A guest post from Emma from Crafty.

"Hello from Crafty's shack (chalet) out country! We are delighted to be embarking on new boutique premises on the Dublin Road.

Crafty Hair & Custom Clothing Boutique will open its doors late Oct and we are so excited.

You will be able to book your new hair style whilst getting thrifty fashion hints and tips from myself, chief crafter Emma Gilles.

Crafty art design homewares antiques and the usual pruck will all be available to purchase everything for sale ethos!

Crafty custom clothing and wooden jewellery will be available to purchase along side our new section for makers and fashionistas.

“Crafty Paraphernalia” Find, hoke, purchase all sorts of things to create with.

A haberdashery of the extraordinary kind - vintage beads, cloth, bottle caps, screws, thread, jam jars, hooks, eyeballs, bulbs, cogs, broken jewellery, things, lego, more things..things we don’t know what they are but they are cool for embellishing all for sale in our new boutique.

Crafty's customising service will be available to add an embellishment or twist to your clothes to make them unique to you. Just

Our country chalet is available for hen parties and birthdays and our Dublin Road boutique too !

Check out our haircrafting and fashion workshop menu to book us for your next hair style or party get in touch and get ethical and crafty!

Free eyelash tint for all bookings and £5 off voucher for Kitsch readers! Just quote this blog!

Help save the world whilst looking damn good book a crafty workshop and learn how ;)!

Photograph of Kitsch box Erin Elizabeth Kelly.

'Crafty Belfast' IS Emma Gilles, and where ever she goes, her ideas & magic go with her. She has moved with the times and brought her gallery to the Titanic Quarter in Belfast, just across the road from the soundstage where they film Game of Thrones.

Crafty's new home is equally epic. Housed in the T13 hanger, before you reach the gallery space you are led through a huge indoor skate park.

Emma took me on a tour of the new gallery space, and it really is pretty special. The first gallery is a vault like chamber with peculiar objects and stunning local art work.

Some of the peculiar items include my own Kitsch Boxes, so watch out for those when you visit.

Just off the 'vault' is an old, gutted male bathroom & toilet room. Perhaps used by ship builders years ago, this space is now adorned with Jai Sewell's beautiful watercolour pornography.
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Upstairs there is another themed room of art based around ship building and local sights. Another room overlooks the entire skatepark from two storeys up. I think I must have sounded like a broken record during my tour, everything was so 'brilliant'!

Emma just buzzes with ideas during any chat I've had with her. She has even themed the unisex toilets as a crazy little shop.

Lastly Emma showed me her office work space, with the best view in the city (top pic). Even at that she has further plans to turn that room into a hair salon. And she will do it too, the enthusiasm that Emma has about her work & other artists is infectious.

There are other galleries, but I'm keeping them secret for Emma to show you when you call to visit her. You'll be made most welcome.

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