Hey little lovelies!! Sorry I haven’t posted a blog in a while! I event blog as a hobby in my free time so I’ve been busy concentrating on live projects at the moments!! I heart Events management T-shirt 😉 😀 … Continue reading
I went along to a Scot Street Style Event in Glasgow on the 5th July 🙂 I went with my beautiful Cousin Nilufar Islam (A birds Tale) and Farah ( Edinburgh Metropolitan Fashion Show). The networking gathering was held at The Record … Continue reading
Hey lovelies! I went along to my first networking event 😀 The event was held at The Corinthian Club– one of Glasgow’s most prestige venue space for fine dining, gaming and meeting hire. The Scottish Fashion Network is a simple … Continue reading
Family Weekend 🙂
How exciting! My cousin has won the Bemz competitions A birds Tale for the United Kingdom! So proud! A family full of career driven woman! Who run the world 😉
Nilufar is in the official Bemz website http://www.bemz.se/en/designaward/bemz-design-award-2014-finalists/nilufar-islam/.
Check out my cousins professional website http://nilufarjessietextile.portfoliobox.me/ss14
I met up with Nilufar and went along to the Edinburgh Meadows Festival, Edinburgh.
I came a cross the poster for the Meadows Festival on the Facebook page ‘Edinburgh Spotlight;
The Festival was a free entry two day weekend event on the 7th and 8th of June. The meadows in located in the central area in Edinburgh, easy access and next to the Bruntsfield Links. I love going for walks around the meadows as it reminds me of my youth as my high school is local to the meadows.
There was a lot going on at the Festival as they had a number of stalls around the two stage areas. There were scheduled musicians which one even played my all time favourite song by Kanye West- Gold-digger (made my day!). This child friendly festival even has a number of Kids activities for children. Unfortunately the weather took a turn for the worse and started raining heavily 😦 so we ended up going for desert at favourite 🙂 http://instagram.com/p/o8qUEBjlo7/
The events assistants were giving out the Meadows Festival posters 🙂
The following day Sunday the 8th I went along to a Craft Fair at Ocean Terminal, Edinburgh to support a family friend. Humera is the owner of Exquisitely Beautyful a cupcake, craft and henna company. Exquisitely Beautyful also had a stall during the Edinburgh Charity Ladies Night.
The Craft Fair was in aid of The Yard- a charity Organisation. The stalls were all independent boutiques which were selling jewellery, cosmetics, bags and accessories, paintings, baby wear and handmade craft designs.
Exquisitely Beautyful Humera is such a talented woman!
Well done Humera for putting this together!
Reference:
Meadows Festival: http://www.meadowsfestival.org/
Ocean Terminal: http://www.oceanterminal.com/
Exquisitely Beautyful: https://www.facebook.com/exquisitely.beautyful?fref=ts
I love supporting local events in Edinburgh. For a small city there is always something going on. Event Management is everywhere! Great weekend with family and friends!
Dream to Inspire ❤ ❤
Sultana ❤
Hey lovelies!!
I was invited along to this cute secret pop up shop on the weekend. Me and Coco (Fashion Blogger) met Maeve the co-found of Betty’s Boutique during Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair.
https://www.facebook.com/events/483114355148798/
Betty’s Boutique is a Secret Pop-Up shop specialising in good quality Retro and Vintage clothing and nick-naks.
We will also be exhibiting oil paintings and prints by Artist Maeve O’Loughlin whose work is inspired by Retro Fashion.
The shop will be open Saturday & Sunday and throughout the day there will be a Tea Party with Soulful Tunes and Fancy Cupcakes.
Saturday night the shop will be transformed and they’ll be an underground private party
The vintage pop up boutique was a two day Saturday and Sunday event from 10am-7pm with an evening party.
The Pop up shop was located at the top of Leith Walk, Edinburgh. Leith walk is an accessible locations, 5 minutes away from Edinburgh Waverly Train Station and has access to a number of central bus routes.
It was clear to see Bonny and Maeve the founders of Betty’s Boutique had put a lot of time and effort to decorate the vintage theme of the underground shop space. The founders have a great ying and yang bound together as vintage fashion lovers, Bonny vintage fashion and events experience and Maeve an upcoming artist.
Before the Event Bonny and Maeve ensured they keep the customer’s interested by posting images from Maeve’s paintings and marketing the tickets for the after party. The events page on Facebook had great comments from the audience about the paintings. Maeve’s art creations were displayed for customers to buy. So quirky and unique!Facebook comments such as –
Your paintings are beautiful
I love this!
SO wish I could be in Edinburgh this weekend to come to Betty’s boutique!
Wowsers. Beautiful!!
I will definitely try to pop by and buy this… I love it..
The mouth watering cupcakes were made by Josie Lancaster. My Instagram post of the cupcakes got a lot of attention from my followers (Yum!).
With music playing in the background and all shoppers genuinely interested in the items, I say what a great job with marketing and promoting awareness for the secret pop up!
I hope to see more from Betty’s Boutique! With the idea only 6 weeks old I believe the founders are doing great! Keep it up!
Dream to Inspire ❤ ❤
Sultana ❤
I went along to the Edinburgh College of Art Degree show 2014 on the 28th May 2014. I went with the all beautiful queen Eshiva herself ;). I have worked along side Eshiva on a number of occasions – Edinburgh … Continue reading
No Rest for the Wicked! From the evening before at the Charity Fashion Show then the next day at Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair. Not only did I get invited along to blog the event but I also manage to win a free ticket on Twitter via @edinbloggers. I never win anything!! 
What a fun day out! I had a friends BBQ after the fair and choose to wear a cute Coral Midi with strappy heals, my hair was still Kardashian wavy from the evening before. I kept my makeup light and simple to reflect how beautiful the weather in Edinburgh was. Please check my Facebook page www.facebook.com/Sultana.Malik and Instagram @sultana_malik for my #lookbook from this event. 
As the pre blog suggests- Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair, was located at the Assembly Rooms. I can’t believe how busy the Edinburgh Assembly Rooms was! There was a queuing system that let 10 people in at a time. This was a good health and safety aspect which was definitely appreciated as a Events Management student (I was responsible for Health & safety during Olymphusion). As we registered we got a warm welcome from Becca and the rest of the front of house team. Becca mentioned, she has been the Manager for Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair for two years now and has ran the Judy’s fair in a number of locations in Scotland. I have been to the Assembly rooms a number of times for Award Ceremony’s, Weddings, parties and during the Harvey Nichols Autumn Winter 2013 Fashion Show. I love this beautiful venue and its classy Victorian feel. 
Me and Nichole (Fashion Blogger buddy) thought of a plan on how we would network at this event. There was around 30 plus pop up stalls in the hall and alot of shoppers floating around. We came up with the plan of – first time around the hall we would browse and get a feel of the type of boutiques. Second time we speak to the stall owners and ask any questions and third time and the best time round would be for us as shoppers!!! 🙂 
The stalls I spoke to: I bought this unique cute tea cup ring from Bunny’s Beads. Bunny has had Bunny’s Beads for 5 years now, I even complimented how neat and tidy her stall was. Vulture Culture – amazing vintage jewellery and broach’s! as the biggest broach collector, I loved this pop up stall! To our delightful surprise the vintage shirt Nicole was wearing was sold buy the lady we were speaking to! Va Va Vintage -sells all sorts of antique home-ware and jewellery. Amber the beautiful owner of Va Va Vintage has been selling antiques for 6 years now and buys her goods from auctions. Button Button @buttonbyhannah- is a unique custom made vintage design accessory stall. Sweets as Bag Designs by Shekinah – has been making custom made bags and clutches for two years now. These exclusive bags are currently told in Ladys Joe Joes and Studio 13 in Edinburgh. 
Vintage Remix by Alison George had these amazingly unique handmade business cards, which was made from old music scripts. As I got talking to Alison she had mentioned she will be part of this market in Waverly station, Edinburgh. Localmotive Markets is located on platform 2, every Friday from the 6th of June “We’ll have between 30 and 50 exhibitors and traders every week selling Scottish products including arts, crafts, clothes and accessories made by local designers,fresh and cooked Scottish produce, & ethically-sourced gifts. ” I hope to pop down to Edinburgh Wavely and have a browse at this unique idea.
I love vintage fairs! This was my First Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair and my second after Loulous Vinatge Fair 2013. I love how you get the opportunity to bargain with the owners of the stalls! Fantastic turnout! and well done Edinburgh, one of the stall’s even said Edinburgh was more busy than on the previous day in Glasgow!
One of the shoppers said she had been attending Judy’s Vintage Fair for over 4/5 years now. And always recommends her friends. This is a great form of Word of Mouth Marketing for the Fair- as it shows visitors believe in the professionalism from the fair.
Great Job! and Amazing selection for stalls! Keep and eye on the fashion side from Nicole’s Blog – http://cocomadeherdoit.blogspot.co.uk/.
Dream To Inspire ❤ ❤
Sultana ❤
Hey beautiful Readers!! Anyone that follows me on instagram, Twitter or my new Like Page on Facebook- I was a feature blogger on Scotbloggers!! This was a follow up from my post on the Scottish Wedding Exhbition 2014.
Find my feature post: http://scotbloggers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-scottish-asian-wedding-exhibition.html
The creator of Scot Bloggers- Claire has been great with me! Always helpful, engaging and retweeting on social networking links!! She said my Feature post was the most popular this week on the Scot Bloggers site! I have also been asked if Id like to have a sharing button on the Scot Bloggers Blog page! Exciting times!
I had some great feedback and support about my feature blog within the Scottish asian community! Great to see people find my work interesting and inspiring! ie Dream to Inspire 😉 😉
Feedback such as-
Eli Couture – Glad to see bloggers like you covering events in Scotland. Good Work!
Husna Designs – Well Done again! So talented!
SKM Couture – Brilliant, Thanks so much Sultana Malik, Great review.
Sophina Zaheer Henna Artist – Fantastic read Sultana. Thank you so much for the amazing response. Much love
Faisal Latif- Photography – Even gave me pointers and tips! And advised me on some constructive criticism to double check my spelling and grammar.
Nadim Saleem was extremely appreciative for my positive response and want me to-do exclusive interview with the recognised Fashion chorographer! Watch this space!!!
Hey little lovelies excited to be a feature blogger on Scottish bloggers! Only started blogging a few months ago! I initially started to get my name out there and to show case my expertise in Events management and the Fashion industry. I also encourage and market the organisers and team behind Events and Fashion shows. I am loving the vision behind Scot Bloggers! Great stuff and such a good way to network! I’ve been engaging with other @scottishbloggers on twitter! Found some great co-bloggers!
This feature is a follow up from my post on The Scottish Asian Wedding Exhibition. I wanted to blog especially about this event as I feel it will encourage audiences to visit different cultural events and Fashion shows. I hope to encourage the growth of the scottish and Asian events and Fashion scene.
What a fun day out! As you walk in you were given Asian Sweets from Amala Foods and a S.A.W.E bag which had a number of leaflets.
Sponsors and associates
Clothing- boutiques Eli Couture, Image Collection by Nimraah, SKM Couture, Hair and Beauty Wink, Iqrara Hair stylist and makeup artist, Perfection by Mona, Smeena Make up Artist Henna Artist Mehndi by Sophina,
Jewellers Marbel eric, Zaiba Jewels, adaa Jewellery,
Entertainment service Royal Dhol Force- Jas, Staging J’adore, Catering Own catering wedding at Hamilton Park Racecourse and Mirror Finish – Vehicle Appearance Specialist
Photography – Faisal Latif who was also the official photographer for the Edinburgh Charity week Ladies night.
The stalls were displayed in a beautiful and professional manner.! The largest stall was the yummy cakes stand. J’adore who is a décor and food service company (also helped at the charity week fashion show) provide the amazing food for the attendees!
One of the main sponsors at this event was Sonique Sounds the only Asian female DJ in Scotland! You go girl! Who Run the world!!!
There was 3 catwalk productions throughout the day, I attended the 2nd one. Proud to see Edinburgh’s very own SKM Couture rocking the runway! And two of the models I’ve worked with before Stephanie Mcgovern and Urszula Prokop, the ladies worked professionally as always!
Nadim Saleem was the Fashion Choreographer at this event! Nadim is a well recognised events organiser within the Asian fashion industry! Please find his page and you’ll see a huge list of fashion productions he has choreographed. Before I started blogging I’ve attended a number of events he has produced! And what a talented man! Truly inspiring! I hope one day to be as recognised for my talent like Nadim.
I had the amazing opportunity to introduce myself to Nadim. Even as a busy man I watched him stop for photos with fans in the audience! Very humble and grateful! I hope to be part of Nadim’s upcoming projects! Exciting times and a huge step for me as a Events Assistant!!
Great turn out for the S.A.W.E considering it was their first event and the weather was miserable! Really proud of the Scottish Fashion Events industry and it’s continuously movements! I hope you enjoyed this post! Follow my page http://www.Facebook.com/Sultana.malik, Tweet me at @sultana_malik, for Style and Beauty #Lookbook find my Instagram @sultana_malik and last but not least my passion and my knowledge Events Blog- http://www.sultanamalik.wordpress.com
Dream to Inspire ❤ ❤
Sultana ❤
Me and my Fashion Blogger buddy Nicole Findley have been invited along to the Charity Fashion Show for Cancer Research UK. The Charity Fashion Show have been organising this annual event since 2008. The 2014 theme is “Glamour Vintage Fashion … Continue reading
Hey readers! I’ve been invited to attend Britain’s Largest Vintage fair at The Edinburgh Assembly Rooms on the 18th May 2012. Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair is coming back to Edinburgh! Recently nominated for the ‘Best Vintage Fair’ in the National … Continue reading
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