It's official; we got married and now we dress our animals. We might go and get cloth napkins next. The Holiday Hop is tonight in the Short North. We will have the usual array of wine and coffee so come warm up in our lounge. We got a new shipment last week from both Apolois Activism and the Smooth Company. I thought you would rather see the above photo of Rufus.

Shinzi Katoh!

We got another, larger, from Japanese designer Shinzi Katoh. You know it's time to trade in those paper shopping bags for canvas totes right? And if you have heard that, then you are smart enough to know the ones at the grocery store designed to look like paper bags look like crap. But if you really want to show your friends how much you care, you may want to consider picking up one of these fancy aluminum water bottles. They keep your beverage cold much longer than conventional plastic bottles. Oh, that's not enough? You wish there was someway you could take your own utensils with you? You aren't going to believe me, but we can help you out there too. We have chopsticks with a carrying case! I know, you are worried you'll like the guy who showed up to put put with his own putter? Did his putter ever look like these? No, I didn't think so.





We finally got in short totes!




Chopsticks.




Water bottles.




Vinyl coated bags.


Our store is consumed by Shinzi Katoh at the moment. Sorry for the mess.

The Magic Kingdom Of Baltimore.

Niki and I are getting married Tuesday. Disneyworld was all booked up, so instead of going there we are going to Baltimore on our honeymoon. It's actually more of a business-trip than a honeymoon anyway. We're staying in a businessy hotel in a suburb that we booked on expedia, it's a days drive each way for one full day there; and we're actually going there to dig through a warehouse of old books for our line Maxine, Dear. It's pretty fitting for us. I think we'll get more joy digging through the books than we would most anything else. We also really like crab.
Everyone we have asked so far has told us where not to go in Baltimore. So, if anyone has any good recommendations of must-sees, we would appreciate it.
We will be closed on Tuesday for the aforementioned wedding. I wanted to have it in the store, but Niki shot that idea down pretty quickly. But honestly, how could you go to a wedding in someones store and not buy something from them? I still think it was a good idea. Just buy a little extra Monday and Wednesday and everything should even out. Until Saturday Eric and Ianna will be working here. They are very nice, so come spend some time with them.

Whats in store

These are the first three styles from The Smooth Company, my new favorite men's line. They seem to pay more attention to fit than any other men's line I have seen at this price. Almost everyone that has tried these pieces on has said "wow, it feels like this was tailored for me."




Readymade bag kit # 1. Make your own recycled billboard bag. Most of the ones we have are from I-pod ads. You can't really tell though.

Readymade bag kit # 2. This one is out of priority mail envelopes.

We got our first Ben Sherman bags in! They feature laptop sleeves and look great. Well, not in my photographs.

Obstacle course

In honor of fall we have set up this totally awesome obstacle course for our customers tomorrow. I have included a diagram to help you guys get past it. Duck past the first two barricades, jump over the two sections of orange fencing but look up, there is a building hurling bricks at you.

Whats in store

So we got our marriage license yesterday. I don't think the courthouse should be operating so heavily on the fact that you have spent a lot of time there and, so, know your way around. It was pretty difficult to locate the right area. The whole ordeal, to those of you that have not been through it before, is kind of silly. The "raise your right hand" thing is hard to do with a straight face any longer, I think we as a culture should try and find something to replace it. They also give you TWO copies that are very nice looking for the purpose of framing. I mean, seriously? Can you scrape a few dollars off our fee or something? Is there enough demand to merit one nice looking copy of your marriage license for framing? The highlight of the experience, though, was the clerks name. Loveless.
Oh yeah, here are some of our favorite things we got in last week:




Wallets by WESC



Long Puff Sleeve Tee By LaMade


Hoodie Dress By LaMade



WESC All Over Print Tee. I feel like I should put the dress on again with this print, because it's amazing and you girls keep browsing by it.


Mens Duffel Coat By WESC


Edana Coat By WESC


Amelia Dress By Dace


Sonya Dress By Dace

We got our first styles of Andy Warhol watches as well as our first Modern Amusement Eye wear frames in today!