Never Cry Wolf

Happy New Year Wolfies!

First resolution of the year is to update our blog and make it more active this year. Sometimes we get so busy this blog gets neglected but we will change that..starting now! Let’s just recap the last few months in a (somewhat) organized fashion:

One of A Kind Christmas Show (Nov 24-Dec 04, 2011)

This was our first time doing the entire OOAK Christmas show, and it was great! The set-up of our booth actually took the longest it has EVER taken us (2 days, 5 hours per day). During set-up we always like to goof around a little. This was our home for the next 11 days. We also entered the Coffee Cup competition that they have for vendors every year. You can see our rendition of a coffee cup made out of materials that we use – ripped up misprinted t’s and ink. The show turned out to be a lot of fun (we didn’t expect anything less). Please see our pictures below, and check out lots more pictures from the show in our facebook gallery!

As a side note, we have such awesome fans/friends. Many of them came to visit and we got a few little treats like, gift card to starbucks from the sweetest Humber crew, homemade muffins made by Maxine, chocolate and hand crocheted ornaments by Atomic Ami Gals, handmade christmas tree earrings by Christina, and Pies from Steph! <3 Thank you so much!!

Feel free to connect with us on our facebook or twitter accounts. We are real people, and we like to interact!

The week after the OOAK we went to City of Craft. This was definitely going to be a handmade holiday. We treated ourselves to a couple of Julie Moon Skulls, which we have coveted for so long. Sorry, I was trying for hours to separate the gallery into 2 parts, but it won’t go, so the pictures are all together. They have captions and descriptions though

The rest of the year was dedicated to keeping busy with holiday sales (best time of year!) and having fun. We had a very successful 2011, and hope that 2012 will be even better! We are so happy and grateful to everyone who we have met throughout the year, new friends and old. Crywolf is a big party bus, and everyone should hop on!

As for January, it has been the first sign of OLD MAN WINTER! and it’s minus 14 degrees (Celsius) today. Stay warm this winter with $10 bucks off all zip-up hoodies

10 bucks off all zip-ups for the month of january

<3 Rose & Steph

Oh man! Did we ever have some awesome costume entries again this year! It was a really really really tough pick but we have narrowed it down to a 1st and 2nd place winner and a 3-way tie for 3rd.

FIRST PLACE: Brittney Neyrinck with her submission Why You Never Cry Wolf

Brittney wins our Halloween prize pack! Congrats! We love how she went all out not only with the costumes but staging everything with the props. PROPS TO HER!

SECOND PLACE: Alesia Tini as our Zombie Cat!

So cute! She got the makeup spot on and even the pose, with the tongue. Alesia wins a Zombie Cat tee or tank!

And tied for third are our 3 remaining entries because they were just too good:

Eli in her cute/punk/boy get-up, incorporating her Calavera flashdance into her costume.

Caroline the magical Elehaircrywolfephant!

And last but not least, Kat Simas with her pup dressed as Pup in a Unicorn which is a mash-up of our Pup in a Cup and Unicorn Chloe designs!

These 3rd place winners will all receive a special *new* product that hasn’t been released yet! We’ll reveal it when they come in.

Honorable mention:

Milo and his jockey. Wasn’t exactly Crywolf related but A for effort! It was so cute that we had to post it anyway. A note from Terrilyn: “oops, just realized its supposed to be crywolf … so in the most abstract way, his costume is related in the sense that he is a canine and so are wolves & at this point of taking the picture he was crying for attention from surrounding unionville-mainstreet-ers”

Thanks to everyone who entered!!! We loved the creativity and can’t wait to do it all over again next year. Congrats to all you winners! xoxox

You may remember a while back we posted a blog about some flash games that some students from our old high school, St Robert’s, had whipped up. Well, our old computers teacher, Mr. Keenan, has sent us two more and they are AMAZING! They are the two best of the final programs that used our characters. You can tell that they took a lot of time to make. Check them out:

Hero of the Crywolfs by Kenneth

AND

Shark Defender by Christopher

Aren’t they so well-executed and actually challenging? I had to play them a few times to win.

Last time we chose a winner and these two are so awesome that we need your help again. Let us know which one is YOUR favourite by voting on the poll on our facebook fan page. The student with the most votes will win a lil somethin-somethin! They worked so hard so please take a second of your time to cast a vote! The more votes, the better. Poll will close tomorrow – Friday, October 14th @ midnight.

g33ks run the w0rld.

xoxox

Our favourite time of year is once again approaching swiftly – Halloween! You may remember that last year we put on our first ever Halloween contest. If you don’t remember, you can last year’s finalists in this blog post.

The contest is really easy: COME UP WITH YOUR BEST CRYWOLF COSTUME!

Lots of characters to choose from: Wolfe, Chloe, Zombie Bunny, Hipster Werewolf, Matryoshka, Ninja Panda etc etc etc! The costume doesn’t even have to be a character, feel free to come up with something totally unique (but Crywolf related)! The most unique, fun, and well-excecuted costume will win an amazing Halloween Prize Pack!

Prize pack includes: 1 Calavera Zipup hoodie ($60 value, in womens and mens sizes) AND your choice of either: 1 Zombie Cat Tshirt ($28 value, in womens and mens sizes) OR 1 Zombie Cat Tank ($25 value)

You have plenty of time to start brainstorming and crafting! We will be accepting submissions until midnight on Nov 1st. Winner will be announced on November 2nd!

TO SUBMIT: Go to our Facebook Fan Page and upload your photo to the page with the caption: HALLOWEEN CONTEST SUBMISSION.

Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
May the best Wolfie win.
xoxox

Just yesterday we took a trip downtown in the afternoon to drop off a bunch of shirts at one of our very first retailers Drysdale & Co.

We have been running the biz coming up on our 3rd year anniversary this September. We have known Susan Drysdale for a good 2.5 of those years! That’s because she was the first retailer in Toronto to carry our Crywolf shirts!

Located on the Danforth right at the corner of Broadview (just over the bridge, beside the highway entrance) Drysdale & Co. is full of fun, unique, and quirky things!

Here are a couple of photos of the store:

This weekend is the annual Taste of the Danforth event Aug 5-7th. We dropped off a lot of our limited edition pieces that we no longer have for sale and they are all going at $20 a pop, so be sure to check it out for some unique finds!

Even if you can’t make it this weekend, stop by and have a looksie, we’re sure you will be happily surprised!

One thing that we’ve wanted to do for a while, (but have managed to procrastinate on for quite some time) had been to post a feature about each of our retailers whom we adore, love, and thank for their support.

This round we will be featuring our newest retailer Bicyclette Boutique located in the west side of downtown Toronto at 880 Queen St. West (near Trinity Bellwoods).

Bicyclette Storefront

We took these photos the last time we went to make a drop-off earlier this summer. The store was so pretty and lovely to photograph.

They are carrying a wide selection of our tanks, as well as many other lovely brands, so if you want to take a look, stop by the shop and we’re sure you won’t leave empty handed!

We are happy to announce the 3 winners of our Bümbastic People’s Choice Contest!

1st place – a $150 gift certificate to Aboveground Art Supplies goes to………… the awesome boys over at Pause Designs!!!! Congrats dudes!

Here are their customized Bü’s:

"Morley's First Büzz Cut"

2nd place – a $100 gift certificate to Aboveground Art Supplies goes to………… the very talented Brian Donnelly! Woo!

Here is Brian’s customized Bü:

"Dentaa-Daa!"

And last but certainly not least, 2nd place – a $50 gift certificate to Aboveground Art Supplies goes to………… the lovely Gosia.

Here is her customized Bü:

"Büsia and a baby tree"

Congrats!!! We’re so proud of all you winners! Honorable mention for those close in the running: Daniel Innes in 4th place and Jessica Fortner in 5th.

The people have spoken! This contest was all in good fun and we thank everyone who took the time to vote. The contest is obviously closed but you can still check out ALL 19 artist’s involved in Bü Project and their Bü’s HERE.

xoxox

Firstly, our sincere apologies for the hiatus on the blog front. It has been a wee little while since we last blogged and so much we have wanted to blog about!  There have been many many things happening in the world of Crywolf (namely planning the launch of our upcoming vinyl toy – Bü, which we will blog about next time). We’ve had almost no time to even make sure we are still breathing (but I think we are because we’re still alive…I think) let alone blog, but we are going to get back on that horse!

Last last weekend was on of our regular Toronto shows, The Spring Clothing show. It had moved back to the Queen Elizabeth building for the first time in years which people had mixed reviews about. Despite being hit with a terrible lighting situation (being under a half dead lamp) we had a pretty good location and it was a good show.

Photo recap:

Our booth setup. Can you spot the new designs?!

Here’s one of them. Matryoshka light sweatshirt on athletic blue! Will be available online in a couple of weeks.

And another! Ninja Panda on a cool new colour. Available online in a couple of weeks also.

Us smiling sweetly for the papa(razzi).

We ran around and took some snaps of our friends/fellow vendors.

Jenn of  Sick on Sin. She was rollin solo all weekend and we saw her booth bustling most of the time!  She kindly donated some goodies to us for something we will talk about in another blog. Anyway, overall a great person!

Eric holding down the Pause fort while Ken and Andrew pointed and laughed from afar (that may or may not be true). You can see a few of their NEW designs! I picked up a pretty hilarious tank that I will treasure forever. Thanks boyz. They also contributed some AMAZING stuff to the something something that will be written about in our next blog!

One of our favorite booths to shop at, Bicyclette. And we’re not just saying that. We just discovered them last year and fell in love. The owner Paige is super lovely. I came so close to buying this amazing statement dress – black and white Aztec-ish print, short and tight with puffed up shoulders… it was pret-ty awesome. I had to part with it in the end but got some pretty shirts instead. ALSO – brace yourself for some exciting news – Bicyclette’s new Queen st store is going to start carrying Crywolf tanks! YUS!

Within Bicyclette ’s booth were 2 other favs of ours – Biko Jewelry and DaLish cosmetics. We were sad that Corrine of Biko didn’t have her own booth this year as I’ve been eyeing her beautifully constructed jewelry forever and I swear I will own a piece some day. Maybe at this year’s One of a Kind christmas show?! Melanie of DaLish added a whole bunch of new clothes to her Crywolf collection and we got ourselves a bunch of  100% Canadian made and produced cosmetics with natural ingredients. No testing on furry friends! We back that.

This is Dawn of  Love Poetry Corsets. She’s super sweet and a really big Crywolf fan!

And last but not least is the best looking couple ever aka Mel of Fredrick Prince Jewelry and her boyfriend Brett. We did some tradesies and each got a beautiful hand-crafted necklace.  Mind the crappy webcam photo but here is the beautiful rough crystal quartz necklace I got. In certain light at a certain angle you can see a little rainbow reflection on the bottom of the stone, I keep trying to make people see it but nobody ever does. I guess I will keep that little treasure to myself.

I have a confession, this blog took me about 10 hours to write. Of course while doing a bunch of other stuff in between uploading photos such as writing a zillion e-mails, event planning, stressing out, etc. Clearly I used up any writing skillz on e-mails and so whatever was left  ended up as this blog. I’m embarrassed!

xoxox