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Bristol Pop Up Shop

83 Sandy Park Rd,
Brislington,
Bristol
BS4 3PF

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Today was just amazing! I'm still smiling about it all. I didn't know if it would feel how I hoped it would feel opening the doors to my very own shop, but it did. I felt at home, I felt like myself, I felt happy and relaxed. It wasn't fully finished, which I thought I'd be stressed about, but I wasn't. I just shared the work in progress with everyone that came in and priced things up as I went. So many people popped in to have a look and wish me luck. I had lovely chats with strangers. I played my favourite music surrounded by all my favourite things and couldn't believe my luck! I love it!

I was going to promote these beautiful pumpkin beeswax candles this week in time for halloween and Samhain, but they've flown out over the past week so I only have 3 left! If you'd like those 3, get your order in soon or I'll burn them in my shop window display 😀 I bought a few fun litlte gourds for the window today too from @sandyparkgreengrocers. I've always loved the idea of creating a shop window. One of my favourite films as a teenager was Mannequin so maybe that's where that comes from.

Sunday is somehow here again. The days are flying by in a blur. This time next week my shop will be open. This time in 2 weeks is Samhain and Halloween. I feel the pull towards hibernation already. It's hard to balance that with the busyness of this time of year for small businesses! The desire to hide away under a blanket comes right when there's no time to hide away under a blanket. But there are baths and fires and cosy jumpers and hot chocolates and candles and they all help feel cosier and calmer.

Did you have a wooden flower press when you were a child? Almost everyone who visits my market stall and sees my flower presses, says they had one when they were young and wonder what happened to it. I was given one when I was 6, and it was finding that old press at my parents house, that led to me rediscovering the joy of pressing leaves and flowers. I started running pressed flower craft workshops and people would ask me where they could find a good quality, good sized traditional wooden flower press. I couldn’t find one when I looked so I decided to make my own.

This stuff is pure magic. Someone ordered a few pots yesterday and it reminded me that I don't shout about this enough. When you've tried it, you know and you won't want to put anything else on your face again. Having suffered for years with rosacea and spent a fortune trying to find creams and treatments to help my skin, I was nervous when I first tried this. It's upsetting when you spend money on new skin things that you hope will help you and they don't work. You worry about making the problem worse. But I've been using this balm morning and night for 4 years now, my rosacea is gone and I wouldn't use anything else on my skin. It smells and feels amazing. And mentally it prepares me for the day too. It soaks into my tired skin and makes it feel loved, nourished and renewed.

Making wild wreaths is one of my very favourite things to do all year round, but especially at Christmas. I made around 180 last year with people in person and online. I made wreaths with corporate Christmas zoom parties, groups of friends and some 1 to 1 sessions too. It is such a lovely way to spend a few hours. I love the smell and feel of the moss. I love foraging for new beautiful flowers, berries and foliage. I love playing with colours and shapes. Every year I find different things in different places. Last year I was especially excited to discover pure white holly for the first time underneath a huge holly tree which looked so beautiful on wreaths!

My pop up shop is going to smell soooooo good!! I've ordered a big batch of my soaps, balms, bath salts and wax melts. I've never had a shop so I have no idea how much stuff to order. Hopefully I'll have enough to be well stocked and not way too much that I can't find space for it.

Sundays are normally work days for us, either with craft markets or bands rehearsing in the studio or both. I often feel bad that we don't get much free time as a family, but I try to find little ways to make Sundays special. Breakfast is croissants or pain au chocolat with some Ella Fitzgerald or other Sunday feeling cosy music. And there's normally some crafting too. Today we'll be making our own lip balms using the great kit by @bohoboaromatherapies and also some glittery paper snowflakes while we work at the studio. And Sundays are bath days too 😀

Thank you so so much for all your lovely comments and private messages wishing me luck and cheering me on with my new pop up shop!! I felt much stronger and supported reading all your messages and I am so so excited about it. We put a table in there today and I ordered a few shop bits and it started to feel more real. A few people have already offered to help out with some shop shifts. I have four great local makers lined up to rent some shelf space. Two women walked past as we were carrying things in and were really excited to hear there's a new handmade gifts shop coming 😀

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