things to do in leeds...when you craft!

Leeds is positively bustling with artistic endeavours at the moment, let me recommend a few things to keep you occupied until the next reetsweet!

Read...Noonton & Cocobean, a fantastic blog by a local leeds lassie and her friend, we follow her through art exhibitions, inspiration and poetry. It sounds pretentious, but it's not, it's beautiful, heartfelt and will make you think!

Visit...Michelle Duxbury, a hugely influential Leeds based writer and crafter, as she hosts a new crafters meet up 'Craftsville club' at Heart - Headingley's new centre for enterprise and community. Bring your craft project with you and meet other enthusiasts into your thing - next meet up is Mon 9th May 2011 from 7-10pm

Buy...At 'Handmade 6' - Brudenell Social Club's brilliant resident craft event featuring the cream of the art school crop....prints, knitting, jewellery - quirky and amazing and hosted by the super cute Amy Mcdonald, one of our much loved crafters from reetsweet! .....That should keep you busy my little friends!

Shopping at shopkeepers...

Just announced this week: our special one-off event at the lovely Nation of Shopkeepers on Sat 28th of May (that's the May Bank hol weekend!). It's a day of craft stalls, tea, cakes, nation's tasty food and folksy tunes on the decks...It's a crafty shindig!

Find out more here it's free entry, and will be from 12pm to 5pm and we will be having it come rain or shine! We already have some great crafts lined up for exhibition! See you there!

oooh, what's goin' on?

..Craft Candy is what's going on ladies and gents! This fabulous non profit craft collective put on the very finest modern fairs in and around Sheffield and are now open for submissions to their mini fair at Bungalow and Bears...for sat 14th May...read about it here and get applying!

I just love this design for their last event...support handmade and get over to one of their events as they are not to be missed!

last reetsweet...

We've asked our fans to contribute to our craft blog this week, and they've been emailing in what they bought last reetsweet for a competition....





First up is Hayley McColl...

''I love quirky, eye catching jewellery. It's such an ice breaker and conversation starter, people always come up and ask me where I got bits and pieces from or just to tell me they like a necklace I have on. It's a great way of making new friends because I can be a bit shy until I know someone. So when I saw this necklace I had to have it!

I loved it because it's so unusual, I've never seen anything else like it, it's a bit off a one off and I love things that are individual and make me stand out from the crowd a bit. It's really bright and eye catching and most of all it's FUN! It'll brighten up dull work outfits and make me and everyone else smile.

It's my new favourite thing because it just makes me happy to look at it. What more could you ask for?'' (Hayley's necklace is by Kim of Finest Imaginary)

I thought Hayley's description of what led her to buy it was just delightful and she is entered into our competition to win a voucher to spend at the next fair! Woop! If you would like to enter, email us over a picture of your last reetsweet purchase and a bit about why to reetsweetevents@gmail.com

thank you, and we get interactive!

A big thanks to all of you who joined us on sunday at the corn exchange, we had a lovely selection of stalls, and some great customers!


...Never a dull moment, I wanted to buy everything! As a little bit of a thank you to all our stallholders, and fun for our fans we are asking you to email us in a picture of you and what you bought on sunday!?




....Was it a print? A fab badge? A super cool headband? A lovely toy? Tell us what you bought, and a bit about why you did, why you like reetsweet etc by emailing us at: reetsweetevents@gmail.com, we are going to pic a fave and give you a voucher to spend at the next fair! Woo woo!

Love you all! xx

one sleep til reetsweet!

Hello!

Thanks for supporting reetsweet! We have many new followers on the blog and on facebook, I can't wait to meet you all on sunday!

We will be in the Corn Exchange, as usual from 11am to 4.30pm sunday, exhibiting the freshest crafts around - big shout out to all the new people from the crafting scene that are showing, including Fox Bunting, Maneggi and Amy Panda.

I think the sun should be shining, and it's Mothering Sunday of course - so you've got an excuse to swing by for a last minute pressie for her and yourself! Support handmade!


See you tomorrow! x