OMG OMG OMG OMG. Our first event of the season is this SATURDAY!!! From 6-8 we will be at Medlock Plaza's Short Leash Saturday. I can't wait and here's why:
Short Leash is amazing. Mmmm.
Medlock Plaza events are always SO fun.
I love everyone who works at Frances and Smeeks. EVERYONE.
Georgeann is my hero.
I wanna shop my face off and buy all of the fall goodies at Frances. There is a striped peplum top that needs to be mine.
I wanna eat so much candy at Smeeks.
And the biggest reason I can't wait- HOPEFULLY I'll see many of your sweet faces again! I'm so eager to get out and catch up with all of you wonderful people!
This weekend I'll be heading to Apache Lake for the Apache Lake music festival. I'm pretty excited for it- hanging by the lake, amazing weather, incredible friends, good tunes... It's gonna be wonderful. Sunghost (Trev's band) and a ton of other friend's bands will be playing throughout the next few days. I won't be able to make it until Saturday- which means I will miss the first two days of the festival. BOO. If you are planning on going give me a holler so we can dance together. All night long. Forever.
What do you have planned for the weekend? Have a super time and be safe <3
Last Thursday I was hanging with Trev when all of a sudden I got a text from my BFF Jasmine. It read, "You got a Best Of in New Times!" I was caught off guard to say the least... and to be honest, I didn't have a clue what she was saying (autocorrect mistake perhaps?). My slow brain finally connected the dots and then exploded out of excitement. MY BRAIN EXPLODED.
Growing up as a young girl attending high school in downtown Phoenix, I was always studying at Lux, eating at That's a Wrap or attending local fashion shows. I was always searching for cool things and totally admired the people working to make our town awesome. Now I'm growin up and feel like I'm becoming one of those people I used to admire so much! Every time I've gotten an award or recognition or, hell, even a blog post written about me I've been so honored, humbled, and blown away. I am totally inspired and hope that I can build my dream and maybe even one day be an inspiration to people, the way people like Angela Johnson or Kimber Lanning were to me.
Our online shop is now open. While we've only got a handful of things up at the moment, rest assured we've got a boat load of stuff that will be added in the coming weeks (like, a whole room in our house full of gems!). I'd love if you would stop over and take a look around. Be sure to let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for us. We'd love to get your take on it.
Also, I'm very excited because I have begun seeking out events for the trailer now that the oppressive heat is beginning to lift. There are some really exciting events coming up in and around downtown so cross your fingers that we can get into them. I can't wait to get back out there and see all you lovely folks again. Finally, Trevor and I have been talking about doing a shop open house/bbq at our home in the coming months. Would anyone be interested?
Today is the day! My dear friends' band Sunghost is releasing side A of their new album "Glitter, Guns, and Gold"! I'm so proud of them. They have been working so hard and the album is really good so far. They are definitely the kinda guys who are just so stoked to be playing music and I think you can feel that in their music. They are all really talented at what they do and I'm so excited to see where they go. I love my friends : )
Anyways, they are doing this pretty neat thing where they release side A first and side B later. What's cool about it is that each week they will feature a new song, tell us a bit about it, and include neat little extras- like videos, artwork, etc. I love the social aspect/community building they are creating. Follow them on FB if you wanna be all up in the action (side note: disregard today's silly comment they posted about how glitter is useless- they clearly don't know what they are talking about. Glitter for life!). You can also buy side A in full on their bandcamp page. You can decide what you think it's worth and all the money raised goes to making side B. Treat yo'self and take a looksie.
Phoenix has really come quite a long way and it's getting cooler and cooler each day. I mean, I'm totally stoken on Filmbar, we've got the awesome market, lots of good coffee shops, the lightrail zippin through, and food trucks running rampant. Here's some other stuff I think we might probably need.
A super cute flower shop.
Flower Girl, NYC. To turn the old buildings into hip, multiuse living spaces and storefronts, restoring the original architecture. (ie: not tearing em down to start from scratch and not letting aASU snatch em up to build parking structures on. And P.S. we don’t need any more new, stucco, blah places k? Why build from scratch when we've got architectural gems standing empty?)
This all reminds me of the old argument- which came first- the rad downtown? or the rad folks inhabiting it? Do you invest time and money into it hoping the right folks will stumble upon it or do you get the right people's interest before you invest?
What are some things you LOVE about your home town? What are some things you'd like to see different?
The AZ Blogger Meet-up was this past weekend. And it was suuuper fun. It was so awesome to see old and new faces, and get to know some online friends in "real life". Here's how my day went down. I woke up early, got ready and buzzed over to my buddy Andrea's house. After I picked her up, Andrea and I ran to the store where we picked up some supplies- water bottles, flowers, bananas, raspberries, bagels and tofutti cream cheese (supplies = breakfast apparently, lol). We ran to the GROWop to get everything set up and lookin all purdy. After we ate our yummy breakfast, we were amped and ready to conquer the day- we began by picking lots of flowers so our blogger buddies could create flower crowns : )
Andrea with her bounty.
Prettyness. After everything was set up, I texted Chelsea to find out where the group was at and Andrea and I zipped over to the Phoenix Public Market.
Me and my favorite- the funniest blogger I know, Kara of Sunshine Cupcakes.
My buddy Kristen of Llena de Moras. (We worked at Anthro together : )
It's so hot in Arizona in the Summer, you start sweating when you walk out the door first thing (like, before 7) in the morning, regularly burn yourself on the seatbelt clicker, get sunburned driving in your car, and can cook eggs on the street (not really- we tried it one time to no avail).
Fact: The average summer high temperature is the hottest of any area in the United States after Death Valley, which is the hottest of any major city in the United States, and approaches those of cities such as Riyadh and Baghdad. The temperature reaches or exceeds 100°F(38°) on an average of 110 days during the year, including most days from late May through early September, and highs top 110 °F (43 °C) an average of 18 days during the year. On June 26, 1990, the temperature reached an all-time recorded high of 122 °F (50 °C). Thank you Wikipedia.
Fact: The GROWop has no air conditioning.
Fact: Without AC, we will be out of business until the weather cools down : (
Fact: A super special, amazing person donated a four ton AC unit! Now we need to raise money to get this little (big) baby installed! Anything will help! Got an extra nickle layin around? That's more than we had yesterday! Anything, I mean ANYTHING, would be such an amazing help.
Fact: We are having a fundraiser. If you're local please stop by. It'll be fun, with local music, live painting, a dance floor, bonfire and more. Pretty please help us spread the word about this important event!
I am soooo sooooo excited that two of my most favorite bloggin ladies have set up this super fun event for all the local AZ bloggers on March 26th. Danielle and Chelsea are planning a meetup that, while still in the works, a super fun dinner at a downtown Phoenix restaurant and some sort of daytime activity.
Wanna get in on the action? You can find out more and RSVP over here. You bet your bum I'll be there : )
Kenny, Josh and I run the GROWop, a small co-op in downtown Phoenix (902 N. 6th Street) . Our goal is to help small, independant businesses grow and flourish in the community. There are so many talented folks out there, some who already have Etsy shops or consign in local boutiques who are trying to expand their efforts and spread their talent and we wanna be the ones to help. Right now we have about seven consigners and are working hard to reach out to some more. We have big goals and are searching for likeminded people to join our consignment team. If you make quality handmade items and would like to inquire about consigning at the GROWop please email us with some photos of the things you make and a little snippet about yourself at merrymayhandmade@gmail.com or growopboutique@gmail.com.
This might be my favorite thing in the whole shop. Kenny made this book shelf (get it?) out of a whole buncha hard cover books. I love it. It's real heavy.
I really want to work on creating a big and adorable children's section.
These hand bound sketch books are super awesome and each cover is handpainted.
In the back we have this great little work space. Things are coming together slowly but surely. It's going to be suuuuuper awesome.
I hope you enjoyed the tour. If you're local pop in and visit : )
My lovely pal Danielle over at Sometimes Sweet did a fun post the other day. She posted a bunch of fun photos from her myspace. Now, I was a total myspace hater. I resisted and resisted until one boring snowy day in college. My friend and I decided together not to go to class- bad!- and instead we spent the day creating myspace pages. I guess, in hindsight, it was a pretty fun way to spend the day- bonding as we tried to make our pages as cool as possible and creep through people's profiles, looking for cute boys, haha. So yes I was a late bloomer and my photos aren't nearly as exciting but hey, I thought it would be a fun way for y'all to get to know more about me!
Oh and here's one of my new hair
If you're local come to First Fridays and say hello! 6th Street and Roosevelt.
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