About Zucchini Fish

The seeds of the Zucchini Fish partnership were sown in 1987 when Carey Marden Shaulus and Stefanie Valovic sat across from one another during 10th grade art class. In 1999 we resumed our creative process of sitting around together, chatting, eating chocolate, cracking ourselves up and making art. Zucchini was Carey's pet fish in whose memory ZF was named. A professional photographer and graphic designer, Carey had the idea of starting a card company. At a jack-o'-lantern lit table of a mutual friend's wedding, Carey asked Stefanie to join up. Our first studio was a small room in Carey's Jamaica Plain, MA apartment where we struggled to fend off 5 cats from drying sheets of hand printed wrapping paper. We signed up for a holiday craft fair in Harvard Square in December of 1999. Many (many) years, and many craft fairs later, we have grown a devoted customer base. We scrapped the hand printed wrapping paper and focused on stationary. We endeavor to source the most environmentally friendly papers for our stationary. All of our cards are now packaged in plant base biodegradable sleeves. Zucchini Fish has also participated in the New England Made Gift Show, Boston Gift Show, Cape Cod Gift Show and The National Stationery Show. Today our work is sold at gift shops all over the United States.Read their story