I spent some time last week adding a new shop to this website. I tried out lots of WordPress e-commerce plugins and most of them were terrible, lacking severely in documentation and support and so impossible to implement. I then stumbled upon Ecwid and manage to set it up and style it in less that […]
Category Archives: News & Events
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Jul
Jul
Just a quick post to tell you about the Big Tent Fesitval which is on this coming weekend. It runs from Friday the 23rd July to Sunday the 25th July and is a jam packed weekend of fun and frolics set on the beautiful landscape of Falkland Estate in the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland. […]
16
Jul
Jul
If you’re a follower of my blog, you’ll know that I was involved in a very interesting project recently which involved making a piece of work from another artist’s rubbish. I was sent a shoebox in the post with lots of interesting items within it and set to work on making a piece of work […]
16
Jul
Jul
You may have noticed a severe lack of blogging lately. Well, I’ve been busy – very busy – not only with my recent craft fair at Ardross Farm, but also with website updates. Since I started working with precious and non precious metals and creating more ‘expensive’ pieces of jewellery, I’ve found it quite difficult […]
07
Jul
Jul
The lovely folk at Makers-Online have just opened their doors to entries for their Trash to Treasure competition. There’s a £200 cash prize and Rachelle Strauss from www.myzerowaste.com has agreed to do the judging! So get your thinking caps on and get creative with your waste and come up with something amazing and enter the […]
07
Jul
Jul
I’ve just entered the Milomade Blog into the Little Blog Awards over at Dorset Cereals – if you’ve never tried Dorset Cereals, you should – very very Yummy – although a little bit pricey, but worth the pennies! I normally buy them occasionally as an indulgent treat. Anyway…
22
Jun
Jun
Just a quick little post to let you know that I got interviewed for the ‘Meet the Maker’ slot on the Makers-Online blog recently and it got posted on the site this week. You can follow this link to read all about “me me me”! I don’t know how to edit, so it’s quite a […]
21
Jun
Jun
I was asking my Facebook fans to help me out with a dilemma yesterday and although they came up with lots of lovely suggestions, IKEA had the solution in the end. I’ve never really known the best way to display my hair bobbles and everytime I do a craft fair, I really struggle to find […]
15
Jun
Jun
I have to apologise for the delay in sorting out the winner of my 500 Facebook Fans Giveaway! I meant to do this at the weekend, but got so busy with other things and then my printer went wonky and my laptop refused to recognise it, so I had that to sort out as well. […]
08
Jun
Jun
I got a lovely email from Central Station this morning saying that they’d selected my Map Paper Garlands to be the ‘Featured Work’ on the website. So I’ve got a lovely prominent plug for Milomade on the Bulletin page, on the Community page and on the Portfolio page. Chuffed to bits as I only decided […]