Here in the HQ, we were asked if we could come up with a design for magnets for the Mid-West ADHD Support Group LINK. They’ll be attending a charity information event this coming Tuesday and Wednesday in Dell. The event is to raise awareness around charity work and how individuals can volunteer. The folks in the committee loved our design so much, they’ve decided to adopt it as their new logo. 

ust spent the last week getting over the flu.

Thankfully the minions were helpful enough making stew and running errands to keep the HQ running smoothly. We’ll be releasing some new badges next week too once we’ve taken their runway pictures. Speaking of pictures, found a whole pile from when we visited the National Museum in Dublin over the summer. I’ll make sure to post a few in the next couple of weeks both here and on the Facebook page.

Let’s hope there’s no more sneezy flu symptoms for ages.
As they say in Japan, only idiots get summer colds.

ACHOO!

Recently the folks over at Leave No Trace Ireland got in touch with a special requirement. As they’re a non-profit which promotes the responsible recreational use of the outdoors, they wanted badges made from 100% recycled paper. 

We recently made some lovely, lovely badges for the good folks over in Bóthar. There was a tight deadline but we worked super lightning fast and they turned out fantastic. We personally love the cow badge the best.

We’ve settled into the new HQ and it was a scary few days without internet. It involved a little bit of café hopping here and there but thank Jebus that we’re finally back online. We had a few orders too to keep us good and we’ll post pics next week.

Also, we’ll be releasing new products and, yup, the newsletter early next week so keep tabs on us folks!

We’ve been a little bit quiet online lately. We’re moving. Yup. The Spike Badges HQ is upping sticks and waddling down to Cork. The entry passports into PROC are all prepped and ready to go. Everything will be up in the air a little bit as the minions scamper around the place. This time next week we’ll be at the usual battlestations again. 

The Limerick dudes over at Out on a Limb Records are celebrating their tenth birthday this Saturday with a special anniversary gig. Acts like Peter Delaney and our friends over in Windings will be playing too. We made up a heap of 2-inch magnets for them and they were *beautiful* !

Woo!

The last couple of weeks have been super hectic at the Spike Badges HQ. We attended our first roller derby bout in Greystones between the East Coast Cyclones and the Waterford Viqueens. It was an absolute nailbiter of a bout and the Viqueens turned the odds in their favour in the last five minutes. All of the minions became roller derby converts.

Our second recent adventure was being invited to participate in Daintree Wedding Hub’s Pop-up Evening. After an initial delay with zipping in and out of taxi’s, we finally made it to Camden Street in one piece. It was lovely to meet loads of people behind Daintree and the folks behind Swannie’s Shop and Table Top Designs.

And of course, this coming Thursday, the 8th of August we’ll be at the final Temple Bar Night Market. Since the evenings have gotten a little darker, it all kicks off at 5pm and finishes up at 9pm. Hope to see you there!