A Jolly July Catch-Up: Some news and updates for y'all

Evening all!


Apologies for the eery silence at wearemadeintheshade.com of late. The gals have been super busy laying exciting plans for future Made In The Shade events and ventures. Eeep!


Cowgal Clare shows off her best western get-up in The Sunday Herald

I know, I know. We've been banging on about Clare appearing in the Sunday Herald for ages - but honest! It's really happening! Clare enjoyed her little photoshoot this afternoon and she's gearing up for her interview on Monday. Our gal will feature in the 'My Favourite Outfit' column in next weekend's Sunday paper. Keep your peepers peeled!


Made In The Shade featured in Big In Falkirk documentary

Our chums at UZ Events forwarded us this link to a documentary made by a talented media student during the Falkirk festivities in May '09. For those of you who didn't make it along to the festival, this little movie gives a splendid overview of the event - hopefully enough to entice you to attend next year! For those of you who did swing by, then you'll catch a glimpse of some of your favourite acts and installations. Look out for the grannies on giant shopping trolleys, the flamenco dancer in the snow globe and... Made In The Shade! The film features quick interviews with our very own Suzanne Smith and the lovely Rosemary Cunningham of *piplessjam. Hooray!

To watch the Big In Falkirk documentary in full (it's about 10 minutes long), click here.

Exciting developments (that we can't really tell you about yet!)

We've been working very hard behind the scenes at Made In The Shade HQ. We're laying some pretty exciting plans and we hope y'all will be as thrilled about 'em as we are. We're not quite ready to unveil everything properly yet, but we can tell you that not only are we toiling away to produce some fabulous events for you, but we're also scouring the city for the perfect property to house the all-new Made In The Shade Hub! The Hub will act as a permanent base for the Made In The Shade Gals to do all their important business and will also house a flippin' wonderful retail and showcase space. but - more about that later once we've got everything arranged.... Opening day is a fair way off yet, but we want to keep you up to date!

If you are a designer, maker, crafter or vintage seller, you might be interested to hear that we're about to launch a folio of very special services designed just for you - aiming to help you develop your indie ventures. We'll be launching these very shortly, so look out for an info mail coming your way int he next few weeks! If you just cannot wait and you need to know more NOW then we'll do our best to answer your questions. Get in touch!

Glasgow's own purveyor of prettiness featured on Monday's MITS Blog @ The Skinny

Rachel Lamb, owner of everyone's favourite online boutique, Hannah Zakari talks to the Made In The Shade gals for the next instalment of the Made In The Shade blog at The Skinny. Rachel has very kindly taken part in our 'Whatcha Doin'?' series. Be sure to visit www.theskinny.co.uk on Monday to read all about the adventures of an inspirational indie business woman!

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.

Made In The Shade Summertime Hop - Thank Yous & Retrospective

We're still recuperating after Summertime Hop here at Made In The Shade HQ. We worked our bobby socks off in the run up to the event and we put in a good 17 hour shift on the day. We need a big snooze!

Despite the footfall being lower than we anticipated, we still managed to have a fun, productive day at the Debating Chamber & Reading Room. Lots and lots of hands helped make the day a success and we gotta give due thanks. First up - thank you to the 25 vendors who set up shop with us. The stall displays looked beautiful and the variety and quality of products on offer was spectacular. We received fabulous feedback from visitors. Customers were thrilled to leave with a little piece of handmade magic or vintage treasure! Special thanks must go to this season's Made In The Shade newcomers for embracing the whole affair and to the hard core that helped with the daytime/night time changeover and continued to sell way into the night! Thank you too to those who donated fabulous gifts to Flora the Tombola! She appreciates it. This season's charity is the SSPCA. They'll be receiving a tidy little cheque from us.

Thank you to the friends and Made In The Shade volunteers who worked hard throughout the day to keep things organised: Ruth Hollywood did a sterling job meeting and greeting our visitors and Sheena May made a fantastic job of managing Nora's Bake Sale & the Craft Lucky Dip. Thanks too to Allan and Jacqueline for ferrying us around and helping out where needed! Thank you to the GU Stitch n Bitch gals for setting up their pretty crafty tea party in the Craft Lounge and thanks to Miss Moovelous for getting in the swing with the crochet craft-along!

We had some flippin' swell entertainment at The Hop! Thanks to David Duffy for squeezing in a sneaky wee acoustic set in the Craft Lounge. This hardworking chap played 3 shows in 1 day! Thanks too to our good chum Dave Arcari for taking part and giving us a sterling performance. We're grateful to Margaret, Matthew and Catriona too. They came as guests and ended up as roadies! The Tennessee Hotshots had us movin' and shakin' into the night. If you get the chance to catch these cats live, then we can't recommend 'em enough. Just swell. Thank you to Aaron & Sailor Tony of legendary killer 50s record hop All Tore Up (and chums) for keeping us entertained and on the dancefloor til we got papped out of the venue. We couldn't think of a more fitting, more fun way to end the day. We'll be donning our frocks and getting along to Blackfriars for another All Tore Up fix soon! Huge thanks go to Ken for providing us with all the technical bits we needed to put the event together and to Paul for putting the whole shebang together. He humphed, he climbed and he plugged everything in AND stayed around to make sure everything went smoothly onstage. Thanks Paul! And thanks to Ian for doing the Sailor Jerry run. That was crucial to the success of the party!

Thanks to everyone who made it along to shop handmade and join in the crafty fun. Special thanks go to our fellow Starter for 6ers for taking the time to lend their support and thanks too to our chums from NESTA and the CEO. Thanks to Josie, Lyns, Lyndsay and Jo for making not one - but TWO trips! 'Twas lovely to see you! And we must give a very special mention to The Birthday Girl who chose to spend her 10th birthday celebrations with us at The Hop! Best dancer on the floor! ;o)

We'll be posting a little photo gallery soon. Stay tuned!

The Summertime Hop Vendors

The Made In The Shade Summertime Hop takes place on Saturday 20th June at the GUU Debating Chamber (Gibson Street end of University Avenue).

We are thrilled to announce this season's fabulous Made In The Shade vendors!


IN THE DEBATING CHAMBER BETWEEN 12pm - 7pm... INDIE SHOPPING!


1. Haberdash House

2. Cotton Candy Corsage

3. Gillian Kyle

4. Silly Lily

5. Miso Funky

6. Little Sister Lucy

7. Leah Halliday

8. Showpony

9. Pammie Annie Mackay

10. Lost In The Forest

11. Fantoosherie Fancies

12. bYMi

13. Natalie Farrell

14. Dazed Dorothy

15. Hungry Designs

16. Bindy Boo

17. Made By Mother

18. Wooden Tree

19. Doublethink Designs

20. Rachael Albert

21. Rag & Bone Boutique

22. We Are The Robots

23. Art by Neil Slorance

24. YHF

&

The Made In The Shade Gals

25. Clare Nicolson

26. Suzanne Smith Designs

27. Lady Wurlitzer & Nana Moon

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.