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

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!

Ah, high school. Seems like a hundred thousand years ago now. With all the time that’s gone by, thinking about it conjures up faint and random images of faces and memories: our unstylish uniforms, crushes, the confusing feelings of adolescence, teenage angst, old friends, crazy hair and cafeteria food that we still crave for sometimes. We were brought to ponder back on high school life when we were contacted a few months ago by one of our favorite teachers, Mr. Keenan. Rose and I were never in the same class but we both had Mr. Keenan for computers. Being computer geeks, we naturally loved computer classes and the jovial and less-uptight faculty that made up the department.

The reason for the contact was that Mr. Keenan had discovered Crywolf and was really proud of what we’ve done. To quote directly: “I was showing your site to my computer classes today and telling them how I taught you nothing and you still made something of yourselves.” For the record, we made tons of funny little Turing and Foxpro programs under his tutelage, so he taught us lots. I would say our interest in computers and learning to make things on them (ie. those programs, 0’s and 1’s, basic html to make obnoxious tripod pages about ourselves, etc) was actually pretty important in shaping an interest that we would one day use to create our own online store.

We answered some interview questions for the school paper and Mr. Keenan asked if the students could use some our characters in a final Flash project. Our response: HELLS YEA! So below, we would like to present you with 3 final flash games that some students came up with. Click to play. THEY ARE SO COOL!

Crywolf Memory Game by Azra Jessa

Muffin Madness Maze! by Janelle Singh

Catch and Avoid by Montserrat Martinez Soy

We said that we were going to pick a winner but they are all so amazing that we can’t choose just one. Help us out by letting us know which one is your favorite. We’ll be putting a poll up on our facebook fan page where you can vote so do it up! The student with the most votes will get a little something extra. They worked so hard so please take a second to cast a vote.

Peas out g33ks!
xoxox

Y’all should check out our NERDSPACE! We’ve added some brand new *FREE* downloads. Grab backgrounds for your desktop, ipad, iphone, droid and blackberry. Here are our desktop backgrounds. Click to open & save in full size:

Geek out!
Go to the NERDSPACE to get them all!

xoxox

We’re happy to bring to you a bunch of new designs, just in time for Spring! The end of grey, dreary, cold days is in sight. New designs mean that a bunch of old designs are being discontinued and are now on crazy sale! Now’s your chance to grab the last of the last because once they sell out, they be gone FOREVER. Just sayin’! Check those out in our SALE section.

Not only that, but you can use code: ninjapanda for 10% off til the end of the weekend!! WOO.

Each day we are going to feature one of the new shirts to introduce them to you.

Today’s shirt is Pup In A Cup

Can you resist these eyes? Neither can we! Who’s heart doesn’t just melt over a chihuahua in a teacup? Ours do! Turn everyone around you into a pile of mush when you wear this shirt. Available in a brown print on a 100% cotton creme shirt or black print on a tri-blend (25% rayon, 25% polyester, 50% cotton) coffee tshirt.

Available for guys and gals!

Whaddya think?

Check back tomorrow for another featured design! xo!

After a little over a week of rest & recovery from our 2 weeks in China, we have finally been able to sort through over 5000 and 20 gigs worth of pictures. Unfortunately our blog is not equipped to handle such picture madness so we will have to direct you to our facebook to see our adventures in picture form.

China Trip: Album 1
China Trip: Album 2

We have so many stories of our adventures that even family members have not yet had time to read our email updates, lol. We were able to visit Beijing, Hangzhou, YiWu, and Shanghai over the course of our 14 day trip. It was a mix of shopping, tourism, family & friends, cuisine, culture, business, & pleasure. It was definitely a great adventure, and a humbling experience for the both of us to say the least.

In other news, we will be doing our first ever Christmas One of a Kind show in Toronto!

If you have never been, we can assure you that it’s definitely a show worth going to. “Each One of a Kind Show and Sale features an endless selection of handcrafted items created by talented artists and craftspeople.” We (Crywolf) will be doing the last 6 days of the show: November 30 – December 5th.

Save $2 when you purchase tickets online, or use code: ADcgqf9 to save $3 (a gift from us)!

Hope to see you there!

Hey Wolfies! It’s the month of our favorite holiday, HALLOWEEN! We decided to put on a fun contest this year and give you a chance to win a Crywolf Halloween Prize Pack.

It’s really easy: COME UP WITH YOUR BEST CRYWOLF COSTUME!

Lots of characters to choose from: Wolfe, Chloe, Ninja Bunny, Scrappy Cat, Hipster Werewolf, Love Bunnies, Hootie, 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 Calavera Tshirt ($28 value, in womens and mens sizes) OR 1 Calavera Tank ($25 value)

You have plenty of time to start brainstorming and crafting! We will be accepting submissions until midnight on Oct 31st. 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

We are very excited to release our brand new reusable Crywolf Baggu bags! We first heard of Baggu a while back and were so impressed with the quality/style of the bags and Baggu’s stance on the environment. We even did a product review in an older blog post. Then we got to thinking, what a great idea if we could have some custom Crywolf Baggus… and so we did!

Crywolf Baggu in Deep Ocean

This beautiful and fun reusable bag does the same job as the iconic plastic grocery bag, without harming the environment. Use it for your groceries, books, papers, purchases, gym clothes… whatever! Carry in your hand or over your shoulder, fold it up and place it in its little pouch when you’re all done. At $10 a bag you can’t really lose especially knowing that using one Crywolf Baggu for one year replaces 300 to 700 disposable bags!

The bags are available in 10 beautiful colours: Black, Deep Ocean, Electric Purple, Grey, Hot Pink, Kiwi, Papaya, Eggplant, Red, and Sky.

See them all HERE!

We’re going to give away a FREE bag with every order over $100. After all, you’re going to need something to carry all your new Crywolf goodies in. Specify the colour during checkout, or let it be a surprise.

Be good and reuse!
Steph & Rose