For quite awhile, I have been using Square to accept online payments and send invoices. I am happy to announce that I now have an online store where you can securely and easily purchase many items including my Birmingham notecards, Alabama art, and custom commissions. Visit my online Square store today by following the link below!
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Me: “We’re going to a thrift shop.”
My 5-year-old son, very serious as he rubs his nose: “Where it’s $50 for a t-shirt?”
So… while he can quote it, my tiny boy seems to have missed the message in Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop.” We were about to change that.
The one rule for our outing: You must find something awesome.
Let the adventure begin.
First stop: Goodwill
First treasure goes to mom: awesome yellow sunglasses. 39 cents.
Yellow Sunglasses, Ink & Colored Pencil Doodle
We tour the facility, finding golf clubs, E.T., piles upon piles of unwanted, outdated, almost unusable items such as cassette tapes, VHS tapes, gigantic TVs, broken vacuums, horrible coffee cups. Our tiniest thrift shopper was ecstatic over the baby toys which littered the warehouse. It was a junk wonderland ready for our perusal…perfect for a rainy day.
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- Goodwill
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- Treasure Hunting
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- Baby thrift shopper
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- E.T. phone home
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- Mountains of tapes
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- Vacuum Row
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- VCRs
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- Piles of TVs
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- Curiosity
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- Office Relics
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- Thrift Shop #3
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- Nose Mug
Bright plastic shades, blue hats, orange carts…pops of color found amongst the faded, cracking grays and browns of dust-covered discards.
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- The Shades, Ink & Colored Pencil Doodle
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- Blue Hat Ink & Colored Pencil Doodle
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- The Buggy, Ink & Colored Pencil Doodle
Time to restock my cotton boll collection at Alabama Goods, an awesome shop nearby that features diverse, local merchandise. I’ve drawn a lot of cotton in the past few years, and I still enjoy finding the colors in the white fibers and dry, twisting boll.
As with all my pastels, I begin with black, layer on the color, and top it off with the brightest of Sennelier white pastels! Finished with a non-toxic, casein-based spray, these babies are framed and ready for sale…
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- Cotton Boll, 4×6 pastel on card
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- Cotton Boll, 4×6 pastel on card
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- Cotton Boll, 4×4 pastel on card
After sitting on my work for quite some time (having an infant makes it difficult to keep up!), I am happy to announce that my pastel “Pieces of the South” are now available at Alabama Goods in downtown Homewood, Alabama.
The specialty store will carry my large and small pastels of cows, pigs, cotton…all things Southern!
Here are a few of my new pieces that have made their way to the shop…
“Moo,” 8×8 pastel on card
all framed up
“This Little Piggy,” 8×8 soft pastel
