back of the napkin scribbles vol. 2

Writing this at the end of a very long and busy 2 or so work weeks. Maybe a month. Maybe a year. I don’t remember the last time I had a day off, a day where I didn’t do some work on a client project. Even Saturday’s and Sunday’s lately include some client work, even if a small step in a larger project.

Bottle of wine in motion at the moment, an autumn and winter thing craving for me. Had a cigar earlier while I edited the below mentioned Jefferson video. Listening to Jay-Z right now, my go-to lately. Classics for me. Currently American Gangster, a movie to watch again. Maybe some of that later with a midnight snack. 

Anyways.

The Jefferson

Worked in some time this evening to work on a video for The Jefferson notebook case. Finished recording the walkthrough and have the website updated with it. Just a few finishing touches on the website before I launch it. That’ll be soon! Logo for this product, shown in the screenshot above, created by Ning...always a pleasure to work with her on this type of project. She is great at capturing exactly how a product is to look with her calligraphy. 

Shipped Orders

I’ve finished and shipped a lot of large projects lately. One was a wholesale order to a cigar shop out in Cali. I hope the items sell well and become repeat business.

Also finished a very custom order of suede cigar cases (above). The cases shown are made with Italian suede, in a shade that jives with my client’s logo, which is hand-painted and then stitched into place on the front of each case. I was and am absolutely floored with how awesome these turned out. Will have suede cigar cases available for purchase soon based on this project. 

Also finished and shipped 6 of my large (18x12x12) leather bins (12 photos of those are below) to my client in New York. Thrilled with how they turned out. I have a very strong love hate relationship with these bins. Anytime I make them I vow to remove them from my portfolio and shop. But they sell, and I’m a small business, and cash is nice to have. And so I’m going to keep them around and just keep raising the price. They are amazing though, always worth the insane amount of work they require (as simple as they may appear!). 

Scroll past the photos, but love them, for the entire purpose of this post...a short update on the Franklin bag.

Finally...The Franklin. I am so excited to get this bag out and available for commission. It will be my third bag in the Strathmere Leather product line. 

1. The Strathmere
2. Ocean Front
3. The Franklin (site coming soon...)

I need to do a back of the napkin scribble about this bag in general. Don’t think I have really discussed much yet, other than random photos of progress being made on the thing.  Well, a pretty big preview is below in photo and video form (don't believe I can embed videos yet on Scribbles, so watch the video here). This bag is turning into quite the engineering marvel, becoming very modular.

And wait until you see the logo for this bag, created by Ning...it is amazing, just like the bag. She’s great at this :-)  Ok...that’s all I have for the moment.  One more glass. A few snacks. Then bed. What a life lately! As tough as the work is, as long as the hours are, I am forever thankful that I get to create and earn an income from doing so. Until next time,
~ Aaron