Beyond Buckskin's Fricken Awesome Holiday Gift Guide 2015

It's that ring-ting-a-ling time of year again! The tree is up, I've got a snowman penguin in my living room, and my TV 'to watch' list is packed with Rudolph, Frosty, and the Grinch! Yes! It is time to reconnect with family, to hang with friends, and to Buy Native. I estimate that I spend anywhere from $1,000-$2,000 per year on gifts. Whether you think this number is high, or is only a fraction of what you spend, or that you don't spend any money at all, we can't deny that money is circulating this time of year, and I'm here to help redirect any tiny bit of that to artists, to Native-owned businesses, and to community initiatives.

Mea B'Fly July Farewell to Four Designs

In keeping with our mission to bring you the newest and greatest items for the best price, we are making room for new inventory by MaRia Bird (Mea B'Fly) by retiring some of her designs.

Mea B'Fly earrings are a great fusion of the powerful past with the energy of today. Each graphic print is made by Bird, starting with a focal background image that she elaborates with other design elements. She hand-produces each earring by adhering the small art prints to a wood base and topping them off with surgical steel earring hooks and jump rings.

BB Facebook | Best of May

I post a lot of fashion news on the Beyond Buckskin Facebook Fan Page. It's a great way to share info quickly without having to write an entire post on it.

Every month I compile these tidbits into a 'Best of' post where I highlight some of the coolest images, the most interesting articles, and the biggest misappropriators that were posted to BB's Facebook page. Click below to check out the Best of May.

Beyond Buckskin Mea B'Fly Giveaway

Alright folks! It's time to give away MORE FREE STUFF!

Beyond Buckskin is giving away 5 items over 5 weeks to our awesome supporters and fans! Here's your chance to win something new from the Beyond Buckskin Boutique to keep for yourself or to give to someone special. The second raffle is launching a week late (geez!) But here it is - win a pair of beautiful Mea B'Fly earrings! The winner will get to pick their favorite set and style from the Mea B'Fly collection!

Post-Manito Ahbee

Ah! Hello everyone!!

Things are finally settling down for a hot second (before they pick back up again for the Michigan event) and I wanted to tell you a little bit about this past weekend at Manito Ahbee!

First off, two of the Beyond Buckskin Boutique artists flew into North Dakota and they camped at the Metcalfe compound in Gardena North Dakota for a couple of days before we dashed past the North 40 up to Canada.

Insta-Win Earrings Competition

I'm very excited to announce that MaRia Bird and Andrea Preston are putting on a cool competition on Instagram. They made the official announcement in the video below (where you get to learn a bit more about them as people - which is very cool, and they are silly).

So if you have an Instagram account, and own Mea B'Fly or DreLynn Designs earrings, take an awesome creative picture of the earrings (either of you wearing them, or another person wearing them, or in a cool setting), post the pic on Instagram, and tag @drepreston and @meabfly.

Chippewow Blossoms | BBB x Mea B'Fly Collab

I have a really cool job. I get to work with Native American fashion designers and artists on a daily basis. I'm hardly an artist, but their creativity inspires me more than they'll ever know.

A couple weeks ago, I was on the phone with one of the artists represented on the Beyond Buckskin Boutique site. Her name is MaRia and she heads up the super fresh Native-centered small jewelry business known as Mea B'Fly. She had an idea to do a collaboration with Beyond Buckskin for an exclusive earring design.

Cherry Blossom | Mea B'fly Earrings

Yay! The latest addition to my earring collection arrived this weekend!

They come from the creative hands of MaRia A. Bird, the owner of Mea B'fly Designs. The name of her small business is a combination of Mea, a childhood nickname short for MaRia, and B'fly, short for butterfly "in honor of my late great grandmother and giver of all that is special and cherished by me - family and self."

GON 2011 G Jewelry, Mea Bfly, and Dre Lynn Design

At the annual Gathering of Nations Powwow, I always get to catch up with some great artists/fashionarias. Check out these three super fly ndn chicks and their badass earrings!:

G Jewelry
Tina Ootsukaeliza has been creating affordable, fun to wear accessories ("handmade with love"!) since 2005.

If you missed her at GON, you can check out her selection on Etsy, or email her for more information at gjewelry@hotmail.com

She was reppin' a huge selection at GON (see left), and even spotted me some dope black and white earrings featuring the badass artwork of one of my favorite artists, Thomas Marcus (aka Breeze).