New in the Shop

I spent the last two days updating the shop, which is now full of new products! Lots of new prints, new holiday cards and more. You can find them right here.

Also, if you are retailer you can now find us on Etsy Wholesale! You can find our wholesale linesheet by searching "Katharine Watson" on the Etsy Wholesale website. Happy browsing!

Coming to DC!

 

This weekend I will be driving down to DC for Crafty Bastards! I'll be there Saturday (9/27) only from 10-5. It is always an amazing show and I'm lucky to leave without spending all my money; the quality of the vendors is always so good.

Crafty Bastards is at Union Market this year, at 1309 5th Street NE, near the NoMa-Gallaudet University/New York Ave metro stop.

I hope to see some of you there, it's going to be a great show!

Union Market photo via Buncee

To Summer

August is almost over, but I'm wishfully thinking that summer will last a few more months. There is no better time of year to me than when ice cream counts as dinner, jumping in the lake counts as exercise, and weekends are spent lying out in the sun and taking road trips.

I am looking forward to fall though as it will bring lots of travel and new projects, including gearing up for holiday art shows which might be my other favorite time of year. I've already started on working on building up my holiday inventory and organizing my show schedule for December! That means lots of time on the printing press, and even more time folding and packaging cards.

But here's to soaking up the last few weeks of sunshine, grilled hamburgers and late nights outside! Happy Labor Day weekend!

2015 Calendars available in the shop right here.

Stationery Sets in Living

Very exciting news: my stationery sets are in Martha Stewart Living this month! It's definitely a dream come true to see them in print in such a major magazine. Pick up a copy if you get the chance!

From Vietnam

Definitely getting the travel bug again and wishing we were back eating breakfast in a rice paddy.

New Calendars are Here!

The new calendars are up in the shop right here! I may have already mentioned how excited I am about these. I decided to design them when I couldn't find a write-in calendar to hang in my studio that wasn't either free from the bank or featuring cute kitten photos (not that I don't love those.) So I decided to take on the project myself and came up with this 12-month wall calendar.

Each month features a different block printed design that was then scanned and added to the grid so there is plenty of space to write events and appointments. Then, the whole thing was offset printed, bound and hole punched so it is ready to hang. 

I think I'll be hanging mine up now even though it doesn't start for another six months.

The 2014 National Stationery Show

We are back from the National Stationery Show, and it was another good one! This was my fourth year prepping like crazy and hauling everything from the studio down to the Javits Center in NYC. It's definitely the finals week of the stationery world. But this year felt easier after three previous shows; I was prepared for all the roadbumps including calendars that were never delivered (we got replacements) and shelf brackets that wouldn't hold a shelf (thanks IKEA!) After three years, I knew these things were coming and gave myself plenty of extra time to set up and get everything ironed out just in time.

It was definitely my favorite booth yet! I loved the dark teal color on the walls, and all the late nights spent printing before the show paid off when I got to display all the new products. We launched a new 2015 write-in calendar and a lot of other products I am so excited about. They'll all be going up in the shop in the next few weeks, and we are taking orders through hello (at) kwatson.com as well.

I always need a few days on the couch to recover from the show: long days of standing, selling, smiling and mingling really take it out of you. But I'm back in the studio and in the midst of shipping out orders to a ton of new stores. I'll be updating the Stores List once everything is shipped out!

Overall it was another fruitful NSS with lots of great contacts and leads made, and hopefully a few exciting projects coming down the line!