Last Wednesday we offered a free FIELD NOTES Mixed 3-Pack to anyone ordering anything from Coudal.com. Response was positive, to say the very least, and we had a busy few days filling all the orders. A few cheapskates ordered six pencils for $3.49 to get their free 3-Pack, but hey, the deal said “anything,” and we stood by it. Ain’t nothing wrong with taking advantage of a good deal.

Here at FN HQ, we all buckled down and packed orders (in my case, forgetting the free 3-Pack half the time and having to re-pack orders). All the bulging kraft-paper envelopes were traveling to points all over the globe by Friday morning, and we’ve started to see the usual (and appreciated!) blog postings, emails, flickr photos, and such that accompany any FIELD NOTES mailing blitz. As just one example, Tom Zeigler of NYC sent the photo above of our “FN-09 General Purpose Band of Rubber” TOTALLY DOMINATING his rubber band ball.

If you missed out on this surprise offer (it was a surprise even to us until Wednesday morning), you’ll certainly want to sign up for our mailing list, up there in the top left corner of the page. If an occasional email is too much to bear, try our RSS feed (but only the mailing list gets new COLORS presale announcements!).

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300 BUTCHER ORANGE 3-packs sold out in 27 hours last week. The remaining packs are being offered as part of our FIELD NOTES COLORS subscription service. Only 100 subscriptions will be sold, and they’re selling briskly, here’s how to score two 3-Packs of BUTCHER ORANGE and the next three quarterly limited-edition FIELD NOTES.

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As promised, today we’ve got some new product for you. FIELD NOTES 3-packs are shipping now with your choice of Graph, Ruled, or Plain paper, and if you can’t make up your mind, we’ve got a Mixed 3-Pack with one of each. We’ve even got new goodies to ship out with ‘em. It’s like the first day of school up in here.

Regarding BUTCHER ORANGE: 500 3-packs were printed. 300 of them are gone. We just sent out an email to subscribers about how to score the rest. If there are any left tomorrow morning, we’ll post about it here. I don’t know what we’ve got to do to get you on our mailing list. If you love FIELD NOTES, please do yourself a favor and sign up. It’s nothing but good stuff.

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Ooh, ooh! Sure, you could PAY for FIELD NOTES, or you could WIN them with minimum effort. It goes a little something like this:

1. The mighty Doodlers Anonymous is giving away FIELD NOTES 3-packs to three lucky winners who submit a doodle before Friday January 30. Ooh! That’s today! Hurry! See site for details.
2. Freefroot offers daily product giveaways that promote aesthetically- and environmentally-friendly products. Next Wednesday (If we’re doing our math right), they’re giving away THE KIT to the four entries offering the most compelling use for FIELD NOTES. Set your alarm to follow their countdown, then visit the link provided to enter.

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Mailing-list members got first crack at preordering limited edition “Butcher Orange” FIELD NOTES yesterday afternoon. They sold out in 27 hours. (The response was so positive, it temporarily seized our shopping cart software, sorry about that!) If that’s not a good reason to join our mailing list (sign up to the left), I don’t know what is.

If you missed out, fret not, there’s a van full of new FIELD NOTES memo books on the way, with some variations requested by you, our beloved customers. There will be plenty of FIELD NOTES for everyone. We also held on to a few Butcher Orange 3-packs, we’ll let you know how you can score those when we unveil the new products next week. Stay tuned!

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Hey, FIELD NOTES friends, it’s time to stock up on school supplies. Coudal Partners is offering a 15% discount across our entire range of products, including FIELD NOTES, through midnight, Saturday August 30. Use coupon code “BACK2SCHOUDAL.”

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What honor could be more prestigious than seeing your work on display in a museum? To be honest, curators aren’t lighting up our switchboard, but museum gift shop managers sure are, and we’re happy to stand balanced on that fine line between art and commerce. FIELD NOTES are on the way to Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s X Stores, the London Design Museum’s Shop, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles’ shops, and they’re already in stock at many other fine retailers worldwide. How about YOUR shop?

Special offer: Order 4 or more 3-packs before midnight Saturday, and we’ll pay for one of ‘em. Use coupon code MUSEUMQUALITY.

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While you’re lighting your Frost Bites and Flaming Cobras this weekend, thank the Chinese for never running out of creative ways to blow things up.

Wait, no, we’re supposed to be thanking America. Spread the love of FIELD NOTES, which just so happen to be made here in America, with our special offer: Drop four 3-packs of FIELD NOTES in the ol’ shopping cart, with coupon code FIRECRACKER and we’ll only charge you for three 3-packs. Offer valid through Sunday, July 6, 2008.

In the immortal words of Camper Van Beethoven:

Just be glad you live in America,
Just relax and be yourself.
‘Cause if you didn’t live here in America,
You’d probably live somewhere else.

(Shout out to Shelton Fireworks, where we would have totally bought hundreds of dollars worth of fireworks last Sunday afternoon, if they weren’t totally illegal in Illinois.)

Note: FIELD NOTES are not red/white/blue, we did that with computers.

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