Happy 2018!

Happy 2018 to all our wonderful customers! We met so many of you in 2017 at the Pike Place Market and at Issaquah Salmon Days! We hope to see you both places again in 2018! We had fun doing some custom work for the rooms and the Rider restaurant at the beautiful, completely refurbished HOTEL THEODORE (formerly the Roosevelt) and continue to add to our online store. We also want to thank all our wonderful ONLINE STORE customers all over the United States!

Please follow us on Instagram and Facebook which is where we post our most recent up-to-date photos of our newest merchandise and any new designs!

Some changes for 2018:

1. We will be doing wholesale custom work all year long. Please provide resale number and business name/EIN with any inquiries. As of 2018, we are no longer doing retail custom orders.

2. We will be open 6 days a week at the Pike Place Market in January and February. Wednesdays - Mondays. Beginning in March, we will be open 7 days a week. Please always check our Facebook page prior to making a special trip as that's where we post any last-minute days off!

3. We have created a wait-list for out of stock items! If the item you want is sold out, please email shawn@stickmanleather.com to be invoiced when the item is back in stock! (Include your city/state with your inquiry).

Zippers!

Today's public service announcement is regarding the care and feeding of zippers! Whether it is a Stickman Leather bag, or any other bag - or suitcase - you own and love if you take care of it and use it properly you can save your zippers! How do you save your zippers? By carrying the appropriate amount of stuff (and weight) in your bag!

Want to know the surest way to blow out a zipper? The surest way is to consistently over-stuff your bag.If you regularly over-stuff a bag, it places stress on the zipper and/or things get caught in the zipper.

To replace a zipper typically requires replacing the entire panel on which the zipper is sewn. And, in some bags, the way it is constructed prevents any type of repair.

A good rule of thumb is this: if you always have to force the zipper to close around all the stuff in your bag, it's time for a larger bag!

End of public service announcement. Thanks for listening!

Let's Get Social!

FACEBOOK

We love to post pictures of you with your bags on our Facebook page. Feel free to share your pictures with us, too!

We also post in the morning on our Facebook page if we are not going to be at the Pike Place Market for the day. Typically, we're there every day of the week but, things happen. We recently had an elevator down (couldn't get our merchandise upstairs) and a fire under the viaduct (had to close early!) Checking our feed can (hopefully) save you from a drive to Seattle if we aren't there.

INSTAGRAM

Our new items and behind the scenes photos can be found on Instagram. Once in a while, we post pictures of our shop dogs! Ace the Husky is now 6 months old and getting bigger by the day! Or, we'll follow the adventures of the birds that build a nest right outside our shop in the woods! Usually Instagram is the first place to see a new item or our new colors!

LINKS

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StickmanLeather/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stickmanleather/

Online store: https://squareup.com/store/stickmanleather

Online Store

I'm happy to announce that new for 2017 I have an online store. You can access my online store at: 

https://stickmanleather.square.site

Check back regularly! As always, my products can also be found nearly every day of the year at Pike Place Market in Seattle, WA.

Happy Spring!

Spring News for Stickman Leather:

• Stickman Leather can be found MOST days at Pike Place Market in Seattle, typically at the NORTH END of the Market (and sometimes outside on nice days). If there is something specific you are looking for, then it is best to call me (between 9am - 6pm, Pacific Time) 206-371-1477 to double check that someone will be there!
• I've been working on some new designs with my new shop assistant, Natalie. As always, the most up-to-date photos of my work can be found on my FACEBOOK page!
• Just a note (because I've been getting a lot of requests for custom wallets lately) I do NOT make custom wallets. You can click HERE to learn why!
• I do custom work, as time allows. This can be anything from creating a new bag for you to reconditioning/refurbishing an existing bag. I don't make clothing and I won't copy someone else's bag. My shop rates for custom work are currently $90/hour. Please contact me for a quote.

Happy November

November is when I kick it into high gear. This is the month when I stop doing any special orders and just focus on buying lovely small lots of leather and building unique, individual bags for the holidays.

I love getting those unique hides that I can only make one or two bags out of.

I'm also waiting on samples from a new leather line.

It's an exciting time of year and I love to see who ends up with my bags!

Happy Fall!

One Guy, Making Bags

I'm just one guy, making bags and selling them at Pike Place Market. In order to keep up, I have to keep things rolling through the shop. I do this by making more than one bag at a time. The other day, it was red Michele Bags. They look kind of cool sitting on my workbench.

A New World

I'm venturing into online sales, I've posted my first item for sale on Etsy. http://www.etsy.com/shop/StickmanLeather