Vacation Time

It's time to give myself a bit of vacation time. We've got places to go and people to see :) The shop will remain open but orders will take a few extra days to ship so....if you enter the coupon code: VACATION your order will ship for free. I'll see you back here at some point during the 2nd week of June. Now for some kite flyin', pool dippin', ice cream eatin' fun!

Sushipot Vintage Moving Sale

Packing is in full swing as we'll be moving in just about three weeks. I've decided it would be nice to move with less inventory so we're having a BIG Sushipot Vintage moving sale!

Sushipot Vintage Moving Sale

40% off entire shop

May 27th to ?? (sale will end without notice)

Thank you Lizzie for the chalkboard sign ;)

Random Patterns

Popping in late this afternoon to share some random patterns off my iPhone. These were all taken with Instagram--a super fun photo sharing application. If you've got an iPhone I'd love you to join up and be my Instagram friend! You can find me under the user name of 'sushipot' (what else?!). Oh...and the little round thingy's below are envelope seals made from old ephemera and are new in the shop this week.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

A Shamrock House by Lizzie Scott, age 6

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.

~Irish Blessing

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you and yours with love from me and mine!

Resolutions Report

The Sun by Lizzie Scott, chalk on chalkboard

Thought I'd give you a resolutions report even though I suppose it's more for my benefit to do this 'cuz once again--it keeps my butt on track. I promise not to do this every month of the year!
Here goes:

1. Make a Kiva loan to a fellow artisan on the first day of every month for 12 months. I now have 2 loans under my belt and am HAPPY to report that some of you have jumped on board with this too. Yay! Thank you for joining me--ya'll know who you are!
2. Get Sushipot more involved via social media. Been tweeting 'n twittering all month long and have built up a group of followers, 130 members and growing! Thanks guys! Also, a Facebook fan page has been established this month. If you do the Facebook thing come be my friend! And...I discovered Instagram a few days ago. Ton of fun for photo sharing via these above mentioned outlets.
3. Do my very best to use this every day. Last but not least, this personal goal of mine has had its stops and starts throughout the month. There was a bit of a debate as to where it would get the most use and I finally plopped it in the dining room (for the winter months at least)! Talk about a visual reminder when I'm stuffing my face. Ha!

So there you have it, my resolutions report after month one. I'd love to hear how your resolutions are coming along (or not!) if you wanna share.

Old School Chalkboard

We installed a "new-to-us" old school chalkboard in our dining room tonight. Lizzie christened it with a drawing of Molly the horse eating hay and a note saying "don't forget lunch" to Patrick who tends to forget to bring his lunch to school some days. I don't think he'll forget the left over fried chicken tomorrow!