Dorset Team Christmas Fair - Times to Treasure

Our Dorset Team Christmas Fair is THIS WEEKEND (Saturday 1^stand Sunday 2^ndDecember) in the Allendale Centre, Wimborne. Entry to the event is free. 

Each week in the lead up to the fair we have been meeting different stallholders who will be selling at the event. 

Grainne

This week we meet Poole based jewellery maker and designer Grainne who runs her shop, Times To Treasure Uk. 

Grainne specialises in making her jewellery from silver clay but also uses sheet silver and wire and traditional silver smithing techniques.

Grainne's garden studio

She works from her beautiful garden studio in Poole and says that her "shop is constantly evolving and new items are being added all the time. Many of my creations are one of a kind design and unique."

What inspires Grainne? She says, "I take my inspiration from the beautiful Jurassic coast and the Dorset countryside and hedgerows. "

Grainne won a 'Made in Dorset' award in 2014 which she is really proud of. In 2016 she also completed her level 1&2 diploma in silver clay and teaches both classes and workshops.

Come and meet Grainne, see her beautiful handmade jewellery and meet our 60+ other stallholders at the Dorset Team Christmas Fair on both Saturday 1^stand Sunday 2^ndDecember. 

More information can be found on our Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1994393970585608/

We hope to see you there! Entry is FREE

Dorset Team Christmas Fair - Terri Peay

Not long now until the Dorset Team Christmas Fair which is taking place on Saturday 1^stand Sunday 2^ndDecember in the Allendale Centre, Wimborne. 

Each week we are going to be meeting a different stallholder who will be selling at the event. 

Terri Peay

This week we meet Terri Peay who runs her shop of the same name and sells handcrafted illustrated homewares, proudly designed and made in Dorset.

Terri is based in Weymouth in the beautiful rolling hills of Dorset.

She says "I draw inspiration from the serene landscape and its creatures. Through hand illustration, I create homewares & gifts with love, laughter and life at the heart of their design. All of my products are proudly designed, printed and crafted in the U.K and mainly feature British animals. "

Terri's products are hugely popular and have been featured in the past in both Vogue and Country Living Magazine.

Come and meet Terri and our 60+ other stallholders at the Dorset Team Christmas Fair on both Saturday 1^stand Sunday 2^ndDecember. 

More information can be found on our Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1994393970585608/

Dorset Team Christmas Fair - Charlotte Miller

The countdown is on to the Dorset Team Christmas Fair which is taking place on Saturday 1^stand Sunday 2^ndDecember in the Allendale Centre, Wimborne. 

Each week we are going to be meeting a different stallholder who will be selling at the event. 

This week we meet Charlotte of Charlotte Miller Ceramics. Charlotte is a Bournemouth based ceramicist that makes budgies and other small animals in hats and knitwear! 

Charlotte with some of her creations

Her anthropomorphic, whimsical budgie sculptures are both endearing and nostalgic, whilst her range of quirky tableware is a tribute to the eccentric and the kitsch.

As a child, Charlotte became a keen social observer, trawling around car-boot sales with her Dad collecting curios, mid-century kitsch and seaside postcards. Amused by seeing the closeness of people and their pets, she alighted on the idea of melding the two.  Thus, Brian the budgie was born out of the chance meeting of an Elvis lover and his budgerigar.

Before establishing her own pottery studio, Charlotte taught for many years as ceramics tutor on youth, community and degree courses. Through engaging with a wide demographic of students from children to the elderly, her empathy and fondness for people began to feed into her work.

Charlotte in her studio 

Charlotte has a broad technical language in ceramics, allowing her to accurately satirise traditional homely and domestic clay idioms. This results in the fresh and witty social commentary of her aesthetically resolved art works.

Charlotte’s love of print making and sculpture has led her to develop a range of work that concentrates on form as well as illustrative and textured surfaces. Both are influenced by her degree in Contemporary Crafts, where she studied both textiles and ceramics. Charlotte also has a PGCE and teaches ceramics classes from her studio in Bournemouth.

The budgies and other creatures are created by using a combination of press molding and hand sculpting techniques. She uses a stoneware body with underglaze, engobe, earthenware glaze, decal and lustre decoration. All these are made from her Bournemouth studio.

Come and meet Charlotte and our 60+ other stallholders at the Dorset Team Christmas Fair on both Saturday 1^stand Sunday 2^ndDecember. 

More information can be found on our Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1994393970585608/

Dorset Team Christmas Fair - Bark and Banter

The countdown is on to the Dorset Team Christmas Fair which is taking place on Saturday 1^stand Sunday 2^ndDecember in the Allendale Centre, Wimborne. 

Each week we are going to be meeting a different stallholder who will be selling at the event. 

This week we meet Caz Brown of Bark and Banter who sells leather handbags, accessories and dog collars. 

Caz has been a creator all of her life. She spent her early days with her grandmother, who was a gown maker, in her workroom making small bags out of scraps of fabric. Later she moved into jewellery design and learnt how to silversmith and make her own glass beads. 

Caz says her business and use of leather “started because I couldn't find a suitably grand collar for my Great Dane Ruby.” So she enrolled on a weekend course for traditional hand sewing leather skills and became hooked. 

“The smell, the feel, the look of leather, along with its tactile nature is something I have grown to love. It continues to move and change over time with age, and use only enhances its beauty. 

Over the last three years the yearn to make bags returned, and I started to design and create my own range of bags that are just that little bit different. I was always taught as a child that "beauty comes form within" and with that in mind my bags are lined with beautiful fabrics and vintage prints ( some preserved from my grandmothers era!) and my aim is that they are as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside. “

Come and meet Caz and our 60+ other stallholders at the Dorset Team Christmas Fair on both Saturday 1^stand Sunday 2^ndDecember. 

More information can be found on our Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1994393970585608/

1 month to go until the Etsy Made Local: Dorset Team Christmas Fair 2018! - Wimborne

Our Etsy Made Local: Dorset Team Christmas Fair is now just 1 month away!

It is going to be a brilliant weekend with over 60 stallholder each day at the fair selling a range of handmade, vintage and craft supply products.

After the success last year of a two day event, this year we are returning for the entire weekend and will be across two rooms in the Allendale Centre, Wimborne.

Here is a sneak preview of some of the products which will be heading to the Christmas Fair