We Make...This Saturday

Just 2 days to go till the fair. Its going to be a lovely day. Sunshine, Shopping and Summer fun what more could you want. Here are some fantastic reasons to come to to We Make Summer Spectacular on Saaturday

Shopping:

With over 80 designer/makers there is something for everyone ranging from Art, prints, jewellery, clothing, hats, ceramics, cushions, childrens way, and gifts galore. Each and every items handmade by the designer. So you get to buy something original and unique and chat to the maker.

Bunting Making Party:



Join the Seaside Sisters in the small hall for a fun party. Raid the Seaside Sisters stash of Gingham. Vintage Fabrics, buttons and haberdashery galore to make your very own bunting flag. Spell your name, make a slogan or just create and decorate.
The Seaside Sisters will also have some fun Summer Fete games like: Lucky Lolly Picker, Guess the Weight of the Cake or the Seaside Sisters Tombola


Etsy Raffle:




Our main sponsor, Etsy.com will be there.
Visit Etsy's UK blogger, Amity, at the Etsy table at the back of the hall for a chat, where she will be handing out promos and running the Etsy Raffle, giving one lucky ticket holder the chance to win a heap of handmade goodies! Get your free raffle tickets with any purchase from a participating Etsy stall holder. The winning ticket will be drawn at 4:15pm so don't forget to bring your tickets to the Etsy table for entry before then!

Mr Site:




Mr Site, one of our wonderful sponsors will be at the fair. Join Sunny, Mr Site's Business Development Manager where he will answer all your questions about Mr Site websites.

Mr Site Presentation at 2.00pm & 3.30pm in the Café Area.

Mr Site are pleased to invite visitors to a Presentation where we will:

Discover the value and importance of online presence.

See the different packages that are available no matter how small or large your business and how each product can support your business

Find out how easy it is to set up a website from as little as £19.99 and without spending a fortune

BUY YOUR MR SITE PACKAGE AT THE EVENT AND SAVE 25% on the Standard & Pro packages.

Tote Goody Bags:




If you are planning on coming to the fair early you might be in with a chance of getting one of our Tote goodie bags. Each cotton tote bags is screen printed with the We Make design and filled with lovely handmade goodies. They also contain exclusive discount vouchers for various stalls. You will need to be quick as we only have a limited amount of 70 bags which will be given to the first 70 people through the door.


Cafe:

With all that shopping and excitement you might want a place to relax and refresh. The cosy cafe will be open with a lovely range of food, cakes, tea and coffe and cold drinks.

So what are you waiting for? Come along to We Make this saturday

Chelsea Town Hall, kings Road, London, SW3 5EE 11am - 5pm

See you all there x

Share The Feeling:

Only a few days left untill the fair and everyone is getting excited.

The Girls at Share the Feeling are looking forward to meeting everyone and sharing with you there fantastic work.

Share the Feeling.co.uk is a happy little enterprise based in Hackney, East London. Owner Angie employs 4 local ladies with learning disabilities and together they make a range of Little Gifts with a big impact.

This is the girls’ first craft fair and they are really excited about launching lots of new products at We Make London. In addition to their range of ©Little Gifts of Feeling – colourful bags filled with symbolic ingredients to make you feel happy / strong / loved.... - the girls will be selling handmade lavender hearts, gorgeous retro bunting, wheatie bags (like a hot water bottle, but with wheat instead!) and, especially for fellow crafters, vintage pin cushions.

Doris, Lindy and Sylvia will be at the stall with Angie & Magda and they look forward to meeting you and showing you what they can do. See you on Saturday!

P.S. They’ve been writing their own blog about their preparations for We Make. Find it here:

http://sharethefeeling.blogspot.com

Valeasc Designer Feature:

About Valeasc:

My name is Valentina Asciutti and my artistic alter ego is valeasc. I am Italian but I have been living in London for six years now. As Valentina, I have devoted my entire life to the study of the ancient world, as valeasc, I immerse myself into colours, fabric and funky shapes.
valeasc is a colourful and cheerful stationery shop devoted to unique greeting cards and funky paper goods. valeasc was born a little over a year ago, it started offering hand-made cards decorated with fabric and with time the range has expanded. The products are all simple, yet sophisticated, traditional but with a modern touch.

Inspirations:

Valeasc inspiration comes from the bustling everyday life in the ever so vibrant and beautiful London. The variety of colours, shapes, materials and techniques reflect the diversity of people and taste in such a multi-ethnic city. valeasc products offer a combination of modern and old.

Best Sellers:

My most popular item is my *butterflies cards*, a set of four A6 folded cards with matching C6 envelopes of different shades of pink and purple. Each card is embellished with three butterflies made of designer and vintage fabrics. The butterflies are meticulously hand-cut and fused onto the card.





We Make Summer Fair:

At the moment valeasc offers the following products:
* fabric decorated cards
* flat, alcohol-free, digitally printed cards with original valeasc designs
* cards embellished with paper doilies
* gift tags with digitally printed valeasc designs
* gift tags made of crocheted doilies

I am currently working to expand the range of products. The following items will be available to buy especially at the fair:
* 100% hand-made tote bags with hand-made doilies and vintage buttons
* wrapping paper with original valeasc patterns
* letterpress cards




Websites:

Valeasc products are available to buy online at http://valeasc.etsy.com

Alternatively, shops in London (UK), Pescara and Senigallia (Italy) all carry valeasc products.

For a complete list of valeasc stockists please see http://valeasc.blogspot.com (valeasc often offers giveaways on its blog http://valeasc.blogspot.com so make sure to check it regularly!)

Please, see more of valeasc products on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/valeasc/

valeasc is a proud member of colorsartz.com http://www.colorsartz.com/asciutti_valentina.html

Natalie Nicklin Designer Feature:

About Natalie Nicklin:

I am a designer/illustrator/artist/none of/ all of above. My work lies somewehre between these disiplins within the blurred boundaries between art, design and simply making things.

I make screen prints, collages, digital illustrations and paintings. Design logos, fonts and t-shirts; take photographs with various knackered old cameras and my shiny SLR. A lot of my work uses found images and analog photography but I'm almost as likely to draw, scrawl or use digital sources. My interests lie in the old and the new, the broken and the fixed, the future and the past. But mainly an old broken future that exists only in arcane archives or people's unreliable memories.

Inspirations:

Space, geometric patterns, visions of the future, music, forgotten lost places, trees, the past as it is now, as it will be and as it never was, science, colours, paper, mountains, forests, concrete, British new town, skyscrapers, broken stuff and things I don't understand.

Best Sellers:

I'm pretty happy about "Reflection"which has recently been selected to be included in a collection curated by urban outfitters and sold via their print shop. Appartment Therapy selected it as one of their favourite piece in the collection.

We Make Summer Fair:

I will be selling limted edition prints and screen prints and some one off, very limited screen printed t-shirts that will be unique to the Summer Fair.

Website:

www.natnicklin.co.uk

Cara's Creations Designer Feature:

About Cara's Creations:

My name is Caragh Buxton, I am an illustrator, painter, and ceramic artist, I trained in fine art and have come to ceramics more recently.

I illustrate books for children and greetings cards for high street shops

All my ceramics are lovingly painted by hand , glazed and fired by me in my Kilne., the ceramics can be personalised for a special occasion. My cards and prints are produced by my hugely patient graphic designer, Guy, who puts up with my mind changing with incredible patience!

I have been working hard to produce a range of greetings cards, prints and ceramics.

My usual place of work is the kitchen table! Although, now that the business is growing I am in the process of moving my work area into a studio in the garden.

I live in south London with my partner and 4 children, I work around a time table of ballet drop offs, football training and tea dates....

Inspiration:

I draw upon my children for many of my ideas, look at Monster print... this is an adaptation of my youngest boys dream about some friendly Monsters!

Best Sellers:

Ballerinas has definitely been the favourite print, along with footballers, closely followed by my Fairy Place print..

We Make Summer Fair:

At the summer fair I will have a collection of ceramics, cards and prints

Website:

www.carascreations.co.uk

Justine Ellis Designer Feature:

About Justine Ellis:

What seems like an age ago I studied Fine Art. Since then, I have taught young people with learning difficulties in schools and galleries in London. Although I continued to be creative, it has only been in the last two years that I started to design my own range of screen-printed products. Recently, I scarily took the plunge to give up the day job and concentrate on printing full time. It’s been exciting and so far so good.

I live in a leafy corner of southeast London, where I work messily from home, but venture north to Hackney to print at the fantastic Printclub London. I print using an environmentally friendly, water based, screen-printing process. I endeavour to print on recycled, Fairtrade, stock.

Inspirations:

I’m inspired by mid century design, and architecture; Lucienne Day, Alvar Aalto, Marimekko to name but a few. A huge inspiration though, must be the ‘millions of favourite blogs’ I look to for distraction on a daily basis.

Best Sellers:

My best sellers are probably my ‘Knitting Pattern Tote Bags’ and although it pains me to say it when the sun is out, my ‘Christmas Tree & Lights’ Christmas cards.

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We Make Summer Fair:

I’ll be bringing a bit of everything to the fair, hopefully a little something for everyone - from brooches to bags and prints on paper. I’ll also be showing some new printed textiles that are still under wraps, so you’ll have to come along and check it all out on the day!

You’re Sites:

You can find me at www.justineellis.co.uk. There is a link to my Folksy shop on my site.

I print at www.printclublondon.com

Etsy Finds

With just one week until the fair, the We Make Team are all very excited about this years Summer Spectacular.

Our Main Sponsor Etsy, have worked hard in supporting the fair.

We were very excited when they asked us to curate a Etsy Finds Article for our Summer fair sellers that also have Etsy shops.

As Etsy sellers ourselves we all regularly see the amazing Etsy Finds articles.

Here is a link to ours:

http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/uk-finds-we-make-london-8841/

About Etsy:

Etsy.com, is thrilled to support this fabulous fair and its up and coming UK designers. Etsy is an online marketplace for buying and selling all things handmade, and a community of over 3.5 million members who work together to appreciate the true value of human-made goods and their creators and encourage awareness of the social and environmental implications of mass-production and consumption.

Etsy Raffle at We Make Summer Spectacular:

Visit Etsy's UK blogger, Amity, at the Etsy table at the back of the hall for a chat, where she will be handing out promos and running the Etsy Raffle, giving one lucky ticket holder the chance to win a heap of handmade goodies! Get your free raffle tickets with any purchase from a participating Etsy stall holder. The winning ticket will be drawn at 4:15pm so don't forget to bring your tickets to the Etsy table for entry before then!

Ruby Red Cosmetics Designer Feature:

About Ruby Red Cosmetics:


“Throughout my career working for big international beauty brands, I had always had a passion for natural beauty without the chemicals and had been using my own face oils and body products for a long time. Our journey to Asia inspired me to put all that passion into doing my own natural beauty range.” says Martine co-founder of Ruby Red.
Mike, our other co-founded, has a background in packaging design so from beginning; we created an eco beauty brand with great natural, active, fairly traded ingredients and well designed eco packaging. Come to our stand and see for yourself.



Inspirations:

Ruby Red started with an adventure, we went on a life changing journey through India and parts of South East Asia where natural beauty is the norm.
This was the inspiration for Ruby Red – an eco-beauty range, crammed full of organic, sustainable ingredients making you feel good about looking good naturally.


Best Sellers:

None of our lovely beauty products contain Mineral oils, Petrochemicals, Parabens, Lanolin, DEA, TEA, SLS, Artificial colour, Synthetic fragrance or Animal ingredients; just 100% natural goodness.
With 60% of what you put on your skin absorbed into the body, why reproduce chemically the great ingredients nature has given us?

We Make Summer Fair:

You can expect to see from Ruby Red, great organic beauty products which work naturally to make you look good in cute, planet friendly packaging.


Website:

www.rubyredcosmetics.co.uk

Crumpet and skirt Designer Feature:

About Crumpet and Skirt:

Crumpet & Skirt is a new gift and homeware range for the discerning pin-up devotee.

Designed by London-based Elizabeth Pinnock, the products showcase images of saucy 50s ladies, tastefully attired in vintage undies and assuming a range of coquettish poses.

Elizabeth is inspired by the fabulous sexiness of pin-up girls, and uses them in simple designs that showcase the images in the best possible way. Elizabeth is constantly playing with new ideas for products that are both civilised and saucy so that there’s no need to hide them when Granny comes for Tea…

Inspirations:

With a love for all things vintage, quirky and fun Crumpet & Skirt came out of a personal desire to produce high quality products like in the old days.

Best Sellers:

Crumpet & Skirt’s ethos is to be goal to be always cheeky but never rude. This is perfectly demonstrated by the collection of Peek-a-Boo mugs. Virginal white bone china on the outside, but tip them up for a slurp of tea and inside is a rather alluring 'Tease Maid'. Guaranteed to raise a smile with your morning brew!

We Make Summer Fair:

The unique (I’m certain that there isn’t an equivalent out there) nature of the wrapping paper make it fantastic choice for wrapping presents in an unusual and witty way. Since being featured in The Sunday Times Style magazine it has become one of my most popular products.

Complimenting the wrapping paper I have a collection of greetings cards which will grace any mantelpiece with a little bit of fun and cheek.

With a number of new products in the development I am hoping to be able to launch some of them at We Make London.

Website:

www.crumpetandskirt.com