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This new new beginning has been something special! 🌻#bookstagram #Dramamamabookshop #booktok #dmvevents

This new new beginning has been something special! 🌻#bookstagram #Dramamamabookshop #booktok #dmvevents

Brought in the year with some of my Favs! @howardcommcollege 📚 🌻

Brought in the year with some of my Favs! @howardcommcollege 📚 🌻

Here’s a little help finding us in Historic Savage Mill. ☀️

Here’s a little help finding us in Historic Savage Mill. ☀️

#booktok #yoga #dmvfitness #dmvsoftlocs #writer #writersofinstagram

#booktok #yoga #dmvfitness #dmvsoftlocs #writer #writersofinstagram

🖊️✨ Pens & Prana — where creativity meets calm.
Join us for a mindful writing + breathwork experience led by Kayla Young-Gaines, certified yoga + breathwork guide, and Alisa L. Brock, writer & creative coach.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Center yourself. ✍🏾 Write with intention. 🌿 Leave recharged. LINK IN BIO
#PensAndPrana #MindfulWriting #CreativeWellness #dramamamabookshop #DMV

🖊️✨ Pens & Prana — where creativity meets calm.
Join us for a mindful writing + breathwork experience led by Kayla Young-Gaines, certified yoga + breathwork guide, and Alisa L. Brock, writer & creative coach.

🧘🏽‍♀️ Center yourself. ✍🏾 Write with intention. 🌿 Leave recharged. LINK IN BIO
#PensAndPrana #MindfulWriting #CreativeWellness #dramamamabookshop #DMV

Hey Yawl!
Join us for a 🥂Wine and 📚 Bind Happy Hour—an evening to unwind from the week, sip wine, and let your creativity flow. This is a space for book lovers, writers, and literary nerds to put their phones down, connect with like-minded people, and build their own stationery inside and out.
Guests will have the chance to choose and design their own journal covers and work on what goes inside, creating a personalized reflection of their ideas and imagination. As wine is poured and stories are shared, you’ll meet new people, converse about literature and life, and enjoy a relaxed, inspiring evening.
Whether you’re here to write, design, or simply enjoy a literary escape, Wine and Bind is the perfect way to toast the end of the week with books, creativity, and connection.

Hey Yawl!
Join us for a 🥂Wine and 📚 Bind Happy Hour—an evening to unwind from the week, sip wine, and let your creativity flow. This is a space for book lovers, writers, and literary nerds to put their phones down, connect with like-minded people, and build their own stationery inside and out.
Guests will have the chance to choose and design their own journal covers and work on what goes inside, creating a personalized reflection of their ideas and imagination. As wine is poured and stories are shared, you’ll meet new people, converse about literature and life, and enjoy a relaxed, inspiring evening.
Whether you’re here to write, design, or simply enjoy a literary escape, Wine and Bind is the perfect way to toast the end of the week with books, creativity, and connection.

#Partnership One Book at a Time.

#Partnership One Book at a Time.

SHE KNEW that all she had to do was start. You know, put one foot in front of the other. She drew in a deep belly breath and as she released the air in her lungs, she stepped away from her past and toward her undiscovered future. As she opened the door to her new reality, it was filled with endless possibilities. She realized it was her against the world, but she was ready for anything!

Community she gathers from her community around her. Overwhelmed and overjoyed she engulfs herself in the breaths of life her community shares . “This is what love looks like,” she exclaims with a full heart gazing out as her community showers her with applause. A found community, her chosen family, she gazes at the ones who embraced her at every turn, poured life into her and faned her fire from extinguishing. From those that brainstormed the inception of her dream, to those that rolled up a sleeve, turning a vision into reality, this family, her family, were proof of a future worth fighting for.

Proof of a now worth being present for. She was a flower, grounded in support and flourishing in love. This was a new beginning and finally she saw the fruits of her labor. She knew she could accomplish anything she set her mind on. With her sister, they would take on the world. The world would be forever changed. Who knows what the next adventure will be. One that is full of purpose, passion, and beyond the dreams of her community. But the answers to the tears her ancestors cried. Even today, in this climate…

May our ancestors be happy with our accomplishments to see their work manifest through us. May they watch us honor their values & live parallel dressed in different clothes. Grounded in His love, she continued to grow and shine. Watch out world for all her greatness. She is what she dreams.

She is what she thinks and manifests. One day the wind whispered “what you are seeking is seeking you” and then she dreamed bigger and bigger, each day turning her dreams into her reality.

First, she had to start & ask herself — “What is the dream, the vision that I’ve been too afraid to let step into the light?”

She is healing! One day at a time!!!

Keep pushing one step at a time!!!

SHE KNEW that all she had to do was start. You know, put one foot in front of the other. She drew in a deep belly breath and as she released the air in her lungs, she stepped away from her past and toward her undiscovered future. As she opened the door to her new reality, it was filled with endless possibilities. She realized it was her against the world, but she was ready for anything!

Community she gathers from her community around her. Overwhelmed and overjoyed she engulfs herself in the breaths of life her community shares . “This is what love looks like,” she exclaims with a full heart gazing out as her community showers her with applause. A found community, her chosen family, she gazes at the ones who embraced her at every turn, poured life into her and faned her fire from extinguishing. From those that brainstormed the inception of her dream, to those that rolled up a sleeve, turning a vision into reality, this family, her family, were proof of a future worth fighting for.

Proof of a now worth being present for. She was a flower, grounded in support and flourishing in love. This was a new beginning and finally she saw the fruits of her labor. She knew she could accomplish anything she set her mind on. With her sister, they would take on the world. The world would be forever changed. Who knows what the next adventure will be. One that is full of purpose, passion, and beyond the dreams of her community. But the answers to the tears her ancestors cried. Even today, in this climate…

May our ancestors be happy with our accomplishments to see their work manifest through us. May they watch us honor their values & live parallel dressed in different clothes. Grounded in His love, she continued to grow and shine. Watch out world for all her greatness. She is what she dreams.

She is what she thinks and manifests. One day the wind whispered “what you are seeking is seeking you” and then she dreamed bigger and bigger, each day turning her dreams into her reality.

First, she had to start & ask herself — “What is the dream, the vision that I’ve been too afraid to let step into the light?”

She is healing! One day at a time!!!

Keep pushing one step at a time!!!

📚✨ We’re open at our new Drama Mama Bookshop location!

🕒 Hours:
Thursday–Friday: 3–7 PM
Saturday: 11–6 PM
Sunday: 11–4 PM

Walk-ins are always welcome — and appointments are appreciated! 💕(Link in Bio)

Stop by to build your own book, and check out our newest stationery items and handcrafted woodworkings. ✨

Stay tuned for our upcoming workshops + events calendar — coming soon!🌻☀️

#DramaMamaBookshop #ShopLocal #BookshopVibes #StationeryLovers #Bookbinding #WoodworkingArt #BaltimoreBusiness #HandmadeWithLove #booktok #bulletjournal #keepwriting✒️

📚✨ We’re open at our new Drama Mama Bookshop location!

🕒 Hours:
Thursday–Friday: 3–7 PM
Saturday: 11–6 PM
Sunday: 11–4 PM

Walk-ins are always welcome — and appointments are appreciated! 💕(Link in Bio)

Stop by to build your own book, and check out our newest stationery items and handcrafted woodworkings. ✨

Stay tuned for our upcoming workshops + events calendar — coming soon!🌻☀️

#DramaMamaBookshop #ShopLocal #BookshopVibes #StationeryLovers #Bookbinding #WoodworkingArt #BaltimoreBusiness #HandmadeWithLove #booktok #bulletjournal #keepwriting✒️

@jay.kwe 🎥 More of moments before

@jay.kwe 🎥 More of moments before

Wow. Just wow.
I’m still feeling so full from Saturday — my heart is overflowing. ☀️🤓

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who showed up and showed out for my grand opening! From my family and friends to the new faces that stopped by — your love and support mean everything to me. I spent yesterday resting and really taking it all in, feeling pure gratitude and joy seeing the ideas that once lived in my head finally come to life. ✨

To my new home @experiencesavagemill — thank you for welcoming me with open arms and helping make the day so special.
To my brilliant sister in business @juicing.with.jazz — those mocktails were everything! 🍹
To @thegrazingroombelair for the most beautiful charcuterie spread — absolutely stunning.
To my bestie @jay.kwe for coming in town, celebrating, and capturing all the little moments so I could just be present.
To my homegirl Monica (who ain’t ever on here 😄), and my bestie + impromptu DJ @francissoane2 — thank you for bringing the vibes and holding me down like always.

I’m so excited for this new chapter and everything ahead. Thank y’all for all the love, the shares, the good energy, and the support — I feel it all. 💫📚

More beautiful things and creative classes are coming soon — and I can’t wait to share them with you. 🫶🏽. 🎥 by @jay.kwe 💐 @baltimoreblossomsstudio

Wow. Just wow.
I’m still feeling so full from Saturday — my heart is overflowing. ☀️🤓

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who showed up and showed out for my grand opening! From my family and friends to the new faces that stopped by — your love and support mean everything to me. I spent yesterday resting and really taking it all in, feeling pure gratitude and joy seeing the ideas that once lived in my head finally come to life. ✨

To my new home @experiencesavagemill — thank you for welcoming me with open arms and helping make the day so special.
To my brilliant sister in business @juicing.with.jazz — those mocktails were everything! 🍹
To @thegrazingroombelair for the most beautiful charcuterie spread — absolutely stunning.
To my bestie @jay.kwe for coming in town, celebrating, and capturing all the little moments so I could just be present.
To my homegirl Monica (who ain’t ever on here 😄), and my bestie + impromptu DJ @francissoane2 — thank you for bringing the vibes and holding me down like always.

I’m so excited for this new chapter and everything ahead. Thank y’all for all the love, the shares, the good energy, and the support — I feel it all. 💫📚

More beautiful things and creative classes are coming soon — and I can’t wait to share them with you. 🫶🏽. 🎥 by @jay.kwe 💐 @baltimoreblossomsstudio

Hey Yawl, I’m so happy to finally share that Drama Mama Bookshop is opening its doors at Historic Savage Mill! ☀️

📅 October 4 | 11–6 PM

This truly feels like a new beginning. I’ve landed in a space that feels good and full of possibility. I can’t wait to see that positivity grow through connection, support, and love. 🌻

We’ll have books, activities, good food, good wine, and all the good vibes. Mostly, I’d just love to celebrate this next chapter together with you.

Hey Yawl, I’m so happy to finally share that Drama Mama Bookshop is opening its doors at Historic Savage Mill! ☀️

📅 October 4 | 11–6 PM

This truly feels like a new beginning. I’ve landed in a space that feels good and full of possibility. I can’t wait to see that positivity grow through connection, support, and love. 🌻

We’ll have books, activities, good food, good wine, and all the good vibes. Mostly, I’d just love to celebrate this next chapter together with you.

Career Day @bgcbaltimore 🌻🌻 Maybe there were a few future writers & book binders. 😉

Career Day @bgcbaltimore 🌻🌻 Maybe there were a few future writers & book binders. 😉

@madeinbaltimoreprogram
Popping up til 3pm 🌻

@madeinbaltimoreprogram
Popping up til 3pm 🌻

We’re in Detroit Yawl! Shop our products @thewrightmuseum 🖤🖤�🖤

We’re in Detroit Yawl! Shop our products @thewrightmuseum 🖤🖤🖤

LINK IN BIO..Hey Yawl! 🌻We’re excited to announce our limited Edition @tankandthebangas Wooden Journals!!📓📒📝🗒️🤓🌻🌻Two new orleans natives link up to provide you a space where you can be vulnerable af.
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Hailing from New Orleans, !!Grammy Award Winning!! Tarriona “Tank” Ball of Tank and the Bangas has been revolutionizing the worlds of funk and soul since 2011. She describes her journey further in her book of poems “Vulnerable AF”. While her love for music and the written word is woven through her work, she’s now partnering up with Drama MaMa Bookshop, and their passion forward mission to share their love for a good journal.
Illustrator: @themrsshonte
And yawl know we got those!!!

#Writeon

LINK IN BIO..Hey Yawl! 🌻We’re excited to announce our limited Edition @tankandthebangas Wooden Journals!!📓📒📝🗒️🤓🌻🌻Two new orleans natives link up to provide you a space where you can be vulnerable af.
____

Hailing from New Orleans, !!Grammy Award Winning!! Tarriona “Tank” Ball of Tank and the Bangas has been revolutionizing the worlds of funk and soul since 2011. She describes her journey further in her book of poems “Vulnerable AF”. While her love for music and the written word is woven through her work, she’s now partnering up with Drama MaMa Bookshop, and their passion forward mission to share their love for a good journal.
Illustrator: @themrsshonte
And yawl know we got those!!!

#Writeon

What a fantastic way to start the New Year! We’re back from break and our first Book Binding workshop of the year was with @howardcommcollege ! Thanks for having us! I always have a great time with you all! This one was truly a gift. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to share my story and hear everyone else’s. It really served as a reminder of why this work is so important and the ripple effect it has when we connect with ourselves and others. Thanks for being open and authentic. It was really refreshing to connect. Thanks @tp.hm for the photos and assisting! Just realized you weren’t in any pics because you were behind the camera! Next Time! Happy NEW YEAR yawl!

What a fantastic way to start the New Year! We’re back from break and our first Book Binding workshop of the year was with @howardcommcollege ! Thanks for having us! I always have a great time with you all! This one was truly a gift. Thanks for giving me an opportunity to share my story and hear everyone else’s. It really served as a reminder of why this work is so important and the ripple effect it has when we connect with ourselves and others. Thanks for being open and authentic. It was really refreshing to connect. Thanks @tp.hm for the photos and assisting! Just realized you weren’t in any pics because you were behind the camera! Next Time! Happy NEW YEAR yawl!

Hey Yawl! Come Wine & Bind with me all week long! Pick from our selection of Covers and build your own by turning it into a planner, or a lined, dotted, or blank journal. December 18th-23rd 11am-7pm. See yawl soon!🎄🤓📚

Hey Yawl! Come Wine & Bind with me all week long! Pick from our selection of Covers and build your own by turning it into a planner, or a lined, dotted, or blank journal. December 18th-23rd 11am-7pm. See yawl soon!🎄🤓📚

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Hey Yawl! 🌻🤓I’m back outside again with new things. This is my proof of life photo. Taken by an awesome vending budy @ojeannecollection .

Hey Yawl! 🌻🤓I’m back outside again with new things. This is my proof of life photo. Taken by an awesome vending budy @ojeannecollection .

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket 🌻📚

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket 🌻📚

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket

I had the opportunity to make a custom frame for a customer for this poster of @bisabutler ‘s The Warmth of other Sons. I’ve actually been reading the book that shares the title for a while and it’s exceptional writing just as the artwork is. This was a joy to create.

I had the opportunity to make a custom frame for a customer for this poster of @bisabutler ‘s The Warmth of other Sons. I’ve actually been reading the book that shares the title for a while and it’s exceptional writing just as the artwork is. This was a joy to create.

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket 🌻📚🤓

@baltimorefarmersmarket 🌻📚🤓

100 Books out the door for @loyolamaryland Simon Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. It’s been over 5 years I’ve been making books for you guys! Thanks for putting some steam behind our growing business! 🌻📚🤓

100 Books out the door for @loyolamaryland Simon Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. It’s been over 5 years I’ve been making books for you guys! Thanks for putting some steam behind our growing business! 🌻📚🤓

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket

🌻This week my team and I had the privilege of building 650 books for @baltcityschools department of Food & Nutrition Services! We did it in Less than 2 weeks. And I got to speak with them on Yesterday! Thanks for having me and supporting us! 🌻

🌻This week my team and I had the privilege of building 650 books for @baltcityschools department of Food & Nutrition Services! We did it in Less than 2 weeks. And I got to speak with them on Yesterday! Thanks for having me and supporting us! 🌻

@baltimorefarmersmarket 🌻🌻

@baltimorefarmersmarket 🌻🌻

We expanded into a 2nd kiosk!

Woot Woot!! 🌻🌻✈️📚📓

We expanded into a 2nd kiosk!

Woot Woot!! 🌻🌻✈️📚📓

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket

@baltimorefarmersmarket 🌻📚

@baltimorefarmersmarket 🌻📚

6/2/24

6/2/24

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket 5/12/24

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket 5/12/24

Farmers Market 5/5/24

Farmers Market 5/5/24

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket 🌻🌻🌻

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket 🌻🌻🌻

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket HEY YAWLLLL🌻

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket HEY YAWLLLL🌻

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket

FIRST DAY 2024!🌻

@thebaltimorefarmersmarket

FIRST DAY 2024!🌻

“Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.“

Lady Day 🌸

“Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.“

Lady Day 🌸

I also got to meet @adriennemareebrown 🌻 @nwsa_ig Whose work I absolutely LOVE! And gifted her the Octavia Butler quoted journal. Emergent Strategy totally changed the game for me. Made me feel like even my small movements towards the change I desire to create in the world had impact and served as encouragement to keep doing the work! I saw FRACTILES in everything, everywhere and made sense of the connection I feel on a level that sometimes feels hard to explain. You EXPLAINED IT GIRL! 💕 I got a signed copy of my Fav book by her and talked her head off a bit about how much I also love Octavia Butler and how Emergent strategy made me go back and read them all in ORDER! 🌻🤓 the 2nd pic is of @oh.thats.ash24 one of my Fav KIDDOS! She da best!!! And me making more books for @nwsa_ig because the book love was real that weekend!

I also got to meet @adriennemareebrown 🌻 @nwsa_ig Whose work I absolutely LOVE! And gifted her the Octavia Butler quoted journal. Emergent Strategy totally changed the game for me. Made me feel like even my small movements towards the change I desire to create in the world had impact and served as encouragement to keep doing the work! I saw FRACTILES in everything, everywhere and made sense of the connection I feel on a level that sometimes feels hard to explain. You EXPLAINED IT GIRL! 💕 I got a signed copy of my Fav book by her and talked her head off a bit about how much I also love Octavia Butler and how Emergent strategy made me go back and read them all in ORDER! 🌻🤓 the 2nd pic is of @oh.thats.ash24 one of my Fav KIDDOS! She da best!!! And me making more books for @nwsa_ig because the book love was real that weekend!

Okay and here are some awesome folks I’ve been meeting and working with at the @bwi_airport @fraport_md

I’ve been a busy bee… but I’m learning more about collaboration and team work as I tackle big things! My tribe is finding me. I’m working out to kinks and keeping my intentions. I been crying and screaming like a toddler!! 😂 But I need to make more time to celebrate! Besides the little dances I do when shit just goes right.

Okay and here are some awesome folks I’ve been meeting and working with at the @bwi_airport @fraport_md

I’ve been a busy bee… but I’m learning more about collaboration and team work as I tackle big things! My tribe is finding me. I’m working out to kinks and keeping my intentions. I been crying and screaming like a toddler!! 😂 But I need to make more time to celebrate! Besides the little dances I do when shit just goes right.

Us making books where books LIVE!! This has been an exciting library tour! 2 more stops! Hop on the wait list! 🌻🌻 Thanks for letting me share my craft @prattlibrary 💕

Us making books where books LIVE!! This has been an exciting library tour! 2 more stops! Hop on the wait list! 🌻🌻 Thanks for letting me share my craft @prattlibrary 💕

Did our Wine & Bind with these beautiful Leaders from Chicago! Some good laughs with this crowd! 🌻🌻

Did our Wine & Bind with these beautiful Leaders from Chicago! Some good laughs with this crowd! 🌻🌻

I had the privilege of hosting the good folks of @howardcommcollege for their leadership meeting this morning.It’s been a few weeks of teaching what I love and putting journals in hands in a truly personal way. Super grateful for this work I get to do even with all its growing pains, moments like this make it all worth it. 🌻🌻

I had the privilege of hosting the good folks of @howardcommcollege for their leadership meeting this morning.It’s been a few weeks of teaching what I love and putting journals in hands in a truly personal way. Super grateful for this work I get to do even with all its growing pains, moments like this make it all worth it. 🌻🌻

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