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STYLE IT AFRICAN 🌍 🎨 🛋️ ⁣

"The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them." ~ David Hicks ⁣

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My Detola and Geek African inspired statement lampshades are vibrant and a quick & easy way to inject splashes of colour into your spaces. They are fab conversation starter too! ⁣

                                         

 

Don't forget to check out my other handmade products - cushions, candle holders, coasters, totes, pouches etc. ⁣

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African Inspired Lampshades: Interior styling inspiration

"Collect things you love, that are authentic to you, and your house becomes your story." ~ Erin Flett ⁣ ⁣

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Have you seen our latest designs yet. More and more colourful designs 

ALEWA Lampshade & Cushion

Quite functional: They come in different shapes & sizes (custom orders welcome) and can be used as ceiling pendants or paired up with a lamp base (table & floor). 

Adding colour: The colours, vibrancy & patterns will "funkify" any space and be a conversation starter too!

DALA Lampshade 

 My handcrafted lampshades are my signature & best-selling products. They seem to be gaining quite a reputation, slowly becoming a movement (in my head).

SANAA Lampshade 

I tend to seek out eye-catching African inspired design prints which may be bold, geometric, retro, tribal, botanical, mid-century modern or even  geeky too!  

AMURA Lampshade

At the moment I’m obsessed with giving my lampshades alternative linings on the inside like metallic gold or bronze as well as making them transparent too.

FUNKE Lampshade

I love commissions, special projects & collaborations, especially partnering with interior designers/stylists, property developers, home-stagers, architects etc. I also work with film set & stage designers. 

OWUSU Lampshade

ARIYO Lampshade 

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Where to buy:
www.detolaandgeek.com

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Detola and Geek's Flash Valentine's Sale

Detola and Geek has a flash sale on at the moment. This is my way of spreading love, doing it my way. The sale is off the back of this week's valentine's day celebrations. Detola & Geek just wants to show appreciation and spread love. I have had lovely customers, followers/likers on my social media as well as 5 star reviews.

My Detola & Geek African inspired handmade products are a quick & easy way to inject splashes of colour into your spaces.

Quite functional & very trendy too. These vibrant designs always get the conversation started. Right!

All my products are handcrafted in a smoke free & pet free home studio.

I have loads more online. Different african wax print inspired patterns and colours. There something, am sure, that suits everyone online. If not you can place a custom order request. Just send me a message via my Contact Page on Detola & Geek's website.

SALE ENDS TOMORROW SUNDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2018.

To browse and order online:

Website 
(use code SPREADLOVE at checkout)

Etsy Shop
(no code needed)

Detola and Geek on the road - Group lampshade making workshop in Cambridgeshire

Last Monday night, I taught a group lampshade making workshop in the picturesque village of Great Chishill (nr. Royston) in Cambridgeshire. Sounds a bit like the beginning of a "romantic novel"). LOL !!! I love living in & exploring the English countryside (can't you tell).

I loved every minute of this "home-based" evening workshop which was for a group of ladies. And oh what a fun & giggly bunch they were. 

All the ladies brought along their own fabric/material which comprised of different textures, designs & colours. One of the ladies upcycled an old laundry basket as her base material (I highly do not recommend using materials other than light to medium-weight cotton / linen fabric when making a lamp shade for the very first time).

Will share some of the lampshades "in situ" later. I love seeing how a bespoke lampshade can pull a room / space together. 

To find out more about my "Detola and Geek" lampshade making craft workshops, click here: http://www.detolaandgeek.com/workshops.

If you are not able to attend one of my workshop's in person or want to give it a go by yourself, grab one of my lampshade craft kits online instead.

Detola And Geek's brand new website

Extra !!! Extra !!! Read all about it

I am happy so share with you my brand new spanking website on Bigcartel.

Ta!!! da!!! my Detola And Geek site is now open for business. Go on, take a look.


I decided to set up using this well known brand because they

 "Believe in the artist ........... are indie-pendant ....... built for makers" 
~ Bigcartel

Fingers crossed this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship :-)

You can hook up & be social with me on:

Instagram: http://instagram.com/detolaandgeek
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DetolaAndGeek
Twitter: http://twitter.com/DetolaAndGeek 
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Happy St Patrick's Day March 2016

Happy ST Patrick's Day to all my Irish readers all over the globe

 

"May your troubles be less

and your blessings be more

And nothing but happiness

Come through your door"

         ~   Old Irish Blessing

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY 

 Flash sale now on, ends tomorrow 18th March 2016 at midnight, so get your skates on folks!  

Have a Guinness  or two on me 🙌.

Happy Valentines Day 2016

Just quickly wishing you all a very Happy Valentines Day from Detola & Geek

Susie's Vintage and Handmade Pop Up on Sunday 7th Feb 2016

Just a quick share of Detola and Geek's first handmade fair for the New Year 2016

And it's gonna be fab.

This will be my first time selling, in person, at this Hertfordshire Pop Up Fair, hosted by Susie's Vintage Warehouse, so fingers crossed and all ;-). Really looking forward to it.

It is being held in a high school hall so there will be loads of other stall holders there too selling both vintage and handmade products.

To find out more & have a feel of the other small businesses taking part, hop on over to Susie's Pop Up Fair on Facebook!

Why not follow Detola & Geek too on Facebook so that you don't miss out on future events and other exciting news & updates. 

See you there!

Detola and Geek lampshades are a lighting fantastic on Folksy

Yes I know this colour popping handmade lampshade of mine is quite bright & of the non-African print in naturel but it's warm. And I know it isn't Summer but it will inject colour into any room which needs some.

Not 1 but 3 of my "Detola and Geek" lamp shades got featured on Folksy's blog. If you haven't heard of them (mouth wide open), then you'd  better get on down there. 

Folksy is an online marketplace that sells "Modern British Craft" on behalf of UK-based handmade designers and makers. 

"A place to buy handmade gifts and crafts supplies and for British designers and  makers to sell their work" ~ Folksy

My candy striped retro lampshade made page 1. Yay!!!  You just need to scroll down ( to nearly the end) and 'oops there it is'  

https://folksy.com/themes/the-best-lampshades-and-lights  

If you go onto page 2, there are 2 more of mine - African wax print inspired . Double Yay!!!

Handmade Lampshades Book: First freebie of the year!

Are you like me, you enter a giveaway, do all that is required to possibly win and then forget about it the next minute. This is one of those instances!

I did that last month, totally gave it no other thought!

An then ...... I won!!! I won a copy. So "fantabulous" !!! :-)

Happy coincidence that it arrived, a few days ago, on the day I was so bugged down with the dreaded "lurgy"! Urghhh.

When you run your own business, it is  a continuous learning process. And I love it. Gotta keep the "grey matter" ticking so to speak.

Thanks Needcraft, I can't wait to jump right into this book. 

Keep your eyes peeled for some new designs y Detola and Geek coming out in 2016.

I make colourful African inspired lampshades, home décor & gifts. My designs are typically bold, geometric, retro & sometimes geeky too! I do work on custom orders using my fabrics or ones supplied by you to match your interiors. 

My shops & social media hook-ups are

Shops: http://www.DetolaAndGeek.etsy.com 

          http://www.DetolaAndGeek.folksy.com

Instagram: http://instagram.com/detolaandgeek

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DetolaAndGeek

Twitter: http://twitter.com/DetolaAndGeek

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/DetolaAndGeek

Blog: http://detolaandgeek.blogspot.co.uk

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Detola and Geek's Buy British Day 15% off Flash Sale

Did you know that yesterday was Buy British day? Yes it was, no kidding!!! 

So I thought it's the perfect time to have a flash sale? 

Wouldn't you love to get 15% off anything you buy online ? I thought you might ;-)

Please use  code BUYBRITISH when checking out online in my Etsy shop & Folksy Shop

Better get your skates on as it ends tomorrow 5th October 2015 at 12 midnight!

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Twitter: http://twitter.com/DetolaAndGeek 

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Blog: hhttp://detolaandgeek.blogspot.co.uk 

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