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After the flood

March 2, 2011

We have had the most insane week. From both our cars ending up in the shop (new batteries, new transmission), to a drunk driver taking out the front yard landscaping and almost the porch of our friend’s house we were housesitting, to our power washer exploding and flooding our studio, we welcome this new week [...]

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Reaching a summit (one of many)

February 8, 2011

We have had such a crazy awesome week we can barely believe February is just beginning. So many big advancements in the business and lots of firsts- looks like it’s going to be a great month for A Mystery In Common. Now only our Charlottesville fans would know this but something that’s been missing from [...]

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Zen & the Art of T-Shirt Making

January 4, 2011

Goodbye 2010, Welcome and make yourself at home 2011. This time of year is always the hardest. Winter has just begun but we have already passed through the darkest part of the year, which is always confusing or at least counter intuitive. The colors of fall are churning into humus under our feet and if [...]

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Our Great Grand Opening Celebration

December 6, 2010

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You We were so busy meeting and greeting we didn’t get a chance to snap any photos. Luckily our good friends and family helped us out. Charlottesville photographer Courtney Remington shot some lovely photographs of the details and decorations. Jason Lefton of GYLo [...]

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Way Opens

November 29, 2010

We did it! We’re open! Wahoooooooooooooo!   And we’re celebrating our Grand Opening this Friday December 3rd from 6:00-10:00pm. We’re printing postcards, blowing up Facebook and Twitter, all in an effort to spread the word and gather people together for some bread, wine, music and fun. We still believe that the best form of advertising [...]

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Fall into the Mystery

November 18, 2010

We had such a crazy, late night of printing before our wonderful day vending at the UVA Artisan Bazaar in Newcomb Hall. We’re so grateful to everyone who came out to the event and thank you so much to everyone who signed up on our email list, picked up some test prints, shirts and just [...]

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13,000 words and then some

November 11, 2010

Here is a brief look at our progress and ‘goings ons’ so far. If anyone had told us it would be this hard and take this long to open a store, I’m not sure we would have had the ambition and guts to do it. So thank goodness they didn’t! Because this store is going [...]

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Small moments of lamp light in the storm of moving and opening

November 3, 2010

We’ve been moving into our new house this week, transplanting flowers and building garden beds, meeting with musicians about new designs and trying to keep up with the orders and daily needs of the business.A few nights ago we decided to go out to dinner and chose a small, family owned place we always walk [...]

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A New Leaf

September 1, 2010

Last night we moved completely out of our old studio space. It was sad to say goodbye, it was a place of our own to find clarity and joy, a place where Grace and I were able to explore our ideas and create something special. Without that space we would have never been able to [...]

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Celebrate The Free Life.

May 18, 2010

We are so excited to announce a collaboration with Portland, Oregon based artists Seth Neefus and Mark Warren Jacques. Together they have created the Free Life Center, an inspiring modular mobile experiential art installation made entirely of reclaimed and salvaged materials. The center will hold not only  sounds, drawings, paintings, and video projections from Mark [...]

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