November Special!

 As a Thanksgiving baby, I'm partial to November. The leaves, the crisp autumn air, the possibility of a first snow, setting aside time for experiencing deep wells of gratitude, seeing family, and eating great food. It's a lovely month.

This year, I kicked off by deciding to participate in NaBloPoMo on my family blog, and then was delightedly surprised yesterday when I was contacted by the sharp-eyed design blogger Gay, who wrote to tell me that she'd included my hand printed Cricket Moleskine in her latest post. If you haven't come across I Dreamed I Saw before, be sure to check it out. Her themed posts cover beautiful, diverse, and whimsical designs - it's a great place to get inspired about holiday shopping or simply to get lost in the strange beauty she shares with her readers.

Then this evening I sat down at the computer (to finish this post!) and found out that the lovely Katie of EdensWake  included my "Love" linen notebook in her stunning Treasury. What a cool shop Katie has! She makes fancy purses and accessories, and in a nice bit of synchronicity, her sister (like mine) also has a shop.

The Special!!

I was working on getting some items back in the shop this morning (think Happiness Fish Towels and Phoenix Iron-Ons!), and decided that I'd put the whole Papercut Section on Special this month. I'm excited to offer free US domestic shipping on everything from this section! Enjoy!!

Yes Grasshoppah

Big changes are taking place! Friday was my last day at my full time job, and now I am officially self employed! Hooray! Yikes! Exciting! Scary!

I've got a lot of change coming up in the next few months, so when I decided to leave my job, I thought "what the heck, let's give Bamboo Village a shot." I'll be taking the next months to form Bamboo Village Educational Fund as a real non-governmental organization, and will be spending lots of time doing product development for Bamboo Village Press. It's all terrifically exciting, and if you have any advice, I'm all ears!

One of the first projects I'm working on is a two-color Gocco print. My sister just completed her first last night, and after all of your brains stop exploding from the indescribable cuteness of her print, I'll be posting mine (which won't be fitting in the "cute" category). As a way to commemorate the beginnings of this new endeavor, I'm making a print in the spirit of Zhang Lin, BVEFs first sponsored student. I'll tell you only that there will be Chinese characters, a cricket, and moleskines involved. It's gonna be pretty cool!

Happily, being an at-home worker is going to mean more posting, more information on Sichuan, China, interviews with Etsy artists and others working for the greater good. I'm excited to be able to move this cause forward!

With that, I leave you with this shot of me from last night, working carefully over the light box. See you soon!

新东西 - New Stuff - Gocco & Fiber

Happy Sunday! The Nadeau girls have been busy this weekend, making and finishing new items for the shop!

After a successful rollout of my hand knit coffee cozy last week, I've made two more - a knit one and a new quilted cozy in rich Asian blues.

And we were so excited to get the Gocco rolling yesterday. After spending about 8 hours on our feet, testing out designs and print quality and color, we've got two new designs by Laurie up in the shop! Click the graphic and check them out in full detail. We'd love your feedback!

介绍 - introduction - everything in blue

You all already know my sister Laurie from her popular designs featured in Bamboo Village Press, like our fabulous panda logo, Two Plus Yarn Equals Love, and Knit Kitty, but now she's making her online artistic debut with the launch of her blog, with Etsy shop soon to follow.

I hope you'll visit her and shower your Internet-y love upon her - she's brand new to the online community and will certainly appreciate the welcome! Here's her blog, brand spanking new with only one post: everything in blue.

We had the gocco all fired up last night and managed to crank out a whole lotta silk screened love. It's gonna be a great winter!