I’m so ready for fall.
Bold, saturated colors, crisp air, bread happily baking, microbrew porters, low-key jazz in the background, and mountains of yarn spinning through my fingertips.
But first, some loose ends.
LOCALS! Did you know there are two more weeks of the Bogert Farmers Market? You can almost hear the crickets chirping, it’s so quiet there these days. Head ye to the pavilion, fill your arms with the season’s harvest (which is finally ready, um, NOW by the way), and take advantage of the final opportunity to get wholesale-for-locals pricing on all my recycled wool coozies and hand-felted soaps.
Saying goodbye to the market season is always bittersweet. It’s a blast to interact with everyone and hang out with all the vendors, but I’m getting pretty amped to clear the calendar for those of you in my online community. That counts as buying local too, you know–supporting someone in your online community. Though there are miles between us, you are still spending mindfully.
You guys have been patient for a long time. It’s finally time for you to get a regular chance to buy some of my stuff too.
The other day, someone here in town said…well, here’s the whole conversation:
Lady: “Do you think you could make a couple of coozies with peace signs for me?”
Me: “Totally.”
Lady: “You see, it’s for my sister. She’s kind of, well, she’d just really like something like that.”
I start digging for more information about her sister, trying to find the “something like that”. Turns out she drives a VW bus, bright green, and you should have seen the gal’s face when she started talking about it. She immediately started smiling and looking off into the distance, thinking of good times with her sister…
Me: “What if I make you one with a green bus?”
Lady: “Oh my God, you can do that?”
Me: “I can totally do that.
So to make a long story short (like I ever make my stories short–my Irish heritage would never allow such a thing), I found so much joy in thinking about the glint in her eye while I was making this coozie, I’ve decided to bring a little twist to my Etsy shop.
Rather than carrying a regular inventory of classic designs like I had planned, I’ve decided to simply offer a small amount of custom coozies each month (like 10 or 12). This means when you purchase a custom slot, you get to tell the story and I’ll figure out how to make it into beverage cooling art.
I thought you might like that.
For those of you who would just like to purchase ready-made coozies, you will soon find a great selection through Hip Mountain Mama, an awesome online shop run by a very laid back family in the mountains of Colorado. And if you live here in Bozeman, there will soon be a couple of local retail options as well.
And if you’re still with me in this epic post, you can look forward to something I’ve been chasing after for a mighty long time.
A Collection.
Simple and sweet little goods, handspun and otherwise, just in time for the holidays. Because I love you and making stuff for you makes me happy.
