Thanksgiving night – Monday night, save 25% off anything Mimi Green manufacturers with Mimi Green’s (second) biggest sale of the year! Stock up for your furry friends!
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Some mornings you wake up to find out your dog collar is one of Ryan Seacrest’s favorite things and in the NY Post! And those days….. those days are awesome! We are so happy that Georgia (Ryan Seacrest’s Black Lab) loves her Mimi Green Collar.
I know we are pretty excited about these new leather collars, but it is great to see others sharing the love. Wanna see more? Check out our leather collars, available in green, blue, black, dark brown, and tan.
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We’re pretty happy around Mimi Green as of late and for good reason, or should I say reasons. Firstly, our newest addition to the seemingly ever-expanding Mimi Green line is ready to go, and they are sharp!
Our 24k. gold plated and genuine nickel plated Mimi Green personalized dog breed dog ID tags are now available for 100+ breeds in 2 sizes. And let me tell you, these are not the run-of-the-mill brass, or stainless steel, tags you might be familiar with. They are very well made and feel like little pieces of jewelry. The small size is perfect for toy and small breeds, and features up to three lines of personalized text on the back, while the large size is suitable for medium to large breeds, and has up to four lines of text. I have included a few examples below but be sure to check them out on the site along with all of the other great dog ID tags we currently offer.
Walnut came to us Yesterday after a friend dropped him off at the Mimi Green Studios. He is staying with us until he can find a new home, although I suspect that he already has (with us)! I guess we will just have to wait and see. He came to us as Leroy, from a house where he had literally been living on his own, all by himself for a couple of months. He has not left our side since arriving and has slowly (well, actually very quickly!) won over our hearts.
Walnut chose his favorite person quickly, and needless to say – it is Augustine! Here they are relaxing before lunch. He is also a great model, as you can clearly see. In these images he is content and quite happy in his Mimi Green Cebra Loca (Crazy Zebra) harness.
He is also modeling the Personalized Mi Corazon (My Heart) collar with a Mimi Green Pug dog ID tag.
Thanks for reading, hope you had a great labor day weekend. Oh Yeah, Walnut wanted to make sure you all have his discount code for our new Mimi Green Personalized Dog Bred Dog ID Tags; he’s wearing his in the above picture:
Enter the following code during checkout for 15% off our new Mimi Green Personalized Dog Breed Dog ID Tags: breed15
We are not only dog lovers here at Mimi Green, but major animal lovers. We don’t descriminate! Here at the office we have a pet goldfish, lots of pet shrimps, 4 snails and our employees collectively have 14 dogs (of course!), 2 parrots, a dove, a gecko & 3 cats.
Our lovely black moor goldfish Kermie is, next to Chupa, the unofficial office mascot. I fell in love, and I mean head over heels in LOVE, with him last April because he looks like a pug (correction, he looks exactly like Chupa!)
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It is no secret that I LOVE pugs, so you won’t be surprised to hear I had a blast with these monkeys today. Tracy brought her two pugs Zack and Zelda (who you have probably seen all over our site and blog, they are the cutest!) and her bf’s pug Stella (you remember her, we named our Stella Rose and Blue collars after her!)
I love this photo. It reminds me of an early 1900s photo where everyone is so stoic.
Zack is such a ham, he didn’t take a single bad photo.
and Zelda has such a great “pug” look to her. She is as sweet as she is beautiful too.
We had some bloopers too, Zack decided he was such a good model that he should be in EVERY photo, so he photo bombed Stella.
And of course, no photo shoot would be complete without Chupa.
The pugs had so much fun, Zack asked if he could give you all a coupon to save some $ on these new styles. I’m weak to him, so I agreed.
Coupon good till April 25!
We’ve had tons of requests for reflective dog collars but I just couldn’t figure out how to make them as cute as our other collars. After tons of thought we finally had custom colored reflective ribbon made just for us and came up with some super cool reflective collars!
(isn’t Minion cute! She is our manager Paula’s puppy and she is turning 1 next week! She came from the the Save a Mexican Mutt Rescue which is an awesome organization who helps save dogs on the streets in and around San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.)
We started with Grape, Raspberry, Forrest Green, Aqua Blue and Black but will have tons of other colors by summer.
I was skeptical, but these collars turned out more awesome than I could have imagined!
We also used the reflective ribbon to make our Personalized Buckle Dog Collars
The 3M reflective tape looks grey in daylight, but even indoors any ray of light reflects brightly on this collar. This way any approaching vehicle will spot you and your dog from up to 1000 feet away so you will both stay safe on your evening walks!
I love these pugs. If you have been following us for long, you probably recognize Zoe, Zack and their little sis Zelda Pug. They are probably 3 of our biggest cheerleaders, they’ve been wearing Mimi Green almost exclusively for the past 4 years!
They belong to my friend Tracy, she says they are a pug gang but I’m not too scared 😉 Although, anytime someone is missing an eye I gotta wonder what happened to the other guy in the fight! The missing eye defiantly makes Zoe look mysterious 😉
Zelda is wearing our new Cora collar, Zack is wearing the Tangerine Collar, Zoe is in the Madeline Collar and all three of them are wearing our laser engraved personalized collar buckles!
What I love about these personalized collars is that there is no need for noisy jingling tags, but Tracy likes the look of their handmade tags so these pugs wear both.
I know it must be hard to choose between the plastic and metal engraved buckle collars, so I thought I’d put together a list about each of their qualities to help.
PLASTIC ENGRAVED PERSONALIZED DOG COLLAR BUCKLE:
METAL ENGRAVED PERSONALIZED DOG COLLAR BUCKLE:
I think that either way you can’t go wrong. They are both really wonderful buckles and they are both super strong (which is very important in a dog collar buckle). My dogs are currently using the plastic buckles and we love them. I also have an engraved plastic buckle on my camera strap (pictures coming very soon — it looks SO cool!) with my named engraved. Tracy’s dad came up with that idea — brilliant, right!? I feel so happy every time I see my buckle with MY name on it! I imagine that my dogs feel the same way about their engraved buckles (well they would if they could read right!)
We love the Spring here at Mimi Green. Spring is great because it is 1. the end of winter and 2. Spring collar time! Every Spring we design 5-7 new fabric collars which will be our staples for the year. This year was especially fun because we had SO many awesome fabrics to choose from. So, with no further ado, meet Cora, Jones, Louie, Stella Blue & Stella Rose!
I think this might be our strongest line ever (I probably say that every year, right!?) But seriously, I LOVE every one of these collars! I loved Stella so much that I had to make it in two color ways. It is a super funky West Indies pattern, it looks like a fabric you’d find in Anthropologie.
I also am super excited because two of the collar patterns are specifically for boy dogs. We get asked a lot to make more masculine collars and this year we listened. The Louie and the Jones are just about as masculine as a designer fabric dog collar can get. I can totally imagine a big male dog sporting either one of these collars with pride 😉
Sadly, we had to say goodbye to our very popular Caroline Collar this month, but its replacement, Cora, is just as beautiful.
As with all of our collars, these are named after dogs we know and love. Just for fun, meet the real :
So here’s to the tulips blooming, allergies kicking in, more daylight and new doggie collars! Gotta love the Springtime.
(Cora & Jones photos by the amazing Kim Jackson Photography)
& to celebrate, please use code Spring2012 to save 15% off of any of these new styles of collars, leashes, harnesses and key fobs!
Welcome to our new blog! We loved our old Typepad blog, but it was time to move it onto our own site, so here we are on WordPress. Bear with me as I learn all the ins and outs of WordPress (which is awesome so far btw!).
Besides the big blog change, we’ve also had some other big changes around Mimi Green. This past week we started to add a new line of designer DSRL camera straps to our brand! I know this is getting off track a bit, we are first and foremost a dog collar company, but I have a good explanation. I love making products that I would want to use. In fact, I have a super hard time making new products that I don’t use myself (it took me two years to make harnesses and I still don’t have all of our styles for sale!) I use every single thing we make and I love using them. To be frank, my personal constituiton only allows me to make products I am passionate about.
We all know I am passonate about dogs, but that wasn’t my first passion. Since I can remember, my greatest passion in life has been art. When I started college, I knew that I wanted to get an art degree, but that I should get a more pracical degree. I was on the fast track to getting my bachlor’s in journalism, but I just couldn’t fight the urge to be a student of art. Even though it added a few extra years onto my college expierince, I made the switch. At first I thought for sure I’d be a painter, but things changed after my first photography class. Amanda + camera = love at first site. And its been that way for the past 10 years with no wavering. I even met my husband because of photography — he was a photo grad student when I was doing my undergrad (and he was my photo teachers roomate.)
Dan and I got married while he was finsihing up his degree and we made big plans — I wanted to work in a museum (and I did for a bit) and he wanted to teach photography at the university level (and he did for a bit too). We had a great plan, fate laughed at it, and now we are fulfilling our destiny with a dog collar company that we LOVE.
And we do love sharing our passion for dogs with all of you, so I thought that this was the year when I could share some of my passion for photography with you too.
Just like Mimi Green collars started, Mimi Green camera straps began as a gift I made for myself. I looked and looked for a new upscale camera strap that matched my style and only found straps that I sort of liked, nothing I loved. So, I spent a Saturday in the studio and made my own!
I really loved seeing our collar patterns in camera strap form and working with leather was AWESOME so I made more. And each one has been prettier than the last.
I can’t wait for all of you to see the full line up. The coolest thing is that you will be able to buy a camera strap that matches your dog’s collar! We have the most amazing flower embossed Italian leather coming in the next 4 weeks and then we can get rolling. In the mean time, you can see the few that I did make here.
AND if that’s not enough news for ya, our Spring line of collars, leashes and harnesses launches this week! Stay tunned…
I have been so excited for today — you would have thought that I had entered and had a chance at winning. I guess I was just excited to see which of you would win — I had so much fun reading all your comments and I really wished all of you could win!
I wasn’t sure how we were going to choose a winner, so I asked my 11-year old son Noah to choose a number between one and 100 (to coorospond with each comment) He chose a number and the winner is….
Sarah Miller!
Posted by: Sarah | January 02, 2012 at 10:21 PM
Congrats Sarah, you win a laminated cotton collar & leash of your choice! (we will email you with all the details!)
and… she’s not the only lucky winner today.
Our runner up, who wins for being the most creative (I mean, he made a sign people!) is…
Louie the Frenchie and his momma Jess!
Louie wins a laminated cotton collar of his choice.
Thanks for entering! That was really fun, we’ll be sure to do it more often!!
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