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I was so excited to run my first marathon relay with a great team of friends. Our team name was Reservoir Jogs, and we tackled the Detroit Marathon together. I got to run the first leg, running over the Ambassador Bridge from Detroit into Canada and it was a beautiful run, watching the sun rise while I crossed the river!

To celebrate, I went and dyed my hair pink, which is equally exciting. I absolutely love it!

I’ve also been hard at work with my friend Carey at putting all the details together on this year’s Detroit Urban Craft Fair! This year’s DUCF is December 1-3rd at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, and I gotta say – this year’s makers are doing incredible things! I can’t wait to see it all in person. You can read & see more of the fair on the DUCF website, and on the Facebook event page.

Finally, I was thrilled to debut a collaboration with my friend Jeff of Subversive Image – a line of notebooks with Tarot Cards reimagined with Rock N Roll stars on the covers. Thanks to everyone who has bought one! If you want to get one for yourself or as a present for the holidays, come on over & get one in the shop. I’ve also put a ton of new T shirts & sweaters on the site this month. My favorite that is still available – this Dragon’s Lair T shirt, which I HAD to wait until the day Stranger Things season 2 debuted to load into the shop, of course.

Making:
ALL THE THINGS. I mean ALL THE THINGS, for the holiday season – hundreds of new notebooks, hundreds of earrings & necklaces, and maybe I’ll even sneak in some handmade gifts that I’ll be giving other people instead of selling ;)

Listening to:
It’s pretty much been Protomartyr “Relatives in Descent” and Beck “Colors” around here. They are both so great!

Della’s fav song of the month (because she is a music obsessed kid):
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September is my favorite month of festivals – and I am happy to say I didn’t sell at a single one! I really enjoyed taking the whole family to Dally in the Alley, DIY Street Fair and Dlectricity + Dan and I had a date night at Eastern Market After Dark. They were all a lot of fun.

Roy and Della are happy to be back to School, and I’m so happy to be back to working more here on this shop with the extra time I now have back. Thanks for everyone who was equally excited that I’m back with vintage vengeance – September was an incredible month for sales & I can’t thank you all enough for supporting what I love to do! I promise to keep putting new amazing stuff in the shop in October and through the holidays – I’ve got a whole new collection of T shirts coming and some new handmade awesomeness too (more about that right below).

Making:
ALL the notebooks! My workspace has now turned into stations of books at different steps of being assembled. Stay tuned – in a couple days, a new line of notebooks – a collaboration with an old friend that I am thrilled about – are coming to the shop!

Listening to:
Marshall Crenshaw, LCD Soundsystem, The Blasters, The Time, and a steady stream of podcasts while I’ve been working.

Della’s fav song of the month (because she is a music obsessed kid): Going strong on the entire Teen Titans Go “Night Begins to Shine” album, but “Rise Up” is her fave song on it.
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It’s the last full month of summer, and we’ve been packing ALL the summer things in – trips to the pool, trips to the water park, watching baseball, hangouts with pals at the park, road trips to other zoos, and hiking in the woods. Oh, and one more thing to pack in – selling at my last two summer festivals – DIYpsi and Heidelberg Project’s block party. Then I got to see my all time favorite band, Depeche Mode, on tour & it was INCREDIBLE, and watch Paul Frank give a presentation at The Henry Ford. Each of these things were really fun in their own ways, and I’m really gonna miss all the time together we get as a family & with our friends in the summer. Oh, and I almost forgot – Roy lost his first tooth, learned how to tie his own shoes & learned to ride his big kid bike all in the same week!

School starts again this week, and so does more time for me to work on the shop – which is very exciting! I’ve already been photographing new stuff for fall, and some has been appearing slowly…expect a lot more starting next week!

Making:
I made a custom David Bowie Record Embroidery for a friend, and worked a bit on knitting a hat for another friend. Unfortunately, one of my machines that I use for my handmade notebooks needed repair, but I’m happy to report it is all fixed and ready to go, so lots of notebooks are getting made in September, and more Record Jewelry too!

Listening to:
HAIM “Something to Tell You”, The Raveonettes “2016 Atomized”, Protomartyr, Tom Petty, Prince, Sloan, and LOTS of Depeche Mode for days before & after the concert. My favorite podcast of the month was Jon Cryer on My Favorite Album with Jeremy Dylan, talking about Radiohead’s “OK Computer” – I highly recommend!

Della’s fav song of the month (because she is a music obsessed kid):
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