Handmade Ho Down!
Crafts and Cocktails – what could be a better match? Come and check out the first ever SF Etsy Craft Show! You can get more details at the official website 6pm – Midnight, Thursday December 3, 2009 at 1015 Folsom St San Francisco (21 and over only).
*Added bonus: This event supports a great charity – check out DrawBridge – an arts program for homeless kids.
We’ll be there (Table 25) and we’d love to meet you!
Gooseberry Press Early Holiday Sale!
Gooseberry Press is having an early holiday sale! Take 10% off of your order November 27-29, 2009. Visit our shop!
What a Great Day!
I exhibited at a small arts and crafts fair in Tracy today. It was a nice way to spend a few hours and I met some wonderful artists and passers by. The event was organized in part by Susan Richardson a very talented artist – today she was showing her new jewelry creations. Just beautiful! You can see her work here.
I’m excited for our next round of fairs – it is a fun way to spread the word about Gooseberry Press and I love to see all of the amazing creations from local artists. Now if I could only walk away from these events without making a purchase…
Come and check us out at Handmade Ho Down on December 3! More details to follow.
*We have a new staff member to introduce…meet Kricket our new office assistant and foot warmer 
(I’ll post a pic soon!)
Crafty Fair Goodness
Hi All,
It is going to be a busy couple of weeks. In anticipation of holiday happiness on the way we are participating in a few craft fairs/shows. We will be posting all details to the blog as well as to the website soon, but in the meantime check back here to get the latest haps!
We are exhibiting this coming weekend at Redbridge House in Tracy, CA! If you are near to the area or feel like taking a drive come by and see us! We will be showing off our beautiful city totes, notecards, letterpress postcards and our new art prints! Swing on by if you can make it
Details:
Redbridge Craft Fair
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Redbridge House
9am-Noon
2935 Redbridge Road
Tracy, CA 95377
You can see more of our offerings at the GBPress Etsy shop!
Upcoming shows:
Handmade Ho Down (sponsored by Etsy) benefiting DrawBridge – an Arts Program for homeless children
Thursday, December 3, 2009
6pm-Midnight
Ten15
1015 Folsom
San Francisco, CA 94131
http://www.handmadehodown.com/
Lightbox SF
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Noon-5pm
The Makeout Room
3225 22nd St
San Francisco, CA 94110
http://lightboxsf.com/events.html
More events to come…check back soon
Indie-Mart Street Fair
Hi Everyone,
Gooseberry Press is going to be vending at the Indie Mart Street Fair this coming Sunday November 8 in San Francisco from 12-6pm! If you are looking for something fun to do or just want to stop by and say hi – come on by and see us!
We will have our Organic City Totes, Screenprinted Bags, Framed Art Prints, Cards + Stationery, Letterpress Postcards, and Baby Gear available for sale.
The Indie Mart is back for our last throw down outside before we move indoors for the winter. We’re bringing you the best in local designers, makers, the most vintage we’ve ever had, local rad stores, zines, rock tees, bakers, and about everything else you can think of. We’ve hand selected 100 of the best bay area vendors just for this event. Is if that’s not enough…peep our DIY booth from Workshop, featuring demos every hour from 1pm on. Sewing stations where you we’ll customize your rock tees for $5- (choose one of 3 ways- the Tawny Kitean, the Benetar or the Lita Ford..yes, really). We’ve got ping pong going from 1-5pm on the street. Photobooth. Killer BBQ. Drink specials like whoah. and of course, Cheap beers.
On stage this time: The Yellow Dress (myspace.com/theyellowdress), The Glassines (myspace.com/theglassines) and Malloy Family Album(myspace.com/malloyfamilyalbum). Outside, the most kickass lineup yet- Primo, DJ Sarahdactyl, Mother Barry, Mr. Wrong & SWORDS.
The Indie-Mart Street Fair
Sunday Nov. 8th, 12-6pm
Thee Parkside- 17th st & all down Wisconsin
Ride your bike, take the 22 Muni Line & ample parking for bikes and cars
ALL AGES – 21 to booze it up.
$2 suggested donation
www.indie-mart.com
www.twitter.com/indiemart
www.facebook.com/people/Indie-Mart/1330994393
JUST GOOD SHOPPING, GOOD FOOD, GOOD MUSIC, GOOD DRINKING, GOOD PEOPLE, GOOD ALL DAY FUN. THE INDIE MART.
See you there!
Stationery & Letterpress Postcard Happiness
As promised I have a bunch of photos to post today – stationery and Map Happy letterpress postcards! I will be posting “official” product shots to the website soon but for now enjoy the sneak peek…have a looksee and feel free to leave comments
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Letterpress Postcards
A pretty pile of letterpressed bits
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Stationery
Visit our Shop, for select Gooseberry goodies! The totes and postcards are available now and other stationery will be available next week.
…And We’re Back
Greetings from San Francisco! We’ve been gone for awhile – longer than intended actually, but we are back and ready to hit the ground running. I hope everyone has had a fantastic summer and ready to jump into autumn. It is my most favorite of all the seasons. The coolness of the air, the weather changing, the smell of fireplaces burning, kids eagerly awaiting Halloween…it brings me back to when I was growing up and the anticipation of starting a new year of school. That is what fall really is for me, more than spring really, starting anew and moving forward. I am inspired to take on new ideas and tackle projects that have been waiting for far too long. With that written, we have updated the website – with the new city tote collection and some sneak peeks at our new Map Happy Postcards. Have a look when you get a chance. The postcards will be ready early this coming week and I will post the images as soon as I can. Our Shop has also been updated with the bags and we will add the postcards as well.
On the horizon we have Letterpress Ornaments for Holiday and Valentine’s Day, Social Stationery – greeting cards, notes & tags, and Art Prints – both letterpress and digital.
We will have a new wholesale catalog available soon – if you would like to request one please contact us!
I promise we won’t stay away so long from now on. Check back and visit us often!
Mini Update…
Howdy All,
Just a quick post to let you all know that we are in full swing over here getting ready for the release of our new stationery line. We’ll have some photos up in the next week or so. On the agenda for the first batch of notes, our San Francisco themed cards as well as some fun new designs! Check back soon for the latest!
In other news (and it is very exciting if I do say so myself) we are moving right along with our new batch of maps…I’m keeping the the places to myself for now but we will be posting soon with all of the awesome details about our newest additions to the city map lineup.
If you haven’t already checked it out…hop on over to our new etsy store!
Etsy Store Added to Website!
Hi Everyone,
We have had several people inquire about where they can get a bag (and other products)! We are in the process of updating our reseller’s list – shops that will be selling Gooseberry Press items. We invite you to visit these shops to get our items. You can also purchase some selected products through our new Etsy Store. We will continue to add more items. Check out the Yart Sale from June 10-12!
We have posted our product catalog on the website as a PDF download. If you are a reseller and would like to get a catalog with pricing information. Please contact us at wholesale@gooseberrypress.com
We will be updating the products page soon with the baby gear products as well as our smaller bags. Check back soon
Coming for this summer: We will be debuting our new stationery line – notecards, tags, moving announcements, party invitations – you name it! We are so excited about it and just can’t wait!
Also, new for 2009 – we are announcing two new styles of bag. The watercolor tote and the drawstring backpack tote. The watercolor tote is a 100% organic cotton tote bag featuring a hand water colored map print of our city map series.
The drawstring backpack is the perfect size for kids, special events or favors – this 100% cotton bag is a backpack style with a cotton rope drawstring.
Stay tuned for more information and pictures!
It’s Almost June
Hi there! So, half of the year is almost over and we have launched our company, exhibited at the National Stationery Show, and made some great contacts. Now what? Well, I guess now it is time to get to work! I have a long list of things to get to over the next week or so, such as – find and be happy with a new printer, sort out packaging logistics, send out press kits, submit a press release, get cracking on stationery production, start new map production, create web store, post baby gear photos and descriptions to web site, look into SF gift show information, and…I think that is enough for now!
Check back to the site soon for more product updates!
