Blue Planet Green Living

Blue Planet Green Living helped us out tremendously by writing an article about our event. Check it out here! BPGL posts green living ideas, humanitarian stories, interviews, product reviews, tips, book ...

Cat Rocketship

Cat Rocketship paints, draws, doodles comics, and makes things. As well as being an artist, she organizes monthly events like Drink and Draw, Market Day, and Your Art Sucks. She’s a ...

Just Add Color

We got fancy button earrings and hair clips from Just Add Color: Other shop items available: Everything is handmade and of original design. No patterns used, but with lots of color! She ...

BeDazzle with Tana Goertz!

The BeDazzler is back again and it’s the fashion craze of the season. Even if you’ve ...

SORR Fashion Show!

We are very excited to announce that we will be showing off our reconstructed designs at ecoparty this Saturday evening! Shortly after the Natural Living Expo on March 27, ecoparty is ...

Beneficiaries of SORR and how you can help:

As Des Moines Swap-O-Rama-Rama expands in Des Moines, we will be able to support other important causes in our community. Here is an outline of our goals for the revenue generated ...

T-Shirt Reconstruction Workshop

Last Tuesday night we had a T-Shirt Reconstruction workshop. Participants brought their own sewing machines or used ours to get to work! Preparing the fabric An Elvis shirt remade into a ...

Handmade Nation comes to Des Moines!

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting screenings of  Faythe Levine’s Handmade Nation documentary at this year’s Swap-O-Rama-Rama! Handmade Nation documents a movement of artists, craftsters, and designers that ...

Attn Artists: Swag Needed

Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing. Admission is $10 plus a bag of ...

SORR 2010

We have a date! Our next Swap-O-Rama-Rama will be April 24, 2010 from 11-5pm. It will be at 300 SW 5th St in Downtown Des Moines. Here are some things we ...