I’ve been reflecting on my raison d'être, and it feels wonderfully clear… I simply want to come to work each day, making sure I leave a light touch on the world while sharing warmth and joy wherever I can. I want to make things for tender hearts—maybe because I am one, maybe because the people I love often have them.
I looked up the word “tender” while writing this. I found the expected definitions like gentle, sensitive, vulnerable, but I also found something entirely new to me:
tender
5. Nautical (of a ship): leaning or readily inclined to roll in response to the wind.
I want to be ready to roll in response to the wind. I want to feel alive, flexible, fluid, tuned in. I want my tenderness to be the thing that steels me against a world that wants me numb. Is holding onto this feeling of aliveness actually the most radical thing?
Hi there, if you’re new-ish here, let me reintroduce us.
We are Meow Meow Tweet, a company named after our two cats and bird.
We are an artist-duo turned scrappy-small-business owners. We like to make and draw stuff. Our hearts are big and sensitive. We love animals. We love the Earth and nature. We put a lot of deep values into our simple products.
We started Meow Meow Tweet 16 years ago in our Brooklyn apartment after my grandmother gifted us the first bar of handmade soap we’d ever used. We bought a how-to-make soap book; the rest is what you see here.
Our business is entirely self-funded and family-run. Everything is handcrafted with love and care in our low-waste micro factory nestled in Northern California.
Thanks for being here; ready to roll?
