaps you are throwing a a beach theme party and are shopping for some unusual beach party favors. Planning a trip to New York City? Take a tour ahead of time of our Central Park. We've also visited Huntington Beach in California. Did you know that it's official nickname is Surf City USA. It's named after the Jan & Dean song from the 1960s. Speaking of the 1960s, that decade is now thought of with nostalgia. If you are looking for some retro vintage style cat's eye glasses, we have them in a lot of different colors.

Then we get right into sort of birthday gift ideas for any age. Birthday cake sunglasses are ours exclusively, we add extra glitter and sparkle to them for the extra WOW effect! But if you are shopping for someone who is turning 40, then our 40th birthday ideas are a fantastic low cost way to celebrate with our 40th birthday present ideas. You will be the biggest hit at the 40th birthday party. And we love our 50 year olds, too! We sprinkle the same magic on our 50th birthday gift ideas, so absolutely perfect for the party guests when you are looking for some great 50th birthday present ideas or need some 50th birthday party ideas. Of course, no one has to tell you the obvious: that 50 is the new 30! Did you honestly think that we were going to stop at 50? No way! Not with 60 being the new 40! Imagine how much fun you will have at the 60th birthday party when you bring along our 60th birthday party ideas for the guest of honor. Everyone will want to have their photograph taken with the guest of honor wearing our really great 60th birthday presents.

Speaking of celebrities, today everyone of the stars in Hollywood love those big oversized sunglasses. Some people like them, some don't. But the original celebrities are the ones we like most: Elvis Glasses, Elton John Glasses and Buddy Holly Glasses. Then, of course, there are fictional celebrities who become real celebrities from the popularity of American movies. Take John Belushi and Dan Akroyd who popularized cheap Blues Brothers Glasses. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones were terrific in the Men in Black series of films and the sunglasses they made popular, the Men in Black sunglasses, remain popular today. On the other side of the spectrum is that female iconoclast of style, Jackie Onassis, who once was Jackie Kennedy, of course. She loved big oversized sunglasses and in her honor, Jackie O Sunglasses remain popular today as well.

Many company meetings use sunglasses as an incentives, often using the phrase from the song, "The future is so bright, I gotta wear shades." For these event planners, we offer imprinted sunglasses in a wide range of styles, all of them good and cheap. They are also great for Class Reunion Ideas, Family Reunion Ideas or just plain old personalized sunglasses.

Many people enjoy a little cocktail from time to time. Witness an entire country like Germany, which celebrates Oktoberfest for a month (see our beer mug sunglasses), or the Irish who are prolific for their culture's love of life in the pub (see our Shamrock Sunglasses), a tip of the cocktail is loved all over the world. Celebrate the next cocktail party that you are invited to with our own version of cocktail recipes.

We have cocktail party ideas like no one else. That's quite a claim but it is true. If you have a sense of humor, then you will also love giving our hangover cure to someone you really love. Or if you are someone who has to come up with champagne toast ideas or other wedding toast ideas, then a sense of humor in the shape of our champagne sunglasses is a great value for the price. Speaking of weddings, pick up some of our bridal sunglasses, which are white sunglasses, of course, and then the bride will be dressed perfectly indoors and outdoors. Along the same line, well, by now you know that we love weddings, so it will not come as any surprise that we also offer engagement gifts -- our style. That's right, we offer newly engaged couples, well girls, really, these fun wedding ring sunglasses complete with the engagement ring diamond. How cute is that? What a great engagement gift idea.

A lot of women have joined in with the Red Hat Society for the wonderful dual purpose of having fun and doing charitable work. These are the ladies who like to dress outrageously with feather boas and large wild hat and glittery red and purple outfits. We love them and are delighted every time a club or club member finds us and tells us how much they love our Red Hat Sunglasses! Go Girls!

We also love being part of high school, college and university graduations. Yes, indeed, we certainly do! We have been offering our unique graduation gifts since like the year 1999 and we are so delighted that parents and fellow student graduates love shopping with us year after year. We put theme charms on our glasses and then everyone goes crazy. And we love that, that's why folks come back year after year for our funky graduation gifts. Yes, that's right, funky! And we love our young lawyers, nurses and doctors, that's why we offer Law School Graduation Gifts, Nursing School Graduation Gifts and Medical School Graduation Gifts. They are all so cute! We take our white sunglasses and decorate them and then on top of all that good stuff, we throw it free gift wrapping. That's insane. Best value for a graduation gift idea on the internet. We also think that there is some interesting pop culture taking place on the podiums of the stages of the USA's graduation ceremonies. Ken Burns, the documentarian, is a very hot ticket as a graduation speaker. And of course, the grand daddy of them all is Bill Cosby. Over the years, wearing his trademark college sweat shirt, Cosby is the United States most prolific graduation speaker.

We are located in New York City, and though it is a very expensive place to live and sell cheap sunglasses, we love it and would be hard pressed to work or do business anywhere else. So if you can't come and visit here, we have put together a Central Park Tour for you to peruse free of charge. We based our photographs and descriptions on the the spring blooms of the month of May, so even if it is the dead of winter where you are, you can feel great and enjoy the Spring blooms of the trees and flowers in New York City's Central Park.

If New York is not your bag but horses and the Kentucky Derby is, then don't even think about going to all of those fabulous Kentucky Derby parties without our Kentucky Derby Party Supplies. That's right, it's your Run for the Roses party sunglasses, complete with roses and in those fabulous red colors. For an extra horse kick in the head, we offer horseshoe shaped sunglasses. We offer them bulk priced for parties.

July 2008 - James Bond wannabes can now spy on anyone and anything in your surroundings just by wearing a pair of mp4 sunglasses. Yes, they are pricey, but you can now purchase sunglasses with a video recorder embedded in the sunglasses frame. The lens is located just above the nose. The video records everything the wearer sees in 3gp format which can be converted into mp4 format then loaded up to youtube. Great for video bloggers!

July 2008 - Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, is teaming up with Ed Hardy designer Christian Audigier to launch a clothing line in the Fall of 2008. The clothing line will be sold at Kitson, the store of choice for the world's pop culture celebrities. Super red hot designer Christian Audigier is opening up another one of his stores in Las Vegas this summer and to increase his own mystique, he is opening a nightclub in Sin City at the Treasure Island Hotel. The club will be called, "The Nightclub" and will opening On July 4th and we would not be surprised if Michael Jackson re-emerges at the Opening Night party.

June 2008 - Ray Ban breaks new color ground next month when they release their first ever pastel colored Ray Bans. The pastel color Wayfarers are being launched in New York City by a promotion that features billboards designed by five NYC-based artists. The company plans to unveil the billboards on July 1st and promises that one of them will "stop traffic". Ray Ban is hoping for a big summer hit with this latest trend in Wayfarer color. Of course, we offer them in white. See our White Wayfarers.