Stop the Press!

Thank you so much to the vendors and Made In The Shade lovers who have kindly blogged about The Summertime Hop on their lovely pages. We appreciate your support. We're working on a nice page where we can include links to all your Made In The Shade related chatterings. Right now though, we'd like to share a few press updates with you.


To read a little preview item about The Hop on wonderful indie design blog Indie Quarter, click here.

To read our preview in The Skinny's 'Top June Events Round-Up, click here.

Keep your peepers peeled for us in the coming weeks in The Sunday Herald, The Skinny, The Evening Times and Scotland on Sunday! We'll post links and scans as stories go live. How exciting!?

Oh - and look out for the Made In The Shade Gals' 'Day In The Life' feature coming soon on Indie Quarter!

If you would like to feature Made In The Shade on your blog, website or in your publication, contact Carrie Maclennan at madeintheshadepress@gmail.com.

The MITS Blog 'n' Roll Party

The Made In The Shade Gals & The Skinny team are thrilled to invite y'all to our Blog'n'Roll Party!

The soiree, thrown in celebration of the launch of our all-new Made In The Shade blog on www.theskinny.co.uk takes place at Macsorley's Music Bar (Jamaica Street, Glasgow) on Thursday 16th April between 7pm and 12 midnight.

Here's the deal...

7pm - 8pm: Drinks Reception

Show your invitation to the hostess and enjoy a complimentary glass of bucks fizz. Supplies will be limited so make sure to swing by early!

8pm - 9.30pm: Live Entertainment

We are doggone thrilled to welcome authentic rockabilly trio The MeatMen and old-time twisted country twosome, The Dirt to the Blog'n'Roll Party! We love it when our favourite acts join in the fun!

9.30pm - close: Mingling, nibbling and toe-tapping

Sit back, grab a drink from the bar and tap those toes along to the vintage playlist (by Lady Wurlitzer). Enjoy a canope and chatter with likeminds while admiring the products of our favourite Made In The Shade vendors - as modelled by the makers themselves and our troupe of fabulous Shaders!

ALL WELCOME

MITS on Design*Sponge

Hooray! Click here to read about Made In The Shade & Springtime Jamboree vendor Cosima Sempill (Kitty & Dude) on international home and product design blog Design* Sponge

Many thanks to Design* Sponge editor Grace Bonney for including us! As avid fans of the site, we sure are plum thrilled to be featured. For those of you yet to unearth the treasure that is Design* Sponge, here's a little lowdown... I've taken this info directly from the Design* Sponge biog page.

"Launched in August of 2004, Design*Sponge was declared a "Martha Stewart Living for the Millennials" (NY Times, 2008) and features store and product reviews, city, product, and gift guides, diy projects, before & after furniture and home makeovers, home tours, recipes, videos and podcasts, and trend forecasting. In addition, Design*Sponge features a unique section dedicated to covering student design, national and international design shows. The site is updated constantly throughout the day (with an average of 6-10 posts a day), and attracts a core group of devoted readers. Design*Sponge currently has 40,000 daily readers!

Design*Sponge editor Grace Bonney has a unique angle on the industry, working as a contributing editor at Domino Magazine and CRAFT magazine, and as a freelancer with top publications like House and Garden, In Style, New York Magazine, The New York Post and others.

Design*Sponge also hosts an annual D*S Scholarship to support up-and-coming art and design students. So far over $16,000 in prize money has been awarded to students across the country."

Go visit Design* Sponge!

Spring Out Sister on Indie Quarter

As promised, you can read the Made In The Shade spring-y post on the fabulous Indie Quarter right here

The post features the work of Made In The Shade Springtime Jamboree vendors INTO Textiles, Emoni, Kitty & Dude, Covetables and Clare Nicolson :o)

We LOVE The Skinny

We do. It's true. We really do love The Skinny. It's Scotland's cutting edge culture magazine - what's not to like about that? We like Scotland and and we sure do enjoy engaging with culture and cultural activity now and again! At present The Skinny is a pretty swell guide to what's going on across Scotland: gigs, film screenings, exhibits, festivals, shopping, eating out... All in there, yes siree. The Skinny people even put our chums The Phantom Band on the cover last month. That was exciting!

Even MORE exciting is that from next month Made In The Shade takes up a blog residence on www.theskinny.co.uk! Waowsers! Now to your list of 'stuff I like to read about in The Skinny' you can add;

1. Interviews & profiles of Scottish designers & makers
2. Vintage lifestyle features
3. Indie shopping guides
4. Articles about DIY culture & indie business
5. Photo-stories about guerilla crafters
6. Crafty how-to tutorials and other bits about making stuff!

These six little items will certainly feature on the all-new Skinny blog but there'll be so much more included besides! We cannot WAIT to get started on this fabulous new project.

We are so excited that we've decided to host a little launch party for our shiny new blog space. The party takes place on Thursday 16th April at Macsorley's Music Bar, (Jamaica Street, Glasgow). We will post all the details of the evening shortly but for now all you gotta do is mark the date in your diaries and get your best vintage get-up out of the closet - ready for an evening of old-time fun! The party gives us a chance to celebrate the launch of the Made In The Shade blog but it also presents a long overdue opportunity for us to thank y'all for your support over the past year! Hoorah!

Press! Press! Press!

As always, Made In The Shade and the fabulously talented designers, makers and vintage sellers that setup shop at the event are attracting the attention of the local and national press!

Sarey Poppins (Springtime Jamboree vendor) featured in Scotland On Sunday's At Home magazine supplement last weekend. Look out for Sarey Poppins/Made In The Shade in the Evening Times in the run up to the Springtime Jamboree and we'll post the link to the Sarey Poppins story in Is This Music? as soon as it goes live!

Clare Nicolson (Made In The Shade organiser and Springtime Jamboree vendor) featured in this weekend's Scotland On Sunday and is set to appear in the A-Z of Scottish designers in the Herald next weekend.

INTO Textiles (Springtime Jamboree vendor) featured in this season's Selvedge magazine! Lorraine's fabulous egg cosies took pride of place in the special spring themed egg cosie spread! (Please note: The Made In The Shade press gal was not responsible for generating this particular piece of press, but my oh my, we're all chuffed to see INTO in one of our favourite publications!)

Look out for Kitty & Dude and Bindy Boo in The List shopping pages on the 2nd April 2009!

Read the first in a series of articles about Made In The Shade on Indie Quarter here!

Look out for more Made In The Shade vendors popping up on the pages of some of our favourite bloggy blogs, decor8 and Design* Sponge!

Scotland On Sunday

Happy Saturday to y'all!

Preparations continue at HQ for the Made In The Shade Springtime Jamboree: it's all about the bunting this season (I have some wrapped around my leg as I type - fetching!) and piles of pretty gingham are taking over our workspace! We have our baking recipes out and our aprons ironed and Clare is trying not to eat all the candyfloss.

Keep your peepers peeled for Made In The Shade in the press this weekend. The very fabulous Sarey Poppins features in the Scotland On Sunday home section tomorrow (back page) and look out for more Made In The Shade mentions/adverts in The List, the Evening Times and Is This Music? More to come! We'll post all exciting press updates here first :o)

See you on the 5th April!

A Mini Press Mention

Hi there Made In The Shaders,

We swing by quickly this morning to share a little article you might be interested in. Our fabulous journo chum Claire has recently submitted a short piece to one of our very favourite publications, Amelia's Magazine and has very kindly given a little mention to Made In The Shade!

You can read the article here.

Please note though that there are a couple of wee errors in the story. 1) Made In The Shade is intended to be included in the article as another example of the rise of diy culture in Glasgow - not as an event affiliated with the GCM. 2) [We Are] Fuzzy Felt Folk & Country Crafting! take place in Macsorley's on the 1st Sunday of the month. FFF is run by Carrie Maclennan and Country Crafting! is run by Clare Nicolson. Neither of these events are affiliated with the GCM. They are run independently by a couple o' chums with a penchant for country music, colouring in, making things and chatting to friends over a whole bunch of rum! 3) Oh - and at the time of writing Clare Nicolson was the Mafia Don but has since taken on a new role with the group.

Phew! :o) Enjoy!

Press News

Made In The Shade is featured on the very splendid Indie Quarter design blog this week ahead of our Festive Shopping Weekender! Follow this link to read the lovely feature. Product images by Pea Millinery included!

The event also appears in The List's trusty Hit List this week and we are featured in the special Christmas Shopping Directory too as part of the mag's seasonal gift guide. Made In The Shade sellers' products feature in the guide. Hooray! Oh - and our beautiful ad is in the issue aswell! Oh how pretty!

Keep your peepers peeled today for a Made In The Shade mention in the Evening Times.

Our gorgeous ad appears in this season's Selvedge magazine. We are SO excited!

Many thanks to those who have posted Made In The Shade promo on their websites and blog sites and thank you to those who have been adding the event to listings sites aswell. We appreciate all your efforts! We thank you in advance for helping make Made In The Shade a success!

The Evening Times

Phew! Hi there!

Despite being in the throes of creativity, frantically making beautiful things for Saturday, we find the time to draw your attention to a rather splendid little article on Made In The Shade II featured in The Evening Times today! Many thanks to Maureen Ellis and Kirk The Photographer (that's his full name), for putting the piece together so well for us!

Products by Librarian Barbarian, Clare Nicolson and Nana Moon feature. Hooray!

Swing on over and have a peek at the full article here!

Amelia's Magazine

Why, hello there! Happy Friday y'all.

Ooo - looky here! Made In The Shade II is previewed on the Amelia's Magazine website this month. Whoop! How exciting?! Amelia's Magazine is one of our very favourite publications and we are truly thrilled to be included. Exhibitors Gorjuss, Aubeebop Jewellery, Lady Wurlitzer, Jennie Loof, The Dandelion Project and Bedcrumb all feature in the story. According to the article, 'This crafty bazaar might be overflowing with timewarp treats, but it's got its experimental eyes set on being the shopping experience of the future'. Indeed! Many, many thanks to Diana Kiernander for researching and writing the piece.

To read this fabulous article, just click on through here.

Handmade clothing (reclaimed vintage fabric) by Jennie Loof as featured in Amelia's Magazine

i-on Made In The Shade

Be sure to pick up your FREE copy of Glasgow lifestyle magazine i-on this month! Made In The Shade II features in the city highlights section, 'Eye On The City'. This glossy little handbag-sized mag is the perfect read while enjoying a Sour Cherry Soda and a cupcake!

To find out more about i-on, visit the website!

Many thanks to i-on too for the generous contributions they have made to our early bird goody bags! Hooray!

She's Crafty! We're Crafty!

Why, looky here! A selection of Made In The Shade II sellers are featured in a lovely post on Glasgow-based neo-craft resource, She's Crafty! Swell!

She's Crafty is a blogsite run by 'Miss Crafty' as a salute to those old-timey and creative things which inspire her. Sprinkling the internet with crafty gems and witty insights into the mind of a craft connoisseur, the site is really rather wonderful! She's Crafty is a celebration of the joy of making things - from a batch of scones to a fifties inspired ballgown. The site provides light relief from the cube farm of work and the blandness of mass-produced goods. It's a window into the world of Miss Crafty and a magical crafty portal which will transport visitors into a realm of inspiring crafters and fabulous goods. In short, it's fun, it's friendly and it's worth a visit!

Clear here to read the post!

We're in The Skinny!

Yes, yes. Made In The Shade is popping up in all the right places these days!

Click here to read our little mention in The Skinny Student Guide.

The article is really very useful and gives a great overview of some of the otherwise hidden style treasures in Glasgow. Brazen, Raw Vintage, Mr Ben and Betsy Labelle all feature! Hoorah!

Oh - and a quick thank you too to those Made In The Shade II exhibitors who have included Made In The Shade news on their social networking profiles and in their blog pages already! Made In The Shade loves you.

Be sure to keep those peepers peeled for more Made In The Shade tittle tattle in your favourite mags, papers and on your favourite websites over the next few weeks!

Made In The Shade on Indie Quarter

My oh my! We are awfully excited to be featured on the fabulous Indie Quarter this month! For those of you who may not be regular readers of Indie Quarter (yet!), the site is jam packed with wonderful blogs, interviews and shopping previews from the world of independent design and is a wonderful resource for both handmade lovers and makers and designers.

We are lucky to have received such strong support from the guys and gals at Indie Quarter and we're thrilled that Made In The Shade will receive extended coverage on the site in the run up to our October and December events at The Lighthouse, Glasgow.

To read our first Guest Blogger article, click here!

In the coming weeks, you will be able to read interviews with event organisers and sellers and you will be treated to a sneaky peek into a Day In The Life of Glasgow-based textile designer, Glasgow Craft Mafia Don and Made In The Shade Co-organiser, Clare Nicolson! How exciting!? To whet your appetite, you can have a little flick through a past Indie Quarter Day In The Life written by Made In The Shader, Carrie Maclennan aka Lady Wurlitzer: click here for more.