Friday 11th February 6-9pm
William Morris Gallery
Forest Rd. Walthamstow E17 4PP
£2 entry (complimentary drink with every ticket)
If you LOVE Valentine's and the William Morris Gallery then you should join us for our LOVE EASY Valentine's Craft market event! An evening market with the best,most gorgeous,inspiring,original hand made gifts available to buy for your sweetie pie!!!
We've selected the finest hand made gifts for love birds by London based Designer makers and Artists. Come and browse through the stalls,make your own Valentine's card at the MAKE EASY table,win a hand made prize at the WIN EASY tombola or just enjoy a drink at the pop up SPEAK EASY BAR...where you might even find LOVE! Because we'll be there out of gallery opening hours we've invited a few more designers so it'll be brimming with hand made loveliness. It is really the best place to buy all your valentine's gifts!
Plus you'll be helping the gallery as entrance proceeds,tombola and stall fees go directly to the gallery and the refurbishment fund.
PS
As you've probably noticed it's a LOVE EASY because of the theme...IE 1920's Americana and the Speak Easy culture.
Shopping for Valentine's gifts needn't be hard that's why with your LOVE of CRAFT and hand made gifts while supporting beautiful Galleries like the WMG you can shop til you drop in one place...that's why it's EASY! So if you'd like to dress up in the fashion please do...I will!
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Camden Crawl...Craftivista Social Club
It's official Craft Guerrilla are hosting an event for the lovely people of the Camden Crawl on Sunday May the 1st 2011.
We'll be at the Black Heart in Camden from 2-6pm with our Craftivista Social Club. DIY Craft, a Rock a billy band and DJ's will provide a fun event open to all festival goers.
Once again the Obscuritones will be providing the music while myself, Louise plus a hand full of helpers will be teaching festival visitors a craft trick or two with our limited edition DIY craft project (free to festival ticket holders).
Also the fantastic Jake Holloway and Handsome Betty will be on the decks playing some eclectic tunes from Rock n roll to dirty trashy punk!
Hope to see you there!
For tickets please visit the official Camden Crawl web site.
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Volunteers needed!
What better way is there to learn the ropes on how to organize and run craft events then by volunteering with us?
OH YES, we'd love to have you on the good ship Craft Guerrilla...and we'd captain you into the creative seas of CRAFT and successful event management! Did you know we were voted the "most influential" Craft Group on TWITTER? I think we can proclaim to know a little bit about organizing hip,fun and original EVENTS - and we're not the ones saying it!
We need guys and gals for a couple of events in 2011 so if you'd like to help (and you are welcome to advertise your creative project while you're giving us a hand) then please email us: craftguerrilla@yahoo.com
OH YES, we'd love to have you on the good ship Craft Guerrilla...and we'd captain you into the creative seas of CRAFT and successful event management! Did you know we were voted the "most influential" Craft Group on TWITTER? I think we can proclaim to know a little bit about organizing hip,fun and original EVENTS - and we're not the ones saying it!
We need guys and gals for a couple of events in 2011 so if you'd like to help (and you are welcome to advertise your creative project while you're giving us a hand) then please email us: craftguerrilla@yahoo.com
Monday, 20 December 2010
Openings for 2011...
We're looking for all sorts of crafters to help out at our d.i.y. craft events.
From knitting tutors to embroidery wizards...if you can teach others and make craft packs to sell then we want to hear from you!
Also we'll be scheduling our mini workshops for the year so if you can host a 2 hour workshop please email us with your workshop proposal. We're looking for easy, fun and "pub friendly" disciplines. In the past we've had: Monster making,introduction to crochet,Dorset button making,paper flowers,needle felting,jewellery making etc.
Email us with a brief intro letter and your creative "CV" (a web site or blog which showcases your work) to: craftguerrilla@yahoo.com
From knitting tutors to embroidery wizards...if you can teach others and make craft packs to sell then we want to hear from you!
Also we'll be scheduling our mini workshops for the year so if you can host a 2 hour workshop please email us with your workshop proposal. We're looking for easy, fun and "pub friendly" disciplines. In the past we've had: Monster making,introduction to crochet,Dorset button making,paper flowers,needle felting,jewellery making etc.
Email us with a brief intro letter and your creative "CV" (a web site or blog which showcases your work) to: craftguerrilla@yahoo.com
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Xmas Craft Emporium photos...
We managed to raise over £600 for the William Morris Gallery and had over 1,500 visitors to our event through out the two days! Thank you to all the lovely shoppers,designer makers and all that helped on the day. It was a truly magical weekend!!!
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
A few of our favourite things...hand made Xmas gifts!
When I challenged myself to find a dozen hand made gifts solely on the internet I couldn't help but think there was a definite change in e commerce. With new CRAFT based sites like CraftNation.com leading the way there is truly lots of gorgeous hand made shopping out there to be done!
Last week internet sales were at their highest as many buyers hit the computer to find one off presents.
Personally as much as I like shopping the blandness of the High Street has much to blame for the way we now shop. There is a distinct lack of original buys and the fact that so many chain shops copy independent designers work just makes it even worse...well it puts me off buying from them though unfortunately the majority of shoppers have no idea this is going on.
So looking through two big craft web sites (Etsy and Folksy) I began to choose my top 12 items which I thought would make awesome X-mas gifts.
There isn't a theme...well there wasn't one when I started but it seems that ANIMALS are pretty much popping up on my hand made gift radar! Enjoy!!!
Beggars Bowl
Sweet Suzy
Sweet Suzy
Miquemoriuchi
Laura Baillie Designs
Oosie
Tibor Leather
Gemma's Little Shop (of Joy)
House of Chintz
Nadinoo
Jimbob Art
Sew You Hand Made
*Items selected by Debbie
Last week internet sales were at their highest as many buyers hit the computer to find one off presents.
Personally as much as I like shopping the blandness of the High Street has much to blame for the way we now shop. There is a distinct lack of original buys and the fact that so many chain shops copy independent designers work just makes it even worse...well it puts me off buying from them though unfortunately the majority of shoppers have no idea this is going on.
So looking through two big craft web sites (Etsy and Folksy) I began to choose my top 12 items which I thought would make awesome X-mas gifts.
There isn't a theme...well there wasn't one when I started but it seems that ANIMALS are pretty much popping up on my hand made gift radar! Enjoy!!!
Beggars Bowl
Sweet Suzy
Sweet Suzy
Miquemoriuchi
Laura Baillie Designs
Oosie
Tibor Leather
Gemma's Little Shop (of Joy)
House of Chintz
Nadinoo
Jimbob Art
Sew You Hand Made
*Items selected by Debbie
"Most Wanted" d.i.y. craft chalange....
Christmas is definitely the season for sharing and we were asked to pass this on to our lovely craft loving people so here goes...
The VoucherCodes.co.uk - Most Wanted Christmas DIY Challenge. We want to celebrate the start of the festive season by getting crafty and spreading a little bit of DIY know-how. We are inviting craft bloggers to take part in the challenge by creating a craft tutorial that we can share with the Most Wanted audience. We want to spread the word on an affordable Christmas and what better way to do this than showing people how to make things themselves?
This is the first time we are running the Christmas DIY Challenge and would love for you to get involved. Of course we do not want you to be out of pocket from taking part in the challenge, so to cover the cost of materials, we want to give everyone who takes part £25 to stock up on the best crafty bits possible. This challenge aims to bring education and inspiration to the Most Wanted readers on Christmas DIY projects that they could undertake. We look to gather all the craft tutorials produced and give them all coverage over on Most Wanted with a big shout out and link to blogs and bloggers that produced them. To find out more including the finer details please take a peek at and read our post on Most Wanted here.
Just to let you know a little bit about us, VoucherCodes.co.uk and Most Wanted is making a real name for itself now with over 2.5 million registers users, a super successful weekly newsletter and some lovely press mentions in everything from The Guardian and Evening Standard to Closer Magazine and The Times. We have stacks of brilliant savings at top stores including discounts from Habitat and Marks & Spencer, Debenhams, Cath Kidston and The White Company. We are hoping that the challenge will raise a little awareness for Most Wanted and also how easy it is to create your own items for Christmas.
The challenge is really simple, all you have to is create a craft tutorial showing how to make something related to Christmas, be it a Christmas gift, Christmas decoration, Christmas cookies, Christmas cards etc. Document the creation process, post up templates if you have any, take a picture of the final product and remember to post it up on your blog and let us know it's there so we can share it and shout about it on Most Wanted.
Really hope you are interested in taking part! We are trying to make this a regular community challenge that really inspires people to leave the Christmas decorations, cards and presents in the shop and head home to make their own!
For further information and to participate please email: emily@vouchercodes.co.uk
or visit : www.vouchercodes.co.uk
The VoucherCodes.co.uk - Most Wanted Christmas DIY Challenge. We want to celebrate the start of the festive season by getting crafty and spreading a little bit of DIY know-how. We are inviting craft bloggers to take part in the challenge by creating a craft tutorial that we can share with the Most Wanted audience. We want to spread the word on an affordable Christmas and what better way to do this than showing people how to make things themselves?
This is the first time we are running the Christmas DIY Challenge and would love for you to get involved. Of course we do not want you to be out of pocket from taking part in the challenge, so to cover the cost of materials, we want to give everyone who takes part £25 to stock up on the best crafty bits possible. This challenge aims to bring education and inspiration to the Most Wanted readers on Christmas DIY projects that they could undertake. We look to gather all the craft tutorials produced and give them all coverage over on Most Wanted with a big shout out and link to blogs and bloggers that produced them. To find out more including the finer details please take a peek at and read our post on Most Wanted here.
Just to let you know a little bit about us, VoucherCodes.co.uk and Most Wanted is making a real name for itself now with over 2.5 million registers users, a super successful weekly newsletter and some lovely press mentions in everything from The Guardian and Evening Standard to Closer Magazine and The Times. We have stacks of brilliant savings at top stores including discounts from Habitat and Marks & Spencer, Debenhams, Cath Kidston and The White Company. We are hoping that the challenge will raise a little awareness for Most Wanted and also how easy it is to create your own items for Christmas.
The challenge is really simple, all you have to is create a craft tutorial showing how to make something related to Christmas, be it a Christmas gift, Christmas decoration, Christmas cookies, Christmas cards etc. Document the creation process, post up templates if you have any, take a picture of the final product and remember to post it up on your blog and let us know it's there so we can share it and shout about it on Most Wanted.
Really hope you are interested in taking part! We are trying to make this a regular community challenge that really inspires people to leave the Christmas decorations, cards and presents in the shop and head home to make their own!
For further information and to participate please email: emily@vouchercodes.co.uk
or visit : www.vouchercodes.co.uk
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