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

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!

SXSW Photo Contest

We love giveaways, so why not do one involving one of the biggest music events of the year!! SXSW happens every March in Austin and it draws bazillions of people down to the capital city of Texas to kick it with their favorite bands, musicians, and artists.

This contest is pretty simple, and we hope you have fun entering. Feel free to enter as many times as you want, just be sure to snap a pic of you wearing your Dowdy tee and tag Dowdy Studio on facebook on all your entries, this is the only way we'll see them.

For an added bonus, let us know what bands, musicians, street preformances etc. you saw while wearing your Dowdy tee. 

We'll pick a winner Monday, March 19th, and award that lucky fan with a free tee of their choice! We'll even ship it to you if you don't live nearby. This contest is open to all residents of anywhere. So get you're Dowdy ON!!!

For those of you in Austin in need of a Dowdy tee - shop Parts + Labour, a hip handmade and art shop, located at 1117 South Congress.

If you're leaving or passing through Dallas, stop by our Studio Thurs - Fri, 11am-3pm. We're at 10025 Garland Rd, Dallas, TX *behind Good 2 Go Taco*

Party with us!!

We gotta new studio, and we're ready to party with ya!!

Join us Saturday, February 4th from 6-9pm in our new studio

We're celebrating finally giving our studio the 1, 2, PUNCH out of our home, where we worked out of our red studio garage for the past 4 years, into a brand new snazzy studio space in east Dallas. We've been jazzing this place up since late December just for you, and it's look'n good. 

Now go get your party pants ready, and let's get this party started!!! Bring your bestest buddies and join us for Mer Jacks, fun, beer, a tee bar, snacks, more fun, the Wagon and more. We'll have our silk screen press working the never before seen Dowdy Studio Tee Bar, a from 7pm - 8pm-ish featuring our newest design, debuting at the party, where you can select your very own tee color, and watch Dylan or Pamela (the bar-tee-enders) screen print your tee before your very eyes. Drinks are on us, as we bust open a big fat keg for the 21 & up folks. We'll have some snackies out, and Goodburger is right around the corner serving burgers and yum for those who experience an extra super hungry. Our Mer-Jack photo cut out will be ready to party with you, and we'll have all the Dowdy Studio goodies, and the Wagon will be open inside for shopping fun.

Address: 10025 Garland Rd. Suite G  Dallas, TX 75218

Directions: Dowdy Studio is tucked behind Good 2 Go Taco and Goodfriend, on the north east corner of Garland Road and Peavy Road. Enter the Good 2 Go/Goodfriend lot, and pull around the right side of the building. Behind there you'll find a strip of warehouse spaces. Dowdy Studio in the building on the left, 2 doors down. There is another entrance on Garland Road between Sali's Italian Restrauant and the orange antique store, Second Chance Treasures. Dowdy Studio is to the left after the Sali's building. Parking is behind Second Chance Treasures.

Hit up our facebook event page to RSVP and share with your friends.

And here's a sneak peeeeeek:

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.

New ladies tees at WE ARE 1976

Today we took a batch of our super soft lady tees up to our favorite fun Dallas shop, We Are 1976.

If you're looking for cool, these guys have it. not only do they sell items from amazing local artists, but they often scour the globe to find the coolest of the cool to bring back to Dallas and sell in their awesome shop.

Check 'em out here: weare1976.com 

or

swing by in person: 1902 N Henderson, Dallas, TX

Tattooed!

A while back, we were asked by sweetheart, Summer, the gal behind the blog bisforbrownie.com, to help her with an idea she had for a tattoo. Oh course we said YES!! We love inky skin! You may remember Summer from a print giveaway we did earlier in the year on her blog.

True Fact: Pamela doesn't have a single tattoo. Not because she hates them or thinks they're made of mystical evil voodoo, but because she could never settle on a single design or idea. As much as her mind changes, she might as well wait for them to invent disappearing computer chipped tattoo ink that erases whenever you decide you wanted something different.

Picture from, Athena in the Middle: www.bisforbrownie.com.

Summer's tattoo design was a fun project. She loved our Mer-Jack design and felt it was a good start to a design that could symbolize her father who worked on the sea. We renamed him appropriately the Mer Dad, and gave him his own papa charm. So this is what we came up with.

Picture from, Athena in the Middle: www.bisforbrownie.com.

This is our first tattoo design to do, and we are so happy with how it turned out. Thanks Summer for letting us ink up your arm and making a really cool design for you that will be with you forever!

Read Summer's blog post about her tattoo here.

Cheers!
-Pamela + Dylan

PIllow Party!!!

Here at the Dowdy Studio, we've been busy making all kinds of new goodies. One of our oldest newest goodies are these handmade silkscreened pillows. We debuted them at the Spring Bash back in May, sold out, then made a bunch more because you guys liked them so much. So here's the whole crew. We've glammed them up and had them pose it out as we held a photo shoot this week. All so these cuddlable fellas and ladies could make their grand appearance in our online shop.

We'll not only have them on Etsy, but in the Dowdy Wagon everywhere we go. Since they are made one at a time, it's possible the one you love might be *gasp* gone, but have no fear.....we make them, so we'll make you a new one!

The whole gang

Foxy Fox

Mer Jack

Handlebar Pogo Stick Man

Kitty fort headgear is the shizzzz!

Remember when we created Kitty Fort for Chester, the intern, and Lulu? Well, I betcha didn't know that Kitty Fort was a mobil operation. Yah, totally! It's in fact a traveling headgear with kitty lodging. We took this cardboard mobile cat extravaganza on the road and took a few shots of it by the Wagon.

Why?

I dunno, it seemed like a good idea at the time. Just enjoy it. We did.

Chester steers the mobile Kitty Fort

 Chester realized that Kitty Fort is kind of a waste of time and tried to jump ship. He's smart, but sometimes an extreme party pooper. 

Shop online for our two new designs.

Two of our newest designs we've drawn up for you are now for sale online in our Etsy shop. Not only can you find these babies online, but you can also grab your very own in the Dowdy Studio Wagon. This weekend we'll be at Bolsa Cafe in Dallas Saturday and Sunday. See all our Wagon stops on our Dowdy Wagon Calendar. We'd love to see ya! 

Drink Local - Men's v-neck  

Chief Lion - Ladies v-neck

Awesome Weekend Recap

Saturday, we wagoned on over to the White Rock Local Market at the Green Spot in East Dallas. There had to be at least 35 vendors selling everything from local produce, homemade cookies and sweets, shrimp,  art and crafts. We met lots of great people who came in and out of the Dowdy Wagon. We also took a little stroll around the market and met the makers behind Red Ranger Ray Guns and Will Ninja. We suggest you go check them out, because them kiddos are cool. 

Sunday, the Wagon arrived at Good 2 Go Taco and we saw their neighbors, Goodfreind, setting up for their big patio party. They pulled out reclaimed church pews for people to sit, and gave out free beer and wine, a sampling of their menu. Hundreds of people came out Sunday to check out the new place and meet up with friends and make new ones. We certainly enjoyed it and cannot wait until this place opens for reals!

Oh OH! And we also brought our new design, Drink Local. Drink Local is actually a redesign of a tee we made for an event in Bishop Arts District called Brew Riot (much fun). We decided to redesign it, so that all people could support their local brewers and makers of drinks. We don't have it online in our Shop quite yet, but we're bringing these bad boys with us in the Dowdy Wagon for now. 

Our other new design, the Cheif Lion, came with us this weekend too. We'd love you to meet them both over at in our Dowdy Wagon at  Bolsa Cafe in Oak Cliff next weekend. Join us for some fun, yum, and awesome handmade shopping. 

Cheers!

-Pamela + Dylan