We can’t open the online shop today. We have to re-size the images. Hopefully we’ll post some tomorrow? Also, look for updates on our workshops in the next couple of days as well.
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I SWEAR!!! We will at least try to post some highlights of our delicious assortment by then. Please check back on that day. I’ll also try to get our mailing list under control so y’all may be getting emails about our web shop soon too.
Yeah 21st century!!!

In the meantime,
HAPPY TOFURKEY EXTRAVAGANZA TO YOU!!!

we are so happy you found our ad and were interested in seeing what this site is all about. unfortunately, our shop is still not together!! we are working on it. you might even find some good stuff in the shop next week so please do bookmark us and check back. we would be thrilled. it will definitely be up and ready by the end of the month, so save some of that holiday shopping moolah for mew gallery.

some stuff you’ll find in our future online shop, just to entice you:
-hand bound journals made from antique leathers and trinkets from all over the world by Margaux Fried of The Black Spot
-hand-dyed and spun yarn by Nikki at Tiny Airplanes
-Nikki also makes teeny stuffed matryoshka dolls and cutesie gnomes!!
-oh and the best necklaces ever
-Neato clothing by Adrienne Mannow of Feast
-More neato clothing by Kurt and Kylie at Kinked Works
-Delicious wix wax candles
-Scrumptious hand made natural body products from Black’s Soap and Sundry
-funny pin packs from plaid pony vintage
-like, a zillion other great things.
-really. we have a lot of stuff and it is all wonderful and it is all made by Philly folks!!
revisit us to shop in our various categories:
jewelry, bags, knit accessories, tee shirts, plushies, paintings, ceramics, housewares, baby stuff, zines, phototgraphy, and lots else.

The next Mew Gallery exhibit starts this weekend! A little write up about the art can be found below.
The reception is Saturday, the 11th, from 6 to 10 p.m. There will be drinks, hors deourvres, and live
music.

We would love to see you at this event! Please come to support Katie, Margaux, and Mew Gallery.

Margaux Fried and Katie Marlowe met some time ago
through a dirty shoppe window, each
having observed in the other, something familiar.
Through letters and conversations, they
quickly uncovered their shared love for classic
literature, vintage clothing, olde photographs et
al…anything with a past.

They soon joined efforts. Their passion for
photography and adventure led to investigation of
abandoned houses, abandoned lives.

Although they often work together, separating their
work is not difficult. After exiting (or
escaping) an abandoned house, the booty is then
split
up, pirate-style: For Margaux, the
decaying filthy traces of what was. For Katie, the
prettier things to make what is.
In Margaux’s photographs, bits mysteriously gather,
and Margaux steps into the spectacle,
adorned in her ill-gotten gains. A mispaced
Raskolnikov. Stories rise from the dust and swirl
into the future.

Conversely, Katie creates lush scenes of whimsical
women and merriment in 18th century
gardens , but with a self-awareness that asserts the
birthright of dreamers and readers across
the time continuum. (Think: Southern Gothic Emily
Bronte.)

The general medium is photography, but both artists
add to the images, using found objects,
paints, clippings, words, or stains, all combined
within the boundaries of antique frames.
It could be said that without one, the other’s work
would not be complete, as demonstrated in a
recent phone call. “There is another dead bird in my
yard, do you want me to keep it for you?”

For more info on Katie and Margaux, check out their
websites:
www.lucysvintage.com
www.theblackspotbooks.com
or befriend them on MySpace:
www.myspace.com/margaux10
www.myspace.com/katieq