{small} shop update

Just listed a few Halloween cards in the shop...more fall goodies to follow...

I've been busy gearing up for a big two day show...the Wellfleet Oyster Festival and getting the kids settled into their first week of school...which went very well! Re-entry into the schedule is always hard after a fun, schedule-less summer, but it's good for all of us to get back into the groove of a routine.

Enjoy your weekend!

Retailer of the Week

Back for another installment of Retailer of the Week.  This time, I'm in my neck of the woods out here on Cape Cod, and I'm featuring Wellfleet Marine, in my neighboring town of Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

My friend Jill runs the gift shop at Wellfleet Marine, but she wears many other hats as well because they have a fish market and boat rentals plus boat repair and dry dock there.  Jill's shop is really fantastic and she pays extreme attention to detail like the above photo which is one of her planters out in front of the store...she actually does stuff like that!  She also buys really great coastal inspired goodies for her shop....things you will not find everywhere.  She has a particular interest in mermaids and pirates.  It's my go-to shop when I need a kids birthday gift or a hostess gift...Jill always has the perfect thing.  Jill has not only been a retailer of mine for 4 years now but she has also become a friend.  

Go check out Wellfleet Marine...in fact, I'm bringing a delivery of new Seaside Designs goodies there this week!  

Wellfleet Marine

25 Holbrook Avenue (at the boatyard)

Wellfleet, MA  02657

508.349.6417

Retailer of the Week

The "Retailer of the Week" will be a weekly feature about one of my retailers that currently carries Seaside Designs products.  Each week through the end of the summer,  I will showcase a different store and let you know a little bit about them.

This week, it's Beach Grass in Kennebunkport, Maine:

Beach Grass is located at 28 Dock Square in beautiful Kennebunkport, Maine.  Proprietor Glenna Turner has been carrying Seaside Designs products for a few years now and is one of my favorite retailers to work with.  She sells a ton of our Seaside Potpourri...thanks Glenna!  From her website:  "At Beach Grass you’ll find home décor and accents inspired by the coast to create your own beach house style of living".  

If you're in the Kennebunkport area, please stop by and see Glenna....you'll be glad you did!

Thank you...

It was so wonderful seeing and meeting so many wonderful retailers, press and creative people during the Boston Gift Show this past weekend.  I appreciate all the kind words and business you gave to me, and I look forward to working with you all continually in the future.  If you are in need of our catalog, please contact me at:  rebecca@seaside-designs.com and I will email you a copy right away! In the meantime...back to work!

Exciting things are on their way...

Were are busy little bees over here in the Seaside Designs Studio!  We are gearing up for the upcoming Boston Gift Show, March 28, 29, 30 & 31 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in beautiful Boston, Massachusetts.  If you are a current retailer of our products or a retailer who is interested, please stop by our beautiful sea-inspired booth #1019 in the Made in New England Section.  And if you can't make it?  No worries, just email us and we'll send you a copy (or an e-copy) of our new 2009 catalog including our full lines of fabulous, locally-made, hand-made products with great prices including:

sea-inspired home accents

seaside home fragrance & soap

coastal cards & seaside stationery

beach jewelry

seaside pillows and totes

We hope to see you there!

Things going on....

Sorry for my lapse in posting...March has officially come in like a Lion!  I hope that the month continues to roar like one...no lambs around here!

I have been gearing up for a couple huge events during this month.  The first on is next Saturday, the 7th.  I am honored to have been invited to participate in A Wedding Affair at Ocean Edge Resort in Brewster, Massachusetts.  The event, produced by the boutique magazine, Well Wed, is guaranteed to be the most beautiful, up-scale wedding event on the Cape all year.  The magazine puts on these signature destination wedding events in beautiful locations like the Cape, the Hampton's, The Finger Lakes Region and Vermont.   Quoted from their website: "The Wedding Affair will introduce you to the products, people & places that create some of the country's most talked about events".

I have been super busy creating all of my new sea-inspired favors and jewelry for this event.  If you are a bride interested in attending, you must purchase tickets in advance and they only sell a limited amount.  Please go to their website for more information about attending.

I'll also be debuting this line as well as all of my other new coastal creations at the upcoming Boston Gift Show, March 28, 28, 30 & 31 at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center.  I'm so excited to show everything that I have been working on to all of the wonderful shop owners in New England.  If you are a retailer attending the show, Seaside Designs will be in booth number 1019 in the Made in new England section.  Don't worry...I'm sending out postcards to all of my past and present retailers with all the info as an extra reminder...I hope to see you there!  

In the meantime, I hope that your March, whether it be a lion or a lamb, is wonderful!

Coastal Living

So, I just wandered over to the Coastal Living website and my Beach Sand Letters are on the home page!  Last year, the decorator for their idea house contacted one of my online affiliates, Coastal Gifts, asking for a set of the letters to decorate the idea house that would be in the magazine last October.  I thought that was the end of my 15 minutes until I popped over to their site today and saw them on the home page!  Click here to see them....they are over there on the left, on the window sill in the laundry room shot.  Who knows how long they will be there, but it certainly made my day!  If you would like a set of your very own, head on over to Coastal Gifts...it's a great site with many other cool coastal gifts.  

Have a great day!

I just put some new cards in the shop for Valentines

 Day...or as I like to call it, ValenTIDES Day!

Go check 'em out in the shop!

oops!

In the designing of my 2009 Seaside Desk Calendar, I accidently left a date off the February page.  Since I print these in-house, I can fix the problem and mail out replacement pages.  If you have purchased a 2009 Seaside Desk Calendar from a store or at one of my shows, please contact me for a free replacement February page.  If you have purchased a calendar from my shop, Seaside Designs  on Etsy, I am sending out replacement February pages to all of you this week.

Seas & Greetings!

Free shipping (US delivery only) at the shop until December 5th!

Free gift with every order until December 5th!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Coastal Christmas Open House

Last weekend at By the Sea Driftwood Company in Orleans, Massachusetts, my good friend Catherine Wissmann and I held our third annual Coastal Christmas Open House.  Catherine, from By The Sea, creates amazing functional driftwood art and furniture.  The combination of her art and my seaside products are a perfect match.
Her quaint studio is behind her home which is restored sea captains house.  I just love this space and it looks so pretty all decorated with our things!
We will be holding our second open house the first weekend in December with more seaside goodies and coastal holiday art and decorations.  Be sure to sign up on our mailing list 

(right over there --->) to get a reminder of the dates and times...or check back here as I'll be posting all that info soon.
I love creating new things for this annual event.  It really lets me explore new ideas and I like the opportunity to get really creative.  Like the sea glass sailboat picture above (next to one of my sea glass taper candle holders).
Or this cute sea glass wreath that I just adore.  I made a few of these in other color scapes...blues, greens, whites.  The above is the aqua version.  (PS:  I'll be adding these and some other new holiday goodies to the shop within the next few days!)
A little forest of seaside trees.  What a great way to decorate a seaside home for the holidays!
Some new sea glass jewelry.  These drops are about 4" long and hang from a silver neckwire.
A sea shell windchime....this really sounds pretty clanking together in the breeze.

Thanks again Catherine for the fun weekend and for the opportunity to sell at your beautiful studio.  I'm really looking forward to the December one!

Upcoming events

The autumn and the Holiday seasons are full of fun craft shows, markets and festivals, and I just wanted to let you all know of a few that Seaside Designs will be exhibiting at.  

October 18 & 19 Wellfleet Oyster Festival.  This festival is always so much fun.  There's loads of yummy seafood and lots of amazing art from local artisans.  Check it out if you're on the Cape or even if you're not...it's totally worth it!

Coastal Christmas Open House 2007

Then it's our annual Coastal Christmas Open house over at By the Sea Driftwood Company with my dear friend Catherine.  She makes amazing driftwood and found beach treasure art and furniture.  We are doing two weekends this year, November 14th, 15th & 16th and then again December 5th, 6th & 7th.   Our products work so well together and her shop is really like a little sea cottage so the ambiance is perfect.  I'll post more info, hours, etc. soon.  If you would like us to send you an email invitation or snail mail invite, please sign up on our mailing list over on the Seaside Designs website.

What day is it?

Since August is already here and poised to fly by just like June and July did, I thought it's never too early to start thinking about 2009.   So, here you go... my new 2009 Seaside Desk Calendar!

12 pages of seaside style including a pink shrimp (Ms. May) and of course, a red lobster (Mr. December).  

Printed on pure white, heavy weight card stock, my Seaside Desk Calendar comes packaged in a clear jewel case that doubles as a display stand.  Go check out the shop for one for your very own!

Twice in one day

Again on the front page of Etsy!!  I've been a member there for about a year and never a front page until today...twice!!  Do I hear three?  Thanks uncorked for including my limpet earrings in your beautiful treasury!

Etsy front page

What a great way to start the day....my Beach Sand Votive Holders on the front page of Etsy!   (It's really a big deal for those of you who don't know!)  Thank you marieflyfly!  Hope you have a wonderful day too!

Hello friends...

Ship happens. Yup. Sorry for the long absence. Summer has begun and my life is going in twenty thousand different directions at all times, all hours of every day. This, this and this have been keeping me busy and away from blogging as much as I'd like. So, I thought I'd do a little re-entry post profiling some of my new cards that will all be available in the shop.  My hand-glittered cards are all made on 30% PCW (that's my fancy stationers lingo for Post Consumer Waste) recycled paper and with 30% PCW envelopes too. I'm trying to keep things green around here, like this little jelly on this card:

Here's another favorite....perfect for all the graduations going on this time of year:

And for all my friends and family. I cannot do any of what I do on a daily basis without all of you.

In other news....my BABY turned SEVEN on Friday!!!  We celebrated her special day with a pool party with family and a trip to Build-A-Bear Workshop.  And of course, today is Father's Day.  My husband is one of the hardest working people I know and he really deserved something super special on this day, so the girls and I got him this.  He's been playing with it all day.  I'm so happy to get him something he really wanted...he deserves it!!

Oh, and by the way, remember this post?  Well, season 4 starts tomorrow on Showime...tune in and if my products made the cut and are indeed "dressing" the set of Weeds and if you happen to catch a glimpse, leave a comment and I'll send along a sweet little goodie straight from Ole Cape Cod for the first person to say they saw something!

Have a great week everyone and I'll write soon....promise!

incommunicado

I have an excuse....

I've been so busy helping get the restaurant open and fill many Memorial Day Weekend orders for Seaside Designs that I literally have not had a second to catch up.  We opened the doors to the restaurant yesterday at noon to a great response.  This is our seventh (!) season open.  We have grown in leaps and bounds since that first Memorial Day Weekend....we actually know what we are doing now!  If you are in the area between now and Columbus Day Weekend, stop by and have a bite or sign up for one of our Lobstering excursions.  Cape Cod Life Magazine just voted us the gold award for "Best Kids Activity on the Outer Cape" as well as the silver award for "Best Restaurant Reachable by Boat".   very cool.  

Got Oysters?

Just got word that we got accepted into the Wellfleet Oyster Festival craft fair!  It's a really big event in our area that draws tons of people to the Cape in late October.  Over the course of the weekend there are road races, tons of fresh seafood to eat, great beer to drink, great crafts from local artisans and of course, the oyster shuck off!  Come and visit our booth October 18th & 19th in Wellfleet center....we'll have lots of great stuff for early holiday shopping.  We will have more, local retail events listed soon so please check back!

Catalog

It's here!  The new catalog:This is just the front page of it, but I'm very proud of how it came out.  I designed the catalog in iwork with Pages.  What a great program if you have a Mac.  It's very easy to use and it integrates well with iphoto and iweb.  I love the results, so idone!

If you are a retailer interested in the Seaside Designs Line, please contact me to receive our new 2008 catalog.  For retail customers, please see our Etsy shop for some one-of-a-kind goodies as well as some of the new products.

New seaside goodies

Ok, sorry...so it's been a while, but I'm back!  And with treats!!

The catalog is (finally!) done, my cruddy illness is gone, the sun is shining, and life is once again good!  As are these fabulous new rings now available in the shop:

They are just so neat!  They are actually plastic, if you can believe it, printed with some of our own designs and then heated and shaped into a perfect ring.  

Yikes...get this girl some lotion!!  

Anyway, if you are a retailer out there interested in my lines of seaside goodness, just give me a shout....I'll mail you (or save a tree and I'll email you) a copy of the new catalog in a jiffy!