I love supporting local, small businesses.
I meet a lot of my friends through craft markets, Its always nice to be surrounded by like minded people. This is how I met Hannah who runs Farmhouse and Home. We were both at a three day event over the Christmas period 2021 and we have been friends ever since. We are both based in Devon but with Hannah running her business and working on the family farm and me working every day we never get the chance to catch up.... thank goodness for instagram!!
Fast forward to Summer 2023 I asked Hannah if she would be interested in doing a collab. Hannah jumped at the chance and we got thinking, lots of chatting, lots of ideas and lots of parcels back and forth.
I use one of Hannahs tote bags daily and it hold EVERYTHING!!! It's an amazing quality bag, perfect length straps and with the perfect detail. We experimented with me needle felting on the heavy cotton fabric the bags are made from, surprisingly it held the felt well.
I gave Hannah the go ahead and she spent long hours creating her heavy cotton tote bags in a natural colour which allowed me to experiment with colour when i needed felted a square at the front of the tote bag. Hannah added her business label and they were ready for you all to see.
It was so lovely to work on this project with a friend. Its so nice to see an idea come to life and see what everyone thinks of our product.
We had such a lovely response throughout all my events, so we have been planning another collab, maybe more tote bags but a whole new idea too.
Watch this space for 2024 collabs.
If you are a business and want to collab, let's chat!!
Mils x
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