Posts tagged “making”
Brighton Mini Makers Faire
A guest post from Andrew Sleigh of Brighton Mini Makers Faire – shown here is the Maker Faire held in Newcastle earlier this year Hello, I’m helping to organise an event in Brighton that I’d love to get Folky sellers, buyers, and the wider crafting community involved in. It’s called Mini Maker Faire, and it’s [...]
Making Conversation – Tash Goswami
This Got Me Thinking Written by Tash Goswami of www.bletheringcrafts.co.uk Image by Tideline Designs Last week I contacted a Maker that I discovered on the internet, with a view to her doing an interview for my craft site Blethering Crafts. She replied, thanking me for asking her but declined because she was not formally trained, [...]
Make(s) Up!
Hey, so Makes have launched! Thank you to all the testers for their feedback and for creating their Makes. Go have a play! We’ve tried to work in the feedback from the testers but a few of the things that have been recommended were not do-able (and not essential) in the short term. Two things [...]
Makey Make Time!
So, we’re testing Makes this week with a bunch of people who came forward – thank you *so* much you lot. By the end of this week we’ll have collated the feedback and we’ll be making the amends ready to go live. We intend to go live this weekend and with the “how tos” that [...]
Make Testers needed to not do agar/gelatin filtration
So, having re-plumbed the site and made it more stable and reliable we’re on with getting Makes launched for Monday (it may be late on Monday as we’re running out of biscuits and espresso to keep the development going 24/7). We need your help. We want some early testers to help test Makes and show [...]
Being Crafty
I specifically avoided Origin, The Craft Council’s annual event this year. The flagship UK Craft event left me feeling a bit cold last time I went in 2006. I thought it was a tad too upmarket and whilst there was a lot of great work on display it felt a bit like a gallery or [...]
Christmas Markets
Sally from the Manchester Craft Mafia and a Folksy ‘super-user’, has put out a call for makers at a Christmas Market the Craft Mafia are organising in Manchester. Looks interesting. This is it: Which for those people using screen readers and / or for those who don’t want to squint this reads: Join our Manchester [...]