Yes, ’tis true.  The second Made In The Shade event takes place this weekend.  My, how the months have flown by!  Made In The Shade II opens its doors to customers at 10.30am on Saturday 25th October.  The event runs until 5pm in the evening.  With 40+ makers and designers and vintage sellers setting up shop at the shopping event of the Autumn, the gosh darn credit crunch can wheesht for an hour or two while we all relish in the delight of the handmade one-of!  Designer exclusivity does not have to come with an extortionate price tag!  Don’t buy off the peg - buy Made In The Shade!

Lady Wurlitzer & Nana Moon will both be making an appearance at the event, giving you the chance to stock up on soapy treats and vintage treasures.  It’s been a while…   :o)   Once I’m a little more organised, I’ll post some product previews and soapy menus for you.  Whet that appetite!

I’m looking forward to taking up the stalls again.  I am looking forward to donning my victory rolls and my pretty frock and having a little chatter with visitors and indie lovers.  I intend to pack my little pink cool bag with all sorts of lovely edibles to keep me going throughout the day and I have a pretty helper coming by to lend a hand in the afternoon so I’ll have some company too.  Hooray!   My crafty things have all been packed away since May (while we refurbished the flat) and so I’m excited to unpack my pretty things and I’m excited to see my lovely green gingham table cloth!  Oh how I have missed my green gingham table cloth…

See y’all on Saturday!  Come say hello!

Saturday 8th November

Glasgow Craft Mafia Indie Market

Hillhead Library, Byres Road, Glasgow

Thursday 4th December

Glasgow Craft Mafia Indie Market

QMU, University Gardens, Glasgow

Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th December

Made In The Shade Festive Shopping Weekender

The Lighthouse, Mitchell Lane, Glasgow

Lady Wurlitzer will be making an appearance at the following lovely crafty events:

Made In the Shade

The Lighthouse, Glasgow

Saturday 25th October 2008

Glasgow Craft Mafia Indie Market

Hillhead Library

Saturday 8th November 2008

Glasgow Craft Mafia Indie Market

Queen Margaret Union, Glasgow University

Wednesday 3rd December 2008

I hope to see you there!

I’ll be posted stock updates as they come. Yum yum. Freshly made soapy things! :o)

Soapy party favours - El Rancho Records/Wilson Tan, Big Dog launch, 2008

Anyway, you may remember back in May that I was invited to be a guest speaker at Pecha Kucha in Glasgow.  Hosted by the Creative Entrepreneurs Club at The Arches, I presented 20 slides all based around things which inspire and motivate me and make me smile.  Lucky old you can see/hear the full event - all dozen speakers -  for yourself  by following this link :o)

http://www.thelighthouse.co.uk/content/events/68,189/PechaKuchaVol5.html

Happy viewing!

Lady Wurlitzer and her beau travel to London Town tomorrow to enjoy a week long vacation in swanky Islington!

Many, many shopping trips are planned and I’m even managing to squeeze in a visit to Nina’s Vintage & Retro Hair Parlour on Tuesday!

Lady Wurlitzer will be updating the page again week beginning 7th July!

Stay tuned!

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As many of you will know by now, Kris Kristofferson is one of Lady Wurlitzer’s very, very favourite musical acts and she is a huge fan of classic movies, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore and Convoy!

To celebrate this joyous occasion, Lady Wurlitzer isn’t just hosting the Kris Kristofferson birthday party at [We Are] Fuzzy Felt Folk (at Macsorley’s Music Bar, Glasgow), but she’s making a very special range of Kristofferson soap bars! Oh yes… Country soap has arrived! It was only a matter of time really wasn’t it? Soap bars will be given away as birthday treats at the party on Sunday. The fun begins at 2pm and goes on into the evening. Expect live music, free cake, bingo and a Kristofferson inspired dj set from Lady Wurlitzer.

On the marketeer list for this event are vintage fashionistas, Pistol Whip Vintage and newcomers to vintage retail in Glasgow, Retro City.  Of course, you can expect to see collections of vintage inspired goodies from your favourite Mafia members too.  Music will come from the very splendid Sharon McHendry and her coveted vinyl collection!  How fitting?!

Ordinarily Lady Wurlitzer would be in attendance at such a wonderful market event, but unfortunately a diary clash deems this impossible :o(   Lady Wurlitzer and her beau are off to London Town on their holidays that weekend so instead of selling vintage in Glasgow, there’ll be much buying of vintage treasures in The Big Smoke!

Well, what a fun time we had at Made In The Shade on Saturday! Lady Wurlitzer & Nana Moon were most pleased to meet lots of new customers and I had such a lovely day chatting with passers by! The feedback received was overwhelmingly positive, so thank you to those who made it along! Thanks to Lucy and Diana and Lesley. Thanks to Colin and Ally and Jen and Graeme. A very special thank you goes to Davina and cutey-pie munchkin Caleb (how lovely it was to see you both!) and special thanks to the loyal customers who made it into town for the occasion! A swell ole time was had by all. Fellow marketeers seemed to have a ball and thanks to the MITS organising teams from the Mafia and The Lighthouse, everything went according to plan - smooth as knitters balm!

Even if you didn’t catch the issue prior to Made In The Shade, you might still wish to read the wonderful feature in The List! All that hard press work finally paid off! :o) Hoorah! Click here to read the online version of the article. the print version is much more glamorous!!

Well, after a bit of a panic and some tantrums, preparations for Made In The Shade are coming together as they oughtta. The soap is wrapped, the lotions are labelled and the balms are ribboned. I just need to type up the all important product info and practice my table layout and I do believe I may be organised. Hoorah! Oh, but then there’s the packing up… My least favourite bit!

Nana Moon however, is not quite so prepared, so attention will be transferred to her once the suds are taken care of!

I’ve just taken a few snaps of the goings on behind the scenes of Lady Wurlitzer with the intention of previewing a few bits and pieces ahead of Saturday but now I can’t find the darn cable to attach to the laptop to get em out of the camera! I’ll post them later x