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 - 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/

2 days left to apply for our Dorset Team Christmas Fair

The spring flowers are blooming and the evenings are getting lighter so Christmas feels a million miles away but if you would like to be a stallholder at this year's Dorset Team Christmas Fair you have just two days to get your application in.

You can find the application form for the event here: http://goo.gl/forms/xCUOThCgjA

The form also has more information about the fair.

The fair will be held in Wimborne on Saturday 3rd December and will have 70 stalls from Dorset Etsy Team sellers.

Applications for stalls close on the 1st April

Dorset Christmas Fair - ETSY tote bag GIVEAWAY

8 days to go.....!

A rather large exciting box of goodies arrived at my door all the way from America from the Etsy HQ in New York. Etsy are sponsoring our Dorset Team Christmas Fair and have kindly provided us with lots of goodies for the event!

We will be giving out goodies and information on the day on our Etsy information stand and also doing some giveaways leading up to the event. Please keep your eyes peeled on our social media pages for announcements!

The first of our giveaways is for this beautiful Etsy tote bag (thank you Etsy.com!)

There are several ways in which you can enter the competition. Please fill in your details into Rafflecopter and the entries will be revealed. If you do more than one task you have a greater chance of winning. The winner will be picked at random and contacted via email.

Good luck to everyone and thank you so much for all the support for our fair. We hope to see you on Saturday 6th December at the Wimborne Allendale Centre for the Dorset Team Christmas Fair. Please see our Facebook event page for more information https://www.facebook.com/events/1433547900231175/




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