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!

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.

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.

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!!

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!?