Messenger bags are listed

Okay, I admit I didn't quite realise that there would be THIS much enthusiasm. It's brilliant - thank-you. So we won't wait, we have listed them. We will initially (mid this coming week) have about three of each colour, which hopefully will be enough for immediate orders. If we do have to make your bag to order (which might be true of some image/canvas combinations we don't expect) then there will be a two-week wait. But I doubt this will apply to many.http://baba-store.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=MRPASS&Category_Code=MessengersAs thanks for all the support on this very long project (I think we began planning these bags last April?) here is a coupon:MBAG001It will give you 10% off any of the messenger bags (only the messengers) from now until March 1st. You can use it more than once. Just type it in when you are prompted at checkout and bingo, 10% discount!Don't tell Alex, who thinks these are absurdly cheap as the print is HUGE and takes a lot of care and skill (we throw away about one in three). Well, anyway, it's my celebration for these finally becoming reality.Okay, I will keep refining the listings to show as much detail as possible, but basically I think everyone here knows these messengers pretty inside-out.Oh - one oddity. In a burst of something or other I decided to use a black zip under the flap of the taupe bags (the idea was to match the smart black lining, I do wonder if I was a bit raving or something). Anyway, it's quite nice in a slightly strange way - and as it's under the flap you won't see it in any case. But I thought I'd mention it.

Okay, messengers will be available soon on our current shop

I've decided not to try to do our shiny new messenger bags at the same time as our shiny new shop. My brain and adrenalin levels won't stand it (I am very excited about both). The shop is now in testing mode and this will take a while. I always forget that thoroughly testing something like this takes TIME and I realise that rushing it isn't sensible. Do I sound like I've just been talking to our new techie guy? Oh yes, you guessed it. Well, he's right. (small sigh) The messengers however ARE thoroughly tested - by me. I've carried mine every day for months now, and Banzai has also tested its dual-purpose cat-bed application and tells me it's most comfortable. So, a little bit of spit and polish on our current shop and I'll get the bags listed asap. It's amazing how long I sometimes take to reach a very obvious conclusion. Don't laugh!

john.he.is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gwqEneBKUs
This is hysterical - literally. I mean, was he serious - a hundred years?!

Countdown to the messenger bags

Edited to add: Now on the shop - see post above for a spiffy money-off coupon until 1st March: http://baba-store.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=MRPASS&Category_Code=Messengers _________________ Well, okay, I am over-dramatising, but they are nearly all printed now so we should have the first 20-30 next week, a few in each print I hope. They will all be available in black cotton canvas or a dark taupe (I chose the darkest we could find that is a taupe, NOT a brown or khaki - so that it gives a feeling of lightness but won't get dirty too easily). I've been asked to put the whole current selection up here, so - apart from the Gothic bags which are just below - here goes. I've put the ones previously posted under a cut, so you don't have to look at them twice if you've already seen them. By the way, the fairy and Alice ones are based on our own antique books, not on copyright-free CDs. We did try those but the quality was awful in a picture this large, so yes, we buy original (around 1900-1910) books, scan them and clean up the pictures - it gives far, far more detail and sharpness. The popular "Cakes" - we hope to do this in a second version soon. - also available in black but I won't post it. A couple based on prints of our vintage/antique fabrics - we love how these are turning out and aim to do more as we have a great collection now:

Bohemian Gothic - exit the Silver edition, enter the messenger bags...

Well, unbelievably enough the Silver edition is now sold out - and out of print. Hard to believe. If you are desperate for one there may in fact be three or four left. Basically there are eighteen in the studio, but there are also lots of orders not yet packed, so we think we'd better do that first and see if there's anything over. I think there will be, but very, very few and I don't want to put them on the shop in case I'm wrong and someone ends up pissed off because they think they have bought one and there's nothing to send them. However. We have now got the messenger flapsies done and printed (I have to stop calling them "the flapsies" it's a bad habit and shows no inherent fashion-speak sophistication). I LOVE them and have decided I want all four. Alex feels I can limit myself to one. Ah, 'twas ever thus. Why can't men grasp the fact that it's necessary to have a LOT of bags? I have to go to the UK next week and it will be difficult (family stuff, urk). Would it be too provocative to carry the Strength messenger? Or would it get me stopped at the airport as suspicious? I think I may just do it and find out.

Oh God No

This place is just round the corner from the studio. When Alex first pointed out the signs and construction work I felt it was the beginning of the end. I did go in when it opened, just to see if it was really, really real. It was. I walked out again without buying. What with this, a HUGE new shiny shiny shopping centre (I'll post on that when I can bring myself to) and the whole place starting to be awash with chain stores I do wonder if we should move out of the centre. Read this post (from a new Prague food review blog) if you don't mind being vaguely depressed: http://praguespoon.blogspot.com/2008/01/prague-opens-its-first-starbucks-but.html

Another Saturday, another procession

These are from this Saturday morning. I heard the sounds of music and drums and ran out of the door - phone camera in hand (sorry, the photos aren't great quality) - to find that once again people were out and partying. Amusingly I ran into our former neighbour dressed as a fairy. As she is bad-tempered, rude, short, stocky, and generally rather nasty, this struck me as very amusing. Oh well, maybe in her inner self eh?: