Crystal Madrilejos

Tonight I’m putting together little mailing kits that will go out with each purchase. We have been wanting to do this for awhile, but lack of time had been holding us back. Now we have yes, have some. postcards and stickers. I’d like to eventually have them printed up nicely on a nice printer, or even get them done somewhere if funds permit. But for the time being we’re settling on printing things from our inkjet, which seems to work pretty well. It would be nice if we could silkscreen them, but screenprinting in our apartment has become somewhat contentious. The frustrations seem to run too high whenever we try to screenprint these days and it doesn’t seem worth the bad vibes. Hopefully, we’ll be able to get back to it…someday.

I have to get to cutting stickers, but tomorrow I plan on posting about a zine that I had been working on for the past couple months. I realized the other day that I had never even mentioned it, and I have no idea why!! It put out by Olive Juice Music and I’m very happy with how it turned out. So tomorrow!

Fondly,
Crystal

Also, I added more links to our “Friends” section, which is now called “Friends, Websites, and Blogs We Love”. There are so many sites that I visit everyday that are very inspiring, so I figured I should share them so they can continue to inspire other people as well.

The official date of the release of the yes, have some – Toby Goodshank line of goods has been set. We will be selling the things starting November 5th through our etsy shop which you can go to through either the link in the sidebar to the right, or directly through yeshavesome.etsy.com here is the announcement if anyone wants to post it anywhere, feel free. We are so excited about this project and looking forward to doing many more collaborations in the future. Enjoy!

Fondly,
Crystal

1. Another Lil’ Johnny Muttoncakes is almost complete. I just have to close him up and he’s good to go. I’ve been wanting to silkscreen the tags, but our printing process of late seems to be one obstacle after another. We’ve been having a helluva time getting the screens clean after printing, which I keep hearing is a pretty common problem. Andrew is almost to the point of throwing his hands up with the whole thing!

2. We had our little meeting at Exit9. The buyers weren’t there but one of the owners looked at our stuff to get a feel for what we do. She seemed very optimistic about things, so we’re going to forge ahead with our stuff and just keep trying to improve things until our next meeting after Labor Day. I’ve been working on new straps for some of our tote bags which I’ll post pictures of soon.

Have a great weekend!

Fondly,
Crystal

Dart Coat Hooks (Original design by Anthony Chrisp)

Mushroom Kitchen Timer

Vestal Dolby Watch

Sharan Camera

Yoshitomo Nara Postcards

Fondly,
Crystal

Here are the images I wasn’t able to post the other day. These are our in process images of the 2nd run of Toby prints. The set up isn’t ideal, but it’s a million times better than what we had before.

I spoke to Toby today and hopefully this weekend we’ll have all the prints done and ready for signing.

These are the two completed Mandor dolls complete with summer shorts. These proved to be a lot more difficult than I thought they were going to be, but I made it through and I think they turned out pretty good considering I know nothing about sewing.

And lastly, this is a bunny that has been in the works for a little while. I just could never get around to close him up. I followed a pattern out of a Japanese craft book. Japanese craft books have some of the most amazing things, unfortunately they are in Japanese and I can’t read a lick of it. I stumble my way through and maybe that’s why his head looks like he’s looking up to the sky, which it’s not supposed to do. It’s charming in it’s own confused sort of way. The little knit ram next to him was a present I got for Andrew while I was in France. To the very far right, getting cut out of the picture, is a the prototype for Little Johnny Muttoncakes. The next in line for the Toby Goodshank stuffed dolls.

Anyway, Etsy stuff is selling. A little slower than I had expected, but a few items have gone since we last updated. The nested bowls were sold to a very lovely lady in Texas. She said they were very special to her and she was so happy when she received them. As for our own stuff, Andrew made another duffel. After much cursing and sweating, I made a little lined zipper pouch.

One Mandor is done, but i’m not really happy with him. His arms came out too skinny and he looks generally, rough! I sewed most of that one on the machine, but it’s really hard to control when you’re working with such small pieces. I don’t know why I was avoiding hand sewing like the plague, but the one i’m workin on now has been mostly hand sewn. Now i’m also realizing that I probably should be using different material. Back to square one, dang.

Andrew started making these bracelet thingies too. I’ll post pictures when I get a chance.

Fondly,
Crystal

As for the Toby Goodshank line. Dang, it’s taking long. But here is a sneak peek of one of the bags that will be sold in the Toby Goodshank line, if you weren’t already stoked enough:

the fabric pattern was designed and drawn by Toby and we silkscreened the fabric. also, the bag itself was designed and sewn here at yes, have some. I know I keep saying this, but keep your eyes out for these. I promise, the wait will be well worth it.

Fondly,
Crystal