WGW Nov 2014

not that we're biased...
splendid use of goggles

Wow!! That was one of the best weekends we've had so far at the awesome Whitby Goth Weekend. It's taken us a while to recover what with the excitement of the weekend. There was some amazing outfits being displayed in the most splendid ways and of course it was nice to see some of our regulars.

We always like it when people come back to see us to show how they've used our creations to exquisitely embellish their outfits with our creations. This Lady has used a pair of our goggles with a head-piece complimenting the rest of her outfit wonderfully.

Whitby was closed to
visitors on Saturday

Right from the start it proved to be a hectic weekend with people from all walks of life converging on Whitby in the masses. As you can see from the front page of the Whitby Gazette, the town was full and was closed to visitors on Saturday causing havoc with the Park and Ride and local bus services.

With the sun showing his face pretty much most of the time it gave a more summer feeling to the weekend, with families, steampunkers goths and other genres enjoying the unusually warm weather with a visit to the beach. It was almost warm enough to create an outdoor market!



We do, however, like our quaint setting and as it was Halloween on Friday this year some of our fellow traders decided to take the opportunity to get into the spirit of it by giving their stalls a Halloween theme. The pictures below are of our neighbours Twisted Ivy who are the first stall on the right as you go through the doors into the Spa Theatre.

Twisted Ivy's Halloween
Theme

The Skull was motion
activated

This year we thought we would branch out from our hand crafted goods made with our fair hands. So we are now officially suppliers for the fantastic Nemesis Now and Alchemy. Just a little taster of whats to be expected.

Swaggering Sticks from
Nemesis Now

Steampunk inspired jewelry
from Alchemy

Well once again with all that in mind I thought I would don you with my delights of the weekend. We had our usual Friday night supper with friends at the award winning Magpie fish restaurant followed by an enchanting day trading whilst sharing our wealth of knowledge with the lovely public in regards to our new area on our table display which was........... Drum roll please.............

New range of Leather
crafting supplies

Thats right.... we are now the proud owners of leather crafting supplies. These will soon to be listed in our etsy shop for your perusal. We have loved learning our skills over the years while making our creations. but my favourite part of all is seeing what other people do the items they buy from us. 

So as usual after a very belated update for you lovely people, Thank you for reading and hope to see you all at the next event. Which for us is the switching on of the Bewdley Christmas lights on the 29th Novemberwith one of the best firework displays to watch

Asylum VI

Well.. what a weekend! I'm not sure where it went, time flies when you're having fun. We went to Lady Elsie's Fashion Gala and Oh Dear, What Would The Major Say - both splendid events in their own right but the highlight had to be the comedy burlesque routines performed by Velma Von Bon Bon

Our wares on display

We were in the Castle right by the road which gave a perfect view of the events going on including the wacky races, which wasn't wacky enough in our opinion, and the M.A.D.T display which was amazing. Being in the castle also gave us the opportunity to speak to Steampunks as well as 'normal' people visting the castle and we may have made Steampunks out of a few of them...

Our pop-up marquee

This weekend was the first chance we had to try out our new PayPal Here app for taking card payments. It worked wonderfully and we have high hopes that it'll work just as well at our next event, Whitby Goth Weekend, because they are notoriously fickle, especially in the Spa Theatre in the Pavillion.

We hope to see you all there!

Steampunk Doncaster - a very belated post!

The weather was perfect, if a little hot as we were camping there and, well, we were melting in our tents and it was quite hot in the Deaf Trust. I must visit my local tailor for the latest fashion for extreme temperatures because my usual garb had me hot under the collar all weekend.

There was all sorts of really interesting things going on in the day, such as Nerf Wars, workshops for writing, photography and our little turn on the catwalk the Fashion Show, organised by Nightshades Clothing. We also enjoyed the evening entertainment which included BB Blackdog, Scarlet Butterfly and Montague Jacques Fromage who we actually met on Sunday Morning!

All in all it was a very enjoyable event even if, in our opinion, the entrance fee was a bit steep at £10 and our only regret is that we didn't take any photos at all!

We hope to see you all again at our next event at Whitby Goth Weekend

WGW April 2014

We're back from another damp and misty Whitby Goth Weekend, but happy with how the weekend went! It was really good to see some of our regulars again.
                                                                             

Our Stall

Goggle and Mask Display

As promised a year ago (although not delivered), we will be taking our Steampunk creations in a different direction and we will have completely new items, although we're not going to tell you too much right now but if you want a sneak-peak come and see us at our next event at Steampunk Doncaster on the 21st & 22nd June

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