Holly's Friends Country Crafts: The Christmas Rush!

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

The Christmas Rush!

Wow, I've been phenominally busy this month! My local gift shop has been selling lots of my pieces, so I've had to make more to restock her, lovely people from work have bought pieces and ordered commissions, and lovely people from my forum have placed orders with me. I wasn't sure I'd get it all done in time, and the blog has certainly suffered for it, but I hope to get it ship-shape and Bristol-fashion over the Christmas break.

In the meantime, here's one of the ragdoll commissions I've just finished (for baby Eleanor)...

...and a big pile of jewellery that I've been making, but haven't been able to photograph properly yet!

I'm certainly not complaining though, it's been absolutely amazing, and I've had some lovely lovely compliments about my work, thank you so much everyone :-) ...PS, If you have bought from me, please feel free to leave a comment for everyone to see.

Bestest Christmas Wishes to you all

Rebecca xx

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I've been crafting for a very long time!

I think I started out when I was really little, cutting up old Christmas cards, adding some glitter, punching a hole and threading it on to ribbon to make gift tags for the following Christmas. I still love playing with glitter!

My next foray into craft was jewellery making. My friend and I discovered a bead shop in the village of West Malling, Kent, and promptly spent all our pocket money on wonderous beads and findings. I added to my stash by buying old jewellery at jumble sales, breaking them up and making them into something new and unique. I used to sell quite a lot of earrings to my school friends, but was never confident that my necklaces would stay in one piece, so I steered away from them.

I took a GCSE in Textiles, and loved it, and learnt a lot. Art Foundation was similarly messy and fun, and then I took a BA (Hons) degree in Interior Design which was much tidier and formal.

After graduation I began working part-time at a craft shop, where I learnt all about hand painted furniture, and decorative paint effects. Soon I became one of the course tutors, running sessions from basic paint effects, to trompe l'oeil. I loved every minute of it, but my work as a Senior Interior Designer for a local company was taking over, so I had to stop.

In addition to teaching courses, I also spent any free time making greetings cards, creating hand painted decorative items, fabric decorative items and cake decorating, and over the years have sold a lot of my creations, which makes me very proud.

I wanted to share my range of work with a wider audience though, and after the success of my gardening blog www.pumpkin-becki.blogspot.com , I thought I'd launch Holly's Friends Country Crafts.

Why Holly's Friends? Well, Holly was the first little Country Fairy I made. She was so perfect I was inspired to make lots more, and all are completely unique.

I hope you like what I do, it keeps me busy if nothing else :-). I'd love to read your comments or questions. I will do one off designs, or personalise fairies and ragdolls, so please ask.

Holly's Friends Country Crafts

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

The Christmas Rush!

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