* butnotChristmas orBoxing Day 9.30-4:30 everyday * Open THE WORKHOUSE CHAPEL Bath Road, Sturminster Newton DT10 1DS workhousechapel.co.uk A TWO MONTH SLICE OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING HEAVEN A glorious mix of unique and beautiful gifts from local designers, artists and makers Handmade for Christmas 28 Oct - 31 Dec 2022 # 11
Handmade for Christmas is so much more…
Handmade for Christmas at the Workhouse Chapel is an annual extravaganza of loveliness, a cornucopia of wonder, bringing together work by dozens of incredibly talented makers and artists from Dorset and surrounding counties.
We do our very best to bring you a diverse and exceptional range of fairly priced, properly hand-crafted, completely unique gifts. Who knows, we might even have the perfect thing for Uncle Herbert - and then you’ll need a special little treat for yourself… ��
Every maker and artist here has been carefully chosen and invited to take part, ensuring that only the very finest work makes it through our doors.
If you love craftsmanship, skill, design, innovation and local enterprise, this is the place for you. The building is pretty lovely too!
If you really don’t love the dreaded annual ‘Christmas shopping trip’ you can seek sanctuary and find solace here - you can even rest by the blazing log fire if it all gets too much.
H4C is the WC’s (stop sniggering…) big annual event. If you want to know what goes on here for the rest of the year, visit www.workhousechapel.co.uk and sign up for our delightfully sporadic newsletter.
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Is it a gallery? Is it a gift shop? Is it a craft fair?
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Hello! Hello! I’m Rose - the one with the glasses - and Handmade for Christmas is my baby. I like to pretend I’m in chargeplease don’t disillusion me…
Kate is my trusty second-in-command - she works super-hard to retrieve and maintain the control and balance that I have mislaid.
Then there’s Bob - his job is lighting the fire, stacking the woodpile, lifting heavy stuff, fetching and carrying - not a genderstereotypical role at all…
The three of us make up the all-year team, but even though we’re blooming wonderful, we couldn’t manage Handmade for Christmas without help from the Fabulously, Wonderfully, Incredibly Helpful Elves. They’ll be oh-so-happy to help with your shopping and generally be cheerily welcoming and useful.
And now prepare to Meet your Makers
A huge Handmade welcome to this year’s exhibitors. This motley crew of creative folk are some of the most wonderful people I know. Clever, inventive, funny, weird, kind, moral, proud, humble, hard-working, imaginative, crazy. Here they are...
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ALINE JOHNSON Luscious cyanotype velvet cushions and silk scarves. Multicoloured fused striped glass candle holders alinejohnson.co.uk ALISON BOWYER Beautiful fused glass birds, fish and other creatures with added wirework alisonbowyer.co.uk AMMONITE IRONWORK Organic metalwork for home and garden ammoniteironwork.com AT THE PATCH CREATIONS Needle-felted creatures and blockprinted accessories workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 A WOLF AND I Enchanting silver jewellery with a touch of dark magic awolfandi.com BARRY THE ARKMAN Handcrafted wooden arks and puzzles BEEWRAP Beeswax wraps and re-usable household items beewrap.co.uk BELINDA SALES Raku fired ceramic wall art and whimsical sculptures belindasalesceramics.co.uk
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 BOB HATCHER Stars, lamps and other bright ideas - made from scrap BROTHERS MAKE Handmade products from 100% recycled plastic collected from local schools and beach cleans brothersmake.com CU DESIGN Lamps with an industrial feel and a creative flair cudesigns.co.uk DAVID METCALFF Wire garden sculptures
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 DELPHINE JONES Beautiful greeting card packs celebrating nature, food & drink delphinejones.com DIANA GIRDWOOD Tactile sculptures - lovingly formed - from all things; donated, found, thrown away DRIFTED AND GIFTED Lamps, clocks and other creations crafted from driftwood and beach finds driftedandgifted.weebly.com ECHO Deliciously scented soy candles and diffusers echocandles.co.uk
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 ELM HOUSE STUDIO Handbuilt and thrown ceramics elmhousestudio.co.uk EMMA LEONARD Contemporary silver jewellery with a pop of colour emma-leonard.co.uk FIONA KELLY Cheerful stoneware pottery fionakellypots.co.uk GILLIAN ACREMAN Gorgeous porcelain vessels
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 HANDMADE HARES & LITTLE RAYS OF SUNSHINE Stitched and painted whimsical loveliness HARBOURWOOD DESIGNS Imaginary worlds and seaside memories HELEN FRANCIS Hel’s Angels and mixed media semiabstract images JAN DANIELS Mad mosaic and bonkers brooches from recycled pots and jewels
JASON FERMOR
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 JAN STEVENS Raku pots - Glass baublesGarden ceramics JANE DUNN Trees and wreaths from driftwood JANE RENWICK Porcelain lights and resin metal relief dishes janerenwick.co.uk
Decorative and functional items from locally sourced wood
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 JUDE SHAW Unique and sculptural statement jewellery using silver, brass and natural gems judeshawjewellery.co.uk KARINA GILL Silver jewellery influenced by organic repetition in nature karinagill.co.uk KATE KIRKBY Beautiful mirrors created using imagination and random bits and bobs KATE OSMAN Rescued greenhouse glass and mixed media prints kateosman.co.uk
Handmade Making by hand is at the ❤ of who we are and what we do - we make with love, passion and commitment. We work with natural, local and recycled materials, using skills, and tools, handed down through generations of craftsmen. For us making by hand is so much more than a way of making a living - it’s an instinct, a habit, a default setting. The items we make hold joy and creativity within them, a very human connection.
Sustainable
Here at the WC we constantly strive to be kinder to our beautiful planet. Making the right decisions is sometimes difficult, but we are proud to say that all our packaging is recycled or recyclable. If we use plastic, you can be sure it’s had a previous life (and we’re very happy to have it back to use again, and again, and again…. ). Wherever possible we use recycled materials and when we can’t, we research the best alternatives.
Inspired It’s a circular thing…. I get inspired - I start to make something - the very act of making inspires me to try something else - I go down a rabbit hole, round a bend, somewhere unexpected - another idea - I get inspired all over again. Creative thinking is a muscle that grows stronger with exercise, so let’s all sit down and get creatively fit!!!
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2022 holiday snaps
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1 At home - getting ready to pack the sleigh 2 Planning the journey (hand stitched sketchbook - Rose Hatcher ) 3 What a pretty village scene (marquetry casket - Lester Durston ) 4 At the seaside ( Harbourwood Designs ) 5 In the Teashop (diorama - Handmade Hares) 6 Chatting to Piglet (Raku fired pigsNichola Hanman ) 7 Taking a chance with Freddy Fox (ceramic fox - Pippa Hill ) 8 Snuggling up to my Gullfriend (papier maché bird - Diana Girdwood ) 1 2 3 4 5 678
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 LESTER DURSTON Beautiful marquetry boxes and caskets LINDA ROWE Christmas decorations, gifts for the home, sparkly jewellery made from vibrant fused glass lindarowe.co.uk LISA BERKSHIRE Illustrated artworks using vintage and salvaged objects theillustratedworldoflisaberkshire.co.uk LIZ OLIVA Hats as different as the people they are made for. Keep your ideas warm! lizolivahats.com
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 LYNDA GREGORY Agate ware ceramics made from coloured earthenware clay LYNNE DINMORE Botanically inspired ceramics and jewellery lynnedinmoreceramics.weebly.com MALCOLM FAY Handwoven baskets and decorations MALCOLM SHEPHERD Award-winning blacksmith and rainy day silversmith
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 MARNHULL LEATHERCRAFT Leather hats, bags and belts marnhullleathercraft.com MATT WAITE Wheel-thrown pots made from Cornish stoneware clay mattwaitepottery.co.uk MENINAFELIZ Hand stitched fashion accessories and lovely treats for your home MIN FLETCHER-JONES Beautifully wearable, organic silver and gold jewellery minfletcherjones.co.uk
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 NATTY DECO Original laser cut decorations and handpainted flowers nattydeco.store NICHOLA HANMAN Raku ceramics that need to be touched PAUL BRAYSHAW & MARK CODLING Turned wooden bowls and whittled spoons Paul - pbrayshaw.co.uk Mark - fireeye.co.uk PETER THOMAS Artistic, functional and organic lathe turned work peterthomaslivingwood.co.uk
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 PIP NATURAL SKINCARE Handmade, soothing, nourishing skincare pipnaturalskincare.com PIPPA HILL Animals sculpted by hand in clay pippahillsculpture.co.uk PLANKED Handmade wooden gifts and chopping boards plankeddorset.co.uk RACHEL HEWITT Freestyle machine embroidery
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 RACHEL REILLY Knitted copper jewellery and sculpture facetsofavalon.com ROSE HATCHER Silk floral images - rubbish jewelleryhand stitched notebooks and sketchbooks workhousechapel.co.uk ROSEMARY HUMPHREYS Hand-knitted fair-isle hats and mittens RUPERT ANDREWS Unique colourful crackle-glaze pots
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 SAM DODD Vibrant acrylic paintings of our native flora and fauna samdoddart.co.uk SARAH JANE Wheel-thrown ceramics and festive porcelain decorations sarahjanehandmade.co.uk SARAH ROBINSON Linocut prints and gorgeous cards sarahrobinsondesigns.co.uk SARAH TRUSCOTT Weaver of scarves, inspired by colour sarahtruscottweaver.co.uk
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 STEWED FAIRY Up-cycled clothes and accessories made from repurposed wool and cashmere SUE BAKER Gloriously realistic paper mache fish papiermachefish.co.uk SUE JENKINS (TONLEAF) Eco-printed and hand-stitched fabrics. Scarves, clothes, bags, cushions tonleaf.com SUNSHINE BINDERY Delightfully joyful and earth-kind stationery thesunshinebindery.co.uk
workhousechapel.co.uk | handmade@workhousechapel.co.uk | 07900 580716 SUZY Q Beautiful machine embroidered accessories THE GARDENER’S BLACKSMITH Decorative plant supports and garden structures thegardenersblacksmith.co.uk THE JUNIPER COMPANY Glass inspired by nature, colour and form junipercompany.co.uk THE MOUSEHOLE WOOLERY Contemporary needle-felted wool sculptures themouseholewoolery.co.uk
Simple and durable designs in colourful leather tiboreperjessy.com
That’s all folks!
We’re so looking forward to welcoming you to Handmade for Christmas at Workhouse Chapel - you’re just going to love it!
If you want to know more about what we do here for the rest of the year, why not visit workhousechapel.co.uk and sign up to our delightfully sporadic newsletter.
And don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram to keep up with our day-to-day creative adventures (and disasters).
Wishing you a very, very happy, healthy, warm and peaceful Christmas. With love from Rose, Kate, Bob and the Elves
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