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A Newsletter Ten Years In The Making.

Fall has arrived! And so has our annual free-shipping promotion.

Free Ground Shipping for Domestic Orders Over $50.

We love free shipping, and we're sure you do too. Spend at least $50 and we'll cover standard domestic ground shipping. It's that easy. (Oh, and we hereby declare that the weekend starts as soon as you get this email, and ends late, late Sunday night, November 8th.)

What should you buy? Well, we've got a ton of new, awesome stuff:


Handmade Nation DVD

Handmade Nation DVD Now Available

The amazing documentary from Faythe Levine. Interviews were conducted on-location in artist studios, homes, boutiques, offices and craft fairs, giving the public an exclusive and rarely seen look into the lives of these creative individuals. It's been traveling around the last year and has finally landed on DVD. We're really excited to help bring this film to the masses.

The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design: Now Shipping >>


Sam Trout Shirts

New Sam Trout Shirts

Sam Trout's shirts are really soft, and feature a tender combination of swopping lines, soaring birds and delicate flora. Sam takes a regular shirt and really brings it to the next level.

Two New Styles For Fall >>


Nate Manny shirts

Hey There Smooth Moves

Nate's sharp and clever graphic style is communicated brilliantly through this new series of handsome t-shirts. Nate Manny got to work on these shirts after a recent tour with his band, the Murder City Devils.

Three New Nate Manny Shirts >>


Soaps for Scott

Seasonal Soap Arrivals

Handmade using traditional cold-process techniques in Portland, Oregon, Arcana Soaps are some of the most interesting, wonderfully textured and delightful soaps we've ever found. New scents for Fall.

Arcana Soap Is The Best Soap >>


there is nothing called an iTouch

Exploded Settings Icon

Whether you're an engineer or a designer, the Exploded Settings Icon shirt by icon designer Sebastiaan de With is an excellent way to don your profession. Rendered faithfully to the iPhone / iPod touch 'Settings' icon.

Deconstructed, How You Like It >>


In so many colors

2010 Slingshot Planners

The Slingshot Organizer is now in its 16th year. The funds raised in selling the organizer go to publish the radical and independent Slingshot newspaper. Packed with information and of course, a calendar for the whole year.

Available In Pocket And Spiral >>


Jill Bliss

Jill Bliss Explores Nature

Captures the tenderness of spring with Jill's indelibly delicate, detailed and enchanting style. Jill's design covers both back and front, unfolding the card is like zooming out, letting you take it all in—in a single refreshing breath.

Over Two Dozen New Cards >>


One A

Aron Has Big Plans For You

Aron spends countless hours drawing each comics panel with pen and ink. For most of this time Aron draws at the dining room table with a cat in his lap or out at the neighborhood coffee shop. Simply drawn and to the point.

Perhaps His Best Issue Yet >>


colette patterns

Introducing Colette Patterns

A new line of gorgeous, vintage-inspired sewing patterns with modern lines and details. They let you create flattering and curvy dresses. Top it off with the fact that a portion of all proceeds from this pattern go to animal welfare.

Five Patterns, Get Sewing >>


don't throw it

Don't Throw It, Grow It!

From the common carrot to the exotic cherimoya, dozens of foods have pits, seeds, and roots waiting to be rescued from the compost bin and brought back to life on your windowsill. This fun book shows you how.

Kitchen Scraps Turn Into Trees >>


LORAX

I Speak For The Trees.

This magnificent letter-pressed print remembers and reinforces the message from the 1971 classic; a concern for the fate of our society's lasting effects on the environment. A limited edition of only twenty were printed.

Limited Edition Letterpress Poster >>


Rachecl Austin

Rachel Austin: Here To There

Drawn from Rachel's popular map painting series, this inspiring journal allows writers to record the simple moments of their day-to-day journeys -- from idle thoughts on a Sunday afternoon to memorable milestones that chart the path through life.

Nice, Thick, Lined Journal >>


B Monster

Blueberries For Sal

Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk go the blueberries into the pail of a little girl named Sal who—try as she might—just can't seem to pick as fast as she eats.

This classic is a magical tale of the irrepressible curiosity—not to mention appetite—of youth.

The Award-Winning, Inspirational Children's Book >>


Scout Books

Circles Upon Circles

The Original Scout Book is a pocket-size notebook packed with gusto and filled to the brim with ambition! It features 32 pages with a grid pattern and a sturdy chipboard cover, all charmingly bound with two saddle stitches and rounded corners. A pack of three different styles.

The Original Scout Book >>


Papercutter

Papercutter: Comic Book Anthology

Papercutter #11 is the latest installment in Tugboat Press's award-winning anthology series dedicated to showcasing the best young, underexposed and emerging comic book artists. This issue features a dramatic story written by Amy Adoyzie and illustrated by Jon Sukarangsan.

Amy Adoyzie From The Post-It Diaries >>


How to Be an Explorer of the World

This book helps you "to document and observe the world around you. As if you've never seen it before. Take notes. Collect things you find on your travels. Document findings. Notice patterns. Copy. Trace. Focus on one thing at a time. Record what you are drawn to."

Discover The World A Page At A Time >>


Sympathy for the Record Industry

Come Ride The Santa Worm

Send some crazy holiday cheer this year with two amazing cards from Mark Ryden. Santa Worm and The Creatrix are taken from his original oil paintings and were produced by the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Mark Ryden Classic Holiday Cards >>


Land: Retail Store and Art Gallery

2010 Red Prairie Press Calendar

Enjoy the new year. Each one of Rachel's delightful illustrations tell a different, colorful story, from the cover image of the nine women in a circle of handmade slingshot crossfire, to the bold and colorful images of a bicycle fall.

Rachel Bone's Wonderful Illustrations >>


Red Prairie

You Make Me Hot

The Sherwood Press is a one-woman owned and operated classic letterpress printer. Opened in 1940 by Jocelyn Dohm, it is now run by Jami Heinricher. She's created a new line of cards that have blown us away.

Four Impeccable Letterpress Cards >>


On The Outside Looking In

The need to communicate is innate, these cards help you make it anything but inane.

Styled and hand-sewn, built of sturdy card-stock, this note-card features a stitched spine and blank insides.

Little Who's Sewn Notecards >>


Half-Frame Camera Magic

Our friend Andrew Scott from San Francisco's Needles and Pens has created another great poster-sized wall calendar. He takes shots using his trusty half-frame camera, creating a narrative with his photographic images.

Andrew Scott's Poster Calendar >>


Land

Land Gallery: Trish Grantham

Our retail space and gallery, Land, is now open! Featuring an art gallery upstairs and a selection of our goods in the shop downstairs, we welcome you in Portland. This month we are proud to feature the artwork of Trish Grantham.

On Mississippi Ave >>


Hope you have a wonderful Fall, and enjoy the change in seasons.

We appreciate your support.

Thanks,
-pat, aaron, gail & bennet
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