Welcome to styleFLASH!

We have renamed the Indie Collective's blog from IC Style to styleFLASH. This was already the name of our newsletter, so we decided to keep with that theme for our blog.

Of course, you will still find the same great posts featuring the best of the indie design, fashion and style world!

Please excuse any broken links or forms that do not work - we are still dusting things off! If you need to contact us, feel free to email us directly at info@styleflash.net

If you are reading us in your favorite blog reader, please update the feed url so we can continue to bring you the brightest stars of the indie universe!! 

In the June issue of StyleFlash:

styleflash NEWS
Discover indie style & fashion in our 2008 Spring/Summer Shopping Guide

styleSPY
Modern plushies, creepy-cute dolls and fly necklaces

gold star GIVEAWAYS
See who won our June Giveaway from Christina Perdue Photography

behind the DESIGN
Shining our Indie Designer Spotlight on photographer Christina Purdue

sponsor SPOTLIGHT
Jewelry for the femme fatale from RockLove; Inspiring, soothing home goods from Le Bourdon; cool glucometer bags from Stick Me Designs

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The June issue of N.E.E.T. is available today, and Indie Collective is in there (on page 147) promoting our 2008 Spring/Summer Shopping Guide.

If you haven't checked out this wonderful online magazine from Stephanie J., you need to get over there immediately! Filled to the brim with so many great designers, shops, sand things to buy, it is some serious eye candy!

Charge up your credit cards - the 2008 Indie Collective Spring/Summer Shopping Guide is live!

Our 2008 Spring/Summer Shopping Guide is poised to bring style-savvy shoppers like you the latest offerings from innovative independent designers.

With jewelry, handbags, accessories, items for babies, home decor, fashion, paper goods, and bath & body products, this is your chance to discover something new in indie style & fashion. And many of our participants are offering great savings, so you can score some fabulous indie goods on the cheap.

We also have special Fashion Features in our Shopping Guide, with every item in each feature made from an up-and-coming indie designer.

Whether you are preparing to head back to the beach; to pamper yourself with a little buff & polish; need some gear for guys; some goodies for your kids; or are just looking to pamper your pets, you will find a selection of awesome indie goods for everyone on your shopping list!

Watch our blog for daily posts highlighting the AMAZING participants of the 2008 Indie Collective Spring/Summer Shopping Guide!

Don't forget - if you haven't signed up for the IC Style Newsletter yet, you can't win!

The Spring Edition will be sent out soon, and a new winner in our Gold Star Giveaways will be announced. Do you like to win free indie goodies? Get yourself on the list!

Contests, news and features on some of our favorite indie designers will be sent to your inbox once a month.

Just a note: Our Newsletter is different than our Daily Blog Digests. But you can only win if you're signed up for the Newsletter! 

Hey - why not sign up for both?!

Sale away, Sale away, Sale Away…

Put a spring in your step and head down to Bettyjoy and check out the Spring sale. 

Bettyjoy has been doing some Spring cleaning (Kim and Aggie are welcome to come down to Bettyjoy Towers and do the white glove test!) this weekend and decided to have a Spring Sale too..

If, like us,  the Christmas money you got from Grandma is a distant memory, the £10 Easter voucher from your mum for Topshop were spent in the blink of an eye, and there are only a few sad pennies left rattling round in your piggybank then count them out, click your way to Bettyjoy and cheer yourself up by taking advantage of our Spring Sale .

Did you know that the Indie Collective has a Facebook page?

You can stay updated on all the Indie Collective & IC Style news, and post your reviews of our website!

Come on…check out the Indie Collective page on Facebook!  We'd love to have you! 

Are you an indie designer who wants to show off what life is like for an indie designer?  Fill out the IC Style Indie Designer Spotlight Questionnaire!

We will be selecting the best, most creative responses to feature in our blog and in the IC Style Newsletter. It's a great way to show off what makes you unique, and entice shoppers to click through to your website!

What are you waiting for? Get in on the fun!

It may have been a long, cold winter, but the Indie Collective has just the thing to welcome the warmer weather…the 2008 Spring/Summer Shopping Guide!

About the Indie Collective
With over 2500 independent designers and crafters listed in our shopping directory, the Indie Collective continues to be the leading online destination for savvy shoppers in search of the latest offerings from innovative indie designers - like you!  And our 2008 Spring/Summer Shopping Guide is set to be our best yet!

With an average of 790 daily visitors to the Indie Collective Shopping Directory, your company will be seen by numerous shoppers who want something unique and creative to enhance their lives.

2007 was our 4th year of providing a Holiday Gift Guide.  The guide itself featured 121 designers in 9 shopping categories from October 2007 to January 2008.

IC Style, our editor's blog located at http://www.indiecollective.net/icstyle also presented features on every designer in our 2007 Gift Guide.  Our features continue to be extremely popular, as visitors are able to read the features in our blog archives.

We enjoy providing one of the hippest shopping guides around, and look forward to showcasing your unique, handcrafted items to shoppers everywhere!

Shopping Guide Categories
Ads are available in the following shopping categories:

§    Accessories: (hats, belts, scarves, gloves, ties, etc.)
§    Apparel: (shirts, dresses, skirts, etc.)
§    Artwork & Crafts: (paintings & prints, craft supplies, etc.)
§    Babies & Kids: (toys, activities, games, etc.)
§    Bath & Body: (soap, cosmetics, etc.)
§    Handbags: (bags, wallets, laptop bags, etc.)
§    Housewares: (candles, food items, knick-knacks, etc)
§    Jewelry: (bracelets, earrings, rings, necklaces, etc.)
§    Paper: (stationery, journals, note cards, etc.)Shopping Guide Exposure

The 2008 Spring/Summer Shopping Guide will run on our website from early May to the end of September 2008.  Ads will be shown in a multi-page format and will rotate randomly with each page load.

Place An Ad
For more information on ads and to secure your ad, please visit http://www.indiecollective.net/giftguide/advertise.php

Did you know that there are now more ways to keep updated on all the happenings at IC Style?

You can subscribe to our RSS Feed using your favorite feed reader, such as Bloglines or Google Reader.

You can also subscribe to email updates through Feedburner. Any time we update our blog, you will receive an email digest of our latest posts delivered right to your inbox! 

Lastly, you can also subscribe to the monthly IC Style Newsletter.  Contests, news and features on some of our favorite indie designers will be sent to your inbox once a month! 

In fact, the Spring edition will be sent out soon, and a new winner in our Gold Star Giveaways will be announced. Do you like to win free indie goodies? Get yourself on the list!

So, select your favorite method of staying in touch, and sign up today! 

P.S.  Did you know that we have an IC Style Group and an Indie Collective Page on Facebook?  We'd love for you to become a fan of our Page, post a review of Indie Collective or IC Style, and invite your buddies to join!

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