Meet the Maker - Elaine Hardy, Love and Buttons

Difficult to imagine that a pile of buttons could be used to create something so beautiful and delicate.  But Elaine manages it with ease,  making the most beautiful embroidered pieces which incorporate these vintage and ceramic buttons.  

She also makes the most adorable hand stitched mice and bunnies.

Elaine is mum to 2 children,a little black dog & a very large guinea pig. As well as taking commissions, she has a shop on Folksy and you can find her on Facebook too.

Meet the Maker - Sheena Spacey Ceramics

From a tiny studio space in her Somerset home, Sheena Spacey creates hand built decorative ceramic bowls, decorations and individual pieces of ceramic and mixed media artwork.

Her work is probably best described as somewhere between a walk in the woods and reading a fairy tale, taking elements from nature and folklore and imprinting those inspirations onto clay, bringing a little bit of nature and wonderland home.

She has a kiln where she fires her ceramics, which include buttons, badges, brooches and tableware.

And her stoneware is smoke fired.

We love her HareMoon bowls.

We discovered her as she supplies one of our other secrets, the Linden Tree in Huntly, but if you don't live in Scotland you won't miss out.  You can see and buy her work on Etsy and Folksy.