Thanks for coming to our online shop launch party!

Thank you all so much for coming to our online shop launch. We had a blast! There were drinks, party food, mixtapes, and lots of fun things to buy!

The reception that we had was overwhelming. Thank you to to everyone who came along and to everyone who tweeted, facebooked, blogged, and told their friends about it. We hope you enjoyed it, and we satisfied your curiosity about what an online party is! It's a strange concept but we really wanted to include everyone so we came up with the idea of an online launch party to do just that. It was lots of fun and we enjoyed creating recipes, photgraphs, mixtapes, and all of the elements of a regular party but online.

Thanks for coming and see you at the Shipshape Studio shop again soon!

Shipshape Studio Shop launch party

It's tomorrow! See you at the party.

9am Thursday - 9am Friday GMT.

P.S. There's still time to send us over your mixtapes. We want to hear them!

Party :: Get involved!

8 songs to smile to from ShipshapeStudio on 8tracks.

Every party needs good music and we want your help to make playlists for our online shop launch party!

All you need to do is create a playlist of 8 songs on 8tracks, upload your cover art, and send us the link!

There are a few rules:

• Each playlist must contain 8 songs, with no more than one track from a single artist or group.
• No swears or derrogatory language. We don't want any of that dutty talk here, thanks.
• Cover art must be your own imagery and cannot contain any copyrighted images.

You can make as many playlists as you like and a selection of them will play at our online launch party on Thursday 9th August! Once you're done, make sure your playlist is listed and leave the link to it in a comment below or tweet it to us at @shipshapestudio using the hashtag #shipshapeshop.

I've made a playlist of songs to smile to just incase you're needing a cheery musical interlude today. Listen above and see the track listing below.

Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Sprinsteen

Rebel Rebel - David Bowie

Johnny Got a Boom Boom - Imelda May

Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley

Lollipop - Mika

Everybody Needs Somebody to Love - The Blues Brothers

Ladyflash - The Go! Team

This is Not a Test - She & Him

Shipshape Studio Shop launch party

The Shipshape Studio Shop opened a little while ago but we're planning a party for you all to celebrate! We want everyone to be able to make it, wherever you are, so are holding the party online. There'll be everything you expect to find at a party but with a twist, so put it in your diary and come and celebrate with us.

Thursday 9th August 2012 at www.shipshapestudio.co.uk - see you there!

Shipshape Studio Launch Party

Hello and welcome to the Shipshape Studio Blog. The blog will mainly be written by me, Emily, although there may be the occasional post by Adam and other crafty folk. I will still be writing my personal craft and lifestyle blog, Handmade by Emily, so be sure to go and check it out. On this blog I'll be posting news, behind the scenes photos and crafty goings on at Shipshape Studio. Just click on the 'follow' button or enter your email address in the sidebar to stay up to date, and don't forget you can find us on Facebook and Twitter too.

I thought I'd share some pictures of the Shipshape Studio Launch Party with you. It was a great evening, and we met lots of lovely local folk and arty crafty types, including the ladies from Duck Pond Market and The Joy of Vintage.

We made some special Shipshape Studio cocktails for the night which seemed to go down very well, and they looked very cute lined up on one of our craft tables.

 

 

It was great to share a couple of cocktails with Michael and Lindsey of Panther Club. They are both super-duper talented and Michael, who also works under the name Otherscenes, designed our website. Ella Masters, illustrator, jewellery-designer and blogger extraordinaire, also popped along with her Dad and was wonderful as usual. She is one of those warm, friendly people who puts you right at ease and is bloomin' funny too. Ella will be teaching jewellery making and illustration classes at Shipshape Studio, and you can sign up to them by clicking here. We also met Dominic Clifford, a local illustrator and screen printer, who brought along some of his prints to show us. Be sure to go and check out his work!

People seemed to be in the mood to shop and we sold lots of work from Handmade by Emily, Fritha Strickland and Sandra Dieckmann, which are all stocked instore and will be in our online shop too.

Make sure you go and take a look at the classes that we have coming up. We're looking forward to them and think that you'll love them, too.  If there are any that have dates to be confirmed just send us an email and we can let you know the dates. We look forward to seeing you at Shipshape Studio soon!

Photography by Hetty Shirley and Emily Burt.