Relieving Stress From a Long Day

We all carry stress from the day to day challenges of everyday life. Your car won’t start; your washer broke; you spilled your coffee on those important papers….it happens everyday. But, if you wear scrubs, you know that these stress-builders are minor compared to what you face at work everyday. Helping care for the sick or hurting is indeed gratifying but it takes its toll on you, emotionally and physically, from the stress you just can’t shake when you leave work. If you don’t relieve the pressure, you are soon sick, cranky, or burned out, yourself.

My solution to relieve stress is a shopping trip for something small but luxurious (and usually made from chocolate), followed by a hot bubble bath, a hot cup of Jasmine Tea, and a thrilling paperback. That little bit of pampering makes me feel like I can face another challenge with a bit of an attitude adjustment. It’s not much, but it is enough to get me through.

How do you relieve the stress you feel in your job, and your life? Do you take a long walk with the dog? Do you read, putting your head in a different world? Do you socialize with friends? Rock climb? Sail? Ski? Meditate? Garden? Volunteer? We all need a little break from time to time and we can’t wait to hear from you with your stress relieving secrets!

Sassy Scrubs is Offering a New Mock Wrap Top

Sassy Scrubs, the USA based manufacturer and e-tailer of custom made Hospital and Medical Nursing Scrub Uniforms, recently unveiled their new, innovative scrub top design. The Penn Yan, New York company noticed the popularity of Asian themed garments in all areas of ladies fashion. This realization led Sassy Scrubs to design their own Mock Wrap Top with a feminine Asian feel. “This design presents a distinctly feminine option to join our line of standard unisex garments” explains company President, Karen Bradley, stating the scrub top was designed with the comfort of nurses and other uniformed professionals in mind.

Since the company custom makes all their garments, Sassy Scrubs is able to offer this Mock Wrap Top with a one-of-a-kind customizable trim option. Customers can choose from 14 different solid fabrics for the unique trim piece to coordinate, or contrast, with the print or solid color fabric they choose for their garment. With hundreds of fabrics from which to choose for their garments, the ability to select from 14 different trim options allows the customer literally thousands of combinations for their custom made Mock Wrap Top.

“We have many customers who have color restrictions where they work”, states Bradley, “with units or departments required to wear certain colors for identification”. The Sassy Scrubs option to choose those colors in the trim of their garments could allow the customer to meet the requirements of their job, but still be allowed more freedom in the fabrics they choose for their overall garment. Fabric and trim color, combined with petite and tall length options, in sizes from XXXS to 9XL, means this scrub top will bring fashionable uniform choices to nearly everyone.

Sassy Scrubs’ design is unique since no other uniform retailer offers its customers a Mock Wrap Top with thousands of color choice combinations. “At Sassy Scrubs, we’re all about choice and since we custom make every garment, we designed our new Mock Wrap Top to offer even more fabric and color options.” explains Bradley. Sassy Scrubs has introduced their new garment on their website at http://www.sassyscrubs.com/.

What Do Dental Scrubs and the Little Shop of Horrors Have in Common?

With special thanks to Travis B. for this entertaining Guest blog.....

Let me start off by telling you, dear readers, that I am scared of going to the dentist. And by scared, I mean I have nightmares about Steve Martin from the Little Shop of Horrors movie, where every time he talks, what comes out of his mouth are not words, but the screech of drills. Angry drills. Big angry drills designed for nothing but the torture of the innocent.

When I went in a few years ago to get my wisdom teeth taken out, I was asked to either take the knock-out gas (or what I like to call the breath of god), or leave with my teeth intact and an indefinite ban from the premises.

Apparently I made what they were calling "cacophonous womanly screams", or what I thought was more accurately deemed "polite oral protests of justified terror". I took the gas.

So, I went in for my every-other-annual cleaning last week. (They give me a discount, as long as I promise not to come in any more often.) As usual for my cleaning, I had signed my waiver for the gas. I was laid back in the chair of fear, sweating profusely, feet and hands twitching, eyes either shifting rapidly back and forth or staring at the lovely sofa size posters of gum disease and worst-case-scenario plaque buildup. You know, calm and composed.

I'm waiting for the lady to administer the gas (to this day, I have no idea what my dentist actually looks like), when in waddles this pregnant woman, which for the purposes of this blog, we'll call Margot, the bringer of serenity. Or just Margot. Yeah, so Margot's pregnant. Really pregnant. To the point where watching her walk around is like seeing a new driver try to back a tractor trailer through road cones. Tiny road cones. With camouflage. What I mean to say is, I think the baby's driving. Perhaps we'll forget that analogy, shall we? Yes, let's shall.

Margot comes in pushing the gas trolley with her belly. In an attempt to show her how calm and well behaved I am, I ask where she gets her scrubs. (My mom sells scrubs; even to dentists, who, in my opinion, don't deserve such fine clothing.)

Margot tells me she got them from Sassy Scrubs, online; which totally ruins my chances at a new customer referral commission. She tells me that the fabric is called "Smile!", and asks if I like it. The print is of thousands of happy teeth brushing or flossing themselves, acting as if anthropomorphic disembodied bits of a hundred hockey players wasn't strange in the slightest. I told her, yes, it was very pretty. Pregnant ladies are hormonally on the edge and I didn't want to risk a gas "mishap" by offending her.

In bittersweet fashion, the teeth and the gas come closer. The mask goes around my head and I hear the heavenly hiss of nitrous. To accomplish this, Margot has to rest her gigantic baby belly on my chest. I start to wonder if the gas will work if the weight makes it impossible to breathe. To my horror, the teeth start bulging outward against me in pulses, and Margot apologizes for her twins' kicking. Twins! Twice the kicking! Twice the pulsing happy teeth!

Luckily, the gas takes effect, the phantom dentist comes in and does his evil business under cover of darkness, and I'm done and in the lobby, scheduling my next frightful visit. The nice thing about scheduling appointments two years in advance is that I get to pick whatever time I want. Cold comfort maybe, but I'll take what I can get. You know me, I'm an optimist.

Remind me to send a note congratulating Margot on the birth of her two Ninjas.



Thanks to Travis B. for his hilarious guest blog. Luckily, I grew up with a terrific dentist - Dr. Henry Fox - who rarely used gas or novocaine and rarely needed to, along with the special treat of a great plastic toy from the "toy bowl" at the end of each visit. To this day, I love going to the dentist. What I can't stand however, is getting my tires rotated. The hideous smell of all that greasy black rubber and the screams of the pneumatic drills and squealing metal sends me right back out the door, arms flailing, heart pounding and knees pumping.

So, scrubs wearer - what is it that gets to you? Add a comment below, or send us your own guest blog! Sassy

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Great News! Fabric By The Yard!

It's true! Sassy Scrubs has recently updated our website to allow for purchase of our wonderful scrubs fabrics, by the yard. Due to numerous requests by our customers - along with more than a little begging and pleading - our 1,400 fabrics are now available for direct purchase. Hard to believe, you think? Well, it's all true!

Whether you need one yard of that motorcycle fabric you've been drooling over to cover a photo album for your sweetie, or the 4 yards of tropical parrot fabric you're lusting after for that colorful quilt you're dreaming of, the fabrics are NOW available for immediate purchase! Just place your order right on our ultra-safe and secure website and we'll mail your fabric right out to you. How exciting is that? We know....VERY exciting!

With all our wonderful prints available for direct purchase, we know deciding what to order first will be a tough decision. But, be strong, we know you can do it! Satisfy that sewing jones, that fabric fetish, and that crafting craze and order your quality Sassy Scrubs fabric today - and get busy!

Altering Reality

I grew up watching all those great sci-fi shows of the 70's and 80's. The characters were often beaming out or stepping through some mysterious portal to an altered reality and then trying to figure out how to get back to the world they knew before. This journey was always a tough feat, but our intrepid travelers generally made it.

Well, we can help you with your Altered Reality travels too. And it is way easier than those sci-fi characters could ever have imagined.

Sometimes our customers order their custom made Sassy Scrubs a bit too long, or a bit too large. Then they send us panicked emails asking how to fix the problem. Never fear! The Sassy Scrubs Alterations Department is on patrol - ready to help rescue you and get you back to your journey in well-fitting scrubs.

If you need a tweak here or there, a bit of hem shortening, a pocket moved or added, a pant leg taken in a bit or your Medical Scrubs Top taken down to the next size, we can absolutely Alter your Reality. Just email us with your request for alterations. We'll let you know how much to include with your garments to cover your return postage, and offer to Alter your Sassy Scrubs for free! That's right! A trip back to Reality, at no charge. What a deal!

Now, just as you can't create matter, we also can't make your garments longer, or larger than you originally ordered them. The Laws of Physics just don't work that way. It's the same thing in the Reality of Altering. So it's always the best idea to view our Size Chart before placing an order...think of it as your road map through the Reality of Fitting. (Oh brother, I know that was really bad...). Anyway, we're here to help you at Sassy Scrubs, and you can count on us to get you out of that Altered Reality and back to your well fitting scrubs world. So just send us an email "probe", then "shuttle" your scrubs back to us at the "home base" and we'll alter your Sassy Scrubs garments and "beam" them right back to you. Safe and sound. And back to reality.