We have been taking your nominations of local style icons, people who have a great sense of style whether that be a friend, family, co-worker. We have loved meeting these people, here we want to show you the stylish people of Barnsley! We have interviewed them along with pictures of their favourite outfits. Tracy Ellam Tell us about yourself... I've had few jobs...
Have you heard of the Barnsley Card before? It's a new scheme being outlaid across Barnsley as a town wide loyalty discount card. Many shops have already signed up and seeing the benefits of the shoppers with their card. It's free for Businesses to sign up to the card and at the tiny expenses of £1.99 a month for shoppers to sign up...
A while ago I visited the Cannon Hall Museum for their Tales of a Wedding Dress exhibition, showing handmade historical dresses from local people and we heard about their stories. Last weekend I was back at Cannon Hall for their Farm Food Festival (which was lovely!) and I decided to go back into the museum and realised they have more wedding dresses in...
Pura Cosmetics is an amazing local beauty products business, specialising in lip care. They started out in the 'I Know I Can' Challenge, a local entrepreneur competition for schools and colleges, but have continued on the business and grow and progress to where they are now. I was very lucky in being gifted some lip balms and lip scrubs from Pura and also...
The Cudworth Bunny Trail is a fun a activity for anyone who's wanting to explore the Barnsley village of Cudworth. Set up by owners of The Wishes Card Shop, it was a way to help connect the independent shops and get more customers to visit them. The idea is there's 9 bunnies hiding within 9 different shops on the main high street, people...
Lucy May Lingerie is a brand new fashion company that creates beautiful handmade underwear. They had their official launch party June 24th at the Old Chemist in Barnsley town centre where they invited ladies who have been their first customers, brave women who have had boudoir photos taken with Masque Photography, friends and family, local bloggers and press. The launch party was co-hosted...
LMB Crafts is a local business that creates sweet accessories, crafting kits, home decor and more. They are launching a brand new DIY Kit, so we interviewed owner Leanne to ask her all about them. Why did you decide to starting doing kits? "I started the kits because of requests from my customers. At fairs and networking I’d get asked how I make...
Today is also International Museum Day, so we had the pleasure of visiting the Tales Of The Wedding Dress Exhibition at The Cannon Hall Museum. We joined in on the Curatorial Tour of the exhibition, which I enjoyed far more than if I had just visited it on my own. The stories behind the dresses were incredibly intriguing and special in their own...