WE MOVED

we moved our blog. we know. it’s annoying when websites move, but it had to happen. thanks for being so cool about it!

please click here:
www.shopgoodokc.com

SHOP GOOD IN ARTBEAT

did you see the latest issue of ArtBeat? Oklahoma City’s art magazine did a two-page spread on Shop Good this month!

we had a great afternoon talking with managing editor, Missy Hancock, and we feel so warm and fuzzy after reading all the nice things she had to say about us. i mean, who wouldn’t want to be featured on the front page of the Thanksgiving issue??

so re-heat your coffee and read on, Shop Gooders…

ArtBeat :: Shop Good
[click on the link to view the article]

THANK YOU

for making our grand opening so great!

gum and coltrane both rocked harder than any band has ever rocked. emily enabnit showed her art, and captured the night perfectly in a painting we all watched her create. joe’s addiction provided the greatest chai in the world. and according to our bouncer, 4.3 million people came!

thank you, thank you for all of your support! please come back to the store (and bring a friend), and keep checking back for more great products and events in the very near future!

SHOP GOOD + TODDLAND

shop good is now carrying indescribably rad products from toddland. have you seen any toddland products before? they are rad.

toddland makes quality products with details you will love (have you ever owned a shirt with a sewn in certificate of awesometicity?). we have several styles that will feed your unquenchable addiction to cardigans (or begin your cardigan love affair), wallets that are guaranteed to put a smile on your face (even when they are empty), the most comfortable short-sleeve buttondown you will ever put on your body, and of course the brilliant bikes tee.

our toddland stuff is going fast, don’t miss it.

GRAND OPENING

in only 1 day! tell your friends!

Here are a few reason to come (if you need more than the amazing poster below):

:: Live music by Coltrane

:: Live music by Gum

:: Featured artwork and live painting by Emily Enabnit

:: Free chai from Joe’s Addiction

:: Tons of new clothes and accessories that are so very rad

(please feel free to download and distribute this image, and help us pack the store for our grand opening)

2 WEEKS

until our grand opening! you’re excited right?

we’re still working hard on building displays and hanging lights and such. it’s starting to look like a real store in here. this is what our window display is looking like (at the moment). what do you think?

SHOP GOOD + MAXINE, DEAR

we just got a pile of handmade belt buckles from maxine, dear. they are made from vintage book covers and they are, yes, amazing.

so come down to the store, give your belt what it’s been missing, make your pants happy, and in the process help RE:thread give clothing to local kids. do all this for only $30!

A TUNE FOR TODAY: GUM

it’s rainy and cloudy today, friends. so we thought we’d provide you with a little pick-me-up.

(we wish we meant we were on our way to your cubicle with a cup of Joe’s chai. but this is almost as good.)

our friends, Gum, have put their EP on their website and you can download it for free! you can also get a little listen on their myspace page. but whatever you do, make sure you listen to “Let It Go.” if it doesn’t make you feel happy, i’ll make you that cubicle visit.

Gum will be rocking out at the SHOP GOOD grand opening party [friday, november 13th, 7–11p] so come meet them and help yourself to free caffeine and cookies in celebration of the new store.

PLAZA DISTRICT FEATURED ON DISCOVER OKLAHOMA

Discover Oklahoma recently did a feature on the Plaza District (the arts district where we are located). It’s a great overview of the area and some of the businesses here. It was shot a couple weeks before we opened our doors.

(that’s our friend Corrie in the brown tank top. You should be friends with her too)

YES

so what’s the deal with Shop Good? well, here’s a little backstory…

justin and i (audrey) have been screen-printing and selling social-justice-themed tees for a little less than a year now. and it’s been insanely fun. justin spent days watching tons of cheesy 80s videos on youtube to try to learn how to use the giant, blue, multi-armed, noisy machinery we got to do the actual printing. and i’ve been hacking away at a manageable version of an accounting spreadsheet while reading a book that tries to teach me the basics of income and expense through the example of a lemonade stand. there are no lengths of nerdiness to which we will not go.

so after a great trial run of our Wandering Wear clothing line at a conference we help to put on here in OKC (Nomads) and tons of encouragement from our community of friends who live and work with us, we began connecting with others in the metro who love people, love art and love taking risks in the name of creative philanthropy. several local nonprofits, The Spero Project and Convergence Collective, got interested in our stuff at the same time that the blossoming downtown Plaza Arts District caught our eye. that relationship developed into a once-a-month outdoor “fair trade” market in the Plaza with 6-7 nonprofit vendors contributing products and giving proceeds to good causes. and thus, Shop Good was born.

as interest has grown, our connections have widened—and the time to build and decorate the market expanded from a few hours into almost 2 full days—Convergence offered us a nice little chunk of their gorgeous window-front space and we jumped on board with taking Shop Good to a 5-day-a-week retail shop.

and we’ve hardly sat down since. it’s been a blast to build displays, arrange necklaces, make all-day trips to Ikea for lighting, order clothes from brands we’ve long admired and connect with others who make art in the form of hoodies, wallets, belts or scarves.

thanks for being interested in the things we make, for coming to spend a rainy afternoon with us at the shop, for quietly standing for social justice with your purchases, for wanting to know more about us than the price on our tee shirts. thank you for being our friends.