Happy Holiday Hours @ Good 2 Go Taco

This Tuesday thru Firday, we'll have the Dowdy Studio Wagon parked outside our favorite taco joint, Good 2 Go Taco. Come on over and grab those last minute holiday gifts and a little somethign for yourself.

We're all stocked up on tees, jewelry, art prints, pillows, coasters and more, so there's no dull gifts to be found!!

Good 2 Go Taco + Cultivar Coffee + Goodfriend

Tues, Dec 20 - Fri, Dec 23

7am-3pm 

1146 Peavy Rd, Dallas

Cheers!
-Pamela + Dylan

Thanks to all our Dowdy Day Contest entries!!

 

All we have to say is you guys rock!! Thanks for playing along with our Dowdy Day photo contest on facebook this weekend. You guys are all awesome and have made it tough to pick winning photos. Stay tuned, we'll be announcing two winners Monday morning.  Until then, check out all the awesome entries below.

Cheers!!

-Dylan + Pamela

 Gina Marie stretches for yoga in her Drink Local tee.

Mati gets cozy in our Rocktopus tee scarf.

 Max shows off his smile wearing our Rock Hand necklace.

Marcie showing off her adorable baby bump in Yee Haw Kitty.

Yony's elf getting festive and sporting one of our wooden necklaces

DOWDY DAY - WIN A FREE SHIRT

We've declared today Dowdy Day!! In celebration of moving to a real studio in Dallas, TX, and kicking our whole studio out of our red 2 car studio/garage, we've decided to have a Dowdy Studio photo contest and award 2 winners with a free tee of their choice.

To enter to win a free tee from us: 
1. Put on or pose with your favorite Dowdy Studio item (tees, hoodies, jewelry, pillows, tattoos, etc)
2. Capture the moment with your phone, a portrait artist, pinhole camera, office copy machine, or whatever.
3. Upload it to our facebook wall by Sunday at noon.

We'll pick the winners Sunday, Dec 18th, in the afternoon, and let them pick out one of our Dowdy Studio tees to make their own. Then we'll send it along with a million cool points for being so awesome. We are looking for the most creative, funny, awesome photos ever. So stop reading this, and get down to photo shoot'n your bad assed self.

Saturday - the Wagon goes to Bolsa

Bolsa Cafe

Saturday, December 17th

11am - 8pm

Bolsa Cafe's Parking Lot

614 West Davis Dr. Dallas, TX

and we'll be bringing.....

prints of our original artwork for the home

v-necks for the ladies

pillows for the couch

crew necks for the dudes

handmade jewelry for the ladies

and 

more!

Cheers,

-Pamela + Dylan

Our first time to Funky Town

Since we opened our mobile shop in March, we've been all around Dallas and Austin, TX, Norman and Oklahoma City, OK, but never to our close neighbor city, Fort Worth. But tonight will change that!!! Tonight we are packing up the Dowdy Studio Wagon shop and journeying over to Funky Town for one massive party.

Etsy Fort Worth has teamed up with one local venue, 3 local food trucks and 2 local mobile shops, and one roaming mobile studio shop to bring you one big honking Truck Party!! Join us for food truck dining, local etsy shopping, refreshments, and learn how to print your own paper goods in the roaming Power and Light Truck.

Party starts at 5:30pm at Piper Hall in Fort Worth, TX. See you there!!!

ETSY FORT WORTH WELCOMES POWER AND LIGHTS TRUCK

Tuesday, December 13th

5:30 - 8:30 pm

Piper Hall 3008 Bledsoe Ave. Fort Worth, TX

((more info))

We'll have the Wagon fully stocked with goodies, like these and more:

Tonight - PRINT HAPPENING

PRINT HAPPENING

Monday, Dec 12th
6pm-9pm

Oil and Cotton 

837 W. 7th Street, Dallas, TX 75208

((more info))

On Monday, December 12th 6-9pm 12th Oil and Cotton will host a PRINT HAPPENING. Kyle Durrie will have her Moveable Type truck at Oil and Cotton and will have an "open truck" event. Folks can hang out in the truck, ink up the press, and pull a print to take home with them.

Kyle Hobratschk will be demoing his copper plate press and have prints for sale as well.Mylan and Jessica will demo screen printing and have prints and zines for sale.Allison Vieger will demo her lovely hand-printed potato prints.Peter Ligon will have his detailed renderings of forgotten Dallas landmarks, familiar corners, and hidden neighborhoods for sale.

Let's get rowdy with Dowdy this weekend!!

We'll be hitting up east Dallas and Oak Cliff this weekend! So come join us for some fun!!

White Rock Local Market

Saturday, Dec 10th
9am-3pm
The Green Spot  702 N. Buckner Blvd, Dallas
Free to attend, shop local growers and artists
((more info))

Oil and Cotton has teamed up with AIGA to bring Dallas the first ever Creative Flea, showcasing work from local Dallas designers. The Dowdy Studio Wagon will be parked out front and open for your shopping pleasure. We'll welcome ya to the party from 4-6pm. Admission is free and there will be a fun photo booth by AIGA DFW and baked goods to eat!! 

1st Annual Creative Flea
Sat, Dec 10th
4pm - 6pm
Oil and Cotton 

837 W. 7th Street, Dallas, TX 75208

((more info))

Good 2 Go Taco + Cultivar Coffee + Goodfriend

Sun, Dec 11

7am-3pm 

1146 Peavy Rd, Dallas

Tacos and Tees + Beer + Burgers much more! See you there friends!

more info: click here

We Made New Wood Jewelry!!!

My wooded jewelry has made it's way back into our Etsy shop, after quite a break. I found less time to work on them as we were getting situated as husband and wife art team in the Dowdy Studio Wagon at the beginning of this year. I was focusing more on setting up a new website, renovating the Wagon, organizing the Spring Bash and Jingle Bash and all kinds of fun behind the scenes of Dowdy Studio. With the break from making jewelry I found myself with more time to think about new designs. All these new ideas brewed around in my head for months, and I'm so excited to finally be able to present the finished pieces of works!!!

Each wooden necklace is hand cut and wood burned by hand by me. I also hand paint and stain each one to make them all unique pieces of artwork. You will never find two of our necklaces that are exactly the same.

 I secure each wooden pendant on to a thick antique brass chain, which is the finishing touch in this designed and handmade piece.

To go along with the necklaces, I hand make smaller friends for them in the form of adjustable band rings.

You can find all our jewelry in our Etsy shop, or in the Dowdy Studio Wagon. Happy shopping!!

-Pamela

Pics from the past week and then some

So somewhere around here a magical reindeer kicked over a bucket of holiday cheer (like egg nog or wassle) and kick started the holidays. We've grabbed our cup of holiday cheer and have been setting up at holiday markets and shows all over Texas. 

 

Last weekend we journeyed down to the great capital city of Austin, TX to set up the Dowdy Studio Wagon at the Renegade Craft Fair. It was so much fun and we met tons of fabulous people. 

 

We brought our Mer-Jack photo cut out for the people of Austin to play with. We hear he was making appearances all over the interwebs on people's facebook pages and twitter feeds. LOVE IT!!

 

We also nearly sold out of our new holiday card sets! Don't worry, we made more and will be bringing them with us up until Christmas day in the Wagon.

 

After Renegade, we also needed to get to work on new pillows. We hopped back in the studio and sewed up a hefty arm load of cozy friends for you to put on your couch, along with printing more tees, making coasters, and lots of other fun stuff! Shop our pillows online here. 

As usual, we took a break to be silly. 

Then photo shopped ourselves into pics from the West Elm + Etsy Dallas event we missed. There were free DIY crafts, holiday tunes, select vendors and fun. We were so sad to miss out. Check out the Etsy Dallas recap here.

After a long week of working in the studio, we decorated the Wagon for the holidays and popped up show at the Dallas Flea.

It was good times all around! We were happy to meet new faces and see many familiar ones at the Dallas Flea. Cheers to all of you, and join us next week when we head on over in the Wagon to White Rock Local Market on Saturday and Good 2 Go Tacos on Sunday. 

And good news for you last minute shoppers, we'll be open Tuesday through Friday right before Christmas at Good 2 Go Taco and Goodfriend. So come on over fill up on yummy food, then fill your Santa sacks with awesome handmade goods by us.

Happy Merry Awesome!!
-Dylan + Pamela