We are currently accepting donations of creative textile works. As the auction event takes place on Sunday, October 11 2010, it is important to receive donation items in September so we may properly catalogue, photograph, and publicize their presence in the auction.
We will accept items through September 22. However, the sooner the better!
“The Mood Gallery” – Craft and Art shop OPENING SOON!!
Gallery will offers a unique and totally different concept from
existing galleries or art & craft shops.
We specialize in selling only hand made items such as jewelry,
pottery, glass craft, wood craft, leather craft, paper craft, clothes,
bags and toys and many others.
Our retail shop will be located in the Mill Lane (opposite Subway),
Castlebar, Co. Mayo.
The Mood Gallery will rent many individual retail shelf spaces ( from
15euro/month + 10% sale commission) in our retail shop, for hand made
art and craft creators wishing to set up a retail presence for their
art and crafts.
Our retail spaces are used for sales, exhibition, advertisement,
information exchange and other sales and marketing purposes giving
retail exposure to your arts and crafts.
Thus means you don’t need to outlay large amounts of money and take
the risk of setting up your own retail shop premises.
If you are looking to;
• Open more business opportunities for your product.
• Increase sales income from your hand made art craft works.
• Advertise your business and reach more customers.
• Expand your existing hand made art craft business.
• Conduct a retail pilot trial for your product.
• Avoid large capital outlays while preparing for your own business.
• Display your hand made works to the public.
• Exchange information with others in particular area.
• Socialize with people interested in hand made art and craft.
If you have a christmas pattern for sale / lend / donation please let me know. It seems that there are many people out there looking for them, and the more tacky the better seems to be the way.
This coming October, we are holding the first ever Pink Auction in Cork City.
The auction will bring together many people with two goals —- to promote creative textiles in Ireland and to raise money for Action Breast Cancer, a programme of the Irish Cancer Society.
People within the community as well as around the country are participating by making and donating handcrafted creative textile items to be auctioned off.
The event will take place at The Imperial Hotel on Sunday, 10th October 2010.
We are on Ravelry, Facebook, Twitter, and have our own blog. The more support we can get the more we can do and the better it is for breast cancer awareness. Our flyer is at the top of this page of our blog: http://pinkcork.blogspot.com/p/media.html
The Pink Auction seeks donations of high quality textile art.
Donations may be in any colour and we actively seek handcrafted blankets, shawls, bags, fashion, baby clothing, mittens, etc…
We anticipate community involvement as we promote creative textiles while encouraging donations. Groups and wool shops can help by hosting small workshops between now and early September, distributing flyers to other knitters/shops in your region, or collecting donations and shipping them to us from your neighborhood textile artists.
We also appreciate donations of wool or textile supplies for pre-auction workshops or to be used in the creation of auction items to fill category gaps (like if we end up with ten scarves and no hats or mittens/gloves).
Thank you so much for taking the time to learn about Cork’s Pink Auction in support of Action Breast Cancer. If you need anymore info, please do not hesitate to contact us at PinkCork@gmail.com and if you do choose to host an event please let us know how it goes or send photos so we can write a blog post about it.
Take a day out of your hectic program and put those idle fingers to some use. Get creative and learn to make a beautiful Headpiece, be it with feathers, Sinamay, straw, veiling, flowers or beads.
Have fun creating your very own hat, bonnet or chapeau
And learn about the classic art of Millinery design and technique with renowned Westport based Milliner Lina Stein
She will demonstrate some basic techniques and then you can let your imagination run wild
The range of classes are from Sophisticated Cocktail Stunners to Working With Sinamay and Straw,
An Introduction to Millinery to
A Summer Millinery Marathon - pushing your millinery skills to a higher level…
I am happy to travel to your part of the country and give group lessons or demonstrations to anyone interested ,such as a hen group, or just a group of friends who are hat-mad!!!
So if you know anyone who might like the idea…. Pass it on..
Below are just a few courses that I have listed should you want to boost your creativity!!! For more details, check my web site or simply contact me directly!!!
· Saturday –Sunday 6th-7th March 2010
MASTER CLASS IN “ THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD”
DUBLIN
· Thursday 11th March 2010
SCULPURED SINAMAY HEAD PIECES-
· Saturday, March 27, 2010 - Wednesday, March 31,2010
A Spring Millinery Marathon
· Friday-Saturday 9th-10th April 2010
RACES SPECIAL
· Saturday, 17th April 2010
A Follow-on Course
CRINOLINE AND COCKTAIL HATS
· Saturday-Sunday-Monday 1st -3rd May 2010
Bank Holiday Hat Madness
3 Days of intense Millinery Magic – make 2 hats
· Saturday-Sunday 7th-8th May 2010
MILLINERY OPEN STUDIO WORKSHOP
· Friday-Saturday 22nd-23rd May 2010
WORKING WITH SINAMAY AND STRAW
Lina Stein
Westport. Co Mayo
Ireland
00353 98 28449
e- mail:
linasteinhats@eircom.net
I shall be in Dublin again to hold another exciting and creative workshop before the Christmas Break with the Yellow Brick Road (Bachelors Walk)
This time the workshop will focus on working with fabrics and covering shapes to create a classic “Cocktail Hat” as well as staying with the sculptural element of Sinamay.
Lina
For booking contact the “yellow brick road bead shop” directly
Whether you are a confirmed shopaholic or completely phobic about shopping, the annual National Crafts & Design Fair, is just the place for you. For those who love shopping it’s the chance to browse and enjoy the unique work of more than 500 designers, artists, and crafts people who will be taking part in the country’s largest celebration of crafts. But if shopping just isn’t your thing, think of it as a heaven sent opportunity to buy all your Christmas gifts in a single shopping session!
Date: Wednesday December 02, 2009 - Sunday December 06, 2009
Venue: Hall 1
Opening Hours:
Wednesday 2nd December 10am - 10pm(10% courtesy discount available on all purchases this day only)
Thursday 3rd December 10am - 10pm
Friday4th December 10am-10pm
Saturday 5th December 10am-7pm
Sunday 6thDecember 10am-7pm
‘Gifted’ craft shop and Gallery is opening for the 6 weeks leading up to Christmas from 12th of November until 24th December2009.
Works shall include, Fine Art, Photography, Glass works, Fashion items, Handmade Christmas Decorations, Hand Made Bags, scarves, headpieces, Jewellery and much more………
OFFICIAL OPENING 14th NOVEMBER. MULLED WINE RECEPTION 6pm – 8pm
The shop is located at 2a Florence Road, Bray ( across from Smyths toystore and close to the ice rink)
There are some places left for craft and Artworks. Please email 3 images of your work to brayeile09@gmail.com or contact Roisin at 085 7709698 or Yvonne on 087 940 6116 asap
