At long last, a 2nd edition of the oh-so-popular Good Together Stacking Vessels are being released, just in time for Valentines Day. On Friday, January 20th at 10 AM PST, we will be listing 25 sets for sale right here that will ship by February 6th for holiday giving to the ones you love most.

But there’s even more good news! If you happen to miss your chance to purchase these cups on Friday, never fear. Shanna and I have decided to release this item (and the equally smile-inducing Optimist Tumbler) as an open edition, with NO CAP on the quantity available, beginning February 20th. We are moving studios at then end of the month and just need a few weeks to get settled before we open the floodgates. Never again will the feeling of missing out on these pieces befall anyone again!

And if that weren’t enough, I’m pleased to let everyone know that we are also working on a permanent holiday line for next Christmas season.

Our second limited-edition holiday collaboration is with our dear friend Shanna Murray. It’s a rare occurrence for me to find someone exactly on my wavelength, which makes working with Shanna so natural and easy, I wish we worked together all the time! Our project last year was such a hit that we of course had to come back together for round two, and  are now discussing something more long-term and permanently available (hopefully music to the ears of those of you on our good together waitlist) for next year.

We launched these last weekend at the Sunday Best sale, and this coming weekend I will have them at my booth at the Portland Bazaar (hope to see you there!). Any remaining stock will be listed on my website for sale on Monday morning (Dec 12) 10 am PST for those far flung from Portland with nimble fingers. They will ship out right away in time for holiday delivery. Stock is limited, so apologies but we cannot hold any for you (in the interest of fairness).

Here’s a quick peek at the new edition of holiday candles we do annually with Luminology. They were a hit a Sunday Best and we’ll have the remaining stock at the Portland Bazaar next weekend for sale. They make great gifts! Anything leftover from that event will come to an internet near you (ie our webshop) for purchase, just in time for the holiday season.

I’m working on a full recap of the show as a first-time exhibitor, but until that’s finished I wanted to share our booth (sadly, I only brought my iPhone, so for better photos of the booth please check out Nole’s great recap of the show).

I laid everything out in illustrator to scale as I was planning (highly recommended for first-timers and those that can’t possible do a mock-up in person) to make install a quick and easy process (in all, it took about 9 hours from start to finish with two people). Our booth was 60 square feet. Click to enlarge:

First we painted the hardwalls a dark blue black (Behr’s ‘Sled‘ in a matte finish) for a dramatic contrast with the porcelain, and added our logo in a pearl white vinyl. Yes, we were conveniently (and often, irritatingly) located adjacent to the women’s restroom.

The shelves were custom-made for us. The brackets are wide strips of bent steel with a square end cap to hold the wood in place, the wood is simple planks of fir that fit snugly into the top of the bracket, held in place by gravity (so no screws to damage the surface, plus it breaks down compactly for shipping). The stools are from overstock.com and surprisingly great for the price.

To suspend our hanging pieces we chose 1/2″  black plumbing pipe in two depths. It keeps with the industrial aesthetic of the booth, is inexpensive, and breaks down flat with a simple twist. We bought some basic s-hooks from Ikea used to hang pots and pans to attach all the pieces. For writing orders we purchased a white lacquer tripod table from West Elm to echo the white of the vinyl in the foreground. Plus, it ships flat-packed, which was crucial for shipping freight cross-country.

At this point, we were mostly just unwrapping, styling, pricing and positioning lights for maximum effect. We had several metal risers also custom made for us to add variety to the shelving display. The test tubes mounted on the wall also ended up with sunflowers I purchased from the Union Square market.

We brought along the chevron pixel storage basket from our SS 2011 textile line for hiding our extra marketing materials. We also suspended our string lights along the top of the booth (one of the more challenging aspects to plan with the booth sight-unseen), and made glaze color tiles out of our facet drawer pull shapes, which were the surprise hit of the show.

Here’s the final booth during the show with the lovely Elspeth holding down the fort. We had a video about our process made prior to attending that played on a loop on my ipad throughout.

More soon…