Exciting finds at the Spring Bash

What's even better than being an artist in the Spring Bash is shopping the Spring Bash! This Bash hosted some of the most awesome talent from Dallas and beyond. We'd like to share with y'all our favorites:

This is one of Pamela's Oklahoma artist faves, Christine Sharpe-Crowe. We met her first at the Girlie Show in Oklahoma City, and it was art-crush at first site. Everything she makes is exceptionally beautiful and would look great all over our walls....yours too!

An up and coming designer you are definitely going to want to keep an eye on is Rachel Elise. She is a returning Bash artist from Denton who is never lacking in modern style and hip designs. We were so lucky to drool all over her designs at the 2nd Annual Jingle Bash, and we have been drooling ever since. If we talk about ourselves drooling anymore for her bags, she might just have to install a sneeze guard on her booth. No, we're kidding...but no, seriously we're not.

Pamela loves South Side on Lamar, the Spring Bash venue. Not only is this the location of her very first EVER craft show back in 2007 (she even made her own graphics for it), but this place breathes awesome, and has become home to so many new and exciting artsy things since then. If you haven't been. GO!!! You will be like "OMG! I LOVE IT", and you better bring a camera. Everything, from it's history as the old Sears building, to it's rooftop pool and view of Dallas, to it's original exposed brick and old metal delivery doors are truly unique.

Dylan thinks sometimes man jewelry can be pretty cool. These tie clips from EstieMade, an artist new to the Bash, are just that, cool! Ok, maybe a little more than cool. What can we say. WE LOVE THEM!

Another new artist, who kept the music in the Gallery space we were in up beat an on it's toes was Revisionist Designs from Dallas. Not only did they take old camera parts and make unbelievably cool jewelry out of them, but they also rocked it with these Soundcases. Each one is a portable vintage suitcase with a powerful sound system built in. A W E S O M E!!

We first met the super nice guy behind TOOMASOOBA at the Indie Genius bazaar in Oak Cliff (read his blog for the recap). Mr Jeremy Johnson is the mastermind behind this creatively bold brand. Every mastermind knows that every person has feet, and what's better than boring plain feet is feet wearing awesome socks with cool illustrations on them!

Dylan always likes Pamela randomly posing in the Etsy Dallas Photo Booth with her best dress and hat. We think she's trying to fly away, or dance, or summon a pterodactyl.....either way, not good.....or so not good that it's soooo really good.

Cheers everyone!

-Pamela + Dylan

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

deets:

Saturday, April 30th

11am-5pm

South Side on Lamar

1409 S. Lamar, Dallas, TX

awesome everything handmade

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!