Goodbye 2024
NOTE: We are currently counting inventory for 2025. If you see items missing, they were temporarily removed and will return soon. Please allow our staff extra time to complete this process and fulfill new orders. Thank you.
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Gypsy's Graveyard began in 2013 with the mission of environmental sustainability in retail design. We believe in products that are both aesthetically beautiful and functional for a variety of lifestyles. Better product design is the first step to reducing consumer waste. In 2018, we rolled all our projects under this name, which is registered with the USPTO. Our studio has worked with ZeroWaste Landfill, TGCR, Nashville Design Week, Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville, Vanderbilt Legal Clinic, and others to reimagine inclusive and sustainable retail spaces.
In 2021, an online store was launched during COVID-19 to connect others together in stronger communities. Our product line up expanded to 13 independent businesses/artists across the US and UK with nearly 200 unique items, all while funding was cut. By a miracle, I received funding for an arts board matching program and survived on a tiny disaster small business loan. This massive reliency and meditiation on slowing down and letting go was got us to year 6 1/2 (unofficially year 12). That practice was enstilled years before the pandemic. I finally got the joy of unboxing products from dream companies at 32 after first setting my heart on them at 18. I had no idea back then how to make it work. Truthfully, I still don't. Yes, I wanted to shut everything down multiple times. Every time, I met people equally passionate about our work and kept trucking along. Community is at the heart of everything we do; without that inspiration and love, this wouldn't still exist. Our superpower is still turning strangers into friends.
As 2024 comes to a close, our commitment to environmental sustainability is going strong. I participated in a co-working group to reimagine public gardens for the state of Tennessee at Nashville Design Week. I saved several chairs and an antique Singer treadle machine courtesy of Bryce at Isle of Printing; I look forward to sharing the restoration process soon. Lastly, I accepted a place on the Tennessee Women in Green (TWIG)'s Board of Directors; I will be the new Sponsorship Coordinator. Stay tuned for what's next. 🖤
In other sustainability news: The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville is partnering with Shelby Bottoms Park to restore a former naval reserve training center located within the park into an arts center.
https://abcnashville.org/abc-announces-new-arts-community-hub-in-shelby-park/
In Gallatin, Comer Barn and the surrounding 39 acres were officially deeded to Sumner County Schools for a new Agriculture and STEM education center. As a Nashville native and former Ag student in Sumner County, I am very excited to see this project in land conservation, education, and historic preservation.
https://sumnerschools.org/index.php/routes?view=article&id=520&catid=12