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Made To Measure!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 18 April 2013
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Made To Measure! We got these gorgeous new Colette patterns in today! Great for those Sewing Bee viewers who want to test their own skills! These brilliant little patterns come with full instructions, in all sizes, perfect for those weekend projects. click here for Laurel, a simple… read more
Hooray for New Spring Fabrics!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 25 March 2013
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Eeeeee! Oooooh! Wooooop! Yipeee!... and other such noises of extreme excitement over our GORGEOUS new fabrics! So colourful, fun and well, just simply scrumptious!
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oak spools
Super popular oak spools have arrived!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 4 January 2013
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You’ve all been asking for them and they’re finally here! Beautiful oak spools to keep all your trimmings looking super cute. Thought the arrival deserved a shout out to you all!
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Makery Gift Vouchers = Perfect Christmas Presents!
Makery Gift Vouchers = Perfect Christmas Presents!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11 December 2012
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A Makery gift voucher is the perfect gift for anyone with a healthy (or unhealthy) craft obsession, or anyone just embarking on a new-found crafty hobby.
Our vouchers are redeemable against any Makery workshops, any products in our shop, or a combination of both.
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Makery Gift Vouchers make the perfect Christmas Gift
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 13 December 2011
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Incredibly versatile and easy to use, this wonderful gift will be loved by whatever creative soul you choose to by it for. With courses from Lamp Shade Making to Furniture Upholstery we’ve got something to please everyone. If they’d rather use the vouchers for crafty products then it’s so easy… read more
8 new bite-sized videos on our YouTube channel!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 3 July 2011
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Take a look at our lovely little interviews. And if you like, subscribe to our channel! We’re planning lots more little videos (tutorials etc.) so join the fun! Click here for the link.
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Now you can buy Makery Emporium products online!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 6 June 2011
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For those of you that didn’t know, back in December we opened a lovely shop on Northumberland Place called The Makery Emporium. We’ve been getting lots of .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), tweets and facebook comments saying, “I WISH you were nearer to us”. Well, we’ve… read more
The Vintage & Handmade Fair
The Vintage & Handmade Fair
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 1 June 2011
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We’re very much looking forward to The Vintage & Handmade Fair ™ in Chipping Sodbury this Saturday. We’ve only been visitors before, but this time we have a stall of our own! It was the first and original Vintage & Handmade Fair, launched… read more
handmade wedding workshop
Some lovely new pictures from our new ‘Handmade Wedding Workshop’
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 24 May 2011
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We’ve just received some lovely new pictures of things you can make on our new ‘Handmade Wedding Workshop’. Please do take a look, we’re so excited about this one, it’s going to be really special. Take a peek at the new shots by read more
Beautiful new magazine about all things handmade, ‘Mollie Makes’ launches this week!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 9 May 2011
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We’re more than just a little excited to see the first issue of MollieMakes - the brand new magazine about ‘Living & Loving Handmade’. The first issue is out May 12th, and we can tell you (having been lucky enough to see a sneak preview) it’s too delicious… read more
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Handmade wedding workshops; dates just added!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 29 April 2011
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We’re delighted to announce our new ‘handmade wedding’ workshops! For all you brides-to-be looking to personalise your big day, add a little thrifty-chic and include some gorgeously memorable handmade details. Run by the extremely talented Louise Moon (author of The Handmade Wedding Book), the one-day workshop… read more
Radio 4's Woman's Hour
School Easter Holiday Workshops now online!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 7 April 2011
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We’re excited to announce some really fun activities for this Easter holidays! Take a peek: http://www.themakeryonline.co.uk/workshops/kids-club/
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Radio 4's Woman's Hour
Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour joins us at The Makery Cafe this Friday!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 30 March 2011
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We’re very excited about Judi from BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour coming along to The Makery Cafe this Friday morning! We’ll have extra special cake for everyone to enjoy, so if you’re about and fancy 5 minutes of fame on our most favourite radio institution, we’d love to see you.… read more
The Makery Emporium stocks swell
The Makery Emporium stocks swell
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 12 February 2011
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For those of you that didn’t know, just before Christmas we opened a lovely shop on Northumberland Place called The Makery Emporium. We’re increasing stock levels as quickly as we can but want to be careful exactly what we add to our shelves; everything needs to belong… read more
BBC1 Breakfast
We’ve been on the telly!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 14 January 2011
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How blooming exciting, we’ve been on BBC1 Breakfast! If you can believe it, we were approached by the Beeb at the end of last year. We ran a couple of workshops teaching children how to reuse old Christmas decorations, they went wonderfully and we love the footage. Click and enjoy!
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The Makery Emporium
Our new shop, ‘The Makery Emporium’ is now open!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 17 December 2010
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We’ve opened up a lovely new shop in the center of Bath! We stock beautiful buttons, pretty ribbons and trimmings, Make-It-Yourself Kits, gorgeous gifts, handpicked rare fabrics, exquisite paper products and vintage haberdashery paraphernalia. Our new address is 16 Northumberland Place, Bath, BA1 5AR. It’s the most beautiful Georgian building… read more
Christmas Secret
We have a Christmas secret!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 5 December 2010
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I’m terribly sorry everyone but we just can’t tell you what it is yet! We’ll give you a clue, it’s got something to do with MAKING! If anyone would like to guess what our secret is, please fell free to make a guess in the comments window below. OR you… read more
Selvedge Christmas Fair
Selvedge Christmas Fair workshops
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 3 November 2010
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We’re delighted to be spending a day in London on December 4th to run a series of workshops at the glorious Selvedge Christmas Fair. Our Creative Christmas workshops will be the perfect opportunity to make some gifts and decorations; from pretty hearts,… read more
Soup
We’re especially pleased with our column in this months brilliant Sew Hip Magazine!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 31 October 2010
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Here’s a picture of Kate and Rufus that we’ve used in this months Sew Hip column! It’s all about ‘Handmade Christmas’ and is well worth a peek! You can follow Sew Hip on twitter here: @sewhip
Visit their blog: http://www.sewhip.wordpress.com
Or even look at the website:… read more
Soup
This Friday we’re teaming up with Soup for some Halloween Workshops!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11 October 2010
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In our Halloween-inspired mini-workshops, children will make and decorate a wizard or witch’s cape to take home. It’s a chance for you to get messy with the children (but leave the clearing up to us!). Children can enter the Best Designed Cape Competition with the chance to win free membership… read more
The Natural Wedding Book
We’ve been published! (Sort of)
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 11 October 2010
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We’re very excited to see our lovely Makery workshop space featured lots in the pages of The Natural Wedding Book, released last week and written by Louise Moon. It’s the most beautiful book full of ideas for eco-chic, vintage, seasonal and DIY weddings. Actually, we think there are plenty of… read more
Now you can paint your own mini Lions of Bath!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 5 September 2010
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We’re really excited to be teaming up with ‘Lions of Bath’ so your children can become famous artists and decorate their very own Lion; (a mini replica plaster one that is). We have a range of paints, pens, glitter,… read more
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Front Page Splash in Folio!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 18 June 2010
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In case you haven’t seen it yet, this month’s issue of Folio magazine features none other than us on the front cover! It also contains a very lovely article all about The Makery, and the trend for making your own clothes - well worth a read! (Although we are terribly… read more
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Free copy of Selvedge for everyone who attends a Makery Workshop!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 18 June 2010
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We’ve teamed up with Selvedge, the most gorgeous textiles magazine out there, so that every Makery Workshop attendee now receives a free copy (worth £9.95) in their Makery goodie bag! We’ve also secured an exclusive subscription offer for you all so that you can enjoy the magazine… read more
This one's mine!
One girl’s tat; another girl’s treasure!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 18 June 2010
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Do you know about the wonderful world of swishing? Aka frock swapping? It’s a chance for you to gather a group of friends, ask them each to raid their wardrobes for unworn clothes and SWAP! We’ll organise the evening for you, and we’ll be on hand to… read more
Not quite on the front cover.... yet
As featured in Elle Decoration
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 3 June 2010
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We’ve just received the July issue of Elle Decoration and thought we’d share their feature on The Makery with you, which we’re extremely excited about! It’s great to see that we’ve already made a splash nationwide. Just so lovely to have all our hard work recognised.… read more
THe finished garden
Our new garden can now welcome The Makery Cafe!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 18 April 2010
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Now that we’re closer to getting the interior of The Makery just the way we like it (only a few more shelves to fill now!), the sunny weather has prompted us to tackle the garden. We’ve been staring at it for weeks now, eager to use the space for suitable… read more
Ornate wooden shelves work really well
We’re really excited about our Furniture revamp workshop!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 18 April 2010
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We’ve got some cracking new workshops coming up which we’re very excited about! One that has really captured our imagination is the furniture revamp workshop, where you’ll be taught all the skills you need to turn a tired and unloved item into a gem to be proud of! The thing… read more
Sock Monkeys
We’ve had some great ideas for the Easter Hols Workshops!
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 18 March 2010
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Some of you may already know about the childrens creative workshops we have planned for the Easter holidays. We’re sure it’s going to be a really fun couple of weeks and we’ve been working hard to make it special! After the remarkable success at our half… read more
