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Handcrafted Vintage Style and Boho Jewellery - Designed for that finishing touch

MY STORY

My creative story started when I was very small when myself and my brother would go to stay with my grandmother every summer for two weeks, and it was she who taught me simple basic skills like sewing, knitting and embroidery.

​Much, much later in life I went to art college where I studied for a degree in Art and Design which encompassed a wide range of subjects. Soon after leaving college, I had a hiatus in life as I developed the very painful disease of endometriosis which meant I was very incapacitated and included a couple of surgeries. However, with the support of a good homeopath and lots of self-help remedies using diet and supplements, after about 4 years I was able to overcome the disease.

​This then led me to wanting to get back to my creativity so I enrolled in a City and Guilds course in Creative Textiles. This course taught me so much and really expanded my skills, not only working with textiles, but also working with paper, embellishing techniques, making handmade buttons and beads and so much more. I was eventually to go on and have a few solo exhibitions of my textile work.

​Moving on, and after many of life’s changes and experiences, myself and my partner moved to Spain to run a painting holiday business in Andalucía. My partner is the painter and did the teaching while I ran the business side. To fill in my spare time I started making beaded jewellery which I sold at the local craft fairs and I was quite successful.

After about five years we had to wind up the business in Spain, thanks to the credit crunch of 2008 and we moved back to the UK. We managed to scraped enough money together to buy a house, but it needed lots of work and this took up all our spare time.

When we were more settled, I started to make jewellery again and I did lots of research of how to sell to reach potential customers. This led me to opening a shop here on Folksy. I hope you enjoy browsing around my shop and if you have any questions just drop me a message and I will get back to you..

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Happy browsing

Carolyn

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