Craftiest Bastard of the Week Again!

The Washington City Paper has once again featured Lemon Cadet as the Craftiest Bastard of the Week!


This time one of my yeti onesies made the cut. That's Ryan. He's a custom order onesie.

Oh no! Pat Pat!

Every time I get a custom order to do one of my little guys on a different size, I'll print out the picture of the original item and cut it out to use as a pattern. Such was the case with Pat Pat (above).

So I used old Pat Pat to make a new Pat Pat and left the pattern on the living room floor and went to bed (because it was late and I was tired).

When I got up the next morning, that was all that was left of Pat Pat. The cats had found a new toy. Where is Pat Pat's arm? Is Pat Pat in pain from the bites? We may never know.

R.I.P. Pat Pat pattern.

My My!!

On our way home from the Brooklyn Indie Market, my trusty assistant and I stopped by the fabulous shop, My My, run by the charming Taryn. It was super easy to find (once we realized that New Jersey had two Interstates 95 (why? why NJ? why? the reason roads have unique numbers is so that people can get to places easily and without confusion).


I have some items there and since I had just spent weeks preparing for the craft show, I had lots of new loot for her to choose from. So up there is a picture of my onesies hanging out with all their new friends. Just above is my stuffed beans with their new friends including that adorable little creature from Cornflake Girl. From what I understand, My My has hired a new employee to be Plush Department Manager so things will really start looking nice.

Taryn is super sweet a runs a nice shop. The colors are perfect and she has a great selection of indie goods including zines. There is a picture of Lemon Cadet with personal assistant here on flickr.

In recent My My news, Taryn's sister Jennifer and her daughter Annabelle caught some crazy virus and both were sick for days. Jennifer was even in the hospital. Now they have tons of bills. If you'd like to help out, read this blog post. They are working on an Etsy shop to raise some money.

a drool.icio.us feature

Chris Jordan who blogs for Babble's amazing Droolicious blog featured my custom Here kitty, kitty onesie. Babble is an online magazine for "the new urban parent." They have several blogs in addition to a ton of helpful information for cool parents. My kitty was featured on the handmade section of their daily blog. I have never seen this site before and I'm floored to be featured. It's very well done.

The picture they chose is one of the constant reminders that I really need to start taking better photographs. MFA, where are you when I need you?

And I'm well aware that I have yet to write a post on our super awesome trip to My My. Patience little grasshopper.

The beans are famous!

After struggling for months on what to make for promo items, I developed the bean stickers (that you all know and love so well). They are little bean guys made out of felt, run through the xyron sticker maker, cut out, and then finally stuck to a postcard with a nice big glob of purple gluestick.

I love the little beans and have grown fond of making them. My friend Sandi has become a good felt bean cutter while my mother in law has gotten quite proficient in helping glue them onto the cards (she makes cards that she sells in her Etsy shop so she came well-trained).

Thanks to Tina Seamonster for giving them a little nod in her piece for the Washington City Paper Crafty Blog. That one there on her cell phone is looking a bit nappy. Time for an upgrade!

Market Report

This weekend Lemon Cadet hit the road for a trip to the Brooklyn Indie Market. There were some amazing sellers there, including fofolle who made the super cute microminis and Melissa Bell with these dresses that looked phenomenal on every single person who tried one on (both in photo). I also got to hang out next to My Funky Twisted Soul and Bohemian Soul, a mother-daughter crafting extravaganza. Kat Kaplan gave me some great advice as she's got some actual business experience and I got to meet some ladies of the New York City Craft Mafia, among a handful of other creative sellers. It was a really fun day. The crowd was pleasant and really receptive to all the good goods.


August seems to be a slow month for Brooklyn but the market got a lot of foot traffic because of its location. Despite the slow sales, I truly had a wonderful day. I learned a lot, as I do with every new show. At one point, a guy came up and pulled a Hank onesie (Hank is one of my bun bun designs, a green fleece bunny face with long ears) off the rack and began shaking it up and down like he was hopping, I guess. He was shouting, "I'm a hipster baby! I'm a hipster baby!" I thought that was pretty funny.

Check out the pictures on the Brooklyn Indie Market's flickr page. Kathy of fofolle took some great shots of the booth. That link will take you to the first shot of my booth.

iSew blog feature

A couple of weeks ago, I got a special order from a fellow Etsy seller, iSew. She makes these super cute monkey gadget cozies (you know me and monkeys!) and amazingly well-crafted bags, quilts, bibs, among other great stuff. When I get an order from an Etsy seller, I'm always really nervous. Other crafters inspect your work a little more closely because they know technique!

So I sent off the little onesie and waited anxiously for the feedback. When it was positive and included a lot of detail, I breathed a sigh of relief. Yay! She even uploaded a picture of Ryan the Yeti to her flickr page (check out her cat with the furry toes -- just like Sasha!).

Yesterday I got a google alert revealing her blog post featuring my shop. She even included a little mini of some of the items from my Etsy shop. So you should head over there and check it out. Her blog was recently featured over at Craft because of her tutorial on fabric labels. It's definitely worth adding to your Google reader.

In other blog feature news, one of my sistahs over at the Pittsburgh Craft Mafia featured a few of us on Subu, Inc., her wordpress blog.

I really appreciate all this support. And yes, I know I haven't posted on the Brooklyn Indie Market yet. All in good time...