MOPE Designs and E.C.S. Take Over the Milk District

If you haven't gotten your tickets, then maybe you should ASAP!

Everything at the show being sold at cost which means if you miss the show you pay full price on the website which for most creations is about double!  So if you get your presale ticket, you will get 15% off discounted unique, handcrafted, clothing, soap, garden decor, and so much more!!
We are so excited for the show, it should be gaggles of fun!!!!  Hope to see you there.

From behind piles and piles of fabric

Holy Poo Nuggets Batman, have I been busy sewing and growing a pile of fabulous clothes!!

It all began because my family has a long line of pack rats!  NOT hoarders mind you, it's all crafty project items we pack away.  My Grandmother told me, while sifting through her craft room, how her mother used to keep any scraps of string on spindles for any future use.  I looked around her craft room and saw similarities to mine.  Piles of random and abstract items of crafting for future projects that pile so high, you'll never finish them all before you replenish the empty space.  My mom, her daughter, has similar filled spaces and rooms... well a barn full!  I found myself loading ten boxes of fabric from my Grandmothers craft room to my Parents truck to head back home to Florida.  I had just recently taught myself to sew.  A brand new Fashion Mate Singer Sewing Machine came along with the boxes of fabric that dated from semi-recently to fabrics my Grandmother had from her pack rat Mother.

So here I am with no room in my home for these piles of fabrics so I cut patterns, I make piles, and I sit at the machine pushing through ideas.  My idea began with Florida wear.  Florida is hot as vacationing on Venus...  and I want clothes that are simple, comfortable, sexy, and most of all refreshing to the Florida atmosphere!  Usually that means mid-drifts and short shorts which not all ladies feel so comfortable in.  I, as such a lady, decided how about loose but decent lengthed shorts; open backs and no sleeve shirts; simple skirts...  and so forth.  My brain, my scissors, and my new sewing machine is devouring fabrics of generations to create unique and one of a kind garments in a Florida style.

Complete with fancy shorts, open back shirts, jeans turned to skirts and shirts ready for the SUMMER!  Oh snap, not to mention clothing for men such as tank tops, button up shirts, and shoe lace draw string shorts!!  Sizes vary from around zeros to plus sizes.  They are all measured by inches and all shorts are draw strings so the available size varies.  The more they fit, if that makes sense!

And in conclusion, I will be having a Fashion Show in March, Friday the 13th, my lucky day!  There will be art, fashions for the body, home, and garden and my friends' organic lye soap Moxie Soap Co.  There is a door charge and tickets for sale.  The tickets are $10 each and you get 15% off all purchases at the show.  At the door it's $5 and no discount... HOWEVER all clothes are about half the price they will be available for on MOPEs website after the show.  15% of the ticket and door sales goes straight to the venue, The Space.  50% of the rest goes to helping me create a bipolar retreat which is a whole other blog... which will be done and linked consecutively.  Plenty of more awesomeness about the show is found at 'We All Got Issues a MOPEn Fashion Show'.

I hope the turnout is worth the work, but either way the clothing I've created has blown my mind!  It's a glorious thing to go from a rectangle of fabric to a shirt, skirt, shorts...  the possibilities are endless.  I wish we all simply created things to exchange with each other.  Damn the man, save the individual but still community empire!!  hah.  inside joke... with myself...  someone might get it.  and that makes it all worth it!

Raffle is ready... Here's a sneak preview

Here's a preview of our raffle items for TOMORROW!!!

I can't believe it's here!  Are you going??  You should be. 

Got a lot of baking to do tonight... Some of the baked goods include a kitty litter cake (a MUST see and eat), "real" finger foods, and fetus hard candy!!  Creepy...

Gotta make some gnarly punches!!  Vampires Spiked Blood to name one!

So see you tomorrow!?

THIS might help...

 

Getting it all done on schedule... so far... hopefully!

After working non-stop all week, last week... Sunday I cleaned, I rested, and I prepared myself to work non-stop this week!

So here's the progress:

  I spent a whole evening making these "pinatas" only to find that paper towels NEVER make for good paper mache pinatas!  The just bend on impact.  After figuring out how to make working pinatas... we thought, what could we do with these?!  And walla, found a perfect decor pieces that light up!

Here's our official pinatas!  Much more apt to break, as long as you can hit them!

To see the rest, you'll have to come out Saturday!!! Or stay tuned... more to come... .possibly.  muahahahaha!!!

I'm horrible with social media

It appears I can't keep this thing up to date for the life of me but today I try again to make it a habit!

There's a lot of things we've been doing at MOPE so instead of updating you on what you missed, I'll share with you what we got going on!

1. Website - we got merch up for sale.  I bypassed getting any professional and slowly created it myself.  It will be always growing and hopefully shrinking (which means sales).  There's some Pink Elephant profiles up.  There's event a calender in Your Creativity section.  Trust me it seems like nothing but when you know only the graphics side of creating websites, having a calender with links is a small but large accomplishment!  Looks like I might become the professional after all is said and done.  PLEASE if you do stop by the site, don't hesitate to let us know what you think, ANY errors/missing links, suggestions, praise, cursing... well  everyone needs both sides of criticism.

2.  MOPEs Annual Halloween Festival - 2nd year running.  This will be quite larger than last year which means 10 times the work.  But I got this...  making pinatas, collecting fishbowls, sewing tiny brains, designing and spooktacular backdrop...  oi...  I got this!  I GOT THIS!!  Because I have amazing help!!!  Pink Elephants are the best help a small business owner with a huge overflowing plate could get!!  From a pie eating contest, a pun battle (whaaat?! you know we always do something different) to punch and edibles, games and prizes it's going to be something NO ONE should miss!  There will EVEN be professional make up artists to face paint and make someone's costume go from, "oh you're a zombie, right." to "holy shit,  i seriously thought you were a fracking ZOMBIE!  gees..."

3.  Herb Pillows! - we brought our first Herb pillows to the Holistic Festival we went to a month or two ago and they were a hit!  A yoga studio local to Orlando has asked us to sell our pillows in the studio!  So in November we will have our herb pillow babies (because while making them Pink Elephant Literary Manager Glo couldn't stop referring to them as babies...  bc in your arms they feel like a cute little baby.  and WE made em, they are our babies, especially the elephant ones!) for sale in a yoga studio!  We'll announce all the details in November.  Until then we are sewing, we are stuffing, we are mixing herbs!  And in case you are lost on the term herb pillow - it is our new project, we created three different recipes (Muscle Therapy, No Stress, and Get Well) to put into a rice filled pillow of assorted sizes.  They are used by either microwaving or freezing for warm/cold compress.  They are magical - headaches, cramps, soreness, feels like heaven in pain world with these babies!

4.  Designing the next Art Show - it's been a while since we put on an art show and we got a great new idea.  $5 art show and with the entry fee you get to choose a painting to keep.  The art is no bigger than 5"x5" but well worth the $5.  If you want more than your guaranteed piece, no problem, the rest are also $5.  Our goal is to have as many as 500 tiny art pieces for sale!  It's a great challenge to the Pink Elephants and great for holiday shopping for our fans!  This'll be in late November.

So these are just our BIG projects in the works.  Not to mention how many projects we do individually, in groups, we all work, we are all crazy, and we all still manage to make time to have fun!!  So just a piece of the life of a Pink Elephant!!

I promise, I will try my best to post weekly if not more with pictures on our progress, our craze, our MOPE!!

Long time overdue but time isn't fleeting, simply extending.

THE WEBSITE IS UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!

Ok, ok it's not much but there first signature shirts are ready for purchase!!  I took the time I used for waiting for a website guru and just started making the site piece by piece.  Not bad for a total novice!!!

Check it OUT!

Check it out and tell us what you think on the contact page.  What are we missing?  What did I forget?  Where did I screw up?  You might get a little something back!

Either way, website is up and running, shop is functioning, shirts are getting made, fundraiser is starting, water wars planning is in the works and next up payoffs!!

So keep an eye out for more on the website, water wars, pink bottle challenge and more!!

First block plan executed.  And I think we doing good.  But let us know?!

Cheers!!

MOPEs Signature Series Shirts - First up Milan!!

Get em in person Friday at MOPEs Art Crawl in The Milk District... this month we're doing a Circus theme!  Arts for sale, free games, photo booth with Circus props!
https://www.facebook.com/events/153757604799993/

A new Trip for MOPE

We're putting in motion a hopefully brilliant idea.  We're gonna acquire an RV and looking to go on a creative tour hopefully in March.
Just launched a fundraiser on Indiegogo to help raise the funds.  Dave and Sam made a short stop action video to show a brief outline of our trip.  Haha.
But in reality looking to go up the East Coast for our first trip.  In January we're gonna start booking some spots, planning out the details, and getting confirmations from which Pink Elephants will be able to go on the tour.
Thinking about creating some unique ideas for the shows.  Maybe some art mixed with some performances.  Gonna get on the ball with that!  Send us any ideas on facebook.

When there aren't venues we'll just open the RV and prop up a gorilla creative art show!

so check out the fundraiser here.

Hard work but good creative fun :)

It's hard work to keep up with life but as we play along the game always gets easier at times.

The Art Crawls in The Milk District have been fantastic!  A cold front (however long it may last) allows for those winter clothes we keep hidden in Florida.  Creative juices are churning... 

with that said, what do yah think of the new mugs we been working on?

Much more to come.  This cool weather gets the blood pumping, the heart beating, and creative energies stirring!

These beauties and more will be available for you to take home for hot cocoa's and coffees soon on our new website OR at the next Art Crawl, November 9th.

At the 2nd Friday Art Crawl we get our Photo ON

Check out the photobooth from Octobers Art Crawl... 
got some lively characters :)  and deadly...
MOPEn Photo Booth for October
Preview:

New shirt ideas...

and more to come!!

2nd Friday Art Crawl... doesn't crawl

We're on our third month for the 2nd Friday Art Crawl in The Milk District.

Good things... Milk Bar has officially joined the Crawl;  Venders are coming back and more will be there; the photobooth has mad awesome MOPEn props;  and MOPE has cooler shirts too!
It's been an interesting crawl but increasingly MOPEtastic!!
Oh snap, almost forgot, there'll be some baked yummies in celebration of Halloween. Nom nom...
If you missed the first two here's the event page for October.
As always David Wilcox has created a fantastic MOPEmercial, check it!

SO MUCH TO DO... SO FREAKIN LITTLE TIME!  See you next week :)

Parking available on side streets and on Robinson.

First MOPE Commercial!!

We are filming our first commercial today! 

It's super exciting...  people will come dressed as a color, those in pink get extra prizes.  Actually all that come out get a surprise but the pinks get a little something extra!!  wink wink...

So if you haven't heard, go hear about it on our facebook page and come out!!!  Have a few beers on us, dance, cry, have fun and go home making a part of MOPE history with a little somethin somethin from us at MOPE!!

whacha...   keep your eyes peeled for the final cut!

Up and Coming...

Got some awesome shows coming up!!

First April 22 our next sidewalk art show is happening!!!  In the Milk District off Robinson in front of Space Bar and Etoille.  There will be food trucks, our awesome art booths and some vinyl and vintage!!

After that we're having a storybook show at Substance (date tba) on a Wednesday.

We did a poll on facebook and turns out NO ONE wants to see MOPEsters, a new allstar dance team (which whew, rehearsals were aweful anyway), few wanted free shiat (including OxyContin) - thank goodness we're not into sharing our drugs anyhow, and a few more want interactive art which we try to have regardless of your wants!  But hot damn a lot wanted some mindblowing art so...
One of these weekends we're having a Mind Blowing Art Show at Substance!!!  It's all in the works right now but hot damn we all can't wait to finish just so we can attend it!!

More to come...  more posts shall be seen... more art shall be made... so if you like more of stuff...  keep coming round!!

Show today... say whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!?!

Well MOPEs Winter Solstice Celebration is today!

We're all super psyched about the show today.  Hope to have a great turnout.  The art looks amazing and we have a booklet with some amazing written pieces!!  Books are limited but can be ordered. 

Foods great at Oblivion, beers always awesome and the art well you don't wanna miss this!

previews of the Winter Solstice Show's art pieces

preview of

Amaterasu celebration, Requiem of the Dead (7th century Japan)

preview of

Beiwe Festival (Sami of Northern Fennoscandia)

preview of

Midvinterblót (Swedish folk religion)

Come out to Oblivion Taproom to see the pieces finished!  This Sunday, December 18, 4pm-2am, in Orlando Florida!  (map is on previous post)  If yah can't make it to the show, the remaining art pieces will be posted for purchasing on the website (www.MOPE-Designs.com).  Pictures of all pieces can be seen after the show on http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mind-Of-Pink-Elephants-Designs/250271293712 as well as snip-its of the show... HERE on the blog!

Next Art Show: MOPEs Winter Solstice Celebration

  

MOPEs Winter Solstice Celebration

@ Oblivion Taproom

December 18th, 2011

4pm to 2am

 

    The winter  solstice occurs in the Northern Hemisphere in December.  Many interpretations of the event occur worldwide and differ from culture to culture.  The most common are Christmas and Hanukkah.  MOPEs Pink Elephants will demonstrate through different creative mediums the various celebrations of the winter solstice.

The show will feature artwork and writings while you dine at Oblivion Taproom.

Art, stories, beer, pool, darts, great food, learn cool shit... what more could you want!?

MOPEs amusement with Musings

An excellent and anticipated new addition to MOPEs merchandise is the new and ever growing series of MOPEs Musings.  Around 50 pages of doodles and collected written works from the most creative Pink Elephants ever!!

Some authors include:
  Molly Gaudry, Kim Chinquee, Francesca Lia Block, Laura Sobbott Ross, Nicole Monaghan, Sarah Herrington, Darlin' Neal, Sam Myers, Trish Michecl, Moira Madden, Brian Gaskill, Allison Campbell, Allie Firman, Sara Linker, Andrew Henderson, Cecile Poulain, Cristina Ione, Mccabe Russell, Mika Jones, Ryan Haskings, Amanda Lager, Alex Mujica, J. Bradley, Jenn Karr, Chris Wiewiora, Bryce Emley and more and more and growing...

    The work is amazing and there will now be some pieces read at the Full Frontal Lobes show friday!!
We also have a new position filled at MOPE:
  Ashley Inguanta (pictured working on the book above) is now our head literary person aka: Parietal Lobe of MOPE Designs.  The parietal lobes of your brain basically take in from your sensories and put it into coordinated motions with your body.  Ashley will be taking all the sensories from writers and doodlers and putting them together  in a coordinated motion of a book for our reading and viewing pleasures...  i think her title fits quite nice!

Welcome to the ever growing mind of pink elephants; it's good to have a parietal lobe!