We’re pleased as punch to announce that Philadelphia-based Girls Can Tell will also be a part of our family of independent designers! Sara Selepouchin, master illustrator and screenprinting genius behind Girls Can Tell, creates the greatest detailed drawings of everyday things like bicycles, cameras and kitchen utensils. She then screenprints them by hand onto more everyday things like coasters, notebooks …

Today we’re thrilled to welcome Queen Puff Puff to the Modern Mouse family of designers! We’ve long been down with “QPP”, aka Nicole Vasbinder from Petaluma, CA who also runs her own marvelous fabric shop up there and teaches sewing classes both at StitchCraft and over here at Stone Mountain & Daughter Fabrics. We’ve said a gushy thing or two …

We were ever so pleased when prix-prix hopped on board! Not only are the prix-prix necktie wallets deliciously designed, they’re reconstructed from vintage neckties so they’re eco-friendly too! Laura Skelton is the Pittsburgh-based designer and maker of prix-prix’s necktie wallets, recycled notebooks, and other eco-friendly accessories, and we couldn’t be happier to have her. Thanks Laura!

I met Vichelle Mixon, the mastermind behind burgeoning bag brand ichi-v, at Renegade Craft Fair SF this past summer. She’s got such a warm personality, we hit it off instantly! It so happens that we’re bonded by the same tastes in fabric as well. Great minds think alike! Ichi-v bags and purses are designed with such delicate attention to detail, …

Artist Rachel Austin is joining us from Portland, Oregon, ladies and gentlemen. Rachel makes the most lovely original paintings, and we’re honored to have some of her artwork on map pendants and pocket mirrors, and possibly some prints, right here in our shop! Thanks Rachel!

So much good stuff is happening so quickly that we’re scurrying to keep up! What we’re working on:

A new logo (ooh)
An updated website (aah)
More designer intros (oh!)
Our Facebook page (become a fan!)
…and more

Interested in seeing which designers and their yummy products Modern Mouse is proud to be launching with? Go forth and Meet the Designers!

Thank you to Hamburgerpanda for joining the Modern Mouse family of designers! We love so many of the characters Cindy dreams up, but our heart especially melts for Hamburgerpanda’s Manabot, who lives in the wreckage of an undersea robot factory. AND MAKES A ROBOTEE OUT OF SPARE PARTS TO KEEP HIM COMPANY. Ack! And there’s more. So much more. Take …

Fat hugs to Jasper Hearts Wren for getting in on the fun! Oakland-based owners Heather Jennings and Lisa Schwartz create the most adorable line of children’s playclothes, and we couldn’t be happier to carry a collection of their onesies and dresses with THE cutest hand-stitched designs you could possibly imagine! The quality of each item is amazing, the felt used …

We’re excited and ecstatic to announce that our gift boutique, tentatively to be dubbed Modern Mouse, will be making its debut as a temporary retail shop (ooh!) in the lovely and expansive, completely renovated Alameda Towne Centre.
Shoppers will be inspired and delighted by a fresh and exciting array of locally and independently designed goodness — home accessories, personal accessories and special …