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Monday, 3 January 2011
january the third
Monday, 13 December 2010
popping-up tomorrow! (with a super special offer...)
I had a lovely day at the Out of the Blue Arts Market on Saturday. Again I forgot to take a proper photo of my stall (hot dang!) but I thought it looked a festive treat with a new/old/gnarly/lichen covered branch, jingle bells, robins and the long-awaited THE NIGHT OWL paper banner. Can you imagine it yet?!?!
Well I'll be back down in Leith tomorrow night for a wee pop-up shop appearing at the lovely Word of Mouth Cafe.
I'm really looking forward swallying some (more) mulled wine and nibbling upon a few (more) Christmassy baked treats with Wooden Tree, Curly Custard and Victoria Berg and hopefully you guys too?!
So as it's my last show on-the-road in 2010, I'll be a running THE NIGHT OWL cafe-culture special offer for one-night-only of my gingham picnic tablecloths for just £20!
Come to think of it I'll be down Leith tonight too as the afore mentioned lovely Victoria will be appearing in her nightie around the Sweedish bars for St. Lucia Night! Not on her own I might add!! Read up on the wiki-link there if you're not familiar with this beautiful Sweedish tradition which I've very happily adopted as my own. For me, tonight's the night that Christmas really begins - I've just been practicing til' now. The tour starts in Sofi's at 8pm and then goes to Boda, Victoria and finishes up at Joseph Pearce about 9pm. This time I'll be taking my camera...
Thursday, 9 December 2010
barry barras barrow buskers!
I did have fun down the Barras at Supermercado the other week. The bonnie brown and beige striped barrow I borrowed lived up to all my expectations. There's copious storage under the old gal y'know!
It was my first market of the festive season and I took the chance to get out the lovely vintage-style tablecloth I'd snaffled in the Scotstoun Emporium months ago. I lined my old suitcase with the tablecloth and plucked some wind-fallen branches from the cemetery to hang my brand-new decorations upon. I was glad I had the brain-wave to tie my bell-bows from last years at-home decor onto the branch tips which fairly added some pazzaz - if do say so myself!
They're so simple to do - just thread a ribbon under the wee loop on the back of your standard jingle bell (cutting the ribbon at a jaunty angle helps) and tie a bow either on itself or around whatever needs jingling and you're done - possibly the quickest project ever! My wee battery powered berry lights were reluctant to perform on such a bitterly cold day, but I cajoled them eventually.
Raring to but experiencing some chilly-weather technical difficulties nonetheless were Julias' Daughters (or Emily and me) as cold weather and metal strings don't mix with frozen fingers and my stinking cold made the high notes a little well, higher. But we had fun and even received a compliment on our cover of Teenager In Love - out first review woohoo!
If you're shopping in Glasgow over the next couple of weekends be sure to go along for some Christmas cheer(s): mulled cider and HOT GIN COCKTAILS await! And I can't wait to get my gin-soaked paws on the recipe, soon to be appearing on The Made In the Shade blog. Maybe it will be divulged in time for their On-line Chirstmas party?
(Thanks to the Shade and their lovely lady photographer for the borrowed photos below!)
P.S. Photographer identified as Gillian from Dapple Photography - thanks Kirtsy!
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
はい喜ばしなさい、ありがとう!
All be it within monetary and luggage-allowance restrictions, I think it's reasonable to say that Japan brought out the raging-blood-thirsty-foaming-at-the-mouth-consumerist in me. Oh dear, sounds nasty huh? And for the unfortunate by-standers: believe me, it was.
Most of this rampage was conducted in a couple of Ұ100 shops (not to be compared with Poundstreatcher's) and the fabulous five-storey fabric shop Tomato but I found many opportunities in which to open my purse and shell-out the yen and some other occasions in which, I regret to inform my dithering indecision had me walk away from a most opportune moment. Shame on me!
So I thought it only appropriate to show off the spoils of my shopping-spree now that the gifts have (mostly) been given...
1. Tapes, tapes and more tapes mostly collected in Ұ100 shops and some from a brilliant wee stationery shop somewhere near the Carrot Tower. The sweetie bags up the back by Aiueo came from Tokyu Hands. In case you can't tell from where you're sitting, it's a cartoon lady face with purple / yellow hair and when you fill the bag and tie the top you give her a wee pig tail - eeek!
2. I got some very special stickers for adding to my 'part-made-in-Japan' items soon to be coming to the shop, with 'hand made' written in both hiragana (?) and English. A commendable example of one purchase justifying another! The lovely floral fabric is soon to be a shower cap. And the pink squared speech bubble tags - oohlala need I say more?!
3. Kitty watering can: I found this on the way to the temple of kitty you can get a slightly larger one here too! The plastico maple leaves were decorating shops everywhere, I suppose the way plastic cherry blossoms do in spring. They were Ұ100 of course. Also spottable: a ceramic Miffy salt cellar (not a knock-off I'll have you know!), a second-hand Miffy book (temple yard-sale) for practising my Japanesees, and lovely cherry and mushroom patterned fabrics (Tomato) and a plastic potato. Don't ask.
4. The only snag about Tomato for me, was that apart from the pre-cut pieces on the quilting floor, like this stack of fat-quarters, all fabrics were cut at a minimum of 1 metre. Dang. But compared to FQ prices in Scotland (or say in John Lewis) they were mighty reasonable at between Ұ130/270 or £1/£2 and of course Japanese! The green Mitsubishi pencil in the foreground I admired for it's slogan: 'Made by elaborate process'.
5. I got a lovely selection of stationery items like these cute froggy envelopes (when you fold the top down his eyes pop out!) an exercise book with a dormouse on some spotty red envelopes and more spotty fabric.
6. The deliciously dainty little chocolate box hanky came from RAAK a beautiful knicker-twistingly exciting shop that I stumbled upon in Kyoto. Very Japanese orange and red fabric with a lovely square pattern woven in, was yet again from Tomato and purchased in three colour ways! Can't wait to get working with it.
Friday, 19 November 2010
wagons west!
I know, I know it's all been a little too quiet on this blogging-front of late but I'm a-workin my lil' fingers to the bone to get my new things ready to take to my first SUPERMERCADO experience next weekend!
Supermercado is the latest indie shopping venture from Made In The Shade, as it's happening every week in the Barras Centre.
I've heard a lot about the market, well more particularly about the (hopefully) available cakes (please be there, please be there), and the stovies and the HOT DOUGHNUTS! I may need those as I've heard it can be a little chilly in the courtyard which gives me an excuse to wear my sheepskin jacket (Delboy style) but to quote The Made In The Shade blog "the atmosphere is warm".
Fingers crossed I'll be parked up in one of these bonnie barrows (yeeeeee!) and even be singing a little song for you with Daughter Emily as Julias' Daughters are the Barras Buskers for the day!!!
Can it get any better? Well maybe yes, if I can get around some technical hitches, I might just have some flash new Crimbo decorations to show off!!
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Edinburgh - Paris - Tokyo and back again...
- Sold
- Sold
- $9.99 USD
- $18.00 USD
- Sold
- $70.00 USD
- $10.00 USD
- $22.00 USD
- $59.99 USD
- $18.00 USD
- $23.00 USD
- $19.00 USD
- $9.00 USD
- Sold
- Just two weeks away but it feels like a month and a day...
- Thought I'd share with you the Etsy treasury I put together pre-departure as a sort of scrapbook of ideas whilst planning my holiday wardrobe. Please note: the sold sign doesn't actually mean I bought it, alas, but my capsule collection of old favourites, some new socks (a Japanese essential!) and a very lovely new scarf (a present) served me very well. And my compact collection would have served me even better if we had managed to find a laundrette in Tokyo (funny such places don't have English language websites... aherm). I was very glad to have my quick drying, no-ironing and easily hand washable green dress. Phew!
I didn't really need my raincoat as the weather was perfectly pleasantly warm for us but wish I had purchased the lovely konnichiwa tee as I kept getting "good morning" (ohayoo gozaimasu) confused with "ta very much" (argatoo gozaimasu) - oh what a funny inter-continental traveller I am!
Two essentials were my notebook and pencil (and an eraser, being me) for collecting rubber stamps in and keeping my travel log book. And also a hankie for spontaneous bursts of tears at the sight of my boarding pass, an Edo-period silver incense burner (seriously), chanting monks and the thought of going home.
One handy item now missing from the above list was Asking for Trouble's Tokyo Shopping Guide, as the proprietress is currently off to Japan herself. I did do a lot of shopping and have brought home a hefty weight of fabric and a large collection of silly stuff. A little too much silly perhaps as I very much regret not buying a beautiful bowl in a Kyoto garage sale. It's a world away from me now, just wish I wasn't...
Thursday, 7 October 2010
dahlias of york
The other week and at very short notice I paid a visit to the beautiful City of York. I had a wee while to wander before my train home and what wonderful wanderings there were to be had! I came home bearing some much needed buttons, a bargain bag of chutney, a poke of runner beans and sweet perfumed quince and, to cap it all a delightful bunch of dahlias, for the princely sum of one pound!!
Every autumn I plan to treat myself to a bunch but can only ever find them at Morningside prices if you know what I mean - too much to pay for such short lived blooms. The next day they were looking a little weary after their long journey north but I wanted to capture the occasion and got all artsy-fartsy in the process. I love the intensity of their colours and their complex shapes which look to me like folded paper puzzles.
Much more to come about my wanderings ... later. The 'results' have a couple of weeks yet to mature. What shall I get up to in that time? I wonder!
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