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Lorena + Crafting a Meaningful Home

Lorena + Exquisite Book Project!

This Thursday in San Francisco, join Lorena Siminovich, creator/illustrator/boss lady of Petit Collage and other artists at the opening for the new book The Exquisite Book Project!

 

October News

Hello Friends!

With the new season upon us, that means new products. We've so excited to be able to show you what we've been up to for the past few months. Here are all the new goodies we're debuting for fall...

We're proud to introduce the first two Petit Collage touch and feel board books written and illustrated by Lorena Siminovich and published by Candlewick Press.

Learn colors with shiny apples to bumpy oranges in I Like Fruit. Learn counting and numbers with shimmery beetles to silky butterflies in I Like Bugs. The Petit Collage series of books invites little readers to explore the kaleidoscope of images and textures to their hearts content.

Both retail for $6.99 and are available in our shop.

We've added five new styles to our best-selling prints on wood!

To match our new Forest Friends and Folk Farm Bamboo mobiles, we've designed three new prints on wood: Horse and Baby, Farm Tower, and Bear with Babies. We've heard your requests for new boy prints to go with our girl prints so here they are! Our new Sailor Boy and Builder Boy join our existing girl prints: Camera Girl and Pinwheel Girl to complete the set.

As with all our prints on wood, these are printed on sustainably grown, chemical-free maple veneer and are available in two different sizes, both unframed and framed.

See them in detail on our website. Prices start at only $15!

With the success of our shatterproof acrylic mirrors, we've been able to increase our production and can now offer them at much lower prices, hurrah! Our current elephant and apple mirrors along with our brand new bird acrylic mirror are now only $36 (originally $50!!). Our charming giraffe growth chart + acrylic mirror is now $80 (originally $100!).

 

We've made an easy way to show your little artist's masterpieces.

Our "gallery corner" decals are perfect for hanging up your own ever-changing art collections, photos, notes and more. Our decals are removable AND reusable, making them perfect to use over and over again.

Available in circles and triangles, they make it easy to hang up and take down art and photos without damage.

Our alphabet decals make it easy to personalize just about anything: walls, computers, journals, and more. 

All four of our "petit" fabric decals are made from 100% adhesive fabric; NOT vinyl! All are decorated with patterns taken from our vast collection of vintage wallpaper.

New Wall Decals and SF Renegade

We're so happy to finally have sent our new wholesale fall catalog to print. It's chock full with lots of new goodies! While we can't let you in on all the new products just yet, here's a little sneak peek of what we'll be offering. These are now available in our online shop and soon in a store near you. 

 

Complete your nature-themed room with this beautiful Tree Growth Chart. It's filled with wonderful patterns roduced from our large collection of vintage wallpaper. This growth chart measures heights from 1.5 to 4 feet (centimeters also included!) and comes with 2 birds, three branches, three apples, and 46 leaves; all repositionable. The finished tree should measure 15"x46.

We've also turned one of our best-selling collages on wood into a more affodable piece for your walls. 

 

This new Blue Elephant Baby fabric wall decal is quite large measuring around 20"x20".
Blue Elephant Baby decal

Like all our other decals, these are crafted of high-quality adhesive fabric, not vinyl. They never lose their stickiness so you can apply them over and over again. Removable and repositionable, our fabric wall decals are waterproof, will not rip, wrinkle, or leave any residues. Truly magical!

You can find these and much more on our website at www.petitcollage.com 

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The 3rd Annual San Francisco Renegade Craft Fair is coming this July 31-August 1. We'll be there with lots of new products and special pricing just for the show.

With over 200 of today's finest indie-craft talents and lots of craft-workshops in store, this fair is sure to be nothing less than amazing. Come see us!

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Many thanks to all who participated in Designmom's Petit Collage giveaway last week; there were over 1000 comments!!! We gave out a $150 gift card to a very lucky reader. For those that missed out, be sure to check out our blog as well as our twitter often for updates on new giveaways and specials.

In celebration of the success of this event (and also reading this far into our newsletter, hurrah!), you can still enjoy 20% all products (excluding canvas) in our online shop. Just use the code "designmom". This gift expires 7/31/2010.

Jungle Mobile in action!

I admit the photos of our mobiles on our website don't do justice to how beautiful they are when they're moving around in the breeze.

So we're thrilled Storey, owner of the store Tadpole in Boston, MA, sent us this wonderful video of her daughter admiring our best selling mobile: Jungle Friends.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Thanks Storey!

Petit Collage Trunk Show in Oakland

  

June News!

We've been working in the studio with the windows open and that can only mean summer weather is finally upon us in San Francisco! There are lots of news to share with you this month, especially since we were so busy we didn't have a chance to send a hello to you in May, whoops!

Well, let's get on with it then . . 

    

These two new city prints made their first debut in April during our month long pop-up show at Zinc Details. Until now, they were available in store only but we're now introducing them to our online shop and Etsy. These pieces were done as an ode to the two cities Lorena Siminovich has lived in: San Francisco and New York. On a side note, Lorena grew up in the city of Buenos Aires, but we figured that wasn't going to be so popular.

As with all our prints on wood, these cities are made from sustainably harvested maple veneer and are available in two matted sizes: 8x10 inches and 11x14 inches with an option of custom framing.
 
Click on the photos above for more information on pricing as well as close up shots.

And if you didn't leave your heart in San Francisco or in the big apple, we also love this town print which we've renamed: "It takes a village".

We received many requests to add a new color way to our best selling animal alphabet poster. And here it is!
   
We call it "Basic". A vintage take on primary colors, this new screenprinted poster was inspired by the colors seen throughout Lorena's collection of children's books from yesteryear.

Printed on 100% recycled paper using beautiful water based inks, this print measures 18x24 inches and can fit standard frames. Availalble now in our shop!

Last weekend we had a photoshoot for our upcoming 2010 catalog. We were blessed with bright sunny weather and had the kids pick lemons in the backyard to make lemonade inbetween shots.We can't wait to show you all the amazing photos we took and the new products that are in store!

Here's a little sneak peek of behind the scenes with Lorena and Annie setting up for the last shoot of the day: the cover photo!