Monday, April 30, 2007

PataPri stamps arrived.


Today, my custom PataPri stamps came to my mail box.
I'm smiling about it.
Each stamp is 87cents.

Print & Pattern from England

If you love design or pattern design or anything cute and clorful things, you probably know design blog called print & pattern from England. I'm one of them as you can see from pattern design towels I make, so it was so great to see my towels in her wonderful blog!

Thank you Print & pattern.

* picture is another duvet cover & pillow set i made for myself with heart tree design.

Friday, April 27, 2007

Decor8 & New towels!


My favorite design blog Decor8 wrote about my towels!
Thank you!


Today, I added new towels on my shop!
New color of Kirin and Pear.
Hope you like it!

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Yay! Yay! Yay!



I woke up and did my morning ritual which is drink a cup of coffee and check my emails and surfing blogs ( I have many blogs that I read - most of them are design related blogs.). I found 3 blogs that featured my towels!!
That's so exciting! Its a Great way to start beautiful day in chicago.

here, here and here!

apartment therapy is one of my favorite blog that i have been reading for few years. So, seeing my towels in their site is pretty special to me!

Thank you so much to apartment therapy, Hostess, and Mel's Brainstorms.

*picture is a duvet cover I made for myself with apple design. I sleep well in it.

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Depart-ment




Last weekend, I did Depart-ment. It was my first time ever doing craft fair kind a thing, and it was a great experience. Depart-ment is a little different from regular craft fairs where you get your own booth and sell your own stuff. All I needed to do was to drop off my towels and they did everything else. So, it was great especially for first timers such as myself. I sold 11 towels! I was excited and happy!
I ate sushi with that money to celebrate.
*Pictures show building where Depart-ment fair was held, and my towels on the table.

先週末、Depart-mentというクラフトフェアのイベントに参加しました。 普通のクラフトフェアは各自ブースを持ち売るってかんじだけど、これは売りたい物をだせば、あとは彼らがレジスターの管理などやってくれるちょっと変わったイベントです。いろんなハンドメイド物(ジュエリーが多い)売ってて他の人の作品を見るのがおもしろかった。レタープレスしてあるノートを買いました。
私のタオルは11枚売れました。すごいうれしい! そのお金でお寿司を食べてお祝いしました。
*写真はイベントがあったビルと私のタオルのテーブルです。

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Stamps!


I always wanted to make my own stamps at stamps.com.
So, I finally made one for PataPri. I will use it to ship my towels, fun!

オリジナルの切手をオーダーしました。
この切手をタオルを送るときに使う予定。
届くの楽しみ!

Friday, April 20, 2007

PataPri open!



I'm so excited to finally open my shop.
I have been busy printing my towels.
I got my domain name, www.patapri.com and Etsy shop.
Im ready to start this!

I hope people enjoy my towels as much as I do!

Design blog Sugarcube Design featured my towels!
Another design blog Another shade of grey featured my towels!
I just opened the Etsy shop a week ago, and someone already noticed my towels,
how exciting is that?!
Thanks!

やっとPataPriがオープンします。
タオルをシルクスクリーンプリントしたり、サイトを作ったりいろいろ準備に時間がかかったけど、やっとオープンできてうれしいです。
みんなこのタオル使ってくれるとうれしいな。