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Our previous Resin Class in Glasgow was fully booked well in advance so reserve your place ASAP by purchasing online.   We bring all the materials you need and expert tuition to help you create your own unique designs in resin and transform into jewellery – just in time for Christmas!
Treat yourself to something truly special, hand-make some personalised presents this Christmas and learn a new skill that’ll keep you busy and buzzing with creativity over the holidays.

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Last night was the final part of the latest Glasgow Resin Workshop which went fantastically well. In between the wine and fine cake, we found time to make some really rockin’ jewels…

Pearl resin pendant - made by Kat @ the Freak Carousel Jewellery Making Workshop

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Next weekend (Sat 6th of August) will see Spoiltpig Jewellery and I Love Lexy return to the local craft market scene after a very long stint at manic, city-centre markets.. and this time we’ll be trading together as Freak Carousel!  It’s been a while since either of us attended the Aberdeen craft bazaar and we’ve really missed the great handicrafts, friendly chatter and home-baking that you find at these out-of-town events.  Luckily we’ve found a great new market down here in Glasgow of the same kind and they’ve accepted us as stall holders next month…

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I’d also like to take the time to mention our good friends at The Life Craft.

I’ve had many good coffees, cakes, chat and crafty advice from this creative hub in Glasgow’s West end and am sad to hear that they will be closing doors on the 20th of August 2011.
I’ve been promised that they’ll be back in new premises in the near future but if you’re in the area, I strongly recommend popping in for the crafting cafe experience (and to take advantage of the 30% off sale!) before they close(or sell out of all the great wool!).

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I think that’s about all I can fit in for this evening..there are a million new things happening with Freak Carousel and hopefully I’ll get a chance to blog about them soon.  In the meantime, keep an eye on the facebook page for new updates.

xoxo

I’ll get round to listing the Christmas markets soon but here are the classes:

Aberdeen 4th & 11th Nov  – FULLY BOOKED
Aberdeen 17th & 24th Nov – only 2 places left

and the third one…

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Bored of over priced “vintage” shops and the sniffy staff?  Well rumble in the jumble is for you! Get elbow deep in some good old fashioned rummaging! Who knows what treasures await!

♥ Come visit the SpoiltPig stall at this fantastic new event ♥

I really hope to see lots of you there, it’s the perfect event for a girls night out!

The Swish @ The Hub, Pacific Quay, Glasgow
Thurs 30th Sep 2010 6.30 – 10pm

Clothes swapping, craft market, style advice, mini-pampering, beauty treatments ………and a celebrity outfit auction!

An evening of shopping and swapping in aid of the Scottish Huntingtons Association, a registered charity helping people throughout Scotland affected by Huntington’s disease.

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£12 on the door includes a glass of fizz and cupcakes. You bring a minimum of 3 quality items of clothing, get your tokens then grab your favourites from the rail!

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Read more about

the event
the charity
the disease

Get your advance tickets(£10)
here

In the meantime though, I’ll leave you with some recommended viewing/listening material.  I spent a lot of August through at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and here are some clips of my favourite performers…

Helen Arney

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The Creative Martyrs

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Keith Farnan

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and recent Glasgow adventures have led to the discovery of…

“That Guy On Buchanan Street”

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Emelle ‘If you care then I care’ – Forge of the Wordsmiths 29.8.10 from Forge of the Wordsmiths on Vimeo.

“Small but perfectly formed vintage and craft fair, followed by down to earth fashion and craft lovers, enough love for all, from Punks to Goths, Retro to Indie. Smiley sellers guaranteed, very affordable (nothing over £50), retro and games tea room.”

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GWBP has made a cosy wee home in the Hillhead Bookclub and SpoiltPig is thrilled to be part of the furniture now and exhibiting at the fair again THIS SUNDAY 15th August 2010.

Please do stop by.  Come check out the all the unique, handmade designer wares and vintage and retro fashions….you may even like to pick yourself(me) up a gramophone filled with delicious cocktails(true story, they really do have gramophones filled with booze)!

SEE YOU THERE

EDIT:  Yes, we’re still on for Sunday…but i forgot to mention that the delightful Bunny from “Bunny and The Misshapes” is swapping the microphone for ‘making’ this weekend and will be joining me at the table with her own unique collection of re-worked vintage pieces and beaded jewellery. Exciting!

Saw Amanda Palmer at Oran Mor last night, was pretty bummed about Jason Webley and other music makers not being able to make it over from the US but but but BUT HE WAS THERE, on a laptop screen, plugged into a speaker and they played. They fucking played Evelyn Evelyn together…from two different countries. at the same time. in two different countries. and I got to see it!  Technology is fucking ace, it really is.

Evelyn Evelyn 1 -  Volcanic ash 0

I’m too fucked up drunk still to do this properly and link up all the fantastic people involved in the gig but I beg you to google search Evelyn Evelyn and get into it,  it’s easy done.

Also, I made presents and like the big weirdo I am, made someone else hand it over.  I was too mortified at the time to actually appreciate anything that was happening. Fear is stupid. Being embarrassed about giving presents is stupid. Being taken aback by a hug is stupid!

So like, if Amanda Fucking Palmer reads this…

“WOW, show was fucking awesome. You rock. Thanks for a fantastic night!  It was wonderful and all kinds of fucked up brilliance.  and thanks for the hug. Hugs are lovely.  I really hope you like/d the present, I hope Jason likes it too(I got an email, I think he does, maybe he was being polite).  Hope you’ve had a good night, hope the rest of the tour is ace for you. Goodnight”

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and for everyone who didn’t already spot it on facebook/flickr, this is what I made:

This is the shit that happens when you chill the fuck out.  I’m so happy I closed the shop the other week. SO HAPPY now. All I needed was that one week to realise how off track I’d gotten.  Making things for money can be so ugly.  It’s stressful and tiring and eats away at all the good stuff in you.   So I took a break and gave myself some space….and then ended up making more things anyway :)  and it felt GOOD. To makes something completely for me, something I didn’t have to worry ‘will anyone buy this?’ – I didn’t have to force myself to sit down and design things, it just happened. I heard a song, I sang along, I made a little scribble doodle and then turned  it into something else and it was FUN and it was EASY and lovely.   and it gave me the little boost I needed to get my shit together and I ended up doing a market in Glasgow before the gig.  I made enough money to pay my phonebill and give me this absolutely stinking hangover and one girl squealed and jumped up and down when she spied my stall. It was lovely. Everyone was lovely.

to summarise, I had an awesome weekend and I think it’s all because of Evelyn Evelyn.

Drama – So the Evelyn Evelyn gig at Oran Mor was announced, no clue who they were but Amanda Palmer playing the same gig meant I HAD to go.  Thought I’d never be able to afford tickets, finally raised monies by doing another stall at Sloans market….and it was SOLD OUT.
During the course of my frantic jewellery making and attempting to promote and sell stuff for ticket money, I listened to some Jason Webley and got to know the wonderful mystery behind the amazing Evelyn Evelyn act, so was doubly triply quadruply GUTTED reading the poster outside Tickets Scotland last Sunday.  ’Sold out’ in its mocking bold capitals.
I swore, I ranted, I blasted the internet with ‘any spare tickets?!~’  and I secretly hoped that someone I knew might fall ill at the last minute and ask me to take their place.

Couple days later, I calmed down, moved on, wrote a blog about cats and adopted an Amur Leopard through the WWF.   THEN at 15:57 yesterday, Matt Papacool breezed in with his superhero, super MAGNIFICENT ways to tell me a few more tickets had been released and I was on two of them :)

I have my booking confirmation, tickets are in the post and have finally just taken a breath after all the hopping, jumping, squealing of last nights ‘I might have them! do i have them? is that an email?!~’ excitements.

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So what’s all the fuss about?…