If you Google the words “medieval cats” a bunch of insane images of seemingly badly drawn cats from the Middle Ages will pop up. These cats will often have human noses, gargoyle paws, Cheshire grins, deranged body shapes and crazy eyes. Initially you might think that artists just weren’t that good back then and […]
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As I’ve gotten older I’ve lost my fire and believe me, that’s a good thing generally. It allows me to have better social skills and not be bothered by someone cutting in line at the grocery store. It helps me to hold my tongue and just move on so I don’t have public experiences of […]
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Remember in 1992 when Sinead O’Connor, at the peak of her fame, went on Saturday Night Live, sang War by Bob Marley and then went on a diatribe about the Catholic Church’s abuse of children and finished by tearing up a photo of the Pope? Then remember how everyone, including people that never even […]
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The bar next door to my shop has motorcycle club events from time to time. It’s not ideal because it means there are a bunch of people smoking pot and cigarettes everywhere and the parking lot gets full of toxic masculinity and motorcycles. This is bad for my business and for my next door neighbor […]
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Makes at least 8 I made these for friends on one of San Francisco’s only hot nights of the year and sat and drank them in my garden and they were delightful. I had them with Herradura tequila and Cointreau but Britt had them virgin and they are delicious and refreshing that way too. I […]
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Ten years ago a skate ramp showed up one day in a foggy part of Half Moon Bay across the street from a popular surf spot. No city officials or local citizens objected to it so it stayed there, becoming a local landmark and destination. Recently, Caltrans notified the town that they were planning on […]
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Welp, it’s Poison Oak season again here in California and I don’t want to name any name, Dotty, but ever since we got her we’ve been getting THE worst outbreaks. Unlike other dogs we’ve had in the past Dotty insists on running into every shrub, bush and tall grass she sees and comes out dripping […]
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So today I visited the girls’ vet that also happens to live in Montara and I told her about the rabbit. She tells me that she keeps hearing about people seeing black floppy eared rabbits around the area. “If a bunch of people are seeing them, then there must be more than one.” She told […]
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So about a month ago I was driving on Hwy 1, about to pull in to the parking lot of a favorite beach, when out of the corner of my eye I saw a large black rabbit sitting peacefully in the dirt a safe distance from the road. I’m not a rabbit expert but […]
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What We’re Watching! I really love snuggling with my girls and watching trash TV or highly intelligent TV, documentaries, comedies, cooking shows, dramas or reality tv. I don’t care what it is, I probably have loved watching it. Here are a few of our favorites right now. Also, I make a really tasty popcorn that […]
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Mother’s Day is not easy for some people. It may bring up grief or stress based on your life experience and personal associations with motherhood and what that means to you. Every Mother’s Day that comes around is hard for me. It makes me feel more alone in the world than any other day. […]
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Years ago, my normally thick, lush hair began to thin in the front. I noticed it one night in the bathroom of a French English private school where I was taking a beginning French class. When I looked in the mirror as I washed my hands the fluorescent lights backlit my hairline revealing hair so […]
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Welp, it’s official. Gun violence is the leading cause of death in American kids under the age of 19. There have been 127 mass shootings in 2023 and it’s only March. We have probably all heard about the Tennessee shooting last week where 3 beautiful kids are gone forever along with 3 upstanding and loving […]
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It’s almost Easter and I just wanted to remind everyone about an 85 year old book about a cute little lady rabbit that smashes all of life’s barriers in order to achieve her dream. If this book were written in today’s backwards world it would probably be immediately banned in Florida for giving other ladies […]
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I always think that when I’m trying a new life choice to just give it a year before I make a final decision about it. I especially think this applies to rescue dogs. Give that dog a year to become itself, detox from various abandonment or abuse, get to know you, get to know […]
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(Disclaimer: I am an artist, not a medical doctor. This is just my personal experience.) Out of the blue, in my mid thirties, I started to get migraines. I have a theory that they started right after we put in some raw particle board down for our floors in our apartment and then did […]
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I started skating when I was about fifteen in the nineties. I fell in love with it right away. I loved the freedom, how loud it was, how all consuming fun it was. I loved that every curb, ledge or ramp became a creative obstacle to invent tricks on. I loved how it was kind […]
Read more »I love crows so much. They are so smart and funny. On windy days up in the hills you can see them in groups playing a complex game of catch with a pine cone, swooping up and waiting for their teammate below to catch up and then dropping it down to them to catch. I’ve […]
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Yaketey Yak Chews 10/10 I grabbed these out of desperation to keep baby Dotty quiet in my shop and they were, are and will forever be her very favorite chewy. They are hardened Yak Cheese which is weird and crazy. Also I thought they might be diarrhea inducing since it’s kind of a dairy product, […]
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The problem with manifestation is that it works best for people that have already been given a head start in life. I don’t even mean a financial head start. I mean a head start of attentive and loving parents, growing up with consistency and stability. These lucky people will casually say things like, “Oh, Mary […]
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It’s my favorite time of year…See’s candy season! I’ve been obsessed with See’s ever since the first time I can remember my dad bringing home an assorted box during Christmas time for each of the six kids to share. Each of us were allowed one piece of candy a night at the end of dinner. […]
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My Voting Guide For SF and California! On Tuesday, November 8th there is an election! Voting is exciting but doing research on confusing and manipulative propositions is not. So I have researched them for you and below are my conclusions. I implore you to just use this as a starting point. Below is how I […]
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The other day Dotty and her big sister ReeRee were playing tug of war with their leashes outside of my shop. Well, to be exact, Dotty, my 9 month old puppy, was tugging on ReeRee’s leash and dragging her around by it until her big sister grabbed onto it and began tugging on it to […]
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Pie Math Welp, it’s the end of summer pie season and I never got around to posting this pie math essay in time for summer fruit season but I am posting it just in time for holiday pie season. I am absolutely not a mathy person but there are a few creative endeavors that I […]
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Has anyone else had a problem finding semi normal jeans lately? Like, I totally get it, I’m a lady in my forties so I guess I’m super uncool now that I just want some jeans with waists that don’t come up to my under boobs. I want pants that don’t make my butt appear three […]
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When I first got Jasmine, she was so physically weak from growing up in the pound that she immediately injured both her knees and seriously injured her back. Then her elbows went because they picked up the extra work of supporting her big body that her messed up knees could not. So for months […]
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It’s tomato season so I thought I’d try making a tomato pie. Does this sound weird? It was really good! It tastes like a mix between pizza and a quiche but there are no eggs in it because like, why not just make a quiche then? Use store bought crust if you want or use […]
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I’m very lucky that my dogs have never been very stressed out about fireworks. Maybe it’s because I’ve always lived in San Francisco’s Mission District where fireworks go off completely randomly for all occasions that aren’t the Fourth like New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, winning soccer matches, Halloween, World Series wins, Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, […]
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What Is The Supreme Court? Established by the US Constitution in 1790, it is the highest court in the United States. It is the top court in the Judicial Branch of the US government. There are presently 9 judges on this court and they make their judgments based on the majority decision. The decisions of […]
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Guns have officially become the number one cause of death to kids in the United States. Wow, USA #1!!!! Or whatever, oh my god. I couldn’t find how many of those deaths were caused by the Ar-15 but I do know that a whole lot of our mass shootings involve this weapon, look at these […]
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I’ve been obsessed with Russian history for years now so I have accumulated a very small book list that I really enjoyed. With everything going on in Ukraine I figured some of you might be interested in some of these too. The Man Without a Face, The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen […]
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San Francisco’s surf beach that runs the width of the city is called Ocean Beach. It is one of the world’s most dangerous waves because of its power, huge winter waves, rip currents, cold water, nearly impossible paddle outs and how far away from shore it breaks. It is surfable from October thru March or […]
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Ten days ago we lost our beautiful Jasmine to a sudden heart attack. The vet said there was no way to know or help her, she just had a gigantic heart. What a metaphor for her, she truly was the most loving and generous girl. Always watching over her sister ReeRee, she was her big […]
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So Putin, the psychopathic weirdo that is the leader of Russia, decided that he just absolutely cannot LIVE without Ukraine. Like, he’ll just absolutely die of heartbreak if he cannot be reunited with his Soviet hostage and have his beautiful boundary-less Russia ooze all over independent Ukraine until it is completely reabsorbed back into the […]
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This morning we left our Mission neighborhood apartment early and ran our dogs out to the beach near Half Moon Bay. We are at the coast pretty much every day since we surf and I work in Pacifica. It’s a huge relief to have an escape from SF life which has gotten pretty messy recently. […]
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Don’t be scared of my untraditional mac & cheese recipe, it’s really good, I swear! The cauliflower lightens it up and gives the sharp cheeses some sweetness and the cumin along with a ton of garlic, red pepper flakes and brown sugar give it some nice complexity that keeps your tongue guessing. This is not […]
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Remember on December 31st, 2019, when we were all like, “Ugh, good riddance 2019, you were the worst!!! Welcome 2020, this year’s gonna be the best!” Me too, lol. So now it’s 2022 (aka 2020 too). Who else is finding themselves to be mentally fatigued for the past couple of years? Same. But this makes […]
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You know when you’re a politics nerd and you watch Senate hearings where senators bring in Mark Zuckerberg or a pharmaceutical executive or a big oil executive and they ask them why they are destroying Earth? Each Senator is allowed the same amount of time to ask questions of the respondent, usually just a couple […]
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For a few years I had a pie cart in San Francisco called Pie Fridays (piefridays.com). I used to bake 50 pies a week for it so I’ve definitely put in my ten thousand hours. The truth is, I hate most pies. The reason why people liked my pies so much was that I made […]
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Welp, it’s spider season and I have four large spiders in my backyard. They each have their own quadrant where they have built gigantic webs stretching inconveniently through my yard’s thoroughfares. One spider has decided that connecting her web between the bouganvillea and the lid of our recycling bin is the perfect place to build […]
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Okay, so I know I’m totally late on this berry cobbler recipe but I just concocted it last week for Britt’s birthday and he really liked it so I wanted to post it before I forgot. Furthermore, Blackberries are at their peak right now so you could still make a beautiful black and blue cobbler […]
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The night before I opened up the doors of my new shop I wasn’t all that nervous. I had some butterflies because I had sort of jumped into having a retail space out of the blue, and I always feel kind of shy and awkward putting myself out into the world but my previous retail […]
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This is one of my grossest posts yet but it’s tick season and I’m sick of having to pull engorged vampire insects off my dogs so I read up on them to figure out how to combat them and I figured I’d pass on everything I learned to you. My first question was, why do […]
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I’ve been working a lot of art festivals the past couple of summers and I keep seeing many versions of this dancing lady. She can be found dancing in the dry grass to the live band or sitting on the hay bails waiting for the live music to begin. She usually has a big hat […]
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On New Year’s Day, my husband Britt and I drove our dogs out to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. We parked next to a guy that was about to go surf the jumbly, stormy waves. Out of the back of his truck he pulled out an orange soft top board. Britt and I exchanged eye rolls. […]
Read more »Last week there was a break in the incessant wind and fog of spring on the coast. The sun came out and the surf calmed down at my favorite beach. It was a Tuesday so the beach was empty. The dogs and I were the only ones that saw the big grey whale surface just […]
Read more »I was waiting at a stop light one afternoon when a big hawk dropped out of the sky in front of my windshield. He snatched a pigeon out of mid air and landed with it on the roof of a car next to me. The light turned green and I drove away still watching the […]
Read more »don’t know if there’s a god and I’m not at all religious but this thing happened to me a couple of years ago that made me a little bit more of a believer. I’m going to preface this story by admitting that, at the time of the incident, I was listening to a lot of […]
Read more »Thank You San Francisco! There’s this weird thing that people in San Francisco do that I think is really condescending, disingenuous and gross but also funny and ridiculous. Instead of taking their old used filthy junk to the dump they pretend like they’re doing everyone a huge favor by offering it to us…for FREE! They […]
Read more »I love See’s Candy. I was a sugar restricted kid that looked forward to the holidays every year so I could get my three pieces of See’s candy from the 2 pound box. (I have a big family). I grew up studying and mapping out the candy box so that none of my precious chocolate […]
Read more »When my first dog Dee Dee was very old and couldn’t walk far, I would take her to the beach every day. She would totter along until she didn’t feel like it anymore. Then we’d sit together for an hour or so in the sand. She’d lift her face to the sun and sniff the […]
Read more »2016 was a weird one. We lost so many rad people. Here’s some portraits of them. Wishing everyone a beautiful and inspiring 2017–no matter what the political climate is, great art and ideas can still be made.
Read more »Well I’m really excited for January because I’m coming out with four 8×10 inch lithograph prints and three 10×14 inch lithograph prints. What’s a lithograph? It’s the same as offset printing. It provides the sharpest, brightest, clearest image possible out of any other printing method. Even the best digital printers can’t duplicate the clarity of […]
Read more »Update!! (Um, okay, I wrote this a few days after the election where I was trying to suck it up and be a good American. But now that Hillary is up by almost 3 million votes I’m like, enough with the Electoral College. Read on if you want but I take it all back.) […]
Read more »Here’s a link to my newest you tube video. It’s a bunch of tips on how to make art with mixed media collage. You don’t have to be artsy at all to make art with my tips. Unfortunately, I’m so terrible at computer stuff that I can’t figure out how to put video up on […]
Read more »Hello! I am working on new greeting cards for spring, including a graduation/congratulations card that I’m really pumped about featuring this victorious squirrel. And then I’ll probably have 3 or 4 new birthday cards too. A couple of the birthday cards I’m working on are exceptionally kooky but I’m going to do them anyway because […]
Read more »Cat Cat Chanel was awesome because she freed women from restrictive corsets and big, heavy dresses. This was important because how can a woman change the world if she’s suffocating and overheating dragging around a giant dress, stuffed into a corset? She was put in an orphanage as a child but built an empire as […]
Read more »I have an email newsletter now! Don’t worry, they’re not boring and I don’t send them out constantly. I’m really having fun with them being funny and interesting too. Each one has a new header and bottomer(???? what’s the right word for that?) that I make especially for the newsletter. These were the images for […]
Read more »Sunde White Industries is now tradeshow and rep free! After a lot of number crunching and careful consideration we have decided to do all our sales in house and to stop doing tradeshows. For the money we spend on one tradeshow my sales partner Andrea and I could visit ten citites! So that’s what we’re […]
Read more »School isn’t right for everybody. Richard Branson has dyslexia so school sucked for him. He dropped out at 16 to start a youth magazine. Then he formed the Virgin Group which consists of over 400 businesses. He’s now a philanthropist that does nutty things like try to fly around the world in a hot air […]
Read more »We have a whole selection of kooky coloring books! Our newest is Costumed Cats, A coloring collection of great cats in history! Color in and read about great cats in history like Napoleon Bonacat, Jackie Robinscat, Harricat Tubman and many more. Color in nature and animals in our coloring book, From the Sea to the […]
Read more »I just finished coloring in a page from our new coloring book, “Costumed Cats, A coloring collection of great cats in history!”. This is Walcat Disney. When he started working on Snow White, the first full length animated feature, everybody predicted his downfall. But he was a visionary and didn’t listen. The film won him […]
Read more »Scientists studied the blood in honey badgers and discovered it was venom resistant. This would explain why the honey badger has no fear about hunting and tearing apart cobras. There are only three other animals on earth that have this immunity. They are the pig, the mongoose and the hedgehog. Read more about this bad […]
Read more »When I was doing the research and drawings for our new coloring book, “Costumed Cats, A coloring collection of great cats in history!” I had no idea that while I was drawing and writing about the heroic life of Harricat Tubman, the powers that be at the US Treasury were planning to put her on […]
Read more »In our coloring book, “Dinosaurs vs. Machines, The earth will tremble.” There are 6 epic battles between dinosaurs and various machines. Who will be victorious??? It’s out now for your coloring pleasure.
Read more »I’ve been so into painting lately so I can get my ideas out quickly and have time to do my Sunde White Industries stuff. After meeting my sister’s chickens, I just think they’re really funny and weird and cool painting subjects. I’ve done two of these Chicken Conversations. www.sundewhiteindustries.com #chickens #chickenart
Read more »When my sister Saill adopted Sir Lancelot Buttercup at her local shelter she didn’t notice the word “Tinkerer” written in Sharpie underneath his name. She just fell in love with his personality. But immediately after he settled in Saill came home to her old radio disassembled and Sir Lancelot batting around the pieces. “Lancelot! You […]
Read more »The professors are now accepting applications for their summer session. They will be offering the following classes: “Pooping Indoors, it’s not just for rainy days.” And, “Commandering the Couch”. Also, “Strategic Napping, More Places, More Often” and finally, they will be offering a new class in cooperation with Whiskers the cat called “Pee Blame, No […]
Read more »Our newest coloring book is coming out in June. It’s top secret until then but here’s a part of the cover. If you like history and you like cats, you’ll love this book!
Read more »Some people’s cats are anti social, closet hiding paranoids. If you visit their houses you will never see their cat. These people claim that their cats are soooo sweet and soooooo fun. “You should see them play with their feather toy!” they exclaim. But the truth is, I will never see them play with their […]
Read more »I have a lot of ideas of I want to get out of my sketch book but I don’t always have a lot of time to do anything other than my greeting cards and coloring books which are much more detailed. But last year I just felt like painting and I’m excited about it because […]
Read more »Can a human please go to Petaluma and visit my sister? At this very moment she is putting together cow shaming signs for each and every one of these cows, especially the black one, Bossy. Feverishly constructing clear, grammatically correct sentences, on cardboard she recycled from a refrigerator box that she scavenged from the behind […]
Read more »When we last left Saill she was rescuing a cat which miraculously turned out to probably be the long, lost brother of her first cat, Maxwell. When I checked in with her last week she was incubating eggs in an incubator she found on line. She thought the chicks had died because it had been […]
Read more »We’re back from Tahoe and Jasmine ( who has inspired quite a few of my cards with her cuteness) is still sleeping this hike off. Her big body and skinny little legs just aren’t a good fit for deep snow. She got up to the top but the hike back down proved too much for […]
Read more »So a couple of nights ago Saill texted me and my other sister Skye (who has rescued many feral cats in Brooklyn) that “Maxwell made a friend!” Uh oh, that’s code for Saill just got another cat. But after a lengthy text discussion between Skye and Saill a heartwarming […]
Read more »Hello! Get an inside look into my coloring book Dinosaurs vs. Machines! Six epic battles are described on each page. The one on the cover is the Spinosaurs battling the Giant Robot. Who will be victorious?
Read more »This is my side project that I work on when I have time. Renaming pitbulls with a portrait. This is my sweet Jasmine Hillary.
Read more »Intro to Saill at the ranch: A few months ago my sister Saill moved from an apartment in San Jose out to a small ranch in Petaluma. Ever since then she’s sent me texts of her doing various kooky, brave, earth saving, macho and ranch like things that have inspired and frightened me. Here are […]
Read more »Just finished this book by Russel Simmons who is super rich, but not just financially. This book focuses on yoga principles like finding patience, generosity and doing what you love to find wealth in all facets of your life. As you can see from this photo you can get it at your local library.
Read more »Our new cards are coming out next week and here’s one of them!! Also, I’m thrilled because we are going to have little notepads too. I’ll post a photo of those next week. PS that’s a french bull dog not a pig.
Read more »This is my favorite Valentine’s/every day card. Give it to a loved one–even if it’s not entirely true.
Read more »I know the snow is nicknamed “Sierra Cement” here but I can’t help it, I love Tahoe! There are no other views like it, standing on top of a mountain with the view of the lake.
Read more »Here’s a couple of our new holiday cards available next year. www.www.sundewhiteindustries.com
Read more »It’s my sister’s birthday month so here is a card in her honor. She speaks fluent spanish and french so she’ll definitely know what it means. Adios Muchachos!
Read more »In honor of October I’ve chosen our Feliz Dia de Los Muertos card. It’s not available yet but will be next spring. This is our second card en espanol. My Feliz Cumpleanos card is hot off the press and will be available for purchase by next week. Espanol es muy bueno!!
Read more »www.www.sundewhiteindustries.com/ Yes, I am one of those people that dresses up my dog…But she has thin fur and cold and rainy weather is hard for her and bows make people think she’s friendly and so do t-shirts….I still seem crazy.
Read more »www.sundewhitindusties.com/blog Hi all you yogis, here’s a card for you. Breathe, believe and receive!
Read more »www.www.sundewhiteindustries.com Hi California! This card’s for you. I know we have our problems but I love this state. Coming soon in card and t-shirt form.
Read more »www.www.sundewhiteindustries.com/ Our Bay Area summer is finally here. Well, it was at the begining of the week. 90 degrees in the city! So of course, for this rare occassion, I gave myself a staycation and canceled all of my responsibilities from Monday to Wednesday and just surfed the whole time. The first spot I surfed […]
Read more »I’d like to welcome an awesome addition to our blog. The Powder Report! Our sponsored rider, Storn White, will be giving us all his back country split boarding(a snowboard that can split into skis to get up the mountain then snow board down) reports. But Sunde, it’s summer time!! I know but you can find […]
Read more »Here is our featured card this week. This has been Britt’s nick name for years because A). He is one and B). He’ll do anything I need when I call him that. Try it yourself ladies!
Read more »Well we’re back from the tradeshow in L.A. after surviving driving through the Central Valley twice with no AC. (See my very first blog post to see why we have no AC.) Thank you to everyone who stopped in and were so positive about our cards. The show was made very fun by our great […]
Read more »It’s still small today but calm, 1-2 feet. As you can see it’s a cruisy longboard day. Linda Mar is the only place it’s breaking , maybe ocean beach but I didn’t check it.
Read more »This is our card of the week because it reminds me of Southern California…Which is where we’ll be for the California GIft Show in L.A. from July 16th-19th! Visit us there at booth #2311.
Read more »Because it’s America’s birthday this is the featured card this week. It’s blank inside and comes with a purple envelope. Happy Birthday U.S.A!!!
Read more »Tennis has a history of amazing women champions and matches that had you on the edge of your seat. Martina Navratalova, Chris Evert, Steffi Graff, Martina Hingis, The Williams Sisters, Henin, Clijsters and Mauresmo–to name a few. The late nineties and early 2000’s was an awesome time for women’s tennis and kind of a boring […]
Read more »Thanks to my amazing website person, Saill,(http://saillwhite.com) our website is ready for retail! Yay! Boxed cards, stationery that folds into envelopes and single cards are all available. I want to come out with some pie love and funky animal/nature/machine t-shirts by the end of the year.
Read more »I have two heros, Roger Federer and Howard Stern. But they’re so different from eachother, you say, what do they have in common to both be your heros? Well, they both inspire me because they are two naturally firey people who have harnessed their powers to become the greatest in their fields. Exucuse me, I […]
Read more »I found this sparrow in my backyard. It had been injured by a cat and was totally freaked out. I put it in a box and brought it to Wild Care in San Rafael. This place is so amazing. They’ll take any injured animal no matter how small or big. People should stop in there […]
Read more »Surf Report for Sunday, June 13th: Photos of Montara, 11:00 am It looks like a weak wind swell with waves crumbly and close together about 2-4 feet. It’s gotten better with the high tide, but I think it will be getting too filled in now as the tide goes up so it would be best […]
Read more »After 6000 miles driven, two snow storms ( one each way!!) in Wyoming, endless bickering after caffeine and sugar crashes, a bored dog feigning intestinal discontent just to get us to stop the car and one breakdown in Iowa, Britt, Dee Dee and I have arrived home safely from The National Stationery Show in New […]
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