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The Accidental Stitcher
£275.00 1 in stock
“Handmade wooden gifts and homeware, often with a sense of humour and a Scottish twist!”
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We are Neil and Rachael, a husband and wife team based in Glasgow, designing and making handmade wooden gifts and homeware. The idea for our business came when Neil made some coasters using a carving machine he'd bought as a hobby and everyone who came round loved them and duly received a set for Christmas that year! A request to make some dinosaur bookends for a friend's baby then decided things for us, and we started working on our product range, starting to sell online in May 2019. We've since been to a few craft fairs, expanded our website, and also sell our products in four arts and craft shops. We're still at the early days in our business, but we love what we do, and our customers are pretty happy too!
We work at home, having gradually converted the garage to be a workshop (the car has to live outside now!), where we start with the wood we purchase from sustainable sources and go through the various processes including sawing, sanding, laser engraving, more cutting and sanding, varnishing, putting non-slip feet or hessian ribbons on, until the product is ready.
A question we're frequently asked is why we settled on the name "Craftypups". It might not make sense at first, but the "Crafty" is pretty self-explanatory, and the "pups" is a little more personal to us ... we first met at a climbing wall, and as our friendship developed, we climbed together more and more. We had a running joke that when your leg was going round and round in mid-air, desperately hoping to land your foot on a hold, it was like a puppy's leg when the pup's being tickled! So, our pet name for each other has been "pup" for nearly 10 years, we're now running a craft business together so maybe "Craftypups" actually makes quite a lot of sense!
Oh, and we do love dogs! We can't have any of our own, as Neil is allergic, but there have been a couple of puppies belonging to friends and family who provide much enjoyment, the original one being Brodie, with Connie a recent addition to the family!
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