Surtex prep takes off!

We kicked off our Surtex planning yesterday... 4 hours bursting with excitement and loads of ideas for our very first trade show as february 13 creative. Surtex happens in mid-May, in New York City, and is held in conjunction with the National Stationery Show, so it's a great opportunity to get our work in front of reps from social expression, textile, apparel, gift and home decor manufacturers (among others!). The goal is to develop partnerships with these manufacturers; we want them to license our art for use on their products so that one day soon you'll be able to buy, oh say... beautiful bed linens with Amy's poppies... or gorgeous gift wrap with Betsy's snowflakes... or a fabulous photo album with Pam's butterflies. Who knows?! We're excited to see where this leads and are busy creating lots of new art to debut at the show. I hope to post somewhat regularly as our plans take shape, and show some work in progress.

We had the always-highly-anticipated lunch portion of our meeting down the street at the new-ish Stable Cafe (xoxo). Here you see the tantalizing french press coffee and a tempting hint of their amazing lavender+sea salt shortbread cookie, which fueled lots of happy note-taking.