A little bit of magic

Welcome to Bumbly Burrow, an enchanted allotment where fairies live, their neighbours are frogs and bees and they spend long days playing around the vegetables and in the orchard. The allotment owner loves fairies and made them these houses to live in, she has plenty of crafting skills and will be making more for them, so don't worry about buying them for your own fairies to live in.

 I really enjoyed making this fairy village and playing with the toadstools in the allotment to take the photo's, I wish I had a little girl to share all the magic in the owrld, my boys are now 20, 17 and 16 and well past the magic!!

How it all began, hand sewing late into the night

I love making unique creatures, it takes me back to how my business all started....

My story started in 2009, Christmas was looming and with 3 boys and not much money for presents I started to hand sew presents, my background is in art and textile design although up to this point I hadn’t really done much sewing apart from clothes during and after I was on the fashion design course at Blackpool and the Fylde college.

I had been reading a book for bedtime to my youngest son all about a mudskipper called Splurge, he lived underground below our earth and wasn’t happy as earths rubbish kept landing in his world, my son loved the character so much I decided I would make him a toy of it for Christmas, night after night when the boys had gone to bed I sewed Splurge, once I had finished him my partner and I couldn’t stop laughing at how funny he was.

I was so excited for him to be opened on christmas morning. I made my other boys fabric robots. I also made some girly gifts for family members too. I had saved a lot of money plus really enjoyed my time making them with love.

Since then I have gone on to make hundreds of handmade items but hand sewing in the evening whilst watching a film is still my favourite thing. I love people's requests and interpreting them into a handmade creature.