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    Introducing our new Guest Blogger – Sarah Manton

    A warm welcome to Sarah Manton who will be joining us as Guest Blogger over the next two weeks. Taking her first steps into the whacky world of creative business, Sarah Manton will be fulfilling a life-long dream to create beautiful things and inspire others along...

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    Guest Blog – Cake for Creative Nott’m

    Thank you to Creative Nottingham for the opportunity to share a little about Dollymix Cupcakes. What better way to say thank you than to share with Creative Notts readers the recipe for the delicious sponge in this Nottingham Forest Cake. If you want to decorate...

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    Guest Blog – Taking over the world, one Cupcake at a time?

    At least that’s how I thought when I first started this business. We find a new skill, passion, which makes the day job that pays the bills pale into insignificance. I trained for years to become a lawyer, when that wasn’t enough of a rush,...

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    Guest Blog – Indian Glamour…a World away from Vintage!

    The cupcake world is well and truly immersed in all things vintage. Soft dusky pink roses, hues of duck egg blue, mushroom and soft cream – it’s every traditional bride’s dream and I’m surrounded by cupcake extraordinaries creating the most beautiful themed cupcakes. If you...

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    Links Round-Up: Birth and Rebirth

    This round-up sees us welcoming back some established events, plus saying hello to fresh faces too: always a pleasure thanks to Nottingham’s dynamic creative scenes! First up, a can’t miss celebration in Market Square – as in, you literally cannot miss it if you pass...

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    Links round up – Who needs Mary Portas?

    So you may have seen earlier this week that the government has called in celebrity retail expert and queen of glam Mary Portas to examine our drab and half empty high streets. But I’m not sure that we need her in Nottingham. Consider, if you...

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    Introducing our new Guest Blogger – Smaira from Dollymix Cupcakes

    We couldn’t resist the thought of a cake-filled two week guest blogging slot and on seeing Smaira’s creations we all agreed that an insight into the creative world of baking and sugarcraft was long overdue on CreativeNottingham. So please extend a warm welcome to our...

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    I’d rather be reading…

    Summer is synonymous with sunshine and the outdoors, but it also goes hand in hand with the vacations and lazy days spent reading in the shade. To coincide with the beginning of the glorious coming months, Nottingham City Council launched The Festival of Reading last week....

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    Guest Blog – My Workspace.

    When I was first asked to do this blog I had no idea what I’d talk about – my work is run-of-the-mill to me. Turns out I’m a right natterer and can go on forever but this first idea took hold and I even got...

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    Guest Blog – Running My Creative Business

    My day off is Tuesday; on that day I mainly do figures and if I’m knackered I knit instead. That means I work six days in the shop which is quite something. We open at 10.30am so I set off around 9am to get there...

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