Pre-orders for our Spring COLORS edition, PACKET of SUNSHINE, shipped out Friday and Monday and the sunshine is already spreading to mailboxes around the world.

Thanks for the schloads of kind tweets* and emails. Photos are popping up all over the place, including COLORS subscriber John Abella’s Flickr set that shows off the whole package pretty well.

Three-Packs and COLORS subscriptions are still available!

*Speaking of Twitter, today would be a good day to start following “fieldnotesbrand.”

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Thanks to Michael Williams of A Continuous Lean for the kind shoutout in Time Out New York’s Blogger’s Choice “Trend Watch” (Slide #5).

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If you’d subscribed to FIELD NOTES COLORS when it was announced last winter, you’d have a pretty impressive collection right now. You’d have (counterclockwise from the right) six Butcher Orange from Winter 2009, six Butcher Extra Blue from Spring 2009, six letterpress-embossed Grass Stain Green from Summer 2009, two copies each of the Mackinaw Autumn collection from Fall 2009 and the Just Below Zero collection from Winter 2010, and your two Packets of Sunshine would be on the way.

You’d also have two free 3-Packs of regular FIELD NOTES (one graph, one mixed), not to mention a ton of the extra stuff we throw in each mailing.

Subscribe now with a Packet of Sunshine subscription and don’t miss out on these limited-edition beauties and FIELD NOTES of the future. At the very least, join our mailing list (top of the left column) and find out first about new COLORS releases. Dum-dah-dee-dum! Thanks for your support!

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Our sixth limited edition of FIELD NOTES COLORS memo books is available now! The PACKET of SUNSHINE features three vibrant yellow notebooks packaged in a custom seed envelope, complete with marigold seeds and growing instructions. The FIELD NOTES e-mail list got first dibs (sign up to your left), but there are still a limited number of COLORS subscriptions available to the general public. (Individual 3-Packs are SOLD OUT.)

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One of our favorite people, Interaction Design czar Brendan Dawes, is using some of our favorite software, Evernote to catalog his FIELD NOTES.

For each Field Note book I simply scanned (…) each double spread (…) Then I made a new notebook in Evernote and dropped them in.

Here’s the killer thing though. Evernote indexes handwritten notes and makes the text searchable. It’s not perfect but it now means that my Field Notes archive is now searchable. It also means that they’re always with me; on my iPhone, the web or on my desktop.

Evernote made their own custom-branded FIELD NOTES way back in October 2008, we’ve always known that Evernotes and FIELD NOTES were a match made in heaven.

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Here’s an incredible specimen I dug up in recent travels around the nation. All the way from Rutland, Vermont.

I have a good buddy who grew up in Rutland by the name of Pat Bridges. He’s the longtime Editor of Snowboarder magazine, and he’s come a long, long way since his surly days on the mean streets of Rutland. Hell of a writer. Funny as hell. Wittier than you. Every time I think about Pat and his Rutland upbringing, I think about his story about his youthful, near-death experience with “Rocky Mountains Spotted Fever.” But that’s a whole ‘nother story.

Pat Bridges. Rutland. Old memo books. Good stuff on a Friday, people.

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