The 2009 Indie Craft Experience - Beehive Style

05/31/2009

This weekend heralded the 2009 Indie Craft Experience Festival in Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park. For the first time, at the ICE Festival, 12 talented designers from the Beehive Co-op joined together to create one big "mega booth." While sales were slower than last year, the ultimate result was a day of fun filled with lots of light, laughter and learning.

I.C.E. Patrons braving the heat Our Beehive "Mega Booth"

For this link, I'm going to give some shouts out to my fellow designers, and give you links to their websites so you can learn a little more about them and their wonderful products.

Brandi of Just Add Honey

Hazel Studstill of HJ Designs

Carrie and Sara of Brightshop

My booth, shared with uber-talented designers and friends, Shannon Edwards and Tasha Hussey

My boothmate, Shannon Edwards of Shannon Lynnette

My other wonderful boothmate, Tasha Hussey of Tasha Hussey Designs

Amy Leff of Throwing Stars Jewelry and Julia Farrill of Red Bird Ink

Julia and Amy shared a booth with the inimitable Arwen Fine of A. Fine Shirt

Alejandra Dunphy of Alejandra Dunphy Designs

An old Beehiver and friend, Wendy Burnley of Bella Bee

I encourage you to check out each of their sites. Their products are well made, handmade, and are local! Shop away!!!

Cold as I.C.E. - On a 90+ Degree Day

June 9, 2008


The Indie Craft Experience's "Lucky #7" Festival was this past weekend, and iram-inal designs was a proud participating vendor. Although the weather would just not quit (never creeping below 90 degrees), those who love all things handmade came out in full force.


Our setup for this fair. Normally, we are enclosed, with a boutique-type feel... however, the heat prevented any of the vendors from keeping their tent walls down.


Customers looking at the variety of vendors.


A lovely iram-inal customer wearing amethyst and ruby quartz cluster earrings. She was sweet to let me take her photo for our blog!

Set in beautiful Centennial Olympic Park, folks munched on frozen lemonades and purchased all of the handmade goodies offered by a wide variety of artists, from jewelry makers, to handmade handbags, to specialty stamps. Surely, there was an item for all.

As my sister and I both had festivals on this weekend (me in Atlanta, and Mari in St. Louis), I found it was particularly difficult doing the fair without her. My neighbors, however, were wonderful about watching my booth when I had to step away, and bringing cold (and much welcomed) drinks throughout the day.


Katherine Smith of KSmith Jewelry out of Atlanta. Beautiful, elegant pieces made with semiprecious stone and silver.


Sarah Neuburger and friend of The Small Object. She makes a wonderful variety of items, from paper goods, to custom stamps. You may see her items at http://www.thesmallobject.com/


The crazy, wonderful girls of The Mod Dog, out of Atlanta. They create unique, custom designed collars, leashes and pet accessories for your dogs and cats. You may see their collection at http://www.themoddog.com/.

Also, a big thank you to the I.C.E. organizers and all of their helpers for pulling off another wonderful event. iram-inal looks forward to participating next year!

Blazin' Hot at the CWE Taste & Art Fair!

June 9, 2008

See that subject line? Literally and figuratively, my friends! What started out as a soggy event, ended up being one of our most successful, thus far! Leave it to St. Louis to be hot, humid, and windy all on the same day, right?

Friday - Afternoon set up and shopping

Got to love the resilience of STL folks! 30 minutes earlier, not only was there a torential downpour, we'd also had a second tornado warning!

Take a gander at our boutique style festival set up located in the Juried Fine Artists section of the event.

Saturday Morning - the complete set up.

Our friend, and "Model du Jour," Court, wearing an iram-inal ring

Thank you to all who shopped, shopped with us again (you know who you are!), looked, and commented on our boutique, style, and jewelry! We had such a great time - see you next year in the same spot!

A lovely iram-inal customer wearing a green agate double woven necklace.

Oh, one last note - a HUGE kudos goes out to the 2008 CWE Event Staff! They were taking care of business, zipping up and down the thoroughfare in their nifty little golf carts. Way to go for pulling off such a fabulous event! It's nice to be a part of an Event where we vendors are taken seriously!

Fairs, Fairs and More Fairs

iram-inal designs will be appearing at TWO fabulous fairs this up-coming weekend! Be sure to come and see our newest designs at the following events:

Indie Craft Experience

Centennial Olympic Park
Atlanta, Georgia

June 7, 2008

11:00am - 6:00pm

The event coordinators of A Bardis and Patina have worked very hard to coordinate a wonderful event, and we hope to see you there, rain or shine! Get more information at http://www.ice-atlanta.com/

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This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you can also find our fabulous designs at the following festival in St. Louis:

This weekend, the14th Annual Central West End Art Fair & Taste is happening in St. Louis. Come see us at the iram-inal designs booth for our latest designs, as well as some fine food and amazing entertainment all weekend long on the streets of the historic Central West End.

With hours to suit everyone, we hope to see you there!

Friday 5 PM to Midnight

Saturday 11am to Midnight

Sunday 11am to 7 pm

Find more information at http://www.thecwe.com/CWEaft2008.htm

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