Richmond Artists
Excited to announce a trunk show I will be having at Quirk Gallery along with my lovely friend Jess of Willow Knows!
It will be held a week from now on October 1st from 11am-5pm at Quirk Gallery which is located next to Quirk Hotel at 207 W Broad in Richmond.
You can find more details and RSVP at the Facebook event page here.
Hope to see you there friends!
xo
Many of you have heard me talk about some of my favorite RVA makers, Jody and Karl of Blackbird Tees, quite a few times here on the blog.
Well, they have some awesome new designs out and it's a theme and sentiment after my own heart....
Roam Sweet Roam.
As not only fellow makers, but fellow travelers (and taco lovers), these two are somewhat kindred spirits of mine. I'm so thankful to not only have the opportunity to work with such genuine souls like theirs, but to also call them dear friends.
I mean it's not just anyone you can wander around abandoned airstreams with and make up fake rapper names with and jam out to the likes of Rick Astley...
(thanks grandma)
Okay okay, what are you waiting for?
Go see the new stuff for yourself.
And I'm not just sayin that cause I'm their model. ;)
Photos by Meagan Abell, as always.
xo
This sassy lady was so much fun to hang out with. She's a California native, recently moved to Richmond. I so loved getting to know her a bit while wandering around my beloved city taking these quirky and fun headshots for her paper design company, Rabbit Foot Fern Design. Go check out her work, it's lovely.
Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other. || David Levithan -She's Simply Human
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Some favorite shots from last week's shoot for Rosewood Clothing Co.
Kathy, Erica and Kalie are all insanely drop dead gorgeous, are they not?
Featuring//
Paloma
Rosewood Clothing Co.
Surface Handmade
Native Nest
My lovely and dear friend Ashley of Rosewood Clothing Co. is being featured over on State x State today! As am I, as it so happens, with my photos of her as well as having The Traveling Scarf being featured in her gift guide!
She's the bees knees though and deserves the spotlight for sure.
So go head on over and read Ashley's Q&A, her top recommendations for RVA and her Gift Guide which also features a few other Richmond makers.
If you live in Richmond or are coming to visit anytime soon, go say hi to her at the shop located on 16 W Broad and open Monday-Friday 12-7 and Saturday-Sunday 11-6.
Tell her I sent you.
xo
Blackbird Tees is at it again.
This is a bit of a belated update, but here are some shots (taken by Meagan of course) of some modeling I did for some of their new t-shirt sets with my buddy Karl (the second half of the dynamic duo behind the Richmond based/road-trip-taking/taco loving t-shirt shop).
As I've said before, their stuff is just the greatest.
Go see for yourself.
Big Dipper Little Dipper Tshirt Set
His and Hers XO T-Shirt Set in grey
His and Hers XO T-shirt Set in blue
Crater Lakes Tshirt Set
Full Moon Tshirt Set
All photos by Meagan Abell
I am so very excited and honored to share this with you guys!
I had the hardest time keeping it to myself these past few weeks....
*Insert drumroll here*
I'm featured in the April issue of Whurk Magazine!
Not just that, but the centerfold pin up feature (a different kind of centerfold that is ;))!
How cool is that right? I know. Pretty cool.
For those of you who don't know, Whurk is a free magazine that has monthly issues featuring artists, special events, poetry, photography, music and all kinds of awesome things from people all over Virginia. In fact, when Seth, the editor, emailed me asking if I'd like to be featured, I had just the day before finished reading the latest issue!
If you feel so inclined, you can read it online here or, if you live in Virginia, you can pick up a copy at various coffee shops, art galleries, and other ultra hip/cool places around your town.
Big thanks to Stephen and Seth for featuring me! Love what you guys are doing. Keep up the good work, or... Whurk... as it were (sorry... I couldn't help myself).
P.s. How perfect is it that there are sheep on the cover?
I'm pretending that was on purpose, just for me.
#theknittingqueen
Small Business Saturday was yesterday, and so in light of that I thought it'd be a good opportunity to give one of my favorite small (and local!) small businesses a little shout out.
Blackbird Tees has been mentioned a time or two here on the blog, so you might be familiar with them, but even if you've already checked out their shop, you need to again because they have some awesome new stuff up! And I'm not just saying that because they asked me to model some of it.
;)
Jody and Karl are the hard working duo behind Blackbird Tees which they run from a studio here in Richmond. They're pretty much some of the coolest cats around and not only make awesome apparel but killer blondies, have great taste in beer and are excellent printer fixers.
(Not so subtle shout out to Karl for helping me with my printer issues last week...)
No but really, they're pretty great and you should definitely hit them up for some Christmas gifts!
Plus, everything in their shop is on sale right now!
A few of my personal favorites...
Remember me talking about
awhile back?
Well I'm super excited to finally be able to share some photos with you of some of their awesome shirts!
I seriously love all of
designs. I wear the
in particular
all
the time. In fact, I think I'm actually in denial that it's summer now and technically a little too warm to wear it as often as I do...
Please go over and check out
! They have so many lovely things up for sale. Like
, cute
, and cool stuff
too.
And hey Richmonders, they reside right here in
!
So what better way to shop local?
These photos were taken by
, all on film.
Talk about beautiful right? I swear, that lady is so talented.
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Shirts Pictured
This post is sponsored by Jody and Karl of Blackbird Tees. You can find their shop
as well as find them on
,
and
.
Thanks!
All photos taken by
.
Meet Jody and Karl.
They are the shop owners of
and I had the privilege of dropping by their studio a month or two ago and learning about their process for making their super cool hand printed apparel!
A friend of mine had shown me their Etsy shop a while back and once I learned they were also fellow Richmond artists, I knew I had to say hello! As small as Richmond can feel sometimes, and for being here all my life, it's surprising the amount of artists and creatives that are in this city that I don't know about. So whenever I come across new ones I love making new connections if I can!
Jody and Karl were so sweet to let me stop by their studio and I loved watching how screen printing works and learning more about the behind the scenes of a full time shop. Karl even gave me a few tips for shipping orders which I need to look into for
. ;)
This isn't the last you'll see of these two and their awesome apparel.
Keep an eye out for an upcoming collaboration I'm doing with them soon!
