Lost on Flickr?
Posted: 25/01/2010 Filed under: Business 1 CommentAuthor: Ngoc
We know how frustrating it can be when you can’t find the picture that you want. We’ve had a lot of requests from people to put up a blog posting on how to search for images on our Flickr site. Hopefully by the end of this post, you will have no trouble navigating and finding exactly what you need.
Our photos are organized into collections and sets. Collections are made up of sets, and sets are made up of photos.
We recommend starting in the collections view at www.flickr.com/soakwash/collections or by clicking on the collections tab.
In this instance, I selected the “Inspired by everything Ravelry” collection. You can see that there are 3 sets within this collection.
Next you click on the set that best describes the photo that you want. For our example, I selected “Creative Juices yarns”. That will then take you to a page that shows all the individual images that are included in that set.
Once you find the photo you want to use, select it to enlarge the photo. You can change the size to one that suits your needs by clicking “+all sizes” above the top left hand corner of the image.
You will be taken to a window that shows all the available sizes. Select the size you need and click download. A window will pop up, click save and then choose the destination.
Once you’ve downloaded the image, you can return to our other photos by clicking “back to the Flickr photo page” on the top left hand corner of the screen.
Search using tags
We have used tags to further organize all of our photos. In the tags view, it shows words that have been used to describe our photos. For instance, clicking on the word ‘bottle’ will open up a window that includes all of our images that have been tagged with the word ‘bottle’.
Still lost? Email Ngoc@soakwash.com for a personal tour.
It’s Friday and I’m bagged. Week 1: A brief history.
Posted: 22/01/2010 Filed under: Craft, Design, Travel | Tags: bags, Jacqueline Sava Leave a commentAuthor: Jacqueline
Grab a coffee or tea and join us each Friday to learn how these Soak worthy bags came to be. Are you bagged? Send us your favorite bag. If we feature it here, we’ll send you a Soak gift pack, in a pretty bag, of course!
She loved the prints, the colours, the sayings and, I’m certain, the shopping that went along with them. Many bags are from boutiques that no longer exist, or stores that have changed their name, logo and image, time and time again. Did you know that Banana Republic used to be a ‘Travel & Safari Clothing Company’? (I miss those old Banana Republic t-shirts with lions and tigers and bears, oh my!) Club Monaco is a great Canadian brand of the past. Roots is still around with its iconic beaver et al. Remember Ken Done with those great water colours and prints?
I guess that’s where my fascination for bags began. Where we live, in the city of Toronto, Canada, there’s a new bylaw that states that retailers must now charge a minimum of $.05 for a plastic bag. This trend towards re-usable bags has created a larger than life collection of brilliant bags at our office. We now travel the globe, attending trade shows, visiting customers and of course, shopping. While our bag collection is often used for carrying Soak to and from the office, some of our bags are becoming icons in their own ways.Each Friday we’re going to share part of our bag collection with you. You’ll learn about bags from our distributors, Soak retailers, events we’ve sponsored and places we’ve been. We’ll include fascinating facts, merchandising tips and whatever else we find in the bag. So sit down, grab a coffee or tea and join us each Friday to learn how these bags came to live at our office.
Food for (holiday) thought
Posted: 03/12/2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Jacqueline Sava 1 CommentAuthor: Jacqueline
A while back I received my beautiful apple cozy(ies) in the mail at the office. I bought 4 from UnravelMe… One for me, one for my sister and two for friends with whom we spend every Xmas eve. It was love at first sight.
This year, our friends have decided that for Xmas, we are each to bring a bag of food for the local food bank (USA) local food bank (Canada) rather than bringing gifts. Brilliant. We’ve also extended this great idea to our family Hanukkah party.
Since I already have my 4 apple cozies I am still going to bring them, each with apples inside. I believe they fit right in with the food bank theme. Mine however, will live at my office with or without an apple in it (depending on my lunch that day) because it’s just that pretty.
We’ve already begun collection food for the local food bank at the Soak office. Our friends and family brought food offerings to our holiday open house. We encourage you to give to your local food bank this holiday season. As most families are financially strained, so are the food banks. I also learned that food banks (at least the ones near us) can’t use plastic bags any more, so donating re-usable bags is also a great idea. Happy holidays.
Happy Thanksgiving to our American friends and customers!
Posted: 25/11/2009 Filed under: Craft, Design, Soak Stockists Leave a comment
Mini-soak Merchandising at its finest. Sometimes, our crafty skills shine in unexpected ways.
Enjoy the holiday and don’t forget to include Soak in your holiday shopping and gift-giving plans.
Order online or see our list of retailers to find one near you.
Meet our new BFF
Posted: 25/11/2009 Filed under: Soak Worthy People Leave a commentAilie, our National Account Manager came to visit yesterday with Katie, her lovely new daughter. Best wishes to Ailie, Katie and their entire family! We look forward to her return to the office. The library has already been fitted for a play pen. I’m feeling the need to also secure some dragon-fly night lights and other fun crafty decorations.
This is the quilt I made Katie. She’s such a snuggle bunny. It was love at first sight.
Candy Apples and the Entrepreneur Hour
Posted: 23/11/2009 Filed under: Business, Food Leave a commentFriday afternoon I had the pleasure of taping an episode of the E-hour with Steve Stunt. (air date to follow, I think this Sunday the 29th) With me was fellow entrepreneur Paul Moyer of Moyer’s Candy Apples. We chatted about our experiences in business and in the Dragons’ Den. Paul’s family has an apple farm and is now well-known for his candy apples.
On my regular trip to the market Saturday, I realized that I was already quite familiar with Paul’s products. In addition to securing a candy apple, I stumbled upon the most elegant form of cauliflower, cauliflower romanesco. It was love at first sight, and dinner Sunday. Yum. All were carried home in my favorite market bag, from Borough Market, in London England.
Soakwash.com is back up and running.
Posted: 06/11/2009 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a commentWe’re Modern Laundry Experts, not web pros.
Our site is back up. Sorry if you missed us while we were away.
If you need us in the mean time, give us a call @ 905-270-7625 or email contact@soakwash.com.
Posted: 03/11/2009 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
Playing around in Wordle, this is what our corporate vision generated.
Organization of Women in Trade
Posted: 29/10/2009 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
Join us on November 4th for the 20th anniversary of OWIT. At Soak we’re proud members of OWIT-Toronto working hard to foster international trade and the advancement of women in business. We’re also up for the Woman Exporter of the Year award… I’ll keep you posted on how that goes.
a letter from Andrea, the summer intern…
Posted: 22/10/2009 Filed under: Design, Travel Leave a commentI realized that I should really post the thank-you (love) letter to Soak from our summer intern Andrea. This is particularly important as she returns to our office Monday to work during her reading week. She was a dream to have at the office, we enjoyed teaching her as much as she enjoyed learning. This is her, along with her first knit scarf! Below find the letter she left for us on her last day.
Being a summer intern, entails me only staying at Soak for the summer. I felt it was necessary to write you all a lovely send off message before I leave to go back to school so you will remember me (not like that will be hard, I am pretty awesome). Jacqueline, I will be using your printer to print out this letter, luckily, it isn’t a resignation letter, so I have one up on that other guy who used your printer to print something of this sort off.
Moving on….I tend to ramble on with these sorts of things. My friends always make fun of me for it. I wouldn’t be surprised if this ended up to be about a page long. Lucky for those of you who read it!
Working here this summer has been awesome. I’ve definitely learnt on a lot of stuff that I wouldn’t have in another workplace and I really appreciate being able have that opportunity. Also, I’m not complaining about how nice my hands smelt after doing some bottle washings.
Knowing that you have a great group of people behind you to help you out everyday is fantastic, and made me feel a whole lot less intimidated. I was able to break out of my shell and become a pretty different person. Lots of laughs, and stories contributed to this extra boost of confidence. I was able to get comfortable with everyone which makes coming into work everyday much easier. I’d like to thank each and every one of you for contributing to that.
Ailie: I wouldn’t want to share a stapler with anyone else. I wish both you and baby best wishes. Enjoy the big boy desk. It’s only brought me good times.
Chris: I’d still be a non-knitter if it wasn’t for you. Just thinking about that is unfortunate. I will be wearing that purple scarf everyday come wintertime. Thanks for helping me out with everything you did throughout this summer. You are hilarious. Just absolutely hilarious.
Jacqueline: 1. Thank you for my job. I am forever grateful. 2. Best boss ever yes? Yes. I’m most definitely not trying to kiss ass here. It’s most definitely true. Thank you for letting me into Soak to learn AND work at the same time. You are a fantastic person
Dafina: You’re super awesome, and great to work with! Have fun, and congrats again on being Canadian! 🙂
So I would like to leave you with one last thing. The box area is both yours and my friend. Be kind to it, it really did no harm to you.
Have fun and don’t miss me too much. I know it will be hard. -AL
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