Lochgilphead meeting for WRENS
IT WAS a busy evening at the Women’s Rural Enterprise Network Scotland’s (WRENS) meeting this month as the group met at the MS Centre in Lochgilphead.
Kate MacDonald led an exercise on ‘Changing the messages we give ourselves’, turning negative statements into positive ones to help boost personal morale and selfesteem.
Kirsty Brady, a glass artist who runs A Touch of Glass, talked about how her business has developed over the years, attaining her recent award from Aspire magazine, and how an expensive mistake has had a positive effect on her work and business. She brought along some examples of her work and spoke of the inspiration she gets from watching the students on her workshops.
Kate MacDonald of Needlesmiths showed some of her artwork using different techniques, and artshade lampshades. She explained how she accidentally became a creative fabrics crafts tutor and running workshops, and lampshade maker, and how, as a carer and an artist, having her first solo exhibition at the Dochas Centre in Lochgilphead was both terrifying and exhilarating at the same time.
Jennifer Jaime from Marmalade Deli explained how a Kickstarter campaign was working for them. What it was, how it worked and that, having exceeded their expectations, they were going to be able to develop the business. Marmalade Deli is on Lochgilphead High Street and will be getting a fresh new look very soon. The next WRENS meeting will be on Monday August 7, where Kathryn Masson will talk about her change of career in taking on the Tayvallich Inn, and Catherine Bloy of Highland Homewares is going to talk about her range of brightly coloured homewares.