Canadian superstar brings her expertise to Nottingham
No no no. We’re not talking ice hockey here. Or Bryan Adams. Or Mounties. Or any other Canadian stereotypes! We’re talking knitting. I know what you’re thinking, a superstar knitter? Really? But in the...
View ArticleBirthday guest blog: Knit Nottingham
Hello Again! It’s Eleanor from Knit Nottingham, the city centre’s only independent yarn shop, here catching up with you on Creative Nottingham’s fourth birthday (and so close to our third birthday)! I...
View ArticleGuest blog – Pretty Dandy Flea *warning contains Christmas references
Hello! My name’s Becky and I run an online boutique called Pretty Dandy (www.prettydandy.co.uk), which I started in Nottingham in 2011 just before Christmas. It’s a quirkily little boutique full of...
View ArticleA Creative Nottingham gift guide
Christmas is coming. Frankly we’ve been trying to avoid it – for example, I’ve only seen that overrated overpriced pile of animated emotionally manipulative nonsense once (you know what I’m talking...
View Article170 years young…
In better days… 1843. A mixed year. The first tunnel beneath the Thames was opened, The News of the World was launched, Ada Lovelace did some complicated stuff to create the first computer programme,...
View ArticleNottingham Vintage Series #1: Hopkinson, Station St
Prologue: It’s a fact that our city centre is a veritable treasure chest of secondhand shops. This series of posts will explore the rise of vintage in Notts, introducing some of the enthusiasts...
View Articlesince 1986…….
Since 1986 when I packed my crimpers, hairspray and black eyeliner and headed South to study Fine Art (at what was then Trent Polytechnic now Nottingham Trent University – NTU) I’ve lived in...
View ArticleNew Year Resolution 1: Take up knitting
I don’t know about you but I’ve avoided New Year Resolutions so far. The healthy ones anyway. Those can wait till the weather’s less shitty. Or at least until the days feel longer, say March-ish. But...
View ArticleNottingham Vintage Series #2: Baklash, Market Street
Another landmark of the Nottingham vintage scene, Baklash reopened last year in the premises of the old Selectadisc. Always with enticing window displays, this store specialises in vintage and retro...
View ArticleGuest Blog: Cavology…. hidden treasures
We invited Kirsty Fox to lead us up a blind alley…..in a good way of course, for a peek inside Cavology Cavology is a new project set-up by The Hive, Nottingham Trent University’s business...
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