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Celebrate Spring with a glass of wine in the garden and a beautiful blue...

Michaela enjoying the sunshine, the bubbly, and her new Globe T-shirt

Michaela enjoying the sunshine, the bubbly, and her new Globe T-shirt

It’s officially springtime! How does it feel where you are? Even if it's still cool outside (like it is here in La Creuse), or hot (which it might be in Athens, GA), I think we can agree that it’s definitely springtime.

What’s the best way to celebrate Spring’s arrival? Well, you could drink wine outside. You could dig in the dirt and watch the flowers and vegetables grow. And you could enjoy these spring activities in a beautiful blue T-shirt celebrating camaraderie, civic pride, friendship, and comfort. A T-shirt to celebrate this extraordinary event of the earth orbiting the sun, inclining at 66 degrees 33’ so we can receive the sun’s rays at the angle that brings us warmer weather and longer days of sunlight!

How should we celebrate? I have the perfect answer:

LE Globe t-shirt!

Hot off the presses! Just silkscreened this week! In the shop and ready to buy RIGHT NOW!

The Globe (the bar) is getting ready to re-open after the pandemic forced them to close to protect their staff. Now that more people are vaccinated, restrictions are lifting, and people are getting excited about going out and mingling with others again, we can celebrate our beloved Globe by wearing our new t-shirts and advertising how great and community-minded the Globe team are! A popular gathering place for intellectuals, hipsters, professors, students, townies, and everybody else, the Globe welcomes us with a warm smile, good beers, great whiskeys, and yummy food.

Diane celebrates spring’s arrival with chocolate at Condor’s in Athens

Diane celebrates spring’s arrival with chocolate at Condor’s in Athens

The Globe opened in 1989 and we need to show our support for its ongoing success. In 2007, Esquire Magazine named it one of the best bars in America and in 2019, Delish.com named them the best college bar in the state of Georgia. Let’s show them that we can do it again!

Even if you’ve never been to the Globe or Athens, GA, I’m sure you will delight in wearing this original design created from a woodblock print and printed locally in Athens.

I have a limited number of shirts, so get your gettin’ on.

And yes, we ship internationally!

Enjoy your time outdoors. Spring is such a nice season, and the heat of summer will be here soon.

With gratitude,

-René

Wine Merchant's House - Roujan, France

imageAs we walked around exploring the village of Roujan in the heat, we noticed the cool recesses of the bays - an example of which you see here behind the VW. The wine merchants built these houses, and farmers used to deliver their grapes into the wide bays, where the grapes would then be made into wine. Now the farmers use a cooperative; in Roujan, it is a big building on the edge of town, down by the soccer field. As a silk painter, I am always searching for the perfect red. Come see this painting in person, and tell me how close I’ve come to reaching my goal.

[New art exhibit up now at Aurum Studios in downtown Athens, GA for the month of February. I am sharing the space with the fabulous textile artist Suzanne Gernandt, weaver extraordinaire, of Waynesville and Asheville, NC. Reception: Thursday, Feb 6th, 6-8 pm, 2014 - this week!]

Illustration: Avenue de Pézanas (VW) . Roujan . Languedoc-Roussillon . France. Hand-painted silk crepe de chine. 2014. by René D. Shoemaker