Critter Butts

Spooky season is heeeeeeere
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That's it, that's the message. Spook it up. We love some spooky s**t. Dead stuff. "Creepy" critters. Abandoned things covered in cobwebs. Lumpy, warty winter squashes. Witches and kitties and witch kitties. Magic soup. People hangin around after they die bc they can't bear to leave someone behind yet. Doggos howling at the pretty, pretty moon. Crisp evenings and misty, cool mornings. Yeah 😎😌🔥

This week's patch material haul - we'll be getting these printed up today (at least some amount of them - not guaranteeing the entire 120+ patches worth like I got through last week) and will have them tomorrow at IX!

After over a year of not offering patches, they're finally Back!!! 😍

We've been transitioning over to screen printing everything instead of block printing, and after months and months of prep and testing and gathering new tools and supplies, we're finally able to offer three designs - with more to come!

Raccoon bonfire, screaming possum, and ungovernable goats patches are now available .beautiful.idea ($5ea) and in person at markets ($5ea or 3 for $12). I've already bought a second stash of thrifted pants for round two (see last slide for colors). 😎

Give us a few weeks to get these new processes integrated with our weekly print runs, and we'll figure out how to effectively list them on our online shops too (tricky with unpredictable fabric every week). And we'll get more small screens, and burn them, so we can add more designs 🥰

What designs do you want on a patch? Nice butt? Bun over the moon? Baby possum?

Any design that's square or vertically oriented can Also get printed on our new journals and on toddler t's and onesies. 😎✨

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To celebrate today, September 17th, being our *Official* 1 year anniversary of opening .beautiful.idea on the downtown mall, we're having our first ever Critter Butts sale in the shop this week! 🥳🎂🎉🎈🎁

All our shirts are $25 for our birthday week! That's $1 off kid shirts & $3 off adult shirts 😎💸 Happy Birthday to The Beautiful Idea!!! 🕯️🎂✨

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We busted ass last week to bring some exciting new items to Virginia Pride Fest. We now have Three designs burned on smaller 5x7 screens that can be printed on toddler shirts, onesies, notebooks, and patches -

Raccoon Bonfire
Screaming Possum, and
Be Ungovernable

AND we got our big wholesale order of dotted notebooks in, so the raccoons and possums are available on both sizes of notebook 🥰📚

All these items will be released throughout this week .beautiful.idea as part of our 1yr anniversary celebration, so keep an eye out for more info 😏🎂

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Tomorrow at we'll have Dozens of one-offs of our normal style T with our designs on Non-Standard colors. (Plus a million crop tops)

This is a huge deal for my (Joan) autistic brain that demands predictability of inventory, but y'all love a random stash of shirts to hunt through, so here I am, crumbling the foundation of my typical work structures to give you the chaotic trash creature foraging experience you desire 😂😘

The pictures are s**t but the shirts are great 🙃😉

See you tomorrow in TransJam Alley at VA Pride!

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Guess what arrived yesterday!?!?!? 200 blank dotted journals for us to print on 🤪📚🤪

We're so excited to have found a way to access these wholesale. They're recycled (like our smaller notebooks) & have some Heft, a bookmark, back pocket, & elastic closure (unlike our smaller notebooks).

We'll get lined ones soon too, but for now - dotted all the way, bb 😘

Not a microphone 👀

This is one of only two bumper sticker designs we stock, and it's a sassy one 💅 We're not a "good vibes only" kind of business, bc life is full of hard s**t and we all need to be able to feel All our feelings. But that doesn't stop us from wishing the best for people. The most rumbly, best time possible. Because self care is important, and we all deserve to raise our vibration 😂

If you remember this sticker looking a bit different a while back, your memory is correct - this one got a revamp, and it now looks a little less cursed 😅

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Hey letter writers! Correspondents! Pen pals! We've got card packs all bundled up for you 6 days a week .beautiful.idea and at every event we set up at.

If you're looking for a quick handful of cards, they're ready for you. Some are all the same design, others are a themed pack - like trash creatures, messages, & spooky cards.

You can always make up your own multi-pack and get the same discount, but sometimes it's helpful to just be able to grab and go 🏃💨

If there's one thing sticker sales over the past six months has shown me, it's that y'all love some glow in the dark stickers.

Spooky season is *Just* around the corner, and we've been dreaming about a glow in the dark sticker pack... With more raccoon pals and maybe some smaller bats? Maybe a spider? A moon? Who else should hang out in a spooky glow friend group? I wanna get drawing 😈🌕✨🦇🕸️




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Something very new is on the way...

Have you heard that the cat distribution system hit us Twice this summer? It's true. We now have three creatures in our house Other than myself and Dylan. All three rescues. One very old dog and two baby kitties.

We were not planning on having cats this year, and they eat a lot of food. So we're about to bust through the boundary of only making art based on our block prints, and will be unleashing a whole line of stickers - starting with these three based on silly little paintings I did of some critters, and expanding into Literally any of our art that we wanna see as stickers.

We will not be paying ourselves for the work on these, or making any profit. We will literally only cover costs - and every other penny from their sales will go directly into a fund for our three creatures, to cover vet bills and meds and food.

I hope you enjoy the ridiculous art explosion that will ensue over the coming months. They'll be showing up at markets and .beautiful.idea for now.

Maybe they'll get their own etsy at some point. If you're not local and you wanna buy some, send a dm and we'll work it out through venmo or PayPal. 😘

Onesies are here!!! 😭🎉😭

Just raccoon bonfire for now - but we have three more tiny screens to burn - what designs should we do next????

Remember, it could be Any of our artwork, it doesn't have to be something that's already on shirts. Let us know what you'd wanna see printed on Onesies in the comments!!! 😎🤩✨

Colors are pretty limited based on what's in stock with our wholesaler (I.e. Not nearly as many options as the adult tshirts). But we'll have a handful in the morning and the leftovers will go to .beautiful.idea next week. Hoping to get these listed in our shops this week (already took photos, so 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼).

From size newborn to 24 months! Toddler size tshirts on the way. 😘

Critter Butts will be Away & Not Working from July 24-31. Here are some snuggly kittens to make up for our absence.

This means we won't be at this Saturday, and you won't see Dylan or I .beautiful.idea this Thursday or next Tuesday. Our Etsy shop is on vacation. You can still technically order through our website, but only because all the shipping on there is 2-4 weeks lead time.

Are YOU on vacation? Keep an eye out for Critter Butts around the country! Here are the other great shops where you can hunt down some familiar feral trash creature goodness:

- Charlottesville VA
- Fredericksburg VA
***rva - Richmond VA
- Charlottesville VA
- Bellingham WA
- Taos NM
- Portland ORaspen - Swarthmore PA
- Iowa City IA
- Grass Valley CA
- Hot Springs NC
- Spokane WA
- Madison WI

Thanks to everyone who has welcomed our silly critter artwork into their shops! ✨ It feels very fancy to know our lil guys are in so many states this year.

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Just a chip bag cat for your evening. 🐈‍⬛

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Two very full boxes of merch are headed to in Fredericksburg tomorrow!

They'll have a freshly refilled clothing rack, and all of our newest sticker designs, as well as a small batch of the new 5x7 notebooks! We hope you like the wider selection. 🥹😘🎁✨

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👀📔🦝 Notebooks are here!!! 🦝📔👀

This has been in the works for So incredibly long. I finally sourced affordable wholesale notebooks made from 100% recycled paper, And figured out screen mesh and process for screen printing on these babies! I'm so stoked, I can't tell you how much I've wanted to have notebooks back on the table at market.

Come by this Saturday to be the first to buy one! They'll debut .beautiful.idea next week.

It'll take us a minute to get these listed online, but I promise it's now at the top of our list to get our shops up to date with our shirt, sticker, and other new releases from 2024.

We appreciate your patience as this ridiculous business continues to grow beyond our expectations and setup - we've been scrambling Hard for over a year now trying to keep up with y'all's enthusiasm. And we're getting there. 😮‍💨

More designs to come, don't worry.

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Newest shirt release! The snail that's been a holographic sticker for a while now Finally became a shirt 🥰

Why a snail? Bc all snails are intersex, & so inherently trans/binary-breaking. Also they're real cute 🥹🐌

The standard snail shirt is being printed on a nice gentle sage green, but for the summer you can also find them at and .beautiful.idea on random crops and tanks.

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Pride month release #1!

This design from Dylan debuted June 1st as a sticker, and the next weekend as a shirt - it features a cat with its head stuck in a bag of chips. This is based on a real life cat we saw last summer, ambling around a small town looking relatively unconcerned about its situation.

You can find the shirts & stickers Saturday mornings, .beautiful.idea Tuesdays - Sundays, and soon in our online shops (Etsy & www.CritterButts.com).

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So honored to have two prints from this talented artist already 😭🙌🏼💙

We love these t's 🥹💙

Can't wait to see all the other amazing art this weekend!!!

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