Inside Barb’s kitchen at home
dear friend of twenty-five years passed
away one and a half years after we
opened the shop. She kindly left me all
of the garment printing equipment, so I
continued on. I figured out how to use
the machines by Googling and watching
YouTube! The shop just turned four years
old on May 1st. I’m grateful to Wendy
for seeing in me something I didn’t see
in myself and for starting me out on this
venture. I truly love the shop and my
customers. It’s a little shop where you
can eat cupcakes that make you HapPy,
gO to create art, and shop for things that
make you SmiLe! We carry apparel with
custom art on it and do all of our own
printing on the garments as well. We also
carry home goods and lots of cute trailer
items. We have mixed media paint &
collage classes every Saturday! Our next
ART Retreat is October 6-8, and you get
to glamp in vintage trailers at a winery for
the weekend and create aRT!! We take
our trailer to shows and have little pop
up shops too!
So how did the Oasis make its way into
their lives? Having previously been on a
few glamping trips with friends, Barb says
that it wasn’t long before they were on
the hunt for a vintage trailer of their own.
It took them about two years of searching,
but when they found the Oasis in Arroyo
Grande for $1,400 and it was made in the
same year that Jeri was born, they knew
that it was “the one”!
� It took Jeri 17 layers of wood
to repair this rotted framework
Inside before
“It was on Jeri’s birthday three years ago
when my friend Stephanie called and
said there was a trailer for sale in Arroyo
Grande”, Barb recalls.
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