Donating felt scraps to an Elementary school

Today CupKozy did something really good. We donated a giant bag of felt left over from our production process, to Sylman Elementary School. They are local to us here in Van Nuys and they will use the felt to supplement their Kindergarten and 1st grade arts & crafts supplies.

Below is a letter I enclosed for the school's vice Principal:

"8/27/2008
Greetings!

I am the founder and CEO of CupKozy.com. We make an eco-friendly, reusable coffee sleeve to replace disposables. During our fabrication process we end up with residual pieces of wool felt, which is what our product is mostly made of. We've been storing it, trying to think of the perfect way to re-use these extra bits of material. The first thing that came to mind was all of those fun, felt, art projects that we used to make in elementary school!

I decided the best thing to do was to donate the felt to a school so that students can use it to create their own little masterpieces while helping the school promote art education without having to fund every single art supply. At the same time, the school will be helping our company achieve greener business practices by repurposing the felt, allowing us to minimize the amount of landfill “waste” that we are generating. We hope you'll agree this is a win-win situation for us and our struggling planet.

We would love to eventually see images of how your school's young, imaginative minds transform the materials we have provided. It would be amazing for us to see and share this with our online visitors and customers.

Thank you so much for accepting this donation. It means a lot to us and we really hope you enjoy it!

Best regards,
Dinah O."

I just got back from dropping the felt off at the school. I gotta tell you, it feels really good. REALLY good. :)  Now, let's see what they make with it!
Stay tuned...

CupKozy featured on Outblush.com

For months, I've been religiously perusing a women's lifestyle blog called Outblush.com. Some of you guys might be familiar with the male equivalent of this blog, Uncrate.com. 

This lifestyle blog covers all of the latest and greatest products out there, from gadgets, to clothing and everything in between. Other fashion/trend/lifestyle bloggers look to Outblush for content on a daily basis and often duplicate their posts all across the web. I've often thought, "Wow, it would be SO awesome if the CupKozy was featured on that blog, or any blog that comes remotely close to Outblush". Well, Imagine the look on my face when, to my surprise...



There we are! Somebody pinch meeeeee :)
This is a really big deal.
REALLY big!

Heh!

Frugal Green Living Blog Mention

Written by Frugal Green Living:

"I understand the usefulness of paper cups, sometimes you just plain forget your thermal mug. Maybe it is in the dishwasher, or on the counter next to the coffee maker. You may have forgotten to bring it home yesterday and it is now fermenting on your desk. More than likely you left it on the hood of the car before you drove off. (What? I can’t be the ONLY one beside the people in commercials, right?)

Well if you have a cup emergency and resort to paper, don’t grab one of those paper insulating rings. You know the contraptions that keep you from burning your hands on that cup of essential morning elixer.

Grab a CUP KOZY"

Yay! Thanks for the cool blog mention, Frugal Green Living!

The site is LIVE!

I am excited to announce that the CupKozy website is now officially live! Come on over and take a look, won't you?

WWW.CUPKOZY.COM

It's been a while!

I know, it's been awfully quiet in the CupKozy blog but I have a few excellent reasons:

1. A new series of color combos are a-brewin' over at the cupkozy factory (if you wanna call my little sewing room a "factory").

2. We've been working hard to refine the production process while maintaining the handmade nature of the CupKozy. Not an easy task I tell you! The good thing is that we've been making great progress on that front.

3. The next seasonal CupKozy will be a Halloween themed version with an awesome print (screen-printed by hand, of course). Can't wait!

4. We just got a new batch of T-shirts in new colors that we'll be offering in conjunction with the launch of the CupKozy website. That's right, we're launching our very own website, not affiliated with Etsy! Aww, CupKozy is growing up.

The bottom line: Lots going on behind the scenes and LOTS OF NEW COLORS coming late Summer/ early Fall. Always a very exciting thing around these parts.

Hey, we excite easily!

Stay Kozy, my friends ;)

Eco Gift Showcase on Etsy

CupKozy is proud to be featured in Etsy's Environmentally Friendly Gift Guide / Showcase! Check it out :)