To say Happy Birthday Suw(h)at is still funny to actually put in writing.

It's your fault, really. You who risked into getting your hands (and money) into something that we created on a dusty corner of a house. An idea that was inspired by pop-culture and recycled papers. You see, when our first order came in through email, we actually screamed both internally and externally. It wasn't so much of gaining profit from it really (to be honest, I am *this* close to making it a non-profit organization. lel.) but it was mostly a scream of 'wow, someone actually wants one' kind of screams.

About 10 bazaars to date, about 500 notebooks stitched and released, a three to four digit likes on our social media pages, we still can't believe it all happening.

Those milestones we never really etched into stone in the first place, but you engraved it for us. And we can only come up with little ways to repay you in ways to have you celebrate with us. We have whipped up some contests and giveaways to all of you. And for those who have sworn fealty to us since the start, you may want to check your inboxes one of these days.

From all of us at Suw(h)at, thank you! And to many more notebooks and birthdays to come!

Five months into operation and I still get anxious every time. From coming up with new concepts and designs, from scratching things off the drawing board, from replying to emails and seeing you on meet-ups. All this to say that I am still overwhelmed by everything and thankful for all of you.

We may have strayed from othe original Suw(h)at plans as many things have been put into consideration, with you on top of our list of priorities. To be transparent with you guys, we've been doing and releasing everything out of excitement.

Think of it this way: It's like we've been putting things through fire and hoping they survive. And they all did, and out came dragons with them. Now we have dragons to take care of.

With this, Suw(h)at will have to take a step back a bit to look into the bigger picture and come back with even better things (how's a better ordering system sound or a clear shipping process?).
Suw(h)at grew up too fast that we (co-founders) had to catch up to its pace.

But we will be back. Sooner. And riding them dragons - with you of course!

How's that to remind you of your unreceived Hogwarts letter. And this is why I couldn't help but at least give you a (symbolic) piece of it through this month's theme.

This for me, and maybe a lot of kids my age out there, refers to this as the mother of all fandoms. Being a hardcore Potterhead my self, that my Harry Potter Book set will have to be buried with me on my grave and that.....I will have to stop this here or this gets too obsessed..or worse, expelled.. Point is, Harry Potter means a lot to me. And I'm sure it has the same effect to many of you as well.

So I give you the Hogwarts Four.
These were already released both pre-maturely (Pop-district Bazaar) and long-overdue (we missed the Hogwarts train on Sept.1st). Receiving a lot of excited and great feedback upon its release were all overwhelming. Even I get excited my self.

This is just the first wave, my dear magical folk.

I am open to  Harry Potter - related ideas and inspirations (did I hear someone say Hogwarts Textbooks?).

Let us be each others' pieces of Hogwarts letters, let us all raise our wands and let the magic live on for the month of October - November..heck, for the rest of our lives.

We know this post is sooo out-of-date, but have you guys seen Heneral Luna?! And *SPOILERS* that Spoliarium scene?? Guuuuuh my heart. It aches.

The more I thought about it, the more appropriate I thought it would be that we officially launched our SUPERHEROES theme that month as the movie really shows how human our "national heroes" really are and that they didn't only live their lives as printed in the black and white. Obviously we couldn't make our blogpost in time for our launch of the theme via social media but better late than never, lol.


For this theme, we decided to partner with renowned graphic designer, Sknny. He's a talent, let us tell you, and a good friend. What we wanted to do with this collaboration was to see if artists, their fanbase, and ours, would appreciate the partnership and, if proven successful, will help us plan more opportunities for both suw(h)at and the local talents in the community.


In light of National Heroe's Day, we chose Sknny's Project Sirkol set to transform into notebooks this month. Each notebook has a hundred pages and fifty sheets, the same size and materials as our Game of Thrones sets. We're hoping to get good feedback on this partnership and we hope Sknny will like how we're handling his designs!

So tell us about how your month has been. For those that have bought the SUPERHERO sets, how are you liking them? What do you all think about the design? And, most important of all, have you gone to see Heneral Luna? :D

Suw(h)at has just ended it's first monthly special. The latest season of Game of Thrones has left us all in tears and confusion as it wrapped up it's season finale episodes. Being one to have read the books, I've also been left distraught so I highly recommend reading (and watching) this series. SUFFER WITH US.

Ahem. Anyway, we're thrilled to have been received by you so warmly and that we've been working very hard to improve both our products and our brand. We just wrapped up our first bazaar and are now developing our July-August theme.

Pushing for this wasn't an easy task, but getting to meet a lot of you in person and in meetups, and scrolling through the #suwhatna tag, it's made all those sleepless nights of sewing worth it.

More announcements will be made in the future on the new theme as we partnered with a talented artist for the main design line that'll hopefully open new doors for us and for you. So stay tuned and long live notebooks!

I am hyperventilating right now, guys, thanks so much for this opportunity!

I know I have a ton of blog posts to catch up on to keep you updated but this just zoomed up the priority list for me. It's happening tomorrow and this is so real, I can smell sound. Granted, we only have a small 3ft x 4ft spot at the back of the room but still, this is so amazing and we've barely reached two months of operation and everything is happening so fast and all I want to say is just THANK YOU, MY LORDS AND LADIES for trusting suw(h)at and opening so many doors for us.

We'll be releasing three new lines tomorrow to celebrate our first ever Maker's Market. You can browse around our facebook and instagram profiles to see some of them but I'll be posting the new designs here on the blog later tomorrow.

The first design set will be SUPERHEROES, giving tribute to DC and MARVEL characters and even splashing in a little bit of other pop culture sigils while we're there. They're printed on suw(h)at's newly discovered signature design, which will also be featuring our new line of suw(h)at originals by slapping on a few of our favorite quotes and some of our own on the covers.

The third design will be due to popular demand: the Back to School series. You've seen me post a few shots of them back at our instagram page and I honestly didn't expect orders of them but I was proven wrong! Pleasantly so!

With all that said, I'll say THANK YOU again. Without you, this wouldn't have been possible so a big bow for us to you. We'll be posting updates on the new products and some announcements tomorrow so stay tuned, and we're excited to see you there!

We may have over-said this, but we'd like to say it again - thank you so much for the support - be it from purchasing our products or simply giving us your digital remarks on them.

Aside from that, we've received so many requests and we simply can't find it in our hearts to refuse (also because we can't risk being flayed or burnt alive). We've created and released new designs on our GoT line.

For a short period of time (until June 30), you may order a set of 5 with the Houses of your choice for 500php. Inidvidual design orders ar still worth 120php/piece.

You may choose from our 10available designs - Stark, Targaryen, Lannister, Martell, Tyrell,  The Night's watch, Arryn, Bolton, Baratheon and Greyjoy. Simply specify them upon ordering on our ORDER FORM. 

May this serve as a simple reminder to everyone that we may not always get to choose our battles, but we can always choose who/what to fight them with.

I can't thank you enough for being the wonderful supporters you are! We went well past our expected Thunderclap petition cap going up to 106 supporters! Yey!

The campaign rolled out last evening and we've been getting inquiries from all over ALL. THANKS. TO. YOU. We definitely won't keep your efforts unrewarded and the suw(h)at team is planning something special for all its fans and supporters for the upcoming months so stay tuned.

The campaign was such a blast that our social media pages are also gaining some new fans too! We've plowed past the 500 likes cap on Facebook and have reached a hundred followers on our Instagram account!



suw(h)at is still such a young brand and we would be nothing without you guys. In our less than a month of operation, we have had a feature in Sunstar, a blogging event, an opportunity to join a maker's market, and a huge following of people that we haven't even met in person before except during pickups!

Safe to say though that you guys are pulling our hair out with the orders and, despite all our flaws, you still keep coming back; and we feel so honored to have your trust.

We always emphasize the value we put on what our customers have to say so if you have any complaints or suggestions on any of our products, please tag us with #suwahtna so we can find your review and improve while we can.

As a sneak peak of our plans in the following months, we'll be releasing a new line of notebooks and possibly "reinventing" the brand. We learned a lot from serving all you early customers of suw(h)at and we plan on using those learnings to serve you even better.

With that said, I don't think I've emphasized enough how thankful and greatful we are for your support and we hope we will continue to earn your trust and serve you to the best for our ability.

Thanks so much and long live notebooks!

See that doo-dad on the right sidebar of our website? That's our Thunderclap campaign! Help us get to 100 to get our message of empowering (our) generation to write write write; across the world with our cool notebooks through social media! If it doesn't get to a hundred, then we'll be very sad :(

So click here or click the "Join this Thunderclap" button on the right side of the page, to sign in and support our petition.

So what is a Thunderclap? It's a platform where anyone can spread a message across thousands of networks through its supporters' social media accounts. Thunderclap automatically posts the petition you signed up for on the specified time and date of the organizers to make one united mass-publishing of your message, link, hashtag and campaign picture.

You can set what kind of campaign you're having as it gets sorted through numerous other Thunderclaps that are happening on the same time as yours is. What's great about this marketing campaign method, I think, is that it gets people that are genuinely interested in your cause to connect with you and support you in a legitimate way. It also drives you to create campaigns that reach out to them and make an actual conversation with your prospective clientele.

All that to say, I do hope you support our campaign and we look forward to serving you with more awesome content and products over the coming months. Thank you for all your support so far, though, and whatever happens from here on out, my fellow suw(h)at founders and I lift up our lit wands and gratefully thank you for your ongoing cheers for us!

This month's theme: Game of Thrones.

After months and weeks of preparation, frustration and piling up of reject products, I am finally ready to release the worthy ones into your hands.

Although I'm quite nervous at it, but it makes me excited all the same to know which houses do you belong in.

You guys may refer to this page for further product details.

Write on your pride.

suw(h)at is ready for take off.

That means I am ready to go public. Which also means that the product photos and order forms will be up this Friday!

After a moon's turn of finding the perfect materials and stacking up a lot of design mock-ups and samples, I think my brain children are finally ready.

Check out suw(h)at's facebook page for quick updates as well as random articles on writing, fandom and the like.

I'm also trying to pack the instagram page with selfies! Product selfies, of course.

I hope to be of service to you and your thoughts soon!

*play the Game of Thrones intro song in your head.

Which Game of Thrones family most represents you?
is your kindness taken as weaknesses like the Starks?
do you always pay your debts like the Lannisters?
or are you a Targaryen because WHO DOESN'T WANT TO HAVE PET DRAGONS in exchange of turning your hair white.
either way, I won’t be judging you.

For the month of May-June, I'll be hyping on some GoT inspired designs. Some of which may come in limited editions. So all the more reason to hoard notebooks.

I’m still trying to negotiate with the kings, regents or hands of the houses without having my tongue cut off. I can’t wait to go on sale.

Don't forget to check out our facebook page for GoT news articles, trivia and promos and giveaways ;)

For a smooth browsing experience, visit our instagram @suwhat_crafts

We vow to keep it them all spoiler-free.

If you have any concerns, questions or spoilers, contact me through suwhatinfo@gmail.com or message me on facebook at facebook.com/suwhatcrafts. I can't wait to know which family are you willing to cut your head for.