On the windy Friday evening of March 25th, 6 local designers/makers/artist-types (including Casa M of course) transformed Daniel Jau Jou's Jau Jou Studio hair salon into a little boutique filled with pillows and art prints, terrariums and incscribled metal pendants, nature-inspired jewelry, frilly panties and bold necklaces, colorful coin purses and totes made from salvaged materials with birds and other animals adorning them and haute couture clutches.

Daniel Jau Jou was the host with the most and made sure that nobody went thirsty or hungry while they were on his turf. And it wasn't just a good time, we also raised almost $500 ($495 to be exact) with a raffle that included lots of goodies donated by all of us designers. All the money we raise went to the Red Cross for earthquake and tsunami relief in Japan.

Luckily the lovely Marissa Rocke took incredible photos of the event that were published along with this awesome article about the trunk show on Slow Fashioned - an online magazine that "goes beyond fashion to empower readers to slow down and make more educated shopping and lifestyle decisions. Instead of being wrapped up in consumerism, acquiring more stuff just to acquire more stuff; Slow Fashioned challenges you to reduce, reuse, and recycle and to join the slow movement." I could not be more on board with this philosophy if I tried. So I was really excited to get connected with Slow Fashioned and look forward to future opportunities for collaboration.

And don't forget to check out the article!

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Casa M had a lot of fun being a part of the print-making crowd at San Francisco Center for the Book's 6th Annual Steamroller Street Fair where one of the many highlights was a 3 ton steamroller printing lino cuts in the middle of the street.  It was so cool.  And even better was that the prints were up for sale right away.

Casa M had it's own booth featuring a few new pillow designs as well as it's oldies but goodies.  Check out this photo of Cool Guy Murriguez manning the Casa M booth.  He is truly a sales force to be reckoned with!  And you can even get a glimpse of one of the new pillows in the bottom right corner of  the photo -- it's the rosy rooftops with some super fly upholstery fabric cut into the design.  In fact, the upholstery fabric totally informed the direction of the color palette.  I usually don't lean towards the pink family, but I couldn't help it this time around.

And to add to the style factor he is not only rocking his new prescription shades, but he is also working his freshly purchased hand-printed tie from Trinity Cross' line Field Day Wearables.  I've got my eye on several items in her current line that I am dying to have -- including a leopard print sheet dress (yes, she makes rad dresses from upcycled vintage bed sheets) and an extra long hoodie with design accents in all the right places.

What was also super cool about the day was that I wasn't only there as Casa M, but I was also there with my printing collective Patchwerk Press.  We had a booth with live printing and lots of cool stuff from collective members -- like hand-printed shirts, hankies, aprons, handmade letterpress books and keepsakes. Trinity of Field Day (mentioned above) is also a patchwerk press collective member and she is actually one of the founding members.  Another patchwerk press member had his own booth for his line of cool and edgy men's wear -- Henry Miyoshi's Korrupt Label.  

So basically patchwerk press was working the Steamroller scene and getting our goods out there and telling the Bay Area about all the awesome classes and printing resources we have to offer.  Look out for a blog post soon about printing classes I will be teaching in October out of our West Oakland print shop.  But in the meantime, you can visit and sign-up for patchewerk printing classes and more cool classes through Rock Paper Scissors Art Collective.  Fun printing times are her!

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Casa Murriguez was recently interviewed by the organizers of Bazaar Bizarre!  Please read the full interview here.

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