Photos for you to peruse…

Photos for you to peruse….

Click the link above to check out some photos of our Fellow OCAM Artisans who will be joining us at the OCAM Market this Saturday at Open Eye!   We hope to see you there!

May 7th OCAM market at Open Eye!

Roulette Vintage will be at the OCAM Market at Open Eye Cafe on May 7th! It
will take place on the back patio of Open Eye, from 11 AM to 4 PM.  Participating Artisans include: Carrboro Coffee Company, Brilliant Handmade, Geoff Henshall, headfirst(screen printed designs), Little Foxes, Reciprocities and Roulette Vintage (of course). There will have great art, jewelry,  awesome screen printed tees and artisan roasted coffee.

Roulette will be bringing Men and women’s vintage clothes, our Roulette Remade line plus vintage home goods, belts, scarves and other goodies.

Hope to see you there!  Don’t forget that Mother’s Day is May 8th!  The OCAM market is the perfect place to find a gift for the Mom in your heart.

To check out the Facebook invite, click here.   You can also like OCAM on Facebook here.

Orange County Artisan Market

We are really excited to be part of the new Orange County Artisan Market!  OCAM is a cooperative craft market that aims to put on a series of  great markets that focus on fashion, handmade, crafts and art.  These markets will take place at a variety of places around Orange county.  Roulette Vintage is one of the organizers along with 2 of our designers: Buffy Maske of Reciprocities and River Takada-Capel of Riverbasin Outfitters.

Our first market will take place this Saturday, March 26 from 12 to 5 Pm at the Nightlight Bar & Club!  The Market is part of Nightlight’s 8 year anniversary block party.  So much to celebrate!

Some artisans you may recognize from Roulette are: Reciprocities, Riverbasin Outfitters, Mi Scusi Hand Made, Little Foxes, Cuke & Sew and Brilliant Handmade.  Other artisans that you can meet and enjoy are: Amanda Barr, Cameron Zarrabzadeh, Lollipop Sailor, Headstart, Bijou Savvy, Quite Contrary and Worthwhile Mercantile.  Vintage, remade and handmade clothing and accessories will be available; as well as screen printed goods, candles, art, jewelry, small furnishings, pottery and more!  There will also be a raffle and bake sale.

We’re really excited to see everyone again and hope you all get a chance to come out and say hi!   We have lots of new and fun items to show you!

New Sensations

Thomas Dean and his Lostwoods Prints have long been a favorite of ours. His printwork on both t-shirts and other media is whimsical and tough, managing to combine his surreal sketches with street style freshness. I like to think of it as the wedding of an 80’s breakdancer and 60’s earth child.

Here are some photos of the show, you should stop by and see it in person! It’ll be up through the holidays and the prints are available for purchase. We’ve also got new tees in!

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fall fashion 102

At Roulette, we love bright colors, boots and blue jeans!  There’s no need to go all drab for fall.  Think of all those great fall leaf colors.  Burgundy, red, yellow, orange and the blue of the sky.

Fall Fashion 101

Just because it’s fall, doesn’t mean that you need to put on a wool sweater to feel seasonal.  And lets face it.  It is way too hot here in North Carolina for any wool action now.  The nights are cooling off though and I am very excited to break out my western boots.  My favorite way to transition is to throw some boots with a cotton dress.  One of the great things about living in NC is that so many of our clothes work year around.  A cotton dress can be paired with tights, boots and a sweater or a cute jean jacket to take it into the fall.  But it’s still cool enough for those days when the sun is blazing!  Versatility is awesome.
– Kara
Here are a few fall ideas:

Photo Contest!

As part of our 5 year celebration of Roulette Vintage, we’d like to celebrate our customers too.  You’re all so wonderful and have made Roulette so fun for us that its hard to call it work.  We’d like to invite you to submit your favorite photos of you and/or your friends wearing Roulette Vintage.  We’re calling it a photo contest but its really all about the love.  There will be multiple categories, some of which we may make up as we go along just because we got an amazing photo that deserves an award.   We plan on sharing them with everyone.  So show us what Roulette is to you!

Love, Kara and Rebecca

Categories(so far):  Best Vintage outfit, Best locally designed outfit, Best Group Shot, Best Band photo, Most Likely Drunk when this was shot, Most Original Location, Most Interesting photo and more…
Entries are accepted throughout the month of July!

And here are some photos that we’ve been sent in the past and faves that we’ve taken at the store to inspire you.

Buy Local, It’s Cool.

It’s Buy Local Week in Carrboro!  And many of the local businesses have special deals going on, including Roulette!

Why should you shop local?  Well, besides being cool and buying neat local items, it also helps our local economy.  Each dollar you spend locally, gives 3 times more value back to your community than the same dollar spent at a national chain?

Buy Local week starts Saturday, December 5th!
To celebrate, we’ll have the following deals going on:

Saturday 10% off ALL Vintage items!
Sunday 20% off Vintage Sweaters
Monday (closed)
Tuesday 10% off  Skirts: both Vintage and Locally Designed!
Wednesday 20% off Coats
Thursday Meet Anna Young, Leonine Designs!  6-8 PM.
Our original local designer will be at the store to show off her great jewelry!
In honor of this event we’re dong 10% off ALL jewelry, both vintage and locally made.
Friday 20% off vintage Dresses and Men’s Jackets

And don’t miss the Elf Fair on Saturday!  At the Arts Center from 1 to 5 pm.    We’ll be there.  We hope to see you!

To learn more about Buy Local Week, check out Locomotive’s website.

We heart The Carrboro Artisan Market!

I guess we should love the Carrboro Artisan Market, since we started it with Sarah McLane.  But the actual event was so much fun that we love it more than we expected to.  All of the artisans were amazing, and so many people came out.  It takes more than a misty grey day to keep Carrboro away from hand crafted goods!

It was so much fun that we’re going to do it again in November!  The actual date will be announced soon.  You can check out all the great vendors at the Carrboro Artisan Market website and check out it’s photo album on Flickr.

We’ve posted new pics of our booth on our Flickr, and we’re now carrying craft bundles, vintage button cards and vintage linens at the store.  If you too have a weakness for vintage fabrics and notions, you should come by and check them out.   You can geek out with me and Rebecca about all the cool things to do with a button or a pillowcase.
🙂 Kara

The Carrboro Artisan Market