Just one week away!!
The Holiday Baar Bazaar will be in the Magic Stick in Detroit on Tuesday, December 18th from 7pm til 2 am.!
We now have 37 vendors reserved, selling oh so many goodies! Handmade items include ornaments, games, jewelry, plushies, bags and wallets, bath and body products, T shirts, wall art, ceramics, greeting cards, candles, blown glass, notebooks, bookmarks, clothing and scarves! There will also be vendors selling vintage bicycles, books, records, comic books, concert posters, cds, nostalgic candy and vintage clothing! I’m very excited that The Detroit Derby Girls will be joining us as well, selling merchandise!
I’ll be selling lots of different merch off our website, plus more of the famous 80’s bootleg wallets, and I’ll even have a super cheap $2 bin!
Why I haven’t blogged much lately….
For my Flint peeps:
Reware Vintage (that’s me!) will be selling at the Flint City Handmade Holiday Craft Market on Saturday, December 1st! Not only will I be bringing Record Notebooks and earrings, I’ll also have a stellar rack of vintage clothing and vintage T shirts sure to impress any scenester. I’ll also be bringing a superb selection of work from Glass Action
For the Detroiters:
Reware Vintage (still me!) will be selling at Sunday Crafternoon this Sunday, December 1st at The WAB from 1-5. This show I will be bringing what’s left of the record notebooks from the night before :) and record earrings and cuffs!
And for the last minute shopper:
The Holiday Baar Bazaar! It will be in the Magic Stick in Detroit on Tuesday, December 18th from 7pm til 2 am. And I’ll be selling lots of different merch off our website, plus more of the fabled 80’s bootleg wallets, and I’ll even have a super cheap $2 bin! Want to be a vendor? We have 30+ spots and it is completely free to sell there. Sell anything and everything you desire (I am especially looking for anyone wanting to sell records, cd’s, books or comic books right now), make some extra holiday cash and pick up something really different for everyone on your gift list! Reserve your space by emailing me at bethany@rewarevintage.com, but be quick - spaces are filling quickly!!!!
Lastly, for my “not in Michigan” people: Our myspace friends get an early Christmas treat! Enter MDEC15 at checkout on RewareVintage.com and get 15% off your entire order! Hurry, this sale only runs through Saturday!
The proof!
I’m quite sure that everyone who watched last week’s episode of “Bones” to catch a glimpse of our Hands Across America T shirt missed seeing the shirt. Dan and I had to rewatch the show before we noticed it in the background for a split second, but it was there! Here is a (blurry) screen shot of the T shirt on the show (yep, that’s it in the upper right corner on the TV screen!).
Thanks to everyone who watched!!!
Tragic, I Know…
Yesterday I was perusing through the records at the local thrift store, trying to find more vinyl to make into record notebooks to sell at the Handmade Detroit Holiday Market, when a teenage girl walked up and started looking through them next to me. She seemed very confused as she flipped through them, and after a minute turned to me and said “What are these?”. I smiled (and tried not to laugh) and told her they were record albums. She pulled one album out of the milk crate she’d been flipping through and pulled the record out of it’s sleeve. She let out a slight gasp, and called out to her friend a few feet away. “These are records!” she said to her friend who rolled her eyes and walked away. Then she turned to me and said “I’ve never actually seen one of these before”. I took a moment in amazement and responded “You’ve never seen a record before?”. She shook her head, looked down at the record again and said “Only in the movies…”, then smiled at me, put the record back in the milk crate and walked away. I stood there for a moment, felt very old, and then proceeded to the checkout with my crate of goodness.
Reware Vintage T Shirt on Bones!!!
I’ve been anxiously checking the TV Guide website to find out when the episode of Bones will be on that will feature the Hands Across America T shirt bought from Reware Vintage. Yesterday it was added to the program listings - it will be on November 13th, and the episode is called “The Boy in the Time Capsule”! Anyone have Tivo?
Design Inspiration
I don’t think of myself as a very strong graphic designer. I definitely know good design when I see it, and when nudged in the right direction, I can usually come up with some decent work, but when I have to start a new design from scratch, it can be a frustrating process. I’ll always be able to come up with something, and clients are, for the most part, satisfied, but to me, my designs always feel a bit clumsier when it comes to those tiny little details that make the difference between “good” and just “good enough”.
Most of the sites I read every day cover web development and design specifically. These sites are important to me, but following them too closely can get you stuck in a rut as far a design is concerned (big, chunky, plastic-y, rounded web 2.0, anyone?). When I need a little push, I have a whole section of feed subscriptions that I turn to for a little design inspiration. There’s a bit of a mix (photos, typography, architecture, design critique) but each of them can help me put a different perspective on the blank Photoshop document staring at me. More samples after the jump…
Tips, please!
Top Five Reasons You Should Tip Your Bartender (and tip them well)
1. Karma!
2. Bartenders clean up after you and everyone else in the bar after they have left. Look around at the mess when you leave - it’s quite a lot of nastiness, isn’t it?
3. Bartenders have to keep odd hours, sometimes not going to bed until the average person is getting up.
4. Think you’re full tip is just going to the bartender? Think again! Usually the bartender also has to tip out a barback. Then the government takes out it’s share in taxes. And most bartenders make less than minimum wage.
5. And one good reason for you selfish drinkers: Leaving a good tip means faster service for you when the bar is busy.
Reware Vintage T shirt on Fox!
A props guy from Fox Studios called me yesterday wanting to buy a Hands Across America T shirt off of RewareVintage.com for an upcoming Bones episode where they find a time capsule from the 80’s. No kidding! It’ll be on TV sometime in November - I’ll make sure to post when as it comes up sooner!!!!
