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Shop Mini, Shop Micro!
We’ve had a super summer here at PULP DC – thanks for all the love you showed us during the MidCity Dog Days of Summer Sidewalk Sale. The party keeps going on and on; there are products that you just can’t seem to live without, because we can’t refill our stock quickly enough! That’s great, because you are supporting super small, super cool businesses with your purchases, and I’d like to tell you about a few of them. Our D.C. flag-themed merchandise has been selling like… hotcakes? Ice cream cones on a D.C. August day? Beer at a Nationals ball game? But I digress…
Arlington artist Liz Hutcheson is a one-woman show with her company, Fast Snail Creative Greetings and Design. Liz incorporates watercolor and wonderful pen-and-ink illustrations into her greeting cards,and creates the fab D.C. red and rainbow mugs you’ve been craving, and buying!
New Hampshire designer, Suerae Stein, launched her micro-business, Red Barn Artworks in 2005. Her work is primarily impressionist-based, but she creates custom porcelain D.C. flag coasters just for us. Thanks, Suerae!
Zehn Naturals is a teeny tiny company of three, also based in New Hampshire. Tiea, Hannah and Len create 100% organic fashions for men, women, and children. Zehn’s D.C. shirts, canvas totes, and baby onesies are made in the U.S.; each one has a tag embedded with wildflower seeds that can be planted. Thanks for modeling, Miss Raven, and thanks for your requests, all of you DCers temporarily or permanently uprooted -- we've begun shipping t-shirts nationwide.
Blue Q, based in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, doesn’t design anything with a D.C. flag on it (yet!), and it isn’t a micro-business. It is a very small company, however, with just 22 employees. And they created the recycled tote bag of lovely awesomeness – the Mighty Michelle shopper -- and we here at PULP DC LOVE YOU, Mrs. Obama! (You would LOVE us, too -- stop by for a visit, won’t you please?!?)
Stay tuned, dear friends – you’ll soon find information here about other fantastic designers who create the products you see in the store. We’ll also post more articles on our Facebook page; if you aren’t already a fan, please search for us (“PULP DC”) to check out our Card of the Day, Product of the Day, and sweet Deal of the Day. We select one lucky fan every month to receive Pulpy goodies, and it could be you!
Thanks again, everyone, for your wonderful love and support!
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