Archive for 'Talk'
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 thought [...]
4 Comments »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 a little piece [...]
Durham Guide on Design*Sponge
Jessie Gladin-Kramer and design*sponge have put together a great guide on Durham, North Carolina. Check it out here.
Call for Vendors - The Rock & Shop Market
We are now accepting vendor applications for the tenth! Rock & Shop Market on Saturday June 20th from 1-5pm at the Tir Na Nog in Downtown Raleigh. The first event of its kind in the Raleigh, NC area, since 2004 the event has remained a local favorite. To check out past vendors and bands and [...]
indieNC article
indieNC is included in a nice article in the Independent this week. The feature is about local designers creating products using repurposed and earth-friendly materials.
The article also highlights Raleigh designers Morgan Meredith, a textiles student at NC State and Jamie Powell of Revamp Vintage.
You can read the full article and see a gallery of related [...]
