Where's that Wagon?

Howdy! We're Dylan + Pamela. With our powers combined we built a handmade mobile shop, the Dowdy Studio Wagon, featuring our handmade items, like silk-screned tees, pillows, clocks, jewelry, home accessories and more. We love to travel around as much as we can, popping up shop at local DFW hot spots, concerts, events and more. Check back regularly to find out where our mobile shop will be next, and follow us on facebook for the latest news.

--- OUR SHOP ---

1165 PEAVY RD.

DALLAS, TX

(map)

---- HOURS ----
Open Thursday - Sunday
Th: 11-4
Fr: 11-4
Sat: 10-6
Sun: 11-4

 Appointments welcome. 
Please call us 817.688.0577 or email dowdystudio@gmail.com

--- SAT 6.11 ---

UNTAPPED FEST - FORT WORTH

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Come shop the Dowdy Studio Wagon July 26 - 29

Thursday Night Brewery Tour @ Deep Ellum Brewery

Thursday, July 26th

6pm - 8:30pm

2823 St Louis St, Dallas TX 75226

There will be live music, food and beer! $10 gets you a pint glass to fill up with your fave Deep Ellum brew samples. 

Open Studio

Friday, July 27

10am - 2pm

10025 Garland Rd. Dallas, TX  Suite G

*behind Good 2 Go and Goodfriend on Peavy Rd*

Dowdy Studio Wagon @ Good 2 Go Taco
Sat + Sun, July 28-29
9am - 1pm
1146 Peavy Rd, Dallas, TX
We'll be parked out front. Come get some tacos tees and more!

Party in the Streets with Deep Ellum Outdoor Market!

The Deep Ellum Outdoor Market is celebrating 2 years of putting on a monthly artisan and local market in Deep Ellum and they're partying by shutting down Main St,  rolling in some food trucks, pouring in some pop-up bars, and turning it up with some great local bands. Our mobile shop, the Dowdy Studio Wagon will be there too ready to party and get you all artsy. 

Food Trucks: 

Nammi Truck

Rock & Roll Tacos

The Butcher’s Son

Free Wheelin 

Food Traveler

Pop Up Bars: 

Ferralog Studios 

Zen Bakery

Here’s the music lineup on Main Street:

6pm – One Red Cent
7pm – Bravo, Max!
8pm – Goodnight Ned

After the market head over to Club Dada to continue the celebration.
Doors 8pm | Cover $8/$12 under 21

Get to know your Bolsa

This Saturday and Sunday we'll be taking our mobile shop, the Dowdy Studio Wagon, over to one of our favorite food stops, Bolsa Cafe. Bolsa is an Oak Cliff gem. If you haven't been, well then GET OVER THERE and eat & drink as much as you can! If you have been, then AWESOME! Go again this weekend. 

What makes Bolsa unique isn't just their mouth watering dishes, tasty tasty mixed drinks, and their large chill patio and inside/outside bar, but their attention to details in everything they make. I guess that's what makes us really appreciate them, since we like to do basically the same thing, just with art, not edibles. 

Their attention to detail starts with their ingredients selection. Instead of zooming over to the general restaurant supply food shop, they hand select all their ingredients from local farmers and growers. They even rotate the menu seasonally to have the freshest and tastiest selections. Sprinkle in a top chef, Jeff Harris, to artistically put it all together, and they master putting all the awesome in their dishes and drinks.

To top off their awesome, we'll be open to the public right outside their front door selling our art, tees and handmade goodness. Join us!

Sat - 11am-2pm & 5pm - 9pm

Sun - 11am - 2pm (brunch!)

614 West Davis Dr. Dallas, TX

 

Now here's some teasers of some of their previous dishes from their facebook page:  

Check out their full menu here

 

Mediterranean Fish Stew 

with white beans, roasted peppers, 

chard, tomatoes & nicoise olives

(are you drooling yet? scroll down)

 Braised Beef Short Ribs 

with cauliflower pure, 

roasted cauliflower & 

soffrito braised mushrooms

Berkshire Pork Belly 

with heirloom squash ratatouille, 

ricotta salata & reduced balsamic.

PB&J with warm peanut butter cookie, 

vanilla bean panna cotta 

& mum's preserves.

(Looks so good, right! We also highly recommend all their flat breads!! 

Let us know what your favorite Bolsa dish is.)

Cheers!

-Pamela + Dylan

Dowdy presents: A Tasteful Pairing

We're taking the Dowdy Studio Wagon to the 3rd Annual Homegrown Music and Arts Fest this Saturday, May 26th and we thought we'd help you pair up some tasty tee selections with a few of the bands that will be blasting awesome from the stages.

We also want to know which Dowdy tee you'd pair with yoru fave band. Leave us a comment down below to let us know. Cheeeeeers! - Dylan + Pamela

Guitar Rootings

Ume gives you what your ears are hungry for - solid upbeat sound with awesome natural vocals that make that rock'n noise that makes you want to dance and sing all over.

Music is my Weapon
The Bright Light Social Hour mixes folk, blues and indie in a bowl of awesome and knows how to pour on the jam. With all those musical weapons, this band can save the world.

 

Folk Yeah!  

Hayes Carl serves up a delicious amount of folk that'll make you grab that jug of whiskey and scream FOLK YEAH!

Super Ride

Listening to Mystery Skulls not only makes our mouth water, but makes us feel like we have enough power and energy to ride the Super Ride

This Sat+Sun --> Urban Street Bazaar

Urban Street Bazaar

Sat + Sun April 14 + 15

sat noon-8pm, sun 1pm-5pm

Bishop Arts District N. Bishop Ave. and W. Davis St Dallas, TX

We're taking the Wagon to the Urban Street Bazaar this weekend in the Bishop Arts District of Dallas. There you'll find 50 artists and vendors selling awesome local items, plus you'll be surrounded by some of Dallas' greatest restaurants. So plan your weekend around the Bishop Arts District and come shop the Wagon. Admission is free and you get to run around in the street.

Check out some of our new Wagon items. Handmade fresh this week for you!!

Mer Bear tees in men's and ladies!

Folk Yeah in mens and ladies too!!

More to come, and you can also find these online in our Etsy shop

brand spanking new messenger bags!!

We know you'll get hungry, so here's some food places we like:

Need a break in the District - Eno's Pizza - 407 N. Bishop Ave

Walk a couple blocks for a romantic gourmet dinner - Bolsa - 614 W. Davis

Just coffee and street seating for me - Oddfellows - 316 W. Davis St

Hungry in a hurry - Bees Enchiladas - 202 West Davis

And other things going on in the area -
Ciclovia on the Houston St Viaduct bridge - We won't be there, but we hear there's some fun going on. Bring your bike and hit up both events!

See you there!
Cheers,
-Dylan + Pamela

What we're looking forward to this weekend!

We'll be joining the line up of the Deep Ellum's Big Folkin Festival. Not as musicians, since it's been a long long time since either of us have successfully picked up an instrument, but as artists in our mobile shop, the Dowdy Studio Wagon. We're working on some new tanks and a couple new designs we hope to show off for the first time at the Folkin Fest. So come on over to the Prophet Bar this Saturday and shop the Wagon, then stay a while and see some folk'n great bands. 

Check out the line up:
Main stage

• 6 p.m.: Ryan Thomas Becker
• 7 p.m.: Dovetail
• 8 p.m.: Joe Firstman/The Cordovas
• 9 p.m.: Parallel Play
• 10 p.m.: Whiskey Folk Ramblers
• 11 p.m.: Telegraph Canyon
• 12:30 a.m.: Kirby Brown

Side stage

• 6:30 p.m.: Justin Kipker
• 7:30 p.m.: One Red Cent
• 8:30 p.m.: Goodnight Ned
• 9:30 p.m.: The Will Callers
• 12 a.m.: Nicholas Altobelli

Pbar stage

• 6:15 p.m.: Beauxregard
• 7:15 p.m.: Horse Thief
• 8:15 p.m.: Bravo, Max!
• 9:15 p.m.: Johnny Beauford
• 10:15 p.m.: Possessed By Paul James
• 12 a.m.: The O’s
• 1 a.m.: The Roomsounds

Outdoor stage

• 6:30 p.m.: Playtime Rabbit
• 7:30 p.m.: Greg Schroeder
• 8:30 p.m.: Loyal Sally
• 9:30 p.m.: Steve Stanley and the Mercs

In Accord stage

• 5:30 p.m.: Lara Parker
• 6 p.m.: Kyle Brooks
• 6:30 p.m.: Chris J Norwood
• 7 p.m.: Emmeline
• 7:45 p.m.: Hannah Wilshire
• 8:30 p.m.: Garrett Owen
• 9:15 p.m.: Jaimee Harris
• 10 p.m.: Rahim Quazi

So much green so much awesome!!!

Thanks everyone who came out and got their lucky St. Patty's Day tee printed with Dowdy! I hope you all had a cheery green day and a hellalotta freaking fun!!

 Some of you guys sent in your Patty's Day pics to us on facebook, so we thought we'd share them all here! Jarod, here, topped off his Drink Local tee with a dapper bow tie and rock'n plaid hat. LOVE!!

  

 The duo from Red Ranger Ray Guns twinned it up in matching Drink Local tees! These guys are awesome!! They also make some sweet ray guns. Check 'em out, here, and be their friends here.

 

 Even the Foxy Fox got a little extra Foxy on green.

 

And our manliest man of the Mandom - the Viking Wood Beard, got a little festive for drink green beer day. He went home with the rockstar owner of Lotus Yoga for her hubs. Very cool!

Saturday and Sunday with the Wagon

Hey costumers and candiers! Come on out to Bosla this weekend and shop the Dowdy Studio Wagon. We'll even have some treats in store for you. 

Cheers!!

-Pamela + Dylan

Bolsa Cafe

Oct 29 - 30

(S) 11am - 9pm, (Su) 11am - 3pm

Bolsa Cafe's Parking Lot

614 West Davis Dr. Dallas, TX

Friday - The last Pegasus Market

Friday, October 28th will be the last planned Pegasus Market in Downtown Dallas. We have been working hard in the studio to stock the Wagon up with new hoodies, pillows, wooden jewelry and more! We hope to see you out on Friday, if not, join us at Bolsa Restaurant in Oak Cliff on Saturday and Sunday. 

Pegasus Plaza Outdoor Market

Fri, Oct 28th

11am-3pm

Pegasus Plaza, at the corner of Main St. and Akard, Dallas, TX

more info: click here

A peek at the goods!!

    

Cheers!

-Pamela + Dylan

We Are 1976 stops by the studio

Last week our buddy Derek, from We Are 1976, swung by the studio to hang out and get some action shots of us doing our thang. 

We Are 1976 is a great Dallas shop, that we just can't stop saying good things about. It's run by 3 awesome chaps, Vynsie, Jully and Derek. They hunt all things artsy cool and bring them back to there shop, where you can get your hands on them. If you haven't gone by their shop, dooooo it! Among all the awesome finds in their shop, you'll also see our tees and clocks.

Derek got a sweet action shot of Dylan printing one of our ladies v neck Guitar Rootings tee.

He also found our stash of freshly screenprinted coasters.

See more of the action shots and discoveries Derek made in our Studio from the We Are 1976 blog, here.

The Dowdy Wagon goes to a Music Show!!

We love taking the Dowdy Wagon out, especially when we get to go listen to great bands in the middle of down town Dallas for a whole day! We're happy to call this our 2nd visit to the Homegrown Music and Arts Festival. Last year Dowdy Studio rocked it at the first inaugural concert. See if you can spot us in this video from last year. Yah, we were on the local news!! (look Mom)

And it gets better! Just check out the 2011 line up - Neon Indian, School of Seven Bells, Astronautalis, This Will Destroy You, Slobberbone, Ishi, Analog Rebellion, Gallery Cat, Burning Hotels, The O’s, Seryn, Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos, Larry g(EE)

Homegrown Music and Art Festival

date: Sat, May 14

time: 11am-10pm

location: 1900 Main St, Dallas

buy tickets: in advance here for $15 ($20 at the door)

more info: visit the Homegrown website

And for those of you who like the musics, here's some of our music inspired tees you can find in the Wagon on Saturday:

See you soon!

-Dylan + Pamela

The Dowdy Studio Wagon: Part III

Our Mission: Insert a low shelf - That's what we did!

When it came to designing the inside of the Wagon, we were torn on whether we should find some cool old beat up furniture and refinish it to put in there, or if we should just start from scratch and build everything ourselves. Either way we knew we would be getting our hands dirty and being super DIY.

Earlier this winter Dylan and his pops worked on a set design for a small film, and we were rewarded with tons of left over wood and supplies after the shoot. So what better way to use them than to build our own displays for the Wagon! This way we would build and design exactly what we were looking for and not have to rely on finding the perfect vintage piece.

Lulu took a break from building the display furniture. She doesn't do that kinda stuff, and it's not good for her fur or something like that, so this kitty sunbathed instead.

The Low shelf was built, and placed in the Wagon. Perfect. Just one more thing to do....paint it.

Ohhh la la...white!

Once it was painted, we secured it to the wagon. We decided the best spot for it was on the window side, since we build an installed a hanging tee rack on the other wall. Dylan also built a small bar height cash wrap on the back wall.

Dylan putting the finishing touches on the cash wrap.

And we have been enjoying random paint on our faces.

See more of the making of the Wagon:

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

Part VI