Made In The Shade Marquee @ Big In Falkirk

We had a fabulous time at Big In Falkirk last weekend! Despite a shaky start on Friday - anxiously wondering whether the rain would ever stop or not, the weather did (almost) hold out for the entire duration of the festival! We had to cable tie just about everything in the marquee to prevent the wind from wrecking the place, but we were happy that the event was a dry and sunny one!


Thank yous...

Thank you, thank you, thank you to Jodie Noble and the production team at UZ Events for doing such a splendid job of organising the festival! Sneaking a peek at event operations on a grand scale was truly eye-popping and we're ever so grateful for being looked after so well! Thanks too to Davie Lauder and chums for lifting and laying things for us and thanks to the man who took Carrie round the site on the bonkers buggy-doodah! Highlight of the month! Thank you to Lisa Watt for helping with the MITS Marquee promo and for being so damned competent! UZ - you are fabulous. You know who else is fabulous? Ruth Hollywood, Jennifer Nicolson, Corinne Robinson and Graham Smith, that's who! Thank you for all your help setting up the marquee and transporting various things to and from Falkirk!

Thank you to the I ♥ Haggis man who fed us on Saturday. Thanks to the fire engine man for the free coffee and for the vintage clothes buying tips! Thanks to Mischief La Bas for allowing me to have my picture taken. Thank to the kind man who offered to buy us ice-cream cones. Thank you to the toddler who blew us kisses. Thank you to Garry for buying us Jelly Babies. Thank you to all the lovely people in yellow jackets who looked after us.

Thank you to all the vendors who took part in the event. It was great to spend the weekend with such a lovely bunch of folks and we really appreciate all the efforts y'all went to to make sure the customers were sufficiently wowed! We hope you had a fabulous time and we look forward to seeing y'all again soon!


The MITS Gals

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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

Phewee Jamboree!

Whoops! There goes another Made In The Shade!

Well, we did have high hopes and we did have the jitter(bug) for about week prior, but all in all it's safe to say that the Springtime Jamboree was surely a rootin' tootin success! We received some fabulous feedback from customers on the quality and range of work exhibited by the wonderful vendors and we received some lovely comments from visitors on how fabulous the event was. Shucks!

Thank you to the designers, neo-crafters and vintage sellers who took part in the event. Y'all made such a wonderful effort and it absolutely paid off. Thank you to the 600 visitors who took the time to come see us and spend time at our event (except for the handful of clearly misplaced/lost sneaky petes who tried to get past the welcome table without paying the measly £1 entry charge/charity donation - that's just not acceptable Made In The Shade-style behaviour and we bid y'all good day!) Thank you to Jamie and all the staff at Oran Mor for being such a great support during the proceedings and for solving our early morning 'issues' with calm and poise! Thank you to the wonderful team of volunteers from Glasgow Caledonian University who showed themselves to be a great bunch of folks and possibly the most helpful bunch of guys and dolls a Made In The Shade organiser could ask for. Thank you to Mistress of Ceremonies, Ruth Hollywood (actual name, yes) for being super-efficient and keeping everyone right and everyone smiling all day long! Thank you to all the vendors, generous friends and local businesses who donated gifts to the Early Bird goody bags and to Nora the Tombola. Oh - and thank you to cousin Nora for standing in for Flora at such short notice! Thank you to Gillian for taking some fabulous snaps of the event and thank you to Garry, Suzanne and Michelle for their time spent in the kitchen whipping up sweet treats and bakery delights for the MITS Bake Sale. I think that's everybody thanked? If you've somehow accidentally been missed, accept our apologies - but rest assured that we do wholeheartedly appreciate your input into making the Made In The Shade Springtime Jamboree go off with a wiggle and walk. Many thank yous to you all.

Springtime Jamboree THIS SUNDAY!

Oh yes siree! The Made In The Shade Springtime Jamboree is finally upon us! Just 5 measly sleeps to go until Sunday 5th April!

Join the Made In The Shade team and 25 of the best indie designers, neo-crafters and vintage sellers for an afternoon of old-time fete shopping fun this weekend at Oran Mor, Byres Road (Glasgow)!

Browse the boutique stalls, pick up a treat or two! Enjoy a drink from the bar and a cake from the bake sale while enjoying the rock'n'roll soundtrack! Play dominoes with your chums in our little lounge area! You might win a prize from Flora the Tombola! Best make plans to spend the whole day with us...

Doors open at 12 noon and close again at 5pm.

For a taster of some of the fabulous products available at this season's dose of Made In The Shade, scroll on down!

Egg cosies by INTO Textiles

Scarf by Global Guru

Brooch by Feel Fuzzy

Pretty pants by Little Sister Lucy

Shopper by Sarey Poppins

Ceramic Scottie dogs by Kitty & Dude

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!