Dorset Team ONLINE Christmas Fair - Friday Stallholders

 

Dorset Team ONLINE Christmas Fair 2020 

We were due to at our wonderful Dorset Team Christmas Fair at the Allendale Centre in Wimborne this weekend but sadly Covid-19 has prevented us from doing so but we are bringing you our amazing makers and sellers ONLINE to your living room!

Pour yourself a festive tipple or have a cup of tea, stick on some Christmas music and have a good old browse!

You can pick up some really unique gifts whilst support independent makers and sellers this Christmas.

Please see all the online stalls here: https://www.instagram.com/dorsetteam/ on our Instagram page where you can also view our stories to see updates from our stallholders throughout the day.

Below you can also see the list of our stallholders and links to all their shops, click each to browse and see what they have to offer.

Friday Stallholders 

Please have a look through our Friday Stallholders - Each stallholder is an independent maker or seller 

Arrabella Giles Jewellery 

Carriegraphy 

Chalkhill Blue Crafts

Chase the Tide

Coastal Cottage Creations 

ColourPOP Textiles

Creative Clay for All 

Hangersmith 

Jodie House Collage 

Joanna's Treasures

Katy Makes

Loving String

Nashira Jewellery

Peggy Rae Emporium

Rose Cutting Crafts

Stormy Sky Studios UK 

Studio Pickles

Ten & Six

The Dorothy Days 

The Medal Hanger Shop 

The Sunshine Bindery 

Tide Dorset

Times to Treasure

Trapeze Jewellery 

Valkyrie by Faye

West Country Creations 

Yaz Baxter Creative 

Treasury Tuesday: Stationery for the New Year

Photo Credit: Jenny from Blooming Craft Vintage https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/257476490/fabric-journal-a5

Big thank you to everyone who made Treasury Tuesday collections last week for our 'fresh' theme. This week's theme is stationery for the New Year. I don't know about you, but this time of year I love getting organised with new planners and diaries, sending out my Christmas thank you cards and buying some new stationery for my desk!

Think envelopes, planners, diaries, pens, pencils, back to school items, paper etc

We would love to see the treasuries you make. Please tag them 'DorsetTeam' and share them on social media using #DorsetTeam some of our treasury collections have had some really high views so is a great way to spread the word about what we do!

Please share using the hashtags and link back to this explaination of Lynn's on the team discussion boards https://www.etsy.com/teams/14319/dorset-etsy-team/discuss/16990487/?ref=team_page

Community News - Etsy Community

Want to get more involved with Etsy and influence its future?

Last week, Etsy launched the Seller Advisory Board, a new group which will include 15 sellers from around the world who will advise Etsy on matters facing our community

To find out more about applying to be part of this, along with other ways to get and stay involved with Etsy, take a look at the following link.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/seller-handbook/article/announcing-etsys-seller-advisory-board/34287741664

You can also stay involved at a local level through the Dorset Team. 

If you already have an Etsy account and want to join our team please click here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/teams/14319/dorset-etsy-team

We have an active team forum with a range of different topics.

We also are active on social media you can find us across social media by searching #DorsetTeam please take a look, share, comment and like.

We run #DorsetTeamTips every week for our top tips for being an Etsy seller too.

Product Feature - David from Beneath Bright Waters

This beautiful hand editioned print by David from Beneath Bright Waters is our featured product for today. David is part of the Dorset Team and was a stallholder at our 2014 Christmas Fair.

The print is one of three prints which forms part of David's 'Upsteam' set and was inspired by a season spent fly fishing on the beautiful chalk streams in Dorset including the River Piddle.

David says, "I'm lucky enough to fish the river Piddle, in Dorset, England, a perfect example of an English chalk stream. It's always a privilege and a delight to be stood on her banks casting a fly at the wild brown trout that lie beneath her bright waters.

My prints are the result of days spent by the river over the last few years. Sometimes alone, sometimes with friends or family. Occasionally there's a picnic, often a beer, but there's always a smile as I squint through the sunlight on the lookout for rising trout. 

There's no better feeling than reaching down and releasing a beautiful, perfectly finned and spotted small trout back into the gin clear water lapping around your ankles."

David's work is hand drawn and then hand printed. Each print is limited edition so they make for a really beautiful and unique gift. David is based in Wareham in Dorset and his Etsy shop can be found at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BeneathBrightWaters