Never Cry Wolf

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!

Congrats to Christina Terzo Curcia and baby Mina for winning a killer Crywolf Halloween prize pack for being First Place in our Halloween costume contest!

We have to share the other submissions because they’re all pretty fanfreakingtastic:

Connie Kwok as a juicy Crywolf watermelon

Stephanie Hou as a Crywolf calavera

Mindy DeLisi's submission of a Spider Monkey... not really CW related but cute in a "I Like Turtles" sort of way

Britton as Sailor Wolf

WOO. Thanks to everyone who participated, we thoroughly enjoyed all of your efforts!!!

In case you didn’t know, we are back from China! We had an AMAZING two weeks, an experience of a lifetime as you can probably imagine. Once we sort through our collective 5000 photos, we will do a huge update about our trip. Our intern Nicole did an A+++ job getting all of your orders out and keeping Crywolf from falling into an abyss of chaos! We may be battling a bit of jet lag but we are super busy prepping for the One of a Kind show at the end of the month and for the craziness that is Christmas time. On top of new things recently released, we promise some great holiday stuff to released this month.

Missed you wolfies!
xoxox

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

It’s almost our favorite time of year again and we have officially launched our brand new 2010 Halloween designs!

Calavera Tank/Tee/Hoodie are now out and on sale until October 31st!

Calavera Tshirt (regular $28 on sale for $20!)

See the womens tshirt here and the the mens tshirt here!

Calavera Tank (reg $25 on sale for $20!)

See the tank here !

Calavera ZipUp (regular $60 on sale for $50)

See the womens hoodie here!

Calavera ZipUp (regular $60 on sale for $50!)

See the mens hoodie here !

And now for spooky photo time:

Our Zombie Logo designs from last Halloween will remain on sale until October 31st and then they will retired to their grave FOREVER! See all those soon-to-be-discontinued styles HERE!

ALSO, stay tuned because later today we’re announcing a crazy CRYWOLF HALLOWEEN CONTEST!!!! Great prize pack to give away to.. well, you’ll see!

Stay Spooky
xoxoxoxox
Steph & Rose

Last night we took a quick run downtown to bang off some errands. Our pal Steph kindly let us borrow her fog machine so we could take some creepy Halloween photos (will be posted soon) so we returned that to her and also dropped off a bag of old P0isson shirts to Xenia who has organized a really great clothing swap this Sunday at Mercer Union, check out the event details here! We would be going if we didn’t have Thanksgiving festivities to attend to.

While we were down we popped into Le Gallery where our friend Genevieve Jodouin was having an opening for her solo show Take Me Home. As usual, her work was beautiful. Once you step into the gallery you are surrounded by delicate screen-printed paper mobiles, spinning and twisting from the movement of people walking by.

See? Magical.

This is our friend Nick who we took a sneaky photo of while he was probably having an important conversation about art. He had some work in the group show The Maker which was taking place in the other half of the gallery. He is a pretty ok artist I guess, but you can see for yourself here (we kid, he’s amazing).

This is Genevieve looking cute. Congrats on your show girlfriend!

We got caught up in some traffic around Dundas square on the way home. Rose suddenly had the munchies for some street meat. We were barely moving so she got out to get one from the corner. I had only moved up a block by the time she got back, but alas, no hot dog in hand due to a crazy lineup. Moral of the story: Dundas street, you need more street meat vendors.

xo

Today we received our copy of TORSO T-shirt Graphics Exposed
Daniel Eckler (president of Groundwave Media Group and mastermind behind Format Magazine, Collect3d, and FreshBump, to name a few…) has worked with thousands of independent T-shirt brands and designers over the years and for this book, made a curated selection of the most innovative examples that are leading the current independent T-shirt landscape. We are honoured and thrilled to be considered apart of that landscape and of this great book.

Can you spot the Crywolf?

“Torso presents t-shirts whose motifs not only function as a means of personal communication, but also reflect and increasingly influence the complete spectrum of modern graphic design. As the first book to focus on t-shirts created by the most innovative and style-setting brands, it is the definitive guide to t-shirt culture.”

Some of our designs featured in the book include: Hipster Werewolf, Giant Panda, Forest Spirits, Wolfe, Owlie, Love Bunnies and more!  Alongside images of t-shirts are some Q&A where you may find a rambling or two from us. This book been officially released internationally now and you can go to the Gestalten website for more info on the book and to purchase. If you have even the slightest interest in streetwear or graphic tees, this book is a MUST HAVE! Don’t sleep, get yourself a copy today.

xo!

First off, sorry for the slow updates lately! I have no idea where the summer went!!! June and July just zipped right by. We’ve been busy coming up with new ideas and products and right now we are starting to prep for the CNE, so this time of year is always a little wild! Now until Christmas will be busybusybusy.

The second week of July I spent up North for an annual family trip to Parry Sound. And by family, I mean almost my ENTIRE family. 10 people, 2 dogs. It was the first time both Rose & I were gone from Crywolf Headquarters but I managed to get some sewing done up there as well as take advantage of the nice scenery for some promo shots.

Check out the rest of the set on our Flickr.

On Thursday I’m headed out into the wilderness again for one last break before the madness really begins. While I’m gone, Rose returns from Texas and then we hopefully will see a bunch of you at the CNE where we’ll have a whole bunch of cool new stuff for ya! We’ll be posting the facebook event info soon.

xoxox

For the first time EVER, Crywolf will be on vacation for a week, so we will not be able to ship shirts out! We always try our best to ship shirts out pretty much as soon as we can, even if that means trips to the post office every single day, because we know, first hand, how much it sucks to wait for things to come in the mail. With that said we are giving away complimentary shipping on anything ordered this upcoming week from July 9 (fri) til July 16 (fri), but all orders will be shipped out Monday, July 19th.

Thanks for your patience loverlies! <3
Rose & Steph