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Rock & Shop Gift Guide – For the Guys
More highlights from vendors that will be at the Rock & Shop Market this Saturday: 1. T-shirt by SquidFire 2. Bob Ross Mug by SquackDoodle 3. Chewbacca Velvet Art by Velvet Geek 4. Tierra Ideas will be showcasing their wares in the fashion show at 3:30pm in the Trotter Building 5. Two Pounds mustard 6. [...]
34 Comments »From the Stacks: Fabric Placemats
October, November and December are my absolute favorite months of the year because there are so many opportunities for crafting and decorating to match the assorted holidays. I had a small stash of fall fabric that I have been saving for several years now and I vowed that I would finally turn it into some [...]
indieNC First Friday Market, This Friday, Aug. 6, Downtown Raleigh
It’s almost the first Friday of the month which means it’s time for another indieNC First Friday Market in Raleigh. This month we have a great selection of artists selling their wares and a few of them are shown here. The event runs from 6pm-10pm and is free. Plus, if you print off and bring [...]
Handmade Chocolate From Mountains to Sea
Whenever we head out west to Asheville, one of my favorite stops, in addition to the Early Girl Eatery and Malaprops Bookstore, is The Chocolate Fetish. Everything there is handmade, and everything is GOOD. Beyond good. With Valentine’s Day around the corner (and we all know the real reason for V-Day is to eat chocolate), I [...]
The Fight to (re)Light Raleigh’s Color Wall
You’d never know it, but nestled among the stacks inside NC State University’s D.H. Hill Library is one of Raleigh’s most original and beautiful works of public art. The Color Wall, a creation of the late Joe Cox, a local artist and former NC State College of Design professor, once broadcast a striking, ever-changing palette of color [...]
Rock & Shop Market Gift Guide – Pt. 1 – For Him
One of the things I hear a lot is that there is a void when it comes to guy stuff at craft shows like the Rock & Shop Market. We try our best to create a shopping environment that both guys and girls will appreciate, but to be fair most of the vendors that apply [...]
Blog Update
By now it’s probably fairly obvious that this blog is run by me (with a little help from my friends when they are able to pop in), as an extension of the indieNC shop and The Rock & Shop Market. Since I am a full-time stay-at-home Mom too, life can get in the way of [...]
Rock & Shop Vintage Market Video Promo
Check out this video promo for this Saturday’s Rock & Shop Vintage Market and Fashion Show in Durham created by our friend Charles at Bifocal Media.
twitter hacked!
Hey guys, We are still here. A few of our accounts got hacked, including our old indieNC twitter account. If you want to keep following us on twitter please add the username: indieNCblog. Thanks so much for your patience as we work to get things resolved around here!
Poster Winners
The winners, selected via randomizer.org, of the She & Him poster: Commenter #54: Melissa says… “I am going! But I would love this poster as a memento!” Commenter #55: stephanie says… “yes please!” Commenter #31: Scott Aycock says…”My heart needs a little piece of my hometown, CH, as much as my heart and ears need [...]
