Shawny D. ChiefSac

I'm Back!!! Contest Winners!!! Ahhhhh----

   I never realized just how much my laptop had become an extension of my being until I've been forced to live without one....or at least with 1/2 of one, for the last month.  Our newest Sac'r, Rhyno Sun (who is our first Chinese employee) spilled a full mug of tea into the back of my brand new Macbook a few weeks ago while I was in China.  Still love him.  Poor kid - puked his first day on the job.  Hyper-active me was in the back of this cab, on our way to his first factory visit (he will oversee all our China operations) and I am giving him the hour-long LoveSac 101 on my laptop.  Before ya know it, he goes for the window, which has that child-proof roll-down-only 2/3 of the way...he crams his head out sideways.  Uggghhhh.  Nasty.  He was demoralized.  2 days later, he drowns my laptop.  I was worried he would go for ritualistic suicide.  But it's all good....at least he'll never forget his first week on the job with LoveSac.  Anyways, I waited it out.  Tried to get it fixed.  Now I'm just waiting on a new one of the same spec.  Can't seem to get that exact one.  It still works but only with an external monitor.  Fine for some, but when you spend as much time as I do in airports, hotels, and everywhere in between....AHHHHH - it has really messed up my Qi, man.  

I APOLOGIZE.  I have been lazy and out of sorts and I just haven't felt like blogging.  BUT, I owe it to y'all to (finally) announce winners to my "Is this sexist" contest #2...all about our Inked Cover Poster (see two blogs previous).  If you're a winner (below) you just won a SICK Sac Cover, or a $50 LoveSac gift card.  All you gotta do is email me your request and your info to chairmansac@gmail.com, and I'll hook you up.  Here we go:

MY FIRST CHOICE: JG.  JG WROTE... 

Is it sexist? Sure it is. To men. totally assumes that guys will buy a product just because it has a racy pic of a girl on it. which is fairly insulting to guys.

Posted by: JG | June 02, 2009 at 10:36 PM

WAY TO TURN IT AROUND JG.  I ACTUALLY HADN'T THOUGHT OF IT THAT WAY AT ALL, BUT YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT.  I THINK THAT BY DEGRADING THE OPPOSITE SEX, I JUST DEGRADED MY OWN.  WOW.

MY SECOND CHOICE: MS. S.A.C. WROTE...

This is bomb!!! I am a what many call a heavily tattooed person and I love it even more when i see ink branching out to furniture!!! I love this new look!!! I love it even more cause of my initials are SAC as well!! I missed out on getting the pajama bottoms when they were available years ago.... BUT that is another story.... Great job, way to stay on top of the Creative CURVE!!

Posted by: Shana A. Cronkleton | June 02, 2009 at 06:50 PM

 HOW CAN I HATE A GIRL WITH THE INITIALS SAC?  BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY: SHE GETS IT.  IT WASN'T ABOUT "DADS" OR "GRADS" REALLY.  IT WAS ABOUT WICKED COOL INKED FURNITURE.  WHO'S DONE THAT?  WHO DARES TO DO THAT?  WHO COULD DO THAT?...BUT LOVESAC WITH ITS CHANGEABLE COVERS.  GO AHEAD AND TAKE RISKS.  YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE IT!!!

FINALLY: AMANDA'S COMMENT...

No, I don't think this is sexist. I think that there is basically no way for that woman to be getting that large of a tattoo on her back with any clothing on from the waist up. I also think that if that were a man sitting there getting a tattoo, it would take away from the picture, and the overall feel of it. Face it men, even as the completely straight woman that I am, I can tell you that the female body is more aesthetically appealing. There have been studies done proving that the eye is drawn to objects that are round, and we are comforted by them. Who's our favorite cartoon character? Mickey Mouse, who is made almost entirely out of circles, soft edges and curved lines. Women are also made almost entirely out of circles, soft edges and curved lines. Men, on the other hand, are supposed to be more chiseled and hard, with rough edges, which are not as likely to be as pleasing to the eye... which defeats the purpose of an ad, actually.

Overall, I like the ad. It doesn't quite fit completely with fathers day... but who cares? Its not the fathers that buy their own gifts anyway.

Posted by: Amanda | May 20, 2009 at 09:28 PM

AGREED.  CHICKS ARE JUST PLAIN HOT.  OKAY, CALL ME A PIG - I'M MARRIED, NOT GAY.  IT ISN'T OFTEN THAT WE FIND OCCASION TO USE A MOSTLY NAKED FEMALE FORM IN OUR ADS, LIKE SO MANY OTHERS IN THE MALL, BUT IT IS NICE TO HAVE AN EXCUSE TO.  (NO, I WASN'T AT THIS PHOTO SHOOT).  BUT WAY TO GO BEN, OUR ART DIRECTOR, AND THE ENTIRE CREW WHO MAKE LOVESAC'S MARKETING WHAT IT IS.  

WAY TO GO EACH OF YOU FOR LEAVING COMMENTS.  I APPRECIATE IT, AND I WANT TO HEAR MORE FROM YOU.  I PROMISE, I'LL KEEP UP WITH THE BLOGGING IF YOU KEEP LETTING ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.  GOOD OR BAD.  THE 3 WINNERS ABOVE: PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR MAILING INFO AT CHAIRMANSAC@GMAIL.COM.  LET ME KNOW OF THE PRIZES LISTED IN THE ORIGINAL BLOG (2 PREVIOUS) WHICH PRIZE YOU WANT.  YOU'LL GET IT.  I'LL LEAVE YOU WITH THIS:

So we hired these 3 dudes off of Craigslist to paint our office (we're in the middle of a minor/major remodel).  They were supposed to be finished over the weekend.  Monday morning, 11am, and this dude is STILL passed out on the floor.  15+ people milling about at LoveSac HQ, making copies, speaking loudly, moving furniture, and this dude sleeps right through it...for hours...on the floor.  At one point he was scratching himself - you know.  

Moral of the story: finish on time, or be ridiculed.

ROCK ON.  KEEP ROCKIN' THE SAC.

--Shawny D.

LoveSac as a Baby Product!?

It is always fun to discover new (sometimes obscure) uses for our unique LoveSac products.  Here is a new one that is actually extremely useful for young parents, or parents with young children on flights.  Every parent knows that it is often difficult and embarrassing trying to keep a kid quiet on a flight across the country.  LoveSac is the solution:  It is likely that most of you aren't even aware that we make a product called the SpeakerSac Pillow.  The SpeakerSac Pillow is a TubeSac Pillow (neck-roll) with speakers in either end of it.  It has a magnetic snap, allowing it to snap on to most Sac Covers, instantly turning any LoveSac into the perfect game chair with surround sound, no AC power necessary!  

Anyway, I took the entire family west, yesterday, as Tiffany's sister is about to have her 2nd baby - making yet another cousin for our little Lucky Anne, who turned 1 year old about a month ago.  Lucky is a great kid, but, as any parent knows, kids don't exactly love to fly.  Actually, I don't think she has anything against flying really, but she definitely hates being trapped on a lap, in a narrow row, inside of a metal tube for 5 hours.  What she does like is Baby Einstein videos - she'll sit, staring for hours at these weird videos in content silence as long as she can hear them....but she is not about to sit there with headphones on - she is an infant, and just doesn't understand the concept of something bulky on her head.  

SOLUTION: Travel with a SpeakerSac Pillow, by LoveSac!  I'm taking the SpeakerSac with me on my trip to China this week as a sample to discuss with one of our factories.  But on the way, we plugged it into the laptop, played a Baby Einstein video with the volume low, hugged Lucky and the SpeakerSac Pillow, and she watched, quietly, for hours.  HA!  Who knew?  The SpeakerSac is a must-have for parents traveling with infants.  (The SpeakerSac Pillow you see pictured above is a limited-edition one that comes with the current "Inked" BigOne package, from LoveSac).

...just another of the 1001 uses for LoveSac in your life.

IF YOU HAVE ANY NEW OR UNIQUE USES FOR YOUR SAC, SACTIONALS, OR OTHER LOVESAC GEAR LET ME KNOW AND I'LL POST IT HERE!  Email me: chairmansac@gmail.com.

-- Shawny D.

Is THIS Sexist??? comment & win

A few posts previous there were all kinds of great comments on our Mother's Day artwork.  Some  loved it, finding it cute, fun, and interesting; others absolutely hated it, finding it sexist, in poor taste, and offensive.  Here we go again with our Father's Day ad...Is THIS one sexist???  Comment here.   

ABOVE is our Dad's and Grad's ad and window poster celebrating father's day and graduation!  This is hanging in every store window now.  The Sac/Squatt Cover package that goes along with this art has over 300,000 stitches in a straight-stitch embroidery using 3 colors of black, purple, blue thread making up its unique "inked" design.  This is the first ever Sac of its kind.  But in this case, it is the ad/poster I am asking about.  What do you think?  Love it?  Hate it?  ALL comments are welcome, and the 3 comments that I like best (the funniest, most thoughtful or well-argued comments), will win THEIR choice of an Easter Phur Cover worth over $300 (Super, Movie, or CitySac) from our last Limited Edition Line, OR a $50 in-store gift card. All comments due by Monday, June 1st.  I'll annonce a winner by June 5th. 

PS: Hats off to designer Alex Hinton from Salt Lake City, UT - the baddest ink artist in the land. (That is NOT him pictured above)

I look forward to hearing what you have to say!  Don't hold back, either way.

-- Shawny D.

Freakin' Weirdos

My favorite thing about Lovesac is the people.  Retail requires logs of people.  People at HQ.  People in the stores.  Customers, even...and with lots of people we get plenty of weirdos.  I like weird people.  They make the company interesting.  RIGHT: That is a Sactionals Base Box.  Meet Lauren - the woman who makes it all happen at HQ.  If you received product, at any level, its likely at least partly Lauren's fault that you did.  But, as Doreen will tell you, "This is what happens when you don't behave." Don't ask me what she did to deserve this, but take comfort in the fact that we are not a government agency - no your hard-earned tax dollars are not paying for these antics.

Charlie, our resident travelling weirdo, seeing this photo of Lauren was not to be outdone.  He passed along this freakish photo (RIGHT) of himself in a box from years to go via email.  I'm not sure why.  Freakin' weirdo:

Finally, on our last trip to China, Dave Underwood, my biz partner of 10 years and Director of Product Development here at LoveSac was compelled to share a room with his assistant, Product Deisgner, Spencer.  Spencer is a light sleeper and Dave saws logs.  I mean this dude snores like snoring was an Olympic sport. 

Las trip, Spencer ended up sleeping behind a closed door, in the bathtub.  This time, Spencer was not about to be run out of his own room.  He put Dave's butt in the bathroom...in style:  (yes, that is the entire bed) 

 

 

-- Shawny D.

Hotel LoveSac: Using Sactionals as Beds!

The new HOTEL LOVESAC was constructed in less than 5 minutes and cost far less to build than the $1 Billion Yankee's Stadium we visited once they arrived.  My sister, Wendy, and her entire family came to stay with us on the East Coast this weekend--her first trip ever to the Big Apple and her kid's first time sleeping 100% on LoveSac furniture (parents took the guest room).  Check out how Sactionals and PillowSacs make absolutely perfect extra guest beds, in case you ever need one.  Here's how:

1. Have friends (or family). Or, as some have been known to do, use LoveSac furniture as your only furniture.  (Yes, my nephew, Tyler, is putting his Yankees ice cream helmet-cup on my dog).

2. Tuck in your Ottoman (lone Base Piece) into the L-corner of your Sactionals sectional.  Secure moste easily with clamp, alone. 

3. Move Back Pillows. Place mattress topper or blanket over cushions. Sactionals cushions are LoveSac soft, and definately large enough (roughly Queen sized) to sleep on.  A mattress topper to cover the cracks makes them softer than most beds!  Also, Sactionals Bases are flat on top, not sloped back/down like all other sofas...making Sactionals excellent guest beds.

4. Just add bedding.  My favorite are goose down filled comforters....available at LoveSac.com very soon, btw! 

5. PillowSac Rocker: multi-functional.

6. PillowSac guest bed by night.  Just place black Rocker Frame (upper left) on its side - stores easily.  Lay down on the PillowSac.  OR, the newest Khaki PillowSac Inserts from LoveSac are actually 1 foot longer than the Covers, making them exactly the size of a "Full" (or "Double") Mattress!  Take the Cover off and fit it with "Full" sheets. (shown below with Eskimo Phur Cover still on.

 

7. Just add guests. Matt & Jess out cold.

  

8. My dog chooses the Sac over any "real" bed any day.

PS: Don't forget to teach your nephews the lessons their parents won't: How to ride motorcycles and how to catch crabs.  :)

-- Shawny D.   - Manager, Hotel LoveSac