Condolences: August 8th, 2009.

We at Robin Joy Riggsbee want to offer our solemn condolences to the families of the victims who lost their lives in the mid-air plane and helicopter collision, which occurred yesterday morning, just before noon, over the Hudson River in lower Manhattan.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to all affected by this devastating event.

For more information: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/nyregion/10collide.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

New Branding!

We're very pleased to reveal our new branding design! Enjoy!

Introducing Allen.

Greetings, friends. My name is Allen Wilcox and I've begun working with Robin at the boutique on Charles Street. I'm thrilled to be a part of the community here and look forward to meeting more of you in the weeks and months to come. In addition to spending Sunday afternoon at the showroom, I'll also be keeping the blog regularly updated with photos, videos, information on special events and all sorts of imaginative diatribe. Get ready!


ALSO:

Robin and I are very excited to announce that her presence can now be felt on Twitter! Follow Robin's tweets here:

http://twitter.com/RobinJoyDesigns

Lots more to follow!

Origami Wallets

Sok Song, origami artist extraordinaire has created these wonderful wallets out of our graphics. All made with one sheet of paper, no glue and scissors, just mathematical paper folding genius. Here is one with the Hand Dancer. $30 for this awesome conversational piece. Imagine whipping this out and the things you could talk about and share with people. Sok Song does it again.

Installation Up Close and Personal

More photos from the installation, taken by the very talented and sweet Mr. Tom. Check out his site, www.sirtomphoto.com for more lovely images by him. Thank you so much for all your photo documenting, color correcting and file-sending!


Up close and personal!
beJOYed
Robin

Heartleys Book Signing and Origami Lesson

Please come visit us on Thursday, February 12th from 2-6pm for the signing of our second book, 'The Heartleys.'

Sherry and I will be there with the books doing a meet-and greet, and of course, we've roped in Sok to do an origami lesson with everyone! The paper will be provided just bring your lovely selves.

We will be hosted again by the ever-gracious Steven and Hiroko of Leffot at 10 Christopher Street (on the corner of Christopher and Gay between 6th and 7th Ave).

Heartley's Book Signing & Origami lesson
with Robin Joy, Sherry, and Sok Song
at Leffot
10 Christopher St.
2-6 PM


By the way, a portion of our sales are going to God's Love We Deliver, and organization that delivers meals to home-bound patients. They have been great and we hope to make this event a huge success for them and for us!

www.godslovewedeliver.org



And this would also be a great time to come and see the installation which is still up at Leffot.

Look forward to seeing you there!
beJOYed
Robin

Merci Beaucoup

Waking up this morning was like coming out of a dream. Last night was our gallery opening and it was beyond our wildest expectations. Everyone. Everything. It was surreal!

We had over 200 people come out (!). And we met some of the most interesting people from fashion and art and origami.

First and foremost I would like to thank Sok Song. If you are ever so fortunate to have someone like him in your life on a personal or professional level--- WELL, one should be so blessed. Sok and I also want to thank Marcio Noguchi and the whole OMG group for helping with the prep work on the exhibit. And thank you guys for coming out!

My business partner Sherry. I haven't told you about her yet? She's my best friend and we also wrote our 2 books together A Couple O' Cats and The Heartleys. She's the best and without her-- well things would be verrrrrry different.

I also wanted to thank Patrick McDonald for being a wonderful and tireless host, and to Steven and Hiroko Taffel who also hosted the event at their store and lent us the gallery space. All of you were so important to making the night run smoothly.

Some more people who helped out... Alexander Horwitz -- wow. He helped design the 'flow' of the room and thank you so much for being a part of it all. Jamie Rosenburg who filmed the whole event, thank you!
The beautiful and stunning Hope Davis, who not only modeled one of my dresses, but was enchanting as a personality for the event.

And again, to everyone that came out. I sound like a broken record, but it was like being in a dream or in a movie. Thank you, I am still overJOYed.

Love,
Robin