Badge-rd to death

I have been given some leaflets by my Embroiderers Guild branch secretary to display at the 'do'. I am a big fan of my local guild, they have excellent speakers, a fab bring and buy table and a residential weekend which is always a hoot. The guild itself produces two excellent embroidery magazines, holds a massive collection of textiles and aims to promote embroidery t one and all. If you are a keen stitcher looking up your local guild might open up loads of possibilities for learning new skills and making new friendships for you too.

I have also received these beauties from Swirly. I am sorry to say that Swirly actually wore out her badge machine making these for the Makers, Do-ers and Helpers. I think these are just lovely and I hope they make us all fell special and proud and like we belong to something great and good and well crafted on July 11th. I hope we can stand together and hold our heads high and raise our glasses to HANDMADE. I have to go now, I'm welling up!

More good (ie) s

The goodie bags for the Makey do will be amazing. I know that's a big statement, but it's also something of which I'm confident. I ordered my pay-day treat from Folksy and cheekily asked Viv from Concept Design Form if she'd like to put some extra business cards in for the bags, she did just that and I'm sure people checking out her shop will be really impressed by what they find. I also had some 'products' in the post which is really exciting! Meplusmolly had said she would send some lovelies and before I even opened the package the scent of lavender got me all excited.

I wasn't very disciplined about opening the parcels with lots of photos- I was too excited!

Yep, that's right there are sixty beautiful badges brooches and lavender sachets all with the most amazing textures and colours. I am so impressed. I would say this was worth a 10a.m visit to Sandwich Guildhall on July 11th, wouldn't you? Do have a mooch around meplussmollys other work, it really is beautiful.

I am obviously more than happy to receive more contributions for the goodie bags. The bags themselves have arrived. I am using nice brown paper bags with handles and will stick the Makey do logo and blog address to the front for advertising on the day, so plenty of room for more loveliness. Looby was kind enough to post the event on Misi and I have two more offers from sellers there for items. Neroli has kindly offered to do the same on Coriandr- (thanks, I promise I will send you the press release soon!)

All coming along nicely, the next stage is getting quotes for other advertising, finding more stall holders and talking to the local schools about getting fliers in book bags. All good!

We got it covered!

A Makey 'do' is not being held for profit to the organiser, (me!)- had I mentioned that? I just want to cover my costs and maybe sell some things from my own stall. When I was trying to work out if this whole idea was viable I got a quote for the venue and one for the insurance. The insurance was nearly as much as the hall hire, this meant I would have to be really creative with the advertising and that I might end up out of pocket. Sandwich is a great community with lots of do-ers. Not least of whom are a group called B.A.S.H (Bringing Alive Sandwich Heritage) I was chatting to one of their number she said that as the group has annual insurance they may be able to cover my event, I'd just need to mention them on the posters. I was invited to their committee meeting last week and the vote was unanimous- a Makey do is now officially 'supported by B.A.S.H'-cool. This means I can really promote the event and do nice things like get these badges made by Swirlyarts. (Aren't they Ace?- do you think I could get some made with 'princess' and 'genius' for daily wear?)