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| Our lovely window's all designed and merchandised by student makers |
Happy New Year! I hope you had a good one and a lovely Christmas. I though it was about time I wrote a blog about my experience with Future Foundry's Student Makers Christmas Festival and Pop- up shop. This has proved to be a very photo heavy post, but there were so many lovely photos to chose from and it has been so difficult to whittle them down to just a few.
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| Home ware by Punk Butterfly |
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| Clothing by Ocean Breeze Custom Clothing |
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| My brand of course Luna Sky Jewellery |
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| T Shirt by Erin Laurel Hayhow |
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The Student Makers Market Christmas Festival and Pop - up Shop took place from the 6th to the 24th of December. All of the Student Makers taking part worked hard to; put the shop together, merchandise their own displays, staff the shop, assist visitors and run workshops amongst many other tasks. The pop up shop gave the student makers a chance to show case their brands and gain experience in starting their own business. There was also a chance for student makers to attend workshops specifically tailored for young start up businesses and to run workshops for visiting members of the public. There was even a coffee shop at weekends. The festival and pop-up shop was a huge success, and received great support from the residents of Folkestone and Kent's creative community.
My favourite workshop was the 'DIY Screen Printing Workshop with Fat Hen and Flo'. Susan Mckenna taught us how to do screen printing without a space hogging expensive machine. All of the students makers prints were lovely, and I even got a chance to screen print a t- shirt with my own business logo. Other workshops included; basic programming with RoofOfTwo, How to sell with David Liliford of Lilford Gallery and many more.
Over all the Student Makers Pop- up shop was a very successful event that was enjoyed by all who took part and visited. I have meet lots of lovely, creative and inspiring people since joining the Student Makers Markets initiative and I hope that all the student makers taking part have a prosperous future.I would like to take this opportunity to thank Lisa Oulton for allowing me to take part in the Student Makers pop- up shop, all of our kickstarter backers, workshop leaders, volunteer's and sponsors, it wouldn't have been possible without you all.
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| Close up of some basic programing in action during RoofOfTwos workshop. |
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| Myself and Ash of Ash's Dolls house trying our hand at screen printing in one of the workshops |
Goodbye for now Nicola x
*All pictures in this post belong to myself and Future Foundry.
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