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How many of these songs do you know by heart?

 

Pop & Modern

Shake It Off – Taylor Swift

Shake It Out – Florence + The Machine

Shake It – Metro Station

Milkshake – Kelis

Shake It Up – Selena Gomez

Shake Your Love – Debbie Gibson 

 

Rock & Oldies

Shake, Rattle And Roll – Big Joe Turner / Bill Haley & His Comets

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On – Jerry Lee Lewis

Shakedown Street – Grateful Dead

Hippy Hippy Shake – The Swinging Blue Jeans

Shake Me – Cinderella 

 

Dance, Funk & Hip-Hop

(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty – KC & The Sunshine Band

Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground) – The Jacksons

Shake Ya Tailfeather – Nelly, P. Diddy, Murphy Lee

Harlem Shake – Baauer

Rump Shaker – Wreckx-N-Effect 

 

Other Notable "Shake" Songs

Shake – Sam Cooke

Shake Your Moneymaker – Elmore James

Country Girl (Shake It For Me) – Luke Bryan

Shake You Down – Gregory Abbott 

 

 

Ya know whats not a song, Shake your Snowglobe on down to the boogie-woogie shaker shake.

 

For that lesson, you need late some 1981 vinyl—October‑ish.

You need a little Jupiter‑8 synth swirling in your head to understand why globes don’t want chaos.

David, Freddie, Brian, Roger, and John would explain it gently: better than I could.

power comes from restraint,

drama from control,

clarity from letting things settle.

So while the world keeps shouting shake it,

the globe quietly replies:

Tilt me. I’ll do magic for you, I’m ready. ❄️✨

 

Stillness Counts.
Watching the snow fall is participation.

Give something enough time, the quiet parts will explain the whole story.

Put on Shoes

Shake a rug

Bend down to pick up anything

Sit on the floor

Get on a plane

Touch a water-hose

Shut any door

Use a hibachi grill

Use that blender but the other one is fine

Close the fridge with my foot

Open a bag

Pet them only three times

Say goodbye

✨🫧 Watch Yo Sas 🫧✨

A digital vestibule. A settling room. The mudroom before the magic.

Watch Yo Sas is our shared pause at the threshold—a place for housekeeping, ground rules, gentle reminders, and the law of the land. It’s where you take off the snowy boots of the outside internet, shake out the excess glitter, and enter the globe clean‑handed.

Here you’ll find:

• How posting works (and why)
• Where sales belong—and where they don’t
• The who, the how, and the why of our boundaries
• A touch of lore (the Heather of Loxley), tradition, and tone
• Everything you need to keep our tiny world bacteria‑free and beautifully balanced

Not a scolding. Not a gate.
Just a respectful pause.

From the Sas. Watch Yo Sas. Then come on in. ❄️✨

If you see a globe this weekend, you must post a picture of it.

No exceptions,

No excuses (unless you have a note)

And if you do—legend says the reinstated planet Pluto will wink in approval, just to remind us all that it "Pluto" has an atmosphere and new rock formations as in it has a core that is

toasty (maybe) and still very much alive.

The universe notices these things. As it is written, so shall it be.

Grazie

✨❄️** At the Top of the Globe: Where Snow Globes Really Bega**n ❄️✨

Every so often, collectors go looking for the first snow globe, hoping to place a single crown on a single head. History, delightfully, refuses to cooperate.

What the records actually say

A U.S. Commissioner’s Report written shortly after the 1878 Paris Universal Exposition describes a curious object on display:

“Paper weights of hollow balls filled with water, containing a man with an umbrella… with a white powder which… falls in imitation of a snow storm.”

Here’s the important part:

The report attributes these objects not to a single inventor or branded firm, but broadly to French glass exhibitors.

The language is collective—local glassware companies, French glassmakers—with no definitive claim of authorship.

In other words: the object is clearly described, lovingly even, but the maker is left unnamed.

Who might have made them?

Digging into the exhibition listings for the glass section of 1878, we find several French firms documented as exhibiting

water‑filled hollow glass paperweights, including:

A. Bucan & Dupontieu (Créteil)

V. Becker (Pantin)

G. Trauffler (Pantin)

Boirre Ainé

G. Pinck

M. Jean (the great uncle of Jean-Claude Van Damme, no but reading is fundamental)

Buglet (Paris)

All were working in precisely the right medium, at precisely the right moment. But the historical record never points to one of them and says: this is the snow globe. It simply tells us that several workshops were circling the same idea at once.

Why this is actually wonderful:

This is classic pre‑industrial novelty culture at work.

Snow globes weren’t born from a patent or a lightning‑bolt eureka moment. They emerged organically from paperweight craftsmanship, from glassmakers experimenting, tinkering, and enchanting—as craftspeople always do. Multiple workshops likely arrived at similar ideas simultaneously.

This is why Erwin Perzy (c. 1900) is credited not with inventing the concept, but with:

Formalizing the design, Introducing a fixed base and defined internal scene, Patenting and popularizing the globe as a souvenir object

Perzy gave the snow globe its identity, not its first breath. And that’s why his name endured—while the 1878 globes remain beautifully anonymous.

Collector‑useful phrasing (the short answer) If you ever need to say it cleanly and accurately:

“The earliest recorded snow‑globe‑like objects were exhibited at the 1878 Paris Universal Exposition by French glassmakers.

Contemporary reports describe the objects in detail but do not credit a single named manufacturer.”

A final thought, offered with a smile:

Humans love to crown a champion. We want an inventor, a name, a moment. But history often works more like decorating than inventing.

Sure—the early caveman could get you a woolly mammoth rug. But eventually, someone makes the matching lampshade.

So good on Perzy—for realizing people wanted to collect, to display, to be festive. He didn’t have to be first.

He just had to arrive at exactly the moment when the world was ready to tilt a little magic into its living rooms.

And here we are—still watching knowing the outcome but this time it’s different.

Rare but Possible

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🥇 1. Early Disney Store / Disney Parks Easter Water Globes (1990s)

Small seasonal runs, often retired quickly. Many were spring‑themed without obvious Easter labeling, making them hard to spot and identify later.

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🥈 2. Japan‑Exclusive Easter Character Globes

Characters (Sanrio, vintage Disney variants) + Easter themes + short production windows = unicorn status. Rarely leave Japan.

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🥉 3. Religious Easter Water Globes

Nativity‑adjacent resurrection scenes, lambs, crosses, lilies. Produced in very low quantities and often gifted, not preserved.

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🐰 4. Artist‑Signed or Studio Easter Globes

Hand‑blown or small‑studio runs. Often unlabeled, sold at fairs or boutiques, and never documented online.

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🌷 5. Musical Easter Water Globes (Pre‑2005)

Spring florals + water + music boxes = fragile survivors. Many didn’t age well, which makes intact ones scarce.

What’s a snow globe you didn’t buy at first—but found yourself thinking about for years before it finally came home to you? Or is it still out there?