B.A.A.D. Fest

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The Barras.

And this weekend sees the B.A.A.D. Fest taking place in the Barras Art & Design Centre. It is a beautiful space right in the heart of the Barras and this Saturday we'll be there with a stall full of eco-friendly goodies. Everything from jewellery to stationery, homewares to art - all made by independent artists & designers.

Come on down & say hello, peruse all the craft stalls, listen to some music & watch some demonstrations!

See you on Saturday!

Time for a give away!

It is indeed time for a wee give away! We're in the midst of organising a range of online craft tutorials via Skype. Oh how we love technology. This means we'll be able to teach a range of craft skills from knitting, sewing, cross-stitch & embroidery, to people across the globe! We need to give it a test run & would love to give two of you lucky lot the chance to try it out for free, exciting huh?!

All you need to do is...

'Like' our Facebook page & spread the i heart... word by tagging us in one of your posts.

OR

Follow us on Twitter and let your followers know about this giveaway by tagging us.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

In return we will randomly select two lucky winners who will get a lovely parcel in the post with all the materials you'll need to craft up a storm & an hour long online tutorial where we will teach you a new craft skill, help you with any problems & get you on your way to finishing a craft-tastic project.

What you waiting for, get on it!

*Entrants must have access to a webcam & Skype.

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I Build Collapsible Mountains.

By far one of my favourite musicians & also one of my favourite people, so I'm very happy to say that we're featuring him - the lovely Luke Joyce (who also happens to be an awesome photographer, e-mail him with requests) on our website this month.

The track 'Face Of Thunder Grin' comes from his upcoming album 'Spectator & The Act' which will be released through American label Burning Building Records on the 11th October. I've been lucky enough to have a wee listen to the other album tracks too & by Jove your ears are in for a treat.

I Build Collapsible Mountains will be playing in the GoNorth Tour stage at the Wickerman festival this weekend, so if you're going make sure to pop in for a listen & if not head on over to our website & have a listen now!

If you would like your music to be featured on our website, send your tunes to our Soundcloud dropbox.

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Stationery Love

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stationery.

I love it. I get scarily excited about buying new stationery. It was the favourite part of the year when I was younger, the once a year trip to Inverness to get the back to school necessities. Oh, the butterflies I would get picking out my pencil case & pencils & pens & highlighters & tipex...
This love continued onwards as I grew upwards, moving onto unique cards, diary and letter writing-like stationery goods and of course a good pen every now & then.

Well, my love & excitement for stationery is still as strong as ever and I am super happy about a whole bunch of new eco-friendly products we've just added to the stationery section of our online eco-shop. Eee! Here's some of my very favourites...

Bicycle Stationery Set

Instant Comfort Pocket Box DIY Kit

Poor Thing Card

Hooray! You Tied The Knot Card

Bird & Cage Stamp Kit

There's a whole heap more too, head on over to our online eco-shop for a look-see.

xox.

Summer Sale!

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a bargain.

And you can get yourselves quite a few in our Summer Sale with 20% off selected items including...

...this beautiful felt necklace with fair trade paper beads.

WAS £21.00, now ONLY £16.80!

....these lovely pair of vintage anchor earrings.

WAS £12.00, now ONLY £9.60!

...this unique pair of vintage Japanese bird hair clips.

WAS £8.50, now ONLY £6.80!

...these hand-knitted purses made from fair trade alpaca yarn.

WAS £8.00, now ONLY £6.40!

...and this beautiful vintage love heart locket.

WAS £16.00, now ONLY 12.80!

There's even more bargains to be had on our online eco-shop too, have a swatch here!

xox.

Summer Kids Classes.

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teaching kids how to craft.

They are so enthusiastic & I love it! Starting on the 18th July I will be facilitating a range of kids craft classes at The Life Craft. Classes include knitting where they will learn all the basics & make a knitted hair bow/bow tie, hand-sewing where they will stitch themselves their very own pencil case...

...cross-stitch where they'll design their own cross-stitch badges aaand a comic class where they will be encouraged to use their imagination & make their own comic using pens, pencils, paints & collage...

So there really is no excuse to have bored little ones this holidays! You can book here.

xox.

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Music For My Ears.


Thank you to everyone that sent over their music this month, as always it's great to hear such varied & passionate musicians.

This month we have chosen the lovely (Shortfin) Mako Shark to be featured on our website.


'We are (Shortfin) Mako Shark. The project started towards the end of 2008 when Lucia and I (Clara) decided to start playing songs together. Later we got tons of help from a friend called Larra who is awesome at playing guitar (and many other instruments) and who recorded our first and second EP, so we asked him to join the band as well, since he was really involved. We get together from time to time (we've lived in different cities a couple of times, so we don't have any kind of schedule, we just play whenever we feel like it) because playing music feels good.'

Go have a listen - www.iheartdotdotdot.co.uk

And if you'd like your music to be featured next month, send your tunes to our Soundcloud...

Share your tracks

xox.