Meet the Seller - Dorset Team Christmas Fair - Blooming Vintage Craft

Name: Jenny and Ian

Shop Name: Blooming Vintage Craft

Shop Link: www.bloomingvintagecraft.etsy.com

Located in: Bournemouth

Sells: Handcrafted journals sketchbooks, photo albums and scrapbooks with a vintage twist!

Maker's Story: Blooming Vintage Craft is run by Jenny and Ian who started their Etsy shop in 2013. They say...."We're a married couple living by the sea who love creating hand-crafted journals and sketchbooks. We both work in the digital industry and enjoy indulging in traditional crafting in our spare time. Everything on sale is handmade by us, in our little craft room in Bournemouth."

Dorset Team Christmas Fair: Jenny and Ian will be selling their handmade stationery at the Dorset Team Christmas Fair on Saturday 3rd December at the Allendale Centre in Wimborne.

Please come along, meet Jenny and Ian and our other makers and sellers.

Doors open at 10am and close at 4pm and it is free entry.

For more information please see our Facebook event page or blog post

Meet the Seller - Dorset Team Christmas Fair - Alison from AMA Designs

Name: Alison

Shop Name: AMA Designs

Shop Link: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AMADesignsBunting

Located in: Lymington

Sells: Seasonal hand painted wooden bunting, garlands, wreaths and home décor items

Maker's Story: Hello, I'm Alison Aldridge, the designer/maker at AMA Designs Bunting.  I live and work in the beautiful coastal village of Milford-on-Sea, near Lymington in Hampshire, UK. I have always lived by the water and this nautical & seaside influence is reflected in many of my designs and colour choices.
 

My love of wood began as a child having been born and brought up in a boatyard! I could always be found rooting around the sawmill watching the Shipwrights at work. Their off-cuts were my treasure trove, re-sawn, sanded and painted into pieces for my bedroom. To me the smell of freshly cut wood is better than opening a new jar of coffee!
 

My passion is to create pieces that are "a little less ordinary" and I pride myself on the attention to detail and quality of my finished pieces. No commission is too big or too small so please contact me if I can assist you in creating that unique piece you have been searching for.
AMA Designs Bunting has evolved like many independent artisan businesses; from making bespoke pieces for personal use, to making for family and friends, to selling at Artisan & Craft Fairs across Hampshire and Dorset, to building a loyal customer base and now widening the shop window and customer base on Etsy.














Dorset Team Christmas Fair: Alison will be selling her seasonal hand painted wooden bunting, garlands, wreaths and home décor items at the Dorset Team Christmas Fair on Saturday 3rd December at the Allendale Centre in Wimborne.

Please come along, meet Alison and our other makers and sellers.

Doors open at 10am and close at 4pm and it is free entry.

For more information please see our Facebook event page or blog post

Meet the Seller - Dorset Team Christmas Fair - Ruth from Satis House Five

Name: Ruth

Shop Name: Satis House Five

Shop Link: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/SatisHouseFive

Located in: Bridport

Sells: Lightboxes, jewellery & supplies for fellow crafters

Maker's Story: I started my shop in 2011 selling mainly Jewellery before discovering a passion for making Light Boxes - this has definitely taken over my creative work and whilst I love working with different types of media (paper, metal, fabric, etc) the boxes are now my main focus.

I have only been making Light Boxes since 2014. This was a complete accident as I came upon the idea completely by surprise: having reluctantly agreed to accompany my husband into an old Photography shop, there was an old dusty box of Magic Lantern Slides. I completely fell in love with them and decided I had to do something with them to bring them back to life. I decided that the slides needed to be lit in order to bring them back to life. From there, I then developed the vintage style light boxes - instead of using slides, I use images I love that are printed on a thick tracing paper.
I make all boxes from scratch, I can do custom orders too. My next project is to create Light Boxes using 35mm slides so watch this space!
 
Doors open at 10am and close at 4pm and it is free entry.
For more information please see our Facebook event page or blog post

Dorset Team Christmas Fair: Ruth will be selling her wonderful lightboxes, jewellery and supplies at the Dorset Team Christmas Fair on Saturday 3rd December at the Allendale Centre in Wimborne.

Please come along, meet Ruth and our other makers and sellers.

Featured Stallholder - Dorset Team Christmas Market - Bradstocks of Dorset

Featured Stallholder for our Dorset Team Christmas Fair: Bradstocks of Dorset

Bradstocks is run by two families; Mark and Lorraine Goudge and Rob and Alice Hole who are all close friends. I can't wait to see their stall at the Christmas Fair as they not only sell the most beautiful handcrafted sheepskin products, but I love the story and heritage behind their brand. The sheepskin comes from sheep reared by Rob in Dorset and then are made into handcrafted products for the shop.

Rob Hole has famed Poll Dorset sheep with his father for most of his life and now has a flock of over 400 pedigree ewes. "Their existence is due to Rob’s grandfather the pioneering sheep farmer Bunny Lenthall who imported the very first Poll Dorset sheep from Australia back in the 1950’s and gave Rob’s parents their first pedigree Dorset sheep from his renowned ‘Bradstock flock’ situated on the beautiful Dorset coast line at Burton Bradstock as a wedding present!"

If you are looking for a gift for someone hard to buy for but who appreciates handcrafted, beautiful and unique products come along to the Christmas Fair and visit Bradstock of Dorset's stall. Bradstocks sells everything from iPad cases to bags and to womens and mens clothing all lovingly handmade locally.

Please see Bradstock of Dorset's online store here https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BradstocksofDorset

For more information about our Dorset Team Christmas Fair please see our Facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/1433547900231175/

The fair is at the Wimborne Allendale Centre and entry to the fair is free. There are 80 different stalls so is going to be a wonderful festive day out and there is something for everyone.

Please stop by, have a browse and support independent local businesses this Christmas!