Dorset Team Christmas Fair 2023 - Maker Lineup - Wimborne

 

Announcing our Dorset Team makers and sellers for our Dorset Team Christmas Fair 2023 in Wimborne

Our Dorset Team Christmas Fair has proudly been running for over 10 years in the same venue! It is a much loved event in the calendar with a chance to shop from lots of amazing makers and sellers from right across Dorset. 

With the Dorset Team being the local Etsy team, most of our sellers at Etsy sellers and often are only found online so this is a great opportunity to shop in person and pick up some really unique gifts. 

Find more about our event on our event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1286160578833660/

Andrews & Brunt Handmade Chocolates 

Anna Milkins Jewellery

Bake my Day 

Barking Bobbins

Beside the Seaside Creations 

Blades illustration

Buddy and Ben

Bumble Meadow Designs

Cake panda 

Cakers Poole 

Carnelian Creations 

Carol Lewis

Catherine Woowat

Chalkhill Blue Crafts

Chesil Crafts

Claire Marsh Photography

Coastal Creations By AMW

CoCoBags

Comet & Moon

Coralie’s Crafts & Gifts 

Craft-e fabrics et al!

Dorsetshine Distillery 

Eisā Jewellery 

Ellamura Botanics

Elsilver

Emily Edkins Illustration

Green Vibes Boutique

Happy You And Mee

HexNex

Homeshorecrafts

Jacqui Fairweather 

Janiejumdrops 

Jones Craft Works

Joybourn Studio

Jules Art Poole

Jurassicseafinds 

KareysArtz

KDbabygiftshack 

Kelbelles cakes

Laura Penny Creations & Kates Kreations 

Littlemake 

Love Your Rocks

Lucy Lemon Decor

LuxWoman Collection

Lytchett Bay Soaps

Mandy’s Resin Art 

March Made Art

Michelle Giles Jewellery

Monica Moe Paints

Mrs Christmas Crafts

Naomi Brookes Designs

Nature by Holly 

Nemeton

Pidela House

Poppy The Music Dog 

Rags to cushions

Richard Beech Photography

Sea and Solder 

Spinning A Yarn

Strings. And Things.

Sumersata designs 

Sunshine et Buttercups 

Sweetsomethings4all 

Sybil Glass

Terri Peay

That’s a Wrap Beeswax Wraps

The Dorset Hive

The rhubarb candle company 

Tornados and Trinkeys 

UK Wearable Crystals

Vine Cottage Crafts

Weasel Crafts

Announcing the stallholders for the Dorset Team Spring Fair 2019 - Wimborne

We are excited to announce the stallholders for our Dorset Team Spring Fair 2019!

We have a fantastic range of sellers coming to this event selling a huge range of different products from crafting kits put together by experts in the field to vintage homewares and from handmade jewellery to cards and prints. We have some sellers who are returning and you might recognize from our previous events as well as some brand new sellers who have not sold with us before. 

As always, our fairs promise to bring to you some of the best local designer-makers, artists, artisans, vintage sellers and craft suppliers that Dorset has to offer. 

Dorset Team Spring Fair 2019

Saturday 4^thMay

10am – 4pm

Allendale Centre in Wimborne BH21 1AS

FREE ENTRY

60+ local sellers split over the two halls of the Allendale Centre there is also a brilliant café on site serving hot and cold food all day. 

More information can be found on our Facebook page or HERE

Please do put the date in your diary and we hope to see you there.

Stallholders for our Dorset Team Spring Fair 2019 

Earrings by 68 Charms

68 Charms
Abi H-Parker ART 

Amano

Andrea Hook Art

Artemis Fibre Art

Bahru

Pedal the night away card by Big Dog Miniatures

Big Dog & Co

Bright Ideas Studio

Bright Ideas Studio

Buddy and Ben

Raku fired anteaters by Catherine Woowat

Catherine Woowat

Chalkhill Blue Crafts

Chibi Chi Designs

Cinnamon and Lullabies

Cosmic by Kate

Art work by Cut the Rut Shop

Cut the Rut Shop
Dotty Bird Kids Company

Felt Crafty Designs

Floss and Jet and F and J Vintage 

Handmade Dorset

Handwoven scarf by 'Handwoven by Jac'

Handwoven by Jac

Hexnex Jewellery
Jelly Jam

Jessica Harpenny

Lavender Heart UK

Lisa Berkshire

Hair clips by Little Rose Birds

Little Rose Birds

Lovely Jubbly Fabrics and Lovely Jubbly Designs

Lumiihome

Michelle Giles

Miller Ceramics

Dried garland by My Scented Home Online

My Scented Home Online

Ndieh Designs

Peggyrae Emporium

Platina Jewellery

Hello Sausage by Rhubarb Hill Crafts

Rhubarb Hill Crafts

Sarah Appleton Craft

Sarah Jane Art

Sarah Lovell

Sarah Robinson Designs

Original hand coloured paper cut by SAS Creative

SAS Creative

Silver Ripples

Simply Love Art Studio
SJ Ceramics Shop

Slumbermonkey Designs

Studio Pickles

Men's toiletries bags by Sunny Bunny Crafts

Sunny Bunny Crafts

Ten and Six

Terripeay

The DIY Tribe

Pure wool knitted hat by The Dorothy Days

The Dorothy Days
The Paisley Elephant 

The Rhubarb Candle Company

The Seaside Sew

The Stitchery Dorset

Journals by The Sunshine Bindery

The Sunshine Bindery

Walker Wood Turning
West Country Creations 

Wilder and Wren

Winter Love Dorset

Wychwood Dreams

Please visit our Facebook page for the event for more information and sneak previews from our stallholders https://www.facebook.com/events/2247827748830143/

Etsy Made Local: Dorset Team Christmas Fair 2018 in Wimborne

We are so excited to announce that the Dorset Team will be returning to Wimborne for the Etsy Made Local: Dorset Team Christmas Fair 2018! 

We are back for the whole weekend (Saturday 1st AND Sunday 2nd) and going to be spread across the two rooms of the Allendale Centre in Wimborne with 60+ local makers, designers, vintage sellers and craft suppliers selling each day. 

It will be a lovely festive day out (or why not come both days?!) with lots of beautiful stalls to browse, a wonderful on site cafe serving hot and cold food and drinks all day and lots of really unique gift ideas. 

Please put the date in your diary and head to our Facebook event page to find out more information and sneak previews by our stallholders https://www.facebook.com/events/1994393970585608/

We hope to see you there! 

Spring Fair - Featured Seller - Lisa Berkshire

For the last few weeks we have been sharing with you some of the stallholders who will be coming to our Dorset Team Spring Fair. 

This week we are featuring Poole based artist Lisa who runs The Illustrated World of Lisa Berkshire

Lisa sells illustrated prints and cards, original artworks, illustrated upcycled objects, painted stones, boxes, jewellery and more! She also takes on custom orders for personalised artworks.

Lisa has been an illustrator for 27 years and shows and sells her own illustrated ranges of prints and artworks for children and adults on the themes of The Sea, British Nature, Folklore, Stories, nature in general, Landscape, Personal Narratives and Children's Stories.

"I apply my illustrations to all sorts of things that can be used to make a living or working space a more enjoyable (and illustrated) place. I love connecting my work with people's everyday lives."

3 things about Lisa in her own words....

1) I love including a sense of fun and humour in my work.
2 I love to use pen line in my work and combine it with bold colours and patterns. 
3) My favourite thing to do is to make something for someone that is so personal it couldn't be for anyone else!

Lisa will be selling her wares at the Dorset Team Spring Fair on Saturday 5th May at the Allendale Centre in Wimborne. Entry to the fair is FREE and there will be 60 stalls by local artists, makers, designers, vintage sellers and craft suppliers.

For more information about the event please see: https://www.facebook.com/events/282450382285845/

Samantha and Gem join our Dorset Team volunteers group

We are really excited to announce that we have had some new volunteers join us on the team.

Please welcome Samantha and Gem who have kindly volunteered their time to help grow and develop the Dorset Team and find out more about them here...

Samantha
Based in: Bournemouth
Shop Name: Manta Makes Ltd
Role: Pinterest Admin

Samantha makes and sells wooden gifts, accents and decorations and particularly specialises in personalised wedding decor. The company was born in August 2015 and the shop name was inspired by Samantha partner's lifelong dream of swimming with manta rays. In 2013 his dream was realised when he swam with them on a trip to Hawaii.  Samantha says "It was at that moment, when I saw his happiness shining through, I realized how powerful dreams were. I have dedicated myself to the pursuit of dreams and it is my goal to make each and every one of my customers as happy as my husband the day he achieved his. "

Samantha is joining our volunteers team as a Pinterest Admin and will be working closely alongside Annie from Annie's Farmhouse Craft  to make the Pinterest page beautiful and appealing to both shoppers and members alike.

You can find the Dorset Team Pinterest page HERE

Gem
Based in: Near Bournemouth

Shop Name: Snug Creations
Role: Forum Admin

Gem sells beautiful hand knitted accessories for your family and home including hair bows, baby booties and greetings cards. Gem works from her home studio close to the sea near Bournemouth. Gem's love of knitting began in 2006 when she became envious of her friends endless collection of hand knitted accessories and it made her determined to learn how to make her own knitwear. As well as running her shop Gem also has run local 'knit-nights' and knitting clubs. She says "Living by the sea, I am inspired by the beach and the great outdoors to create knitwear for those special family moments, whether you need to wrap up against the elements or cosy up indoors."

Gem has taken on a new role within the team as a forum admin. Her role will involve creating new topics in the team forum, generating discussion and posting important information to our team forum for you all to read. We hope that this will make our team forum a really exciting and useful place to visit and a place you can come to share advice, gain advice and support and meet other local Etsy sellers.

You can find our Dorset Team forum HERE

Gem and Samantha will join our team of dedicated volunteers who all give up their free time to the running of the Dorset Team and our various social media pages.

We are always on the look out for more members to join as volunteers. If you feel that you could dedicate some time to the team please click HERE to find out more information

Community News - Dorset Team Christmas Fair 2016

Applications to be a stallholder at our Dorset Team Christmas Fair close on the Friday 1st April. If you haven't applied already, please see our application form for the event for more information and to apply. The fair was a great success last year and we are looking forward to another fantastic event this year too!

Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/866031100155674/

Application Form http://goo.gl/forms/xCUOThCgjA

Community News - New Dorset Team Volunteers

This week we are thrilled to annouce that we have had two new members join our Dorset Team volunteers group.

Annie from Annie's Farmhouse Craft will be joining us on the team to help with the Pinterest page https://www.pinterest.com/dorsetteam/ and Frankie from Frankie and the Buttons will be taking on the role of running the Dorset Team page within Etsy https://www.etsy.com/pages/dorsetteam

Both Pinterest and the Team Page are very visual and a fantastic way to show off all the Dorset Team has to offer. If you would like to see your items added to these pages please be sure to use the Dorset Team hashtag #DorsetTeam to share your products. 

Huge thank you to Annie and Frankie for taking on these roles it will help a huge amount and give a real boost to the team.

Total Shop Review Month - Shop and Product Photography

Photo Credit: Spirited Image

This week's theme for Total Shop Review Month is Shop & Product Photography.

The live chat for this week's theme takes place during the #DorsetTeam twitter hour between 7.30pm - 8.30pm on Tuesday night (19th January). Please come and join us if you'd like to discuss photograhpy for your Etsy shop!

If you can't make that time you can catch up on the chat afterwards by searching the hashtag or join us on the team forum.

You can see lots and lots of tips from Etsy on how to photogaph your products in the seller handbook here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/seller-handbook/category/photography

Dorset Team Christmas Fair - Featured Stallholder - Sophia from Jessalli

Sophia from Jessalli will be selling at our Dorset Team Christmas Fair in Wimborne. Sophia sells handmade and personalised soft furnishings and gifts. She runs both an online and bricks and mortar shop as well as selling at Craft Fairs around the country. This is a photograph of Sophia with the wonderful Kirstie Allsopp at the Handmade Fair in London. Behind you can see some examples of Sophia's work.

Beautiful personalised stockings by Sophia

Jessalli in Sophia's words:

"I started making things for family and friends. They used to place orders with me and it grew from there. I did small markets and the demand let me give up my job and do this full time. I'm totally inspired by the Dorset countryside and colour. I aim to make handmade gifts that can be treasured forever and suit a variety of styles. Personalised items should be heirlooms kept in the family for years to come."

Do you love Sophia's shop as much as we do?! Come along to the Dorset Team Christmas Fair on the 6th December to meet Sophia and take a look at her beautiful handmade products. As well as soft furnishings Sophia is also selling the most adorable Christmas cards! 

For more information about the fair please see our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1433547900231175/

To view Sophia's shop on Etsy please see here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Jessalli