Gel Gems!

Some of you may remember last year when we entered the Gel Gems window decorating contest. Well, we're at it again, featuring a design by Susan Beebe in our Camden store! Read the press release below to learn more!

Gel Gems are awesome little sun catchers that stick to your window in designs YOU come up with! For more information about Gel Gems, check out the website: Right here!

PRESS RELEASE: Artist Susan Beebe creates colorful window supporting Boreal Songbird Initiative for Planet Toys, Camden, as this year's entry in the Second Annual Gel Gems Retail
Store Window Contest.

Artist Susan Beebe creates colorful window supporting Boreal Songbird Initiative for Planet Toys, Camden, as this year's entry in the Second Annual Gel Gems Retail Store Window Contest.

A colorful pageant of birds flocks across the large glass window of Planet Toys Camden store on Main Street. Planet Toys' window was created by artist Susan Beebe as this year's entry in the Second Annual Gel Gems Retail Store Window Contest. Last year, Planet's Gel Gem scene of Camden Harbor was in the top five winners nationwide.

This year, contestants were to depict a scene relating to their favorite nonprofit cause. In July, Gel Gems / Design Ideas Company will award a $500. donation to the Grand Prize winner's cause. "I chose to design a window in support of the Boreal Songbird Initiative," says Beebe, "because I am passionate about birds and because birds are graphically exciting."

The Boreal Songbird Initiative was started by a Maine scientist, Dr. Jeff Wells, to educate the public about the vital importance of the Canadian and Alaskan Boreal Forest as "The Bird Nursery of the North." Three billion birds, including many of our most familiar songbirds and shorebirds, fly north to the Boreal Forest each spring to build nests and lay eggs.

The Boreal Forest is still one of the largest unspoiled forests left on Earth, but it is increasingly threatened by the U.S.'s voracious demand for paper and energy. Virgin timber is being cut down to make catalogs, junk mail and toilet paper. Many conservation groups are working together to save the Boreal Forest, and 1500 scientists have recently called on the Canadian government to protect it.

More information about boreal birds can be found at www.borealbirds.org. Planet Toys' Camden store is located at 10 Main Street. For more information, call 236.4410.