Author: Gather Shoppe

• July 11, 2018

  Episode 5 w/ J.D. Grove of Teehaus Bath & Body and Conspire Contemporary Craft

  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-g2yvh-94c2be Episode 5 w/ J.D. Grove of Teehaus Bath & Body and Conspire Contemporary Craft : In this episode of Gather Stories I had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting with JD Grove about her life and the adventures that have brought her thus far in this world. JD is the maker behind Teehaus…
• July 9, 2018

  Tales from a Shopkeep: Shine & Scratch Entrepreneur

  So, many of you know I’ve been recording our own podcasts for a few weeks (months?) now, but where did that idea come from? Why did I start doing a podcast? The inspiration came from quite a few places, one of the powerful ones being the Scratch Entrepreneur podcast put on by my insurance agents, and…
• June 26, 2018

  Tales from a Shopkeep: Craft-a-Way Camp

  A few weeks ago (ok, maybe a month- time travels WAY too fast these days!) I was reminded about Craft-A-Way Camp thanks to FB and its incessant need to stalk my interests and friend groups. As per usual, FB wins and I applied to join the adventurers that run craft-a-way in the middle of the…
• June 21, 2018

  Episode 4 w/ Carrie Burnett from Beri Bee Designs

  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5vd3m-93ad9f Gather Stories: Carrie Burnett of Beri Bee Designs – In this episode of Gather Stories I sit down with my friend and Gather maker Carrie Burnett of Beri Bee Designs to chat about all things kiddo and fabric and what makes Beri Bee Designs, Beri Bee. I met Carrie a few years ago in our former…
• June 9, 2018

  Tales from a Shopkeep : BHM Wrap-Up

  Last fall, four of us sat around a table and discussed the future of the spring BHM show. Gather had moved out of Fountain Square Mall, which meant, it didn’t make logical sense to host the spring show in that location any longer. To be honest, FSM was never the BEST place for a spring…
• May 30, 2018

  Episode 3 w/ Bethany Lumsdaine of Itchy Co, Shut up and Listen, The Bills, & More

  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5qrh5-921ee1 Gather Stories: Bethany Lumsdaine of Itchy Co, Shut up and Listen, The Bills, & More – In this episode of Gather Stories I sit down with local artist Bethany Lumsdaine to have a conversation about her art and where it comes from and where it’s going. Bethany is an amazing human whom I had the…
• May 24, 2018

  Episode 2 w/ Chelsea Jones of Tactile Melodies

  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hm7j8-91ec4e Gather Stories: Chelsea Jones of Tactile Melodies – In this episode of Gather Stories I get to sit down with my friend Chelsea and chat about the beginnings of her arts business and how Tactile Melodies came to be. We laugh a lot. Maybe too much, but we sure did have fun. Chelsea and I…
• May 24, 2018

  Episode 0 Intro to Gather Stories (& Talia)

  https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-qjkfp-91ca56 Gather Stories: A brief introduction to where Gather Stories is coming from, and the woman behind the interviews. Hi! My name is Talia Halliday and I own Gather, a brick and mortar store in downtown Bloomington that carries modern handmade goods from over 300 makers and artists from … everywhere. Gather Stories will be a…
• May 15, 2018

  Gather Stories: Episode 1

        Well, I’ve gone and done it – we recorded our first podcast last week and today we’re ready to share it with the world. In this first episode I sit down for a chat with Nicole Buckenwolf, one of the founding member of Bloomington Handmade Market. We chat about the beginnings of…
• April 29, 2018

  Tales from a Shopkeep: Bloomington’s Bicentennial

  Today the fam and I ventured into the wild (ok, downtown Bloomington) to visit the City’s Bicentennial Street Fair held on Kirkwood Ave between Walnut and Indiana, which, for those of you that aren’t familiar with organizing festivals (and wrangling cats) is a SUPER HUGE endeavor. It really is no small feat to close down…