Spring Bash Recap

The Third Annual Spring Bash was this past Saturday and we must say that it was A W E S O M E!!! This is our favorite show by far. Not only do we get to show our Dowdy Studio goods, but we also take a major active role in making this show come together.

Since we traveled to this show sans-Wagon, we had to tap into our creativity and think up a brand new display. We brainstormed together and came up with this awesome unfinished wood double decker table top with it's very own built in clothes line to hang tees. you can drop Dylan some kudos for building the whole thing and carrying it everywhere.

Just another shot of the whole display with our new pillows spewing out the bottom. Dylan even built the cash wrap, which we joked looked like a preacher's pulpit, and so we could preach about the handmade movement all day. We didn't do much actual preaching...or any at all, but we did meet lots of cool folks who came out to support the handmade artists. We love you guys!!

We didn't get much time to take shots of all our favorite finds from the day, but we know where to find them when we want them. Go here to check out all the handmade artists from the Spring Bash.

And if you want to see the three other pics we took from the event, check out our photos on Facebook. Give us a like too, cuz we like you too!

We'll be posting our faves on the blog soon, so come back :)

Cheers!

- Dylan + Pamela

This Saturday!!

We've been working behind the scenes since late 2010 putting on this event, the 3rd Annual Spring Bash. We invite you to come out and see us. We'll be sans-wagon this time, but we built a really sweet display this week that I think you'll like. Plus, we make a ton of new tees, pillows, prints and more for your shopping pleasure.

See you at the Bash!!!

Cheers!

-Dylan + Pamela

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Saturday, April 30th

11am-5pm

South Side on Lamar

1409 S. Lamar, Dallas, TX

awesome everything handmade

Working hard for the Spring Bash!

Heya folks!

We love planning the Etsy Dallas shows each year, the Spring Bash and the Jingle Bash. It's that final week before show time and we've been working extra hard to get everything ready for show time fun time.

The Bashes are presented by Etsy Dallas, a team of 50 local Dallas artists who sell their handmade goods on Etsy.com. Pamela was fortunate to hop on the Etsy Dallas bandwagon early on and be able to take on some reigns and help steer the group into putting on 2 awesome handmade art shows each year. We love doing this, and we think this is something that has totally benefitted Dallas' art community, or at least we hope it has brought a few smiles to some faces.

Last week we joined about 30 team energetic Etsy Dallas team members, Spring Bash vendors and happy volunteers to all join in and help us make some rocking decorations and prep supplies for our Etsy Dallas Make n Take booth for the Spring Bash.

Mia Maria, Red Tile Studio, Yellow Bug Boutique and DCImaginations whipped out some awesome big ass pom poms for decorations.

They also made a pretty mess. We only got a shot of the yellow and white paper cuts, but later on there was some pretty teal mixed in there too!

This week we gathered the troops again over at Bonny Bead's home studio and stuffed the Bash Bags that we designed and printed for the show. These Bash Bags are STUFFED with so much awesome!

Here's a quick sneak peek of just a handful of the goodies that you'll find in there if you're one of the first 50 shoppers.

We included some of our new coasters in pretty teal and black. These we so much fun to make. Dylan hand cut the wood, sanded and printed our logo on each one, then Pamela designed some fancy packaging and we stuffed one of these babies in each bag.

We hope to see you next weekend, April 30th at the Spring Bash!!! Come on by and say hi + shop cool handmade stuff made by us!

And if you can't wait that long, come see us this weekend at Bolsa Cafe in Dallas. We'll be there Saturday and Sunday in the Dowdy Wagon selling tees, prints, jewelry, messenger bags and featuring our guest artist, One Up Designs!

Printing the Bash Bags for the Spring Bash!

We do a ton of work putting on the Spring Bash and Jingle Bash in Dallas each year. One of our favorite things to do to help get ready for the big day is to print the Bash Bags. These are 50 canvas bags stuffed full of handmade goodies for the first 50 shoppers to receive...for free! Heck yeah!!

For this Spring Bash Pamela made the artwork for the bags and Dylan screenprinted them in our little 2 car studio. We say 2 car studio, because our studio is actually converted from our old two car garage.

What's great about printing in the Studio is that we can open up a whole wall to the outside on nice days like today with just a click of a button. We sure will miss that if we ever move to a different studio.

After Dylan prints the Bags, they get to sit and dry. These are the back sides of the bags with our top sponsor, South Side on Lamar and our logo. This is like their beauty rest before they're big reveal.

If you're interested in getting your hand on a Bash Bag, do make sure you are at the Spring Bash extra early. We have people wait in line hours before we open our doors to get their hands on these babies. Also hit up the Bash website for all the exciting Spring Bash info.

We'll see ya there on Saturday April 30th!