Category Archives: Vendor Love

Divine Without The Dollar – Friday 16th August 2013

Posted on August 16, 2013 | Comments Off

Birds & Beauty

Today Divine Without The Dollar is back and making a fortnightly appearance! I want all your ideas & colour schemes to be able to inspire these fortnightly finds – It’ll be great to hear what you’re planning!

This edition of DWOTD is all about a print which I love and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere at the moment, which I love – The bird print! I love patterned dresses and what’s better than a few swallows decorating the skirt of it? All items are from one of my favourite online stores, Modcloth. Be sure to check out the full list below of items featured so you can purchase them!

Dreamy Destination dress, Ivory Skies Dress, All The World’s A Birdcage dress, Luck Be A Lady dress, The Girly Bird earrings, A Chance Tweeting earrings, What A Nice Flight earrings, Parrot With Everything ring, The Girly Bird necklace, Tweet Rewards necklace, Avian Aplomb satchel, One Way Ticket bag, Put A Birdcage On It scarf, It Malt Be Love wedge, Tweet Of Foot sandal, Bow My Darling heel, Made Like This Heel.

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The Manchester International Tattoo Show Round-Up

Posted on August 6, 2013 | 3 comments

Wow – This weekend has been fun! For those who don’t know, I’ve spent my weekend at the Manchester International Tattoo Show!

So on Saturday I went down and had a right nosey round, found my banner and chatted to some friends who I knew would have stalls there, it was a great day.

Dolly Cool and Clumsy Kate

My banner in the Skin Deep lounge

I cam home with lots of pretty things from many stalls such as Pieces Of The Past and Dolly Cool, rested my head and ventured back to Manchester Central armed with goodies to set up table for the day back in the lounge.

After the day, it was time for the award giving, after seeing many cool tattoos (They appear at the end of this post) I was handed the award for Best Of Sunday to Piotr Gie at Rock’n’roll Tattoo and Piercing, here is the celebratory photograph..

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Tagged Clumsy Kate, dolly cool, Manchester International Tattoo Show, Pieces Of The Past, Rock n Roll Tattoo, Skin Deep, Tattoo HQ

The Manchester International Tattoo Show 2013

Posted on July 30, 2013 | 2 comments

Today I’m excited to announce some massive that I will be involved with this weekend! If you follow the Marry Me Ink Facebook page and Twitter page, you’ll already know this.

I am SUPER excited to announce that I am officially an Award Sponsor for this year’s Manchester International Tattoo Show taking place Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th of August at Manchester Central (For other Mancunians.. It’s also known as the GMex)

Rachel Baldwin

The Manchester Tattoo Show (which is already firmly established as one of the UK’s most popular conventions) returns to Manchester Central this summer and is bigger than ever.

For the past ten years, the Manchester Tattoo Show has been one of the leading conventions on the UK tattoo scene. The event attracts tattoo artists of the highest calibre to the city for a weekend of fantastic ink and great entertainment.

With over 5,000sqm of the Manchester Central being used, the event welcomes world-class artists, live acts and entertainment and traders and vendors for visitors to enjoy.

This growth comes following a growth in demand and investment from Jazz Events, which already runs three leading UK tattoo conventions and acquired the Manchester Tattoo Show in 2012. Shelley Bond, event manager commented: “We’re excited to be enhancing this already popular show, giving ticket holders a better than ever chance of getting inked by one of the world’s leading tattoo artists. This year we have ‘Circus’ theme with related acts and performances taking place all weekend; there will be a lot going on and something for everyone.”

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House Of Sharkey – Handmade Jewellery, Crochet & Embroidery Items

Posted on July 29, 2013 | 5 comments

Today I get to introduce to you some super gorgeous items coming from Lucy of House Of Sharkey. I’ll hand straight over to her and her lovely items..

Hello, my name is Lucy and I run House of Sharkey, an online shop which sells handmade jewellery, crochet items and embroidery. I started the shop a year ago after I did an internship for Tatty Devine and my dad suggested it as I had graduated uni after studying Fashion Design and was struggling to even find internships let alone Fashion jobs. I make Fimo/ Sculptyclay Jewellery and have branched out into Crocheting and embroidery. I try to avoid making the sort of thing that you usually associate with Crochet, such as Granny Square Blankets(unless I was asked to) and instead make things like pin cushions shaped like food, Jammy Dodger Cushions, Zombie dolly’s and Wedding cakes. My overall aim though is to make things that are original but most importantly, affordable.

I was very lucky to meet Sophie Bold of Strange case Collective as she has given me a lot of advice and I have assisted her on a recent wedding which inspired me to start making items for alternative weddings.

I think that if you sit down and think ‘What can I make that is Kooky and cool?’ then what you make is just going to be twee and tacky. For my crochet I look at patterns and just work out how I can change them to suit my project or use them for a different purpose than they were intended. The cross stitch which I have just finished was actually inspired by a Franz Ferdinand song which I couldn’t get out of my head and has got more views and praise than anything I have ever done.

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