My new weekly home

Since March, I have been a regular vendor at Portland's Saturday Market. Send me an email to double check that I am there. Sometimes I have street fairs to attend instead! I will not be at PSM this weekend, I will be at Seattle's Fremont Fair instead. If you are in Seattle come find me! I'll be back at Saturday market the following weekend. xo!

My favorite Christmas gift

The evolution of my new bed frame. I love it! Thank you Shawn!!

Happy Holidays!

I hope that this has been a wonderful holiday season for you all and your families :)

Kind wishes for the new year! xo Mona Kate

More stores and a new product!

I now have 40+ wallets available at Mag-Big on Hawthorne! yay!

And I've finally made the Moleskine covers that I've been meaning to for YEARS! here they are:

Moleskine Covers

I'll have more designs in them soon and should have checkbook covers listed later this week.

Another new store and 3 new items up in the etsy shop

The past few weeks as you can imagine, have been extraordinarily busy! I've had a grand total of 15 holiday shows (yikes!) and almost as many stores ordering product. Just yesterday I sent off 20 new wallets to Veda Lux Boutique in Spokane Washington.

And I just added 2 new wallets and a card case to the etsy shop. The wallets are a hand-drawn paper crane (flexing my art muscle again) on a pink or blue background. Both are very pretty and have the feel of a vintage kimono. The card case is a smaller version of my popular gnome wallet. He's adorable! And will protect the money ;)

New stores for Kitten Camaro!

Please visit these stores, both are well stocked up with wallets, passport covers, card cases and passport cases.

Lemon Tree in the Hollywood District
http://www.lemontreepdx.com/

and

BeMused on East Burnside
http://bemusedpdx.com/

Drop in and tell them I said hi!

It's Caturday!

A little image for use in store merchandising. What do you think?

1st annual hawthorne holiday stroll december 9th

http://blog.presentsofmind.tv/2010/12/1st-annual-hawthorne-holiday-stroll-december-9th/


Tomorrow is the first annual Hawthorne Holiday Stroll. Presents of Mind is offering 15% off the store and raffling this adorable little tree with a bunch of bike goodies. The prizes include one of my Go By Bike wallets! Go there tomorrow and say HI!!

Suggest a Wallet contest

Kitten Camaro is having a contest! from now until Friday at midnight (11-26) submit your suggestion for a wallet design and if I choose yours, you will win 2 free wallets of that design! You'll have one for you and one to share :)

Im certain there will be more than one winner! Get your ideas in! Need some inspiration? check my etsy shop or my newly redesigned work-in-progress website here

Here's a few of my newest wallets:





In order to win, you must become a FAN on my facebook fan page, then come back here and leave a comment with your suggestion and a message letting me know who you are on FB :) SIMPLE! good luck!

I am featured on the Craft magazine blog!

yay! I love craft!!

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/05/vegan_meat_wallet.html



"I have a known weakness for ironic meat accessories, including the steak earrings I'm wearing as I type. Well, Makers Market seller Kitten Camero makes this vegan wallet depicting a lush meat scene on the back.

Not into meat? Her other wallets are also quite quirky and fun, like this periodic table billfold."

Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today!

Field Roast Givaway!

So Field Roast is just about my favorite thing ever! It's vegan AND soy-free, yay! It's amazing what you can do with wheat gluten. I'm thankful to not have celiac! So Field Roast is having a contest...you can win some of their tasty products. Check it out here. We made the celebration roast for Thanksgiving dinner and everyone loved it, including Shawn who eats next to nothing :p

Try this stuff!!!

Thanksgiving

Today, I'm thankful to have all my wonderful friends and family. Last year, Shawn and I had dinner with our beautiful and talented friend Bitter. It was nice! This year we opted to have low key family meal at home.
The pumpkin pie is in the oven now. I used pacific foods hazelnut milk in place of condensed milk. I hope it works! We are having a field roast in place of a tofurky this year since Shawn is soy free. I've had them before, the flavor is very sophisticated :)
I'll post pics when dinner is done.

Off to Herbivore

This afternoon I'm going to Herbivore (12th & Stark) to bring in some brand new necklaces, headbands, wallets and other yummy accessories. I'm also bringing in some new skirt designs to see if they are interested. I have a feeling they will really like them. It's a fantastic new design in vintage fabric. I'll post some photos later. And stay tuned, I will because soon, i'll be posting a contest to win one of my brand new wrap skirts.

New Sewing Machine!!

I am in love with my new sewing machine. It's by far the nicest thing Ive ever sewn on. Shawn bought it for me at Rooster Roc in Portland. It's a little hole-in-the-wall industrial sewing machine shop on 72nd and Sandy. The machine is called a consew 101. On Saturday, Shawn and I spent the day sewing our Halloween costumes, switching between the consew and my serger. The consew went from one type of fabric to the next without hesitation. We sewed everything from felt and polar fleece to lycra lame! I'm very happy with it. Today I will begin sewing some custom tote bags for Flat Track Revolution. I'll post pics and links when they are done.

New wallets! Tons of them!

I've been hard at work making new wallets :) I have about 50 design/color combos available so far! Not everything is list on etsy yet, but I think I have about 20 up so far. Take a look and buy one or 5! And I will gladly make bulk or wholesale orders. Just ask.

Been hard at work!

Over the past few weeks, Ive been to several craft shows. Many have been really good, like the Portland Halloween Bazaar and some not so good, like the Music Northwest Fest at Voodoo. Oh well! I know that I can't get by on craft shows alone, so I am focusing now on listing items in my etsy shop. I've added more than 50 items since Thursday and have at least 100 more on the way this week. I also have some ideas for fantastic new wallets, so keep checking my shop! http://kittencamaro.etsy.com

A Fair Fight

As you can see, I had a great time! This was my first time competing in public. We lost our first bout, but came back to destroy in the 2nd (see above picture!). I had an excellent team and we had incredible competition. Nice work everyone and thank you Salem for making all the leagues who visited feel so welcome! Cherry City Derby Girls are AMAZING! Rose City <3's you!!

First Thursday in the Pearl

If you need something to do tonight, drop by 17th and Lovejoy in the Pearl. There is a huge activespace building there and we take over the parking lot every first thurs. Tender Loving Empire always has sales and a band and lots of snacks. It's family friendly and lots of fun. Tonight, there will be lots of vendors with all their hand-made goodies. I just whipped up a bunch more headbands and tote bags this morning. Come by, have a glass of wine and buy something pretty!

Last Thursday Success!

I rarely like to do shows like Last Thursday. Yes, I know it's free, but it's so stressful for me to find the right spot and navigate the crowds. Yesterday started out a bit dicey, but by the end of the night, I was very happy that I had gone.

We were set up at the corner of 23 and Alberta, this is a very busy spot and had lots of people drop by. I got to hang out with Slaybia Majora, my former fresh meat coach, Bitter Sweet, retired Guns n Rollers, Bawdy Czec from Lava City Roller Dolls, Caramia Cheri, a former wrecker, and Izabell Ringer, my derby idol!

it didnt really seem like I was that busy, but I walked away with 175$ last night. Not bad for 5 hours of my life. I think the key is probably to be in a group with friends and to try to have fun. Next week it's off to First Thursday in the Pearl and First Friday in Vancouver if I can get in. Mama needs to pay the bills.

Oh, I had a vegan po'boy at Palm State Gumbo. And a cup of house made vegan coconut mango ice cream and a sweet tea. All very highly recommended! The sandwich was huge and I got all of it for 8$. Not bad at all.