Made in Newcastle are a unique group of like-minded creatives who lovingly craft objects of beauty, such as: books, jewellery, clothing, candles, cards, homeware, keyrings, purses, comics, art and sell them to you and me.
And all of the objects are made by clever folk who live in/around Newcastle - so you're also "buying local" too. Less mileage, less carbon, and lots of "green" brownie-points too (green-brownie? - yeh, don't think about it too much).
It's the type of event that is guaranteed to provide you with original one-off objects, for someone special, rather than a high-street replica.
So I went along to buy some Christmas presents for my family...unfortunately everything I saw screamed "buy me, buy me" in a way that wasn't really very useful, because all I could see were items that were so lovely I wanted to buy them, not for my mum, or auntie. Oh no they were calling "buy me, and keep me all to yourself, you know you want me" and I really really did.
Despite my best efforts, I only bought one thing for myself, and I love it - it's this necklace, it's so cute and unusual in the way the bird chain sits through the branch, and at only £5 I decided it was too pretty to miss.
On closer inspection I thought that the bird was modelled on the Twitter logo, not that this bothers me, but it has been pointed out by a couple of people. Is this what they call geek chic?
Where did I get it? Gabbysbazaar, but I couldn't find it online...But you will find other lovely stuff there anyway...The jewellery box says gabbysbazaar.etsy.com, but you can also find stuff on http://gabbysbazaar.blogspot.com/
What else did I buy?
- Customised greetings cards (for my nieces & nephew) from the very talented papersmith www.britthub.co.uk
- A "secret" gift for Mr Lisa, from Jake Wilson Craw
- A gorgeous notebook from Purple Magpie
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