November 7th, 2008

This weekend I have mostly been…

Creating Tutorials and discovering What Katie Does…

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November 7th, 2008

I’ve just spent the entire evening finishing off the milomade website at long last. So there is now an updated Products section as well as randomised links on the homepage. The content has all been updated too.

I’m really pleased as it’s now a proper showcase for all the products I make.

October 21st, 2008

I’ve just listed a few Mobile Phone Charms in my DaWanda shop. These are made from buttons and beads threaded onto silver plated wire and attached to mobile phone lariats. They’re funky and fun and can be attached to your mobile phone, your iPod or your digital camera – whatever takes your fancy.

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October 21st, 2008

Great news – The Cloudhouse Cafe in Stow is now stocking a range of milomade products!

I went through to Heriot in September to visit Pat and she introduced me to Claudia who runs the cafe and I showed her a selection of Safety Pin Bracelets, Button Badges, Elasticated Button Bracelets, Recycled Envelope Badges and Buttons Earings and she loved the lot and said she would like to stock everything.

So if you’re in the area, why not pop in and have some lunch – the food is fantastic!

October 7th, 2008

I’ve been busy making lots of safety pin bracelets and have just listed a few new items in my DaWanda shop. These images link directly to the items within my shop…

Autumnal Dream

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September 12th, 2008

I’ve just listed some of my badge sets made from recycled envelopes in my shop. The images link directly to the product pages…

Set 1

Set2

Set3

September 11th, 2008

I’ve been wanting to get a badgemaker for absolutely ages and it was one of the items of equipment I specified within my grant application that I would buy if I was awarded the grant…so when I saw one come up on e-bay at a very low price, I made sure I kept an eye on it.

This one in particular seemed like a very good deal as it came with tons of badge components and magnets [so I could make fridge magnets too] as well as a circle cutter. I ended up spending just under what I initially predicted I would spend on a machine, so I was a bit disappointed as it was second hand and not new, but with all the extra’s that came with the machine, I’m more than happy with my purchase…here’s the machine in all it’s orange glory!

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September 2nd, 2008

Our two weeks in the Outer Hebrides were totally magical and amazing and thankfully we went when we did and missed all the heavy rain and floods and misery that came down on Fife in our absence. We were in our own little sunshine bubble and visited 9 separate islands and here are some photo’s from a few of them…

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August 6th, 2008

Just a quick post to let you know what new stock has been deliverd to The Portal in Edinburgh…

Baby Jellybean Elasticated Button Bracelet

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August 5th, 2008

Look what I got in the post…

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August 5th, 2008

Just thought I’d write a quick post about The Portal in Edinburgh. Run by Waste Innovations (part of the STIRnetwork), they are based in the heart of Edinburgh, just off the Royal Mile in St Mary’s Street and they stock milomade goods and my sales figures are good. They’re getting a whole batch of new stock today and hopefully it will all sell over the festival.

Waste Innovations are great and I’m really glad I found them – well Pat found them for me and passed on their details. They have a policy of zero waste…

Waste Innovations is a marketing company which aims to achieve sustainability in all of its business operations. We believe that waste should have a value, and should be managed as profligately as gold dust. Wherever possible, our waste should be innovatively recycled, refactured or regenerated into value-added products of a diverse nature and it is an objective of Waste Innovations to facilitate the development of new markets in recycled materials to further this end. http://www.wasteinnovations.com

More info on The Portal here…

August 3rd, 2008

Came home today and was just pottering about in the kitchen when suddenly it got a little darker and I saw this amazing colour in the sky…

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August 3rd, 2008

I feel like we’ve totally neglected the garden over the past few months. We moved to Kinghorn earlier this year and had an initial flurry of activity in the garden, in fact on our first day here I created a herb / salad / spinach / beetroot patch right outside the back door, which has now been slightly overtaken by lovely nasturtiums…

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