Freya Snow is an illustrator and surface pattern designer based in Stroud whose work I have stocked since I opened my bricks and mortar shop nearly 5 years ago. Her bold bright and beautiful botanical tea towels, serving boards, coasters and oven gloves fill the shop with colour. Freya uses a combination of collage, watercolour […]
Jess is a Bristol artist and maker who has become one of my closest friends and also helps me organise our local BS4 Arts Trail. She engraves beautiful glass frames with her illustrations of leaves, flowers, plants and pollinators in her beautiful garden studio. She also makes personalised engraved glassware and larger bespoke pieces. Even
The next maker I have interviewed for my Meet The Maker blogs is Sam of Designs by Sam Studio. I have stocked Sam’s beautiful botanical linoprints for many years now. I started with her Meadow Grasses prints early on as I am a bit obsessed with meadow grasses, and I have gradually added more and
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The next maker in my new series of Meet The Maker blogs is the lovely Lisa of Elsie Moss Botanical. I have stocked Lisa’s lovely soaps for many years now and added her bath salts and lip balms more recently too. We connected through our shared love of the seasons and nature and I love
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For the second of my Meet The Maker blogs, I chose Hannah Longmuir. Her work is one of my favourite things in the shop! Hannah’s illustrations are such beautiful studies of nature with such a childlike curiosity and wonder. She keeps sketch journals about Drygrange in the Scottish borders (where she lives) and the places
I have wanted to bring back my Meet The Maker blogs for a while, and I’ve started with a maker who has become a very close friend and who helps me run our local BS4 Arts Trail too. I love Becca’s beautiful lino prints and her passion and knowledge of all pollinators, bugs and creepy
It’s wedding season and so many people come in to my shop asking for help and ideas for wedding gifts to give. Unique and special gifts to last and be remembered. From pressed flowers captured forever in frames, to botanical imprint tableware that captures nature forever in your home, to dried flowers and plantable cards.
January can be a long and difficult month and I struggle with the dark and the cold, but there are lots of ways to bring sunshine inside your home when there isn’t much outside – through bright coloured artwork, ceramics, linens and blankets. Through beautiful books about nature and the outdoors. Through uplifiting smells and
This spring collection was inspired by the colours and textures of the coast – the vibrant yellows of gorse flowers and sand, the dark blue greys of rocks and pebbles, the rich blue of the ocean. The textures of wood, clay and rope. It’s a really tactile collection that makes you feel warm inside and
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Happy Mabon & Autumn Equinox. The Autumn equinox is when day and night are equal, making it a time of balance. It’s the second of the pagan harvest festivals. is also sometimes know as the Harvest of First Fruits. Mabon is all about giving thanks for the plentiful harvest and sharing fruits ready for winter.
