Sofie, Shine and Steam(er)!

Steamer

Alright! What a weekend. I'm proud to announce several changes in the shop, as well as some new faces! Because I am irresistibly drawn to warm drinks and scarves as subject matter, I thought it was high time I bring in Steamer, a lovely friend drinking a warm cuppa. Classic ouou drawing, but without the Dragon. :)

Sofie and the Bird

I've brought back one of my personal favorites from last year, Sofie, in her printed version. I have the same design in silkscreen Gocco version, but these (along with the green envelopes I've got right now) printed cards are such a necessary piece of Spring in my shop.

Shine

And finally, also new today is Shine~ this wonderfully celebratory new card. I've begun announcing new designs on Flickr a few days before they appear in my shop. For me, this is great because I'm not able to blog every day, so check it out! There you can see the other projects I'm working on, and notes from my sketchbook too.

But there are a few more changes this week at ouou. I've consolidated several winter card designs into Mixed Sets here. So, cards like Smarty and Red Dragon Drinks Tea are now only listed as parts of Mixed Sets throughout the spring and summer. All card designs are available upon request, however, so no worries if mid-June you really need a set of bundly, cocoa drinking Dragons or something.



Lastly, I've brought back the Monkey products, in all his wiley forms. I'm planning a blog post about Gocco later in the week, so for now you can take a look at tags and the Moleskine selection in the Gocco Silkscreen section.

Happy Pretty

We had a break in the weather here today, the morning haze gone and 70 degree sunny skies taking over. Spring in PA is showing off its emerging reds, and now quite suddenly whites, in the impressive decorative flowering trees around town. I just got back from an irresistible stroll. These white buds here are a close-up of these white trees, the red are buds on a bush we also had in the yard of my childhood home:



Yesterday's second Etsy new listing is a very limited run of this design on small moleskines:

Since the design is exactly the same length as the Moleskine, it's just too risky to make too many of them (messing up on a $$ Moleskine is so terribly frustrating), so there are just a few of these little ladies in existence.

New Gocco

Today I brought a new Gocco item into the shop. Those cute little otters already appeared in Moleskine form, and took off several weeks ago. Meanwhile, their sister-design the kitty resides in the Guest Artist section of Bamboo Village Press (a percentage of sales from Guest Artists goes to Bamboo Village Educational Fund~ check it out!).

Now in the ouou shop I'm offering sets of 2, one of each design, printed on fancy red note cards! We are offering combined shipping if you buy something from both ouou & Bamboo Village Press... I have to update that info in my shop tonight... but that's my latest news on the Gocco front.