Getting press is exciting but “getting” press is fun. Thinking of places that might like linen cocktail napkins and guest towels (fun), contacting people you don’t know who have interesting jobs (fun), and hearing back from them (super fun), seeing your items in a magazine (thrilling), hearing from perfect strangers that they like your stuff (rewarding).

I love the internet because it is a dream come true, really; since i was young I wished I had a library in my home and didn’t have to go out to the library..how amazing that it happened! Speaking of not going out…I love not going out…I could live in a cave (a very chi-chi cave) but I think things are about to change. I’m moving in 2 weeks to Durham, N. Carolina after 30 years in California so Butterfly will be going on vacation from July 14th-July 31st while I dig my way out of boxes.  It already seems like a place where neighbors see neighbors, where you mix and mingle, where opportunity to connect lays down right in front of you and you’d be a fool not to be open to it.

Also, beginning to work on a couple of new linen items: placemats and table runners. When I have samples they’ll go up here. If you need either of those it would motivate me to get those projects going and I’d give you a reduced price in gratitude.

Eric and I had a fun art smackdown yesterday. We wanted to come up with guest towels to coordinate with the Indian Flower cocktail napkins so we took an hour to come up with sketches. He won; we used 4 of his designs and 2 of mine. Eric goes off to grad school at The Art Institute of Chicago when I go off to Durham. I don’t know how I’m going to get along without him.

Indian Flower Cocktail Napkins and coordinating Guest Towels

That’s all she wrote.

Eric is everything I’m not: male, young, tall, and ok… thin. It follows that his designs are almost the complete opposite of mine, but I love them just the same. We’re going to start printing some of his stuff to run parallel to mine, or maybe to crash into it and explode. Either way, it’s Eric’s World and I’m just pleased to visit.

(Pay no mind to the chaos behind us, it’s just another day at the office!)

Here’s some of Eric’s work, which should show up in the (almost fully re-designed!) store tomorrow.

ABOVE: “California Dryin’” Guest Towels
BELOW: “Yours / Mine / His / Hers / Whose? / Booze!” Napkin Set

Here’s a look at a design that’s going to be featured on the latest line of Butterfly guest towels. This also marks my first blog post in a very long time, but you can count on a marked increase in activity here in Butterfly country over the remainder of the year.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!