The making of a T-shirt

Why I love being surrounded by creative friends...

Just a few days ago, my friends Liz, Molly, Jen and I were inspired to create a T-shirt for our upcoming Tap into TWEED party.  Within hours, Molly and Liz (from Revolver Consignment) had the design and Jen (also from Revolver) had our screen-printing friend Adam (from Ahpeele) on the phone.  Two days later Adam had our screen ready and he and Isaac (Raleigh Vintage) did the printing.  

We now have a most lovely t-shirt that will be for sale at the party!

 Step one: create the screen (essentially a sophisticated screen cut-out)

 Step Two: choose your color

 Step three: choose your squidgy

 Step Four: apply the paint over screen (which is over your t-shirt) with your squidgy (done here by Adam from Ahpeele)

 Here's a great shot of the contraption that holds the screen and the t-shirt.

 The finished t-shirt on the machine.

 Step Five: drying.  The screen-printed garment goes onto a conveyor belt into an intrared "oven" (here a screen-printed vest is ready to be transferred to the oven)

 The designers: Molly and Liz from Revolver Consignment

The finished product (MINE!)

We hope to see you all at the Triangle Tweed Ride 2012!

The Creative Bubble

I love my job and I love where I live (Raleigh...or Raleighwood to those of us who reside here). I'm in a creative bubble within a creative bubble! At work, I'm surrounded not only by gorgeous vintage clothing and jewelry, but also by the most amazing handcrafted jewelry and clothing from artists and designers from right in my backyard. One of my favs:

Good Girls Studio. I first met Johanna last year while working a local fashion show. It was love at first sight...with her jewelry! You know that feeling when you see something and you instantly crave it? Well, that was me with her jewelry. I HAD to have it in Get Dressed (the vintage store that is my day job) and, after several months, she finally agreed. I now get to play dress-up everyday with her goodies, the few I can resist taking home with me that is.

Some of my favorite pieces from her Etsy shop (gotta thang for the big ones, what can I say?):




Also, congrats to Johanna for being featured in Etsy's storque a few months ago!