Makkuro Makkuro

our team of designers and friends, group photo.

my little booth where i sold my jewelry.

i basically wanted it to look like my room. haha

our front cashier desk

apart from some of our original design work for sale,

we also sold a lot of great 2nd hand and thrift goodies.

hand bags, book, jewelry, toys, art...

i also had my own little space to display

printworks i did back in college.

this back wall had great lighting, so we

took most of our pictures against this wall. haha

fun thrift goods!

we all were instagraming so much! hahah

on the last day, my cousin Amber joined us to sell her beautiful

hand made jewelry as well! you can see and get her creations

on her etsy page at Mango Luxe.

many of our good friends and family came in to support us!

including blog friends Monica (Mon Rabu) and Juvy (Groovy Juvy)

one of our local news stations also came in and did a little feature 

on us! it was very exciting.  here is a link to another local newspaper

that advertised us a little to the local public. surprisingly, majority 

of our customers said they found out about us from this little

article, when we asked them how they knew. hehe

our wall of cheki's! we tried to take pictures of everyone who

bought something.  it was a very proud moment for us.

and of course we drank wine the whole weekend to celebrate.

so those were some pictures i took of this past weekends pop-up event!  we had great fun doing this and was quite sad when we had to take everything down after just two days.  it was a completely white and empty art gallery before this, and we turned it into our very own little shop!

it was a special and intimate project for us, since we all are good friends.  and we were very happy and surprised at the turn out and attention we received from all this!  we honestly didn't think that much people would come, but we all did VERY well since we were almost all sold out of our designs in the end.  we met many new faces and made new friends and just felt so blessed from all the love and support our families have shown us.  

as far as future events, they want to make it a quarterly thing, so we might have another one in october or november! which means we have to get busy and start making new creations for the next show!

and if you're wondering about the name 'Makkuro Makkuro', it translates to "pitch black, pitch black" in Japanese.  and what it came from (if you already haven't guessed) is from Hayao Miyazaki's famous anime "My Neighbor Totoro."  in the movie (which i'm sure you all have seen!) there are the 'Makkuro Kurosuke' who are little tiny dust/soot sprites that wander around in the night.  well, our theme was inspired from them, because just like the Makkuro Kurosuke, our shop would only appear for a short and limited time and then we would just disappear into the night... i guess making it that much more special to witness since we will pop up randomly. 

so thank you guys for showing such great support to me as well, my lovely blog family :-)  i will continue to work hard and create more jewelry for future events, as well as my etsy.

♥ Aron