Colors & Cocktails: The Mobile Art Party

Swoon!! How gorgeous are these?! Can’t wait!! 🤩🌈

🌈💕 Happy Pride Month, friends! 💕🌈

One of the things I love most about owning 🎨Colors & Cocktails👩‍🎨 is getting to meet and create alongside people from all walks of life. Art has a beautiful way of bringing people together, helping us share our stories, celebrate our differences, and connect through creativity!

While Pride is something we celebrate and support year-round, June gives us an opportunity to be a little more intentional, a little more colorful, and a little more visible in that support. As our team member Sammy recently said, it gives us a chance to really “show out!” 🌈✨💕

A huge shoutout to our newest team member, Grace, for curating and designing the beautiful photo featured in this post! The artwork and products showcased come from several of the incredible artists, makers, and small businesses we are proud to support.

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I love that this photo celebrates talented makers from Kalamazoo, Chicago, and even Scotland while capturing the creativity, color, and community that make our shop so special. 🎨💕

This post is also special to me because it marks my return to social media after a bit of a pause since Christmas. I’ve been grateful for the opportunity to focus on my family during this season, and I’m excited to reconnect and share all that we’ve been working on this year.

Turns out when you’re busy bringing happiness to people through art, raising two little boys (and two fur daughters), and wearing all the hats that come with small business ownership, social media sometimes ends up at the bottom of the to-do list. 🤪🎨

Our mission has always been simple: bringing happiness to people through art. To me, that means creating a space where people feel welcomed, inspired, valued, and free to be themselves!

To our LGBTQ+ artists, makers, customers, team members, and friends—thank you for helping make Colors & Cocktails the welcoming, colorful, and creative place that it is. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Wishing you a colorful, creative, and joy-filled Pride Month!! 🌈🎨💕

💕 Lauren and The Colors & Cocktails Team

Happy Saturday! We’ll be opening at noon today and be open until 6pm.

Taking time today to celebrate the life of our sweet and sassy friend, Carol Marbach. She was a fierce friend, lover of small business - especially ours, and Disney! We miss you, Carol!

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Hooray!! FABULOUS parking updates for Downtown Kalamazoo!! 🎉

Following continued collaboration with downtown businesses, residents, employees, and community partners, Park Kalamazoo is implementing several parking enhancements designed to improve convenience and support downtown activity. Changes being implemented over the next three weeks include:

• The first 30 minutes free at all paid on-street parking spaces through fall 2027
• Expanded on-street time limits, increasing from 90 minutes to 3 hours or longer depending on zone
• On-street parking enforcement hours will end at 5 p.m. in all zones. The premium zone is enforced Monday through Saturday, while the base zone is enforced weekdays only. Sundays are free on the street and in the ramps.
• Free first 90 minutes in public parking ramps will continue

These updates build on the downtown parking changes implemented in April and reflect continued feedback related to customer convenience, evening activity, and short visits downtown.

Read more at: https://www.kalamazoocity.org/News-articles/City-and-Downtown-Partners-Announce-Parking-Updates-to-Support-Businesses-Visitors-and-Downtown-Activity