Eight Instagrams from the Dallas Design Community That Brightened Our Weekend

Last week, we needed a lift. Below, we share some of our favorite inspirational Instagrams from local designers and shops that made our weekend a little bit brighter.

The Gypsy Wagon

Prayers up for our city of #Dallas today. Spread love & peace throughout your day. Love conquers all. – – – ????: @sun.washed

A photo posted by The Gypsy Wagon (@thegypsywagon) on Jul 8, 2016 at 8:20am PDT

Blue Print

love one another #believeindallas #lovewins ????❤️????❤️

A photo posted by blue print store (@blue_print_store) on Jul 8, 2016 at 1:06pm PDT

Initial K Studio

Prayers, love and peace y’all. For those wanting to help out the Dallas community in his/her own way, please see below. Block tutorial via @cluckclucksew. For all you non-sewing peeps, @dallasmqg is taking donations for batting and back fabric. Please DM me for more info! #dallas #prayfordallas #loveisloveislove #quiltforpeace #Repost @dallasmqg with @repostapp ・・・ #Quiltsforpeace after last nights horrific attack on our city DMQG and the @fortworthmqg planning to make blue and white heart quilts to give to the families of our fallen officers and the victims. Please join us in making these blocks with blue solids or prints and white solid background fabric. Drop off at your local guild, or our official drop off location @urbanspools We will have sew days announcements soon. Thank you and let’s all pray for peace ???????????? #prayfordallas

A photo posted by Kristi Schroeder (@initialkstudio) on Jul 8, 2016 at 9:32am PDT

GAIA Empowered Women

I looked up and this is what I saw. ???? In Colorado, but sending love and prayers home to Dallas. #peaceplease

A photo posted by GAIA Empowered Women (@gaiaforwomen) on Jul 7, 2016 at 9:08pm PDT

The Loveliest

Lord, please cover the broken hearted with your peace and cover the hatred with your love. We pray for the fallen and their families. We pray for the injured. We pray for Dallas. #lovewillprevail

A photo posted by The Loveliest (@theloveliestcompany) on Jul 8, 2016 at 10:05am PDT

Gallerie Noir

#peace #love #art #karenhawkins ????❤????

A photo posted by Melissa Enriquez (@gallerienoir) on Jul 9, 2016 at 4:38pm PDT

Michelle Nussbaumer

Love is the way……

A photo posted by MichelleNussbaumer (@michellenussbaumer) on Jul 7, 2016 at 7:56am PDT

Nest‘s Heather Wiese-Alexander

I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea or not, but I wanted to do something to combat the feeling of helplessness and uselessness I felt watching the news on Thursday night. Friday morning I asked my management if they would ask their teams to add a rush job to the schedule so we could make cards to leave at the memorial. For those of you who don’t know, We have a stationery and invitation studio in Dallas near downtown. We are not a digital company, so every card takes a whole team of people to produce it. We have a diverse group of employees and my managers were so wise about how to approach the idea with their teams. At first we thought, “thank you” would be a nice venture, but not everyone in our studio has particularly warm thoughts about law enforcement. My managers worked to find the right expression. Our Senior designer, a police officer’s wife, created what I think is the perfect design and a whole studio of artists turned off their busy for a minute to work together to get these cards to the memorial site. I hesitated to write about us, because these days and moments and this attention now is about hurting families, lost people, and legitimately angry people from two very different cultures desperate to be right and not sure where to start. But when Scott sent me this pic from the memorial this morning, I realized the healing started for me when I did something productive–with people. That allowed communication to happen. It made me think not just of my own emotions but of everyone’s around me. That’s the message I think is most important. We can all get on social media and vent, but I encourage you to think of something to do and do it with people who may not think exactly like you. Think of an action to take that might be one cobblestone on a bridge and start building. No one person will do this alone. It will take a team. I am so so so very proud these teammates for giving Dallas a starting point for thanking, remembering, participating, maybe even venting. I am honored to work with these people. I’m honored to help start rebuilding our culture. Let’s do this the right way this time.

A photo posted by Heather Wiese Alexander (@hgwalexander) on Jul 9, 2016 at 1:18pm PDT