First Friday DIY with Designed For Joy

We look forward to seeing you September 6 for First Friday, from 5-7 p.m. We are offering the DIY Acorn Bell Ornament again for $15. It was a huge hit last First Friday!

Celebrate Raleigh’s First Friday with a unique make-and-take event! Drop in anytime between 5 and 7 p.m. at the Designed For Joy studio in downtown Raleigh to create your very own Raleigh Acorn Bell—a charming keepsake that symbolizes our “City of Oaks.”

Designed For Joy provides women in crisis with stability through immediate employment and support, removing the stigma of vulnerability. To date, we have hired over 160 women with over $600,000 in living wages earned. Shop our brand of leather handbags, jewelry, and home decor and provide living wage work for the next 100 women in Raleigh. Tour our 5,000-square-foot studio and see where and how our products are created.