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Maker Monday – Beast USA
Welcome again to Maker Monday!!! This Monday I’m introducing Patrick from Beast USA! I found Patrick while perusing the list of vendors at Renegade Craft Fair Chicago before we first opened, and fell in Love with his designs! Once a primarily t-shirt maker, we now carry Beast USA cards – and they’re some of our…
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Tales from a Shopkeep
Oh what a week!! Students are gone and we can start to breathe townie-life back into our beings . . . or can we? The older I get, the longer I live in this town, the less the students become a part of it. . . Interesting that. So, this week we spent getting ready…
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Maker Monday – Oh Plesiosaur
This Monday I would like to introduce you to Serena, who runs Oh Plesiosaur!! Her cards and coloring books have made such a huge impact on the collection we have here at Gather, so I can’t wait to share her story with you!! 1. Who are you? What is your business? I’m Serena! I…
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Tales from a Shopkeep
This weekend was FULL of wonderful-ness for us at Gather, and in Bloomington. This weekend marks the end of the IU spring semester and a time when the town calms down a bit (only a bit) and comes back to ‘us’. It was also Gallery Walk and Mother’s Day!! So, three big things happening all…
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Current : a fashion event downtown
See those awesome photos up there – they’re from our First Annual Fashion Show, sponsored by the Bloomington Fashion Collective – a fundraiser for My Sister’s Closet. That was 2015!!! This year, we’re doing it again!!! We cannot wait to show you what the retail stores of downtown Bloomington have to offer you!!! This year…
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Favorite Handcrafted Treasure – Annie Corrigan
This week I’d like to introduce you to Annie Corrigan. Many of you might know Annie as being the local voice for NPR’s Morning Edition, she produces WFIU’s weekly sustainable food program- Earth Eats. I know Annie as a member of our community, and someone who approached me for help with organizing a fundraising event…
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Maker Monday – DRock Press
Last year, at the Fall Bloomington Handmade Market, we juried in this interesting fella with these interesting prints, pillas, and tees. And I adored them! I always feel a little bit weird approaching our makers from the Market to sell in the shoppe, but hey – what are they gonna do, say no? Sure,…
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Tales from a Shopkeep (part 2)
So, yeah, I cheated. I back-dated that last post and wrote it earlier today (shh, don’t tell) so that chronologically, when I look back on this in three years and think to myself, “Wha…?!” I’ll go, oh right, you were insane that weekend, but wanted to pretend like everything was perfect! Haha! Just kidding. I’ve…
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Favorite Handmade Item – Kaye Lee Johnston
This week I get to share with you the Favorite Handmade Item from Kaye Lee Johnston. Kaye is not only the Design Director behind one of (if not THE) Bloomington’s most beautiful publications; Bloom Magazine, she’s also a freelance designer who happens to Love quirky handmade items and shopping local. So, it just made sense…
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