Ideas ready to launch
by BFFs Gráinne Byrne and Hannah Bloomfield over a casual coffee and cake catch-up in 2012, Dream Out Loud (Events) aims to pop-up a series of magical, social shopping events filled with troves of unique hand-made and hand-found items such as vintage clothing, beautiful handmade jewellery, original and quirky artworks, kitsch accessories, home collectables and some ‘randomania.’… READ MORE
We are excited to announce that we will be appearing at the Noir! Christmas Fair on the 8th and 9th December 2012. Just in time to pick up that special vintage piece for your Christmas party, or indeed a beautiful gift for your fashionable loved one. More details about what beauties we will have on sale will follow.. This is definitely the hottest market in town and one not to be missed!
News will be winging it’s way to you about Pop Up #2 very soon, keep your eyes peeled!
We are offering a lovely offer to all of our followers on Dream Out Loud. Our gorgeous friend Lynsey Jean Henderson is offering screen printing courses this summer in her beautiful workshop in Edinburgh. For a whole day you can immerse yourself in this inky world, gently guided and instructed along the way by Lynsey who offers handy pointers and insights into how to make the most beautiful designs. You can check out what other beginners have made on her facebook page by clicking here. You don’t have to have any experience what so ever, so come on down! If you’re interested, and fancy popping down with a friend, Lynsey can offer you 2 places for the very small price of £80! There’s nothing stopping you! Follow this link here to book!
Lynsey’s screen printing studio
We have an exclusive! Hold onto your hats everyone, because as we speak there are a batch of beautiful products flying through the air from sun drenched Barcelona! Our immensly talented friend Paulette Benvegnú has teamed up with the girls from Shito (I’m told in Spanish it has a beautiful meaning!) to screen print their handmade notebooks. The range which has a cute tongue-in-cheek attitude using popping colours, is absolutely brand new and can not be bought ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE UK! This summer absolutely no work satchel will be complete without one!
Costa brava holiday notebooks
Paulette is an artist from Argentina that lives and works in Barcelona. You can catch some of her stunning work in all the Smythsons shop windows in London and New York this summer. Her beautiful Jelly Fish Lamps (made with her partner Tristan Cochrane) are simply stunning, you really have to see them to believe, so get yourself down Bond street to have a peek! And you can find out more here.
New ways to tie your bikini knot
Barcelona babe Paulette Benvegnu
Introducing the beautiful Shito girls, the makers of the beautiful notebooks, each one lovingly handmade in the sunshine! You can have a look at their different designs on the facebook page here. I’m sure we will be hearing alot more from these girls in the future! Oh and if you’re ever in Barcelona, pop in and say hello!
The beautiful girls from Shito take a break
Bon Bon Box window display
Dream Out Loud (Events) founders, Hannah and Gráinne L.O.V.E Edinburgh. It’s a city with a village feel that’s bursting to the seams with talent. At The Bon Bon Box on 1st July, you can check out some fabulous hand-made accessories such as headwear and jewellery, designer wallpaper, bespoke collars, adorable vintage finds for women of all shapes, beautiful one-of-a-kind artworks, stunning baked goods, fabulous coiffeurs and more! All brought to you by some dreamy and highly-skilled ‘Edinburgers.’
At our very special event, we are also presenting exclusive pieces from one of our favourite niche, Edinburgh city boutiques – Indie Chic Boutique on 111 Broughton Street. If you haven’t already discovered it, here’s your chance.
Indie Chic Boutique now starring at the Bon Bon Box!
Founded by visionary San Franciscan, Shillah Mehr (pronounce Shee-lah), Indie Chic Boutique is a stunning independent boutique filled with gorgeous women’s clothing and the prettiest, sexiest lingerie we’ve ever seen. All items are hand-picked by Shillah from Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Miami and you won’t find them elsewhere in the UK. Saving us the pricey travel ticket, Shillah’s perfectly put-together boutique collection is unique and chic with a stylishly playful twist. Ideal for dreamers like us and our followers! This season the boutique is filled with the most inspiring pop-colour collection and we want one of everything! The store has a very welcoming environment and caters for size 8-16.
At the Bon Bon Box event, you can sample Indie Chic Boutique’s signature style. We’ve hand-picked two of our must-have items for summer. The super-fun ‘Fan-tache-tic tank’ vest which we’ll wear to festivals and throughout the summer. We love adding a sense of humour and flash of bright colour to a daytime look and this vest top is the perfect combo!
*exclusive* Fan-tache-tic-tank from Indie Chic Boutique at Bon Bon Box #1
We’ve also cherry-picked the adorable and sexy floral ‘Pocketful of Posies’ camisole top and frilly knickers which we’ll wear whenever the mood takes us! This little set (pictured below) should come with the health warning – *prepare to flirt.* We love the delicate floral pattern and sophisticated black lace trim – a perfect cocktail of sexy and sweet.
*exclusive* Only Hearts, Pocketful of Posies camisole from Indie Chic Boutique at Bon Bon Box #1
*exclusive* Only Hearts frilly knickers from Indie Chic Boutique at Bon Bon Box #1
We’ve also got a tiny selection from super-creative jewellery icons – mini-me! Please come and see our micro-collection from Indie Chic Boutique at the Bon Bon Box on 1st July under the stairs of Bon Vivant’s Companion. We’ll be serving complimentary Hendrick’s rose petal G&Ts and selling delicious cupcakes made by Vanilla Cream especially for us.
Indie Chic Boutique are on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IndieChicBoutique check them out and see why we love them so much!
We look forward to bringing you and the things you will love together, at our first Dream Out Loud event!
Love H&G xo
Of course we had to add something sweet to our list! A little birdy told us about Vanilla Cream, a brand new local home bakery who makes the most delicious cupcakes. We immediately fell in love and think the thing that sets these cupcakes apart from any others that we’ve seen is the level of beauty and finish on each and every one! Luckily for us, Vanilla Cream have agreed to design us some cute vintage inspired cupcakes, especially for us!
Vanilla Cream usually sell their dreamy cupcakes down at Stockbridge food market every two weeks, but you have to be fast as they sell out really quickly! The people of Edinburgh really do have good taste… They also make cupcakes to order for parties and special occasions, have a little look at their website here to find out more! Or like them on facebook.
Remember everyone, we have just a week to wait! Join us down at Bon Vivant’s companion from 11am next Sunday
Vanilla Cream will be designing cakes for Bon Bon
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We were wondering how we would dress up our little shop when along came yet another very talented (and totally gorgeous) girl called Lynsey. She has gifted us some of her hand-made, screen printed wallpaper to beautify our shop. Lynsey Jean Henderson specialises in printed textiles and runs a boutique screen printing workshop in Edinburgh. Her work is inspired by Scotland and she does the most extraordinary and expressive drawings of Scottish birds and rural life, complimented with totally gorgeous colour palettes, I can guarantee you will want to start re-decorating immediately!
To find out about Lynsey visit her website here. Or come down to Bon Bon Box to have a look for yourself!
Beautiful printed textile by Lynsey
Hendrick's are sponsoring Bon Bon Box
Get ready for that Friday feeling! The lovely peeps at Hendricks have confirmed they will sponsor us for our first pop up event Bon Bon Box!
We are going to be busily coming up with ideas for a delightful and refreshing cocktail for you to sip on, whilst you peruse our wares … So watch this space to find out what it will be!
Any suggestions are welcome…
Gorgeous Bon Bon hair by Cheynes
We have another exciting announcement to make! On Sunday the 1st (at Bon Vivant’s Companion on Thistle street, Edinburgh ) we will be joined by two very talented ladies from Cheynes hairdressing! The girls will be there to pleat, curl and quiff your hair into the styles you dream of but never have the time or know how to do yourself! And what’s more, we are offering this delightful treat absolutely complimentary. What a generous offer that is, thank you so much Cheynes! All that we ask is that you make a donation to our chosen charity (tbc).
So if you fancy a little pampering on a Sunday you know where to come.
Cheynes is one of Edinburgh’s best loved hairdressers, with 7 glorious salons around town and has the best reputations for beautiful haircuts and amazing atmosphere and service. Have a look at their swish website here and see what they have to offer. They are Dream Out Loud’s favourite hairdressers so you can imagine how honoured and excited we are!
Beautiful hair by Cheynes