November 4th, 2011
What are you doing on Saturday the 12th November? Nothing? Why not come along to the Eric Liddell Centre on Morningside Road in Edinburgh and do some Christmas shopping? Milomade will holding a stall at this event and selling lots of lovely handmade goodies.
June 21st, 2011
Whether you need somewhere to hang up your accessories at home, or want a funky frame to display your products at a craft fair or shoe – look no further than this great idea from Sarah Ortega with her DIY Wire Fence Frame tutorial.
December 5th, 2010
Less than a week away – Get your Christmas shopping done with style! Great music and an amazing collection of one-off Christmas presents – come to the Funk Fair!
October 24th, 2010
I had a fab day in Edinburgh yesterday at the Out of the Blue Arts Market in the Drill Hall. It’s a great venue – nice and bright and airy. I got a great stall location too and felt very lucky to be in the main thoroughfare – it was terribly chilly though so I kept my cardigan/coat on all day. Music played all day and the cafe was always full to the brim with people and so there was a constant stream of customers with only a few lulls here and there throughout the day.
October 2nd, 2010
Check out page 9 of the latest Pulse magazine and you’ll see one of my Elasticated Button Bracelet in full technicolor at the bottom of the page alongside a short feature about the Charity Chic Eco Fashion Fair happening next week.
September 22nd, 2010
I recently posted up info about the Charity Chic Eco Fashion Fair happening in October. It’s a charity event and each stall holder is asked to support a charity of their choice and either make a one off donation to that charity or donate a percentage of their sales. I’ve decided to support Endometriosis UK this year and will be donating 10% of my total sales to the charity.
September 18th, 2010
A chance to buy unique artwork and crafts direct from the artist in the relaxed atmosphere of The Out of the Blue Drill Hall. Some 45 artists and makers will be selling their work which ranges from painting and photography through fashion and textiles to furniture and design.
September 18th, 2010
I did the Charity Chic Eco fashion Fair last year and it was great fun and so I was really pleased to find that I can have a stall at the event again this year too. It’s a three day event with lots of stalls crammed with amazing creativity made from recycled/upcycled materials – Milomade will be one of these stall. There will also be stalls manned by some well known charities full of vintage clothes, fashion and bric a brac.
September 7th, 2010
I was recently asked this question by the guys at Makers Online with regards to how I package my goods as well as how I present them. They asked me to answer a few questions and my answers appeared on their blog in July – I’ve only just got round to noticing! Ooops. So if you’d like to find out where I source all my biodegradable packaging or find out how I make my gift bags or find out what goes into making my craft fair displays, read on.
August 6th, 2010
In collaboration with King Creosote and the Fence Collective the lovely Kirsty of Lovely Pigeon is setting up a pop up shop and creative extravaganza for the duration of the Haar Festival which runs from the 14th-22nd August. The HaarShop will feature work from lots of local and a few non-local artists and creatives. Kirsty got in touch with me a while back and asked me to contribute some of my Milomade creations to sell and I was more than happy to oblige.
July 31st, 2010
I recently did a craft fair at Ardross Farm – Summer in the Loft – and thought I’d post up some piccies of my stall and the event. It was the first craft fair I’d done in a long while, so I was a bit nervous and not sure what to expect, but it turned out to be a really good weekend.
July 20th, 2010
Well it’s about time I got round to writing a tutorial about Facebook as I’ve promised so many people that I would. I joined Facebook in April and have written a few posts about it since, mostly offering promotions for my fans etc, but never really disclosed that much information about how to set up a page for your business and how to manage it.
June 30th, 2010
Not only have I been working away like a busy bee on envelopes and my shop keepers dummy display, I’ve also been busy making more paper garlands and coming up with a neat way to package them up. My old sewing machine is on it’s last legs though and the tension control is not what it used to be – sounds like it’s a bit incontinent in it’s old age and I guess it is a little – every now and again it just looses control of the thread and I end up battling away with a pin trying to untangle knots.
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