As usual I’m falling waaay behind in posting news updates to the site. One of these days I’ll have time to do everything… yeah right. Anyhow, while I have this second, we here at lello would like to give a big thanks Jessica at funkyfinds.blogspot.com for featuring our pink butterfly shirt! If you haven’t checked out Funky Finds, it’s a great resource for anyone looking for unique gifts and/or artistic inspiration.
Just want to give a quick shout-out to Cuteable.com for highlighting our yellow zebra shirt this week. Thanks!
Thanks as well to everyone who has dropped us a note of encouragement, or to let us know that you’re a fan of our work. It really does mean a lot, and we love hearing from you!
Another note of thanks to MamaSpeaks.com for featuring lello on its blog this weekend as well, and welcome to all of the moms and first-time visitors to our site! It’s a bit humbling to see our tees profiled on the sites we’ve been visiting to learn about other products for a while now, and we hope you’re not disappointed. If you have any feedback, be sure to send it our way!
A big note of thanks to Etsyprofiles.blogspot.com for featuring lello on its homepage this weekend. Check out the blog to see our profile, and while you’re there, stick around to learn about other cool etsy sellers who are surely working as hard as we are to carve out their own little place on the web.
Tomorrow is the big day… lello’s debut at the Mayfest street festival! We joke that someone must’ve slipped a contract into the big stack of papers we signed the day we closed on our house in Maplewood four years ago, obliging us to have a child as our first matter of business. There have been at least a dozen kids born on our little block since then, and when we look out our bedroom window these days and see everyone playing ball in the street or selling pink lemonade on their front lawns, it feels like we’ve struck gold to have found that small-town closeness that we almost thought didn’t exist anymore.
Fortunately, the town is also very welcoming of home-grown businesses. Our neighborhood toy store, the funky little coffee shop, the bead shop and the knitknack yarn store… they’re all locally owned and operated, and people are proud to shop there and show their support for the community. To foster that home-town pride and get our business name out there, Mike designed his first Maplewood t-shirt for kids. We had no idea how many to print up, so it’s possible that either Jackson and Sadie will be wearing them until they graduate, or we’ll have to apologize to everyone at Mayfest for selling out so quickly. Let’s hope it’s the latter… there are certainly worse problems to have your first day in business!
Here’s a pic of our friend Jordan modeling the shirt for everyone.
If you can’t make it to the Mayfest and you’re interested in purchasing a shirt, shoot us an email.
