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It's Halloween time, so naturally, we need candy (vegan if you're really dope;) and could think of no better place to find it than the aisles of a local convenience store. Me + a couple of the babes + one videographer took a little trip to Des Moines' East Side to help with to a little candy shopping -- and help our girl film a dance video of course 💃      

Last weekend was so full of so many things (and so many ASOME babes + friends' celebrations) we decided to take a break from scary climate change stats - don't worry, they're coming soon - and recap FRI-SUN, in our favorite second-hand scores. 𝔽ℝ𝕀𝔻𝔸𝕐: 𝚃𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚊'𝚜 𝚂𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝙳𝚎𝚜 𝙼𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚠 (+ 𝚊 𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠 𝙺𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗 𝙲𝚑𝚎𝚘𝚗𝚐) 📸🧘‍♀️   𝕊𝔸𝕋𝕌ℝ𝔻𝔸𝕐: 𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚜𝚊𝚕𝚎, 𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚕𝚎, 𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚜𝚊𝚕𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙲𝚕𝚞𝚋-𝙱 𝙵𝙸𝚃 𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚎 💃 𝕊𝕌ℕ𝔻𝔸𝕐: 𝙼𝚞𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚟𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚢 🥳    

I know the 4th gets a lot of the action when it comes to July, but we also celebrate another occasion -- and this one is for the whole month -- National Anti-Boredom Month! So in honor of the holiday, here are a few of our favorite things to do in Des Moines to keep the boredom at bay.   The Des Moines Art Center is an absolute gem in the city, get there soon if you haven't been lately!  If you prefer the outdoors, get your ass to some grass! Or just take a little stroll through the East Village. *And make sure to selfie it up while you're there 🙋‍♀️ If you're more of the indoors type, we highly...

NUMBER 3!  I can't believe we've already had 2 Creative Chaoses before our latest installment at Curate that helped kick off Art Week DSM 2019. If you haven't been to one yet, make sure to hit the next one and be ready for local designers and curators all waiting to help update your wardrobe + tunes from DJ Rock Paper Scissors, co-creator of the event along with Kristin Gredys Ihm. Here are a few of our fave photos from the last CC:

It's official, Art Week Des Moines 2019 is in full swing 🎨🎉 ASOME kicked off the festivities with the latest installments of Creative Chaos & Limited Space over the weekend (thank you to everyone who came out!) and can't wait to keep all the art-ing going this week. Des Moines is filled with some incredible talent, like our own ASOME love, Tatiana, and another favorite of ours is Gustav -- headed by Ben Schuh and Scott Kaven. After a collab with them last year for dsm Magazine, we decided we had not had enough, and did an impromptu shoot at their installation at Mainframe Studios. Their work is 🔥🔥, here are a few of our faves shots from the shoot, and happy...