4 December – Stamford’s Own Handmade Christmas Market

Stamford Artisans Guild extends a Yuletide invitation to you to come and visit our 3rd  Locally Crafted Christmas Shopping Event on 4 December 2011.

Venues:  Stamford Arts Centre, 27 St. Mary’s St, PE9 2DL & Newages Social Club (Or Cummins if you prefer), Wharf Road, Stamford, PE9 2BW

FREE ENTRY!

A fantastic opportunity to support local artisans, designers and makers and buy hand-made gifts for Christmas!

Let’s make it a really special Hand-Made Christmas this year!

Visitors will have the opportunity to meet the Artisans and talk to them about their work. You can expect to find a range of hand-made items including Cards & Decorations, Stuffed toys, Textile Crafts, Local Photography, Wood Turned items, Hand bags, Knitwear, Stationary, Lapidary, Wire Sculptures, Jewellery, Pottery and a wide variety of gift ideas for your loved ones. Buy something special that you won’t find on the High Street! Love what’s local!

Opportunity to enter the Secret Santa Draw to win a unique hand crafted creation!

So who and what can you expect to see at this fantastic Christmas Shopping Event? LOTS of really talented & creative people!

At Stamford Arts Centre:

Jewellery By Shalini – Hand-crafted wire & semi-precious gemstones, beads and pearl jewellery. Also Polished gemstones and Wire Sculptures.	James Cook – Wood Turner	1.2.Tree - Variety of wooden items including jewellery boxes, trees, baskets, clocks & animals by Gianni Deidda.	Churchfarmhouse Cakes – Seasonal Fruitcakes and Christmas Cakes
Emmanance – Hand-made Silver Jewellery	Alan Moir – Children’s Jigsaw puzzles, wooden fretwork & Christmas Decorations	Here Nor There – Porceleine Hearts and sculptures.	Yellow Rose Design – Patchwork craft ie Bags, purses, aprons etc
DL Designs of Rutland – Jewellery, charms, wall hangers and other gifts, all handmade with a variety of macrame and braid techniques.	Eve Marshall - Unique Pieces for Unique people - needle felted bags & brooches plus some wet felted bowls, beads, and brooches.	Pat, Pam & Fran – Baby & Children’s Handknits & Crocheting.	Snail Pottery – Functional & Decorative Pottery, Ceramics and Stoneware made in rural Lincolnshire
Atelier Glass – Hand painted glassware, glassware filled with hand-poured and scented gel wax, assorted handmade festive candles. hand painted glassware with festive bath salts inside (handmade).	Picture This – Watercolour and pen & wash land, sea and town scapes, depicting the quintessential nature of rural Britain by Melton Mowbray based Artist Christopher Clayton.	Sock It to Me! – Sock dolls / monkeys & painted canvases	The English Cake Company - A variety of homemade large and small cakes, as well as traditional tray-bakes. Sold by the slice, individually, and in small packages. Offering a range of flavours, and all made with high quality, wholesome ingredients.
Jandy Photography - Wildlife and nature prints, keyrings, magnets, greeting cards and canvas bags	Mad Hatter Krafts – Knit and crochet hats gloves scarves. Fleece hats and scarves knitted toys, finger puppets, knitted bags knit and crochet flowers.	Shelly Anderson Glass – Kiln-formed glass including bowls, wall hangings, coasters.	Tower Essentials -Hand crafted architectural mirrors.
Shedglas Design – Stained Glass panels, Suncatchers, Decorations and Jewellery.	The Coffee Bag Company (We Luv Handbags) – Quality Handbags including Upcycled Coffee sacks recreated as bags, purses and ipod cases.	Cards By Lorna – handmade cards, scrapbooks and associated products.	Yuri McAlea - Japanese paper (origami) craft
Utopia Treasures – Hand-made fashion and bridal jewellery, hand knitted scarves and matching accessories.	Amore Bears - traditionally made teddy bears.	MJ Silver - Handmade silver jewellery	Barry Windsor - Wood Turner
Essential Healing – Aromatherapy products, Lavender products including wheatie bags, Lavender bags, (Eye bags for meditation, etc to come); a small amout of jewellery.	Golden Wishes – Stationery Items (Notebook and pen sets, favour boxes, gift tags, cards, bookmarks)	Ribbons & Lace by Jannie D – Cloth bags of varying styles and fabris. Small gift/jewellery/make up bags and a few cushions	Dean James- Pastel Paintings and prints
Wendy McClean - All handcrafted jewellery using traditional jewellery techniques, and novel techniques of wire coiling. All jewellery is made and designed by myself.	Simply Ghosh – Knitted Scarves, Snoods and Fingerless gloves. Also a new Children’s range of chunky knits.	Rutland Colorways – Handframed Knitwear	Pin & Tuck – Predominantly French style, fabric covered and padded Notice/Memo/Pin Boards and co-ordinated Key Holders. Other textiles may include Aprons, lavender filled hearts and cushions.
Pam Orme - hand built ceramic pieces – ornaments & vessels

At Newages (Cummins) Social Club:

Lesley Adolphson - Handcrafted silver and gemstone jewellery	Papertoast Productions - Acrylic paintings and photos by Oakham based artist James Eddisford	Artspirations - Clay ornamental keepsakes, in a variety of colours, shapes and sizes with poetry, personalisation or bespoke service available.	Ian Kendrick – Stickman – handmade walking sticks and other wooden items
Teddytums - Hand made collectors teddybears made and designed by Maureen – bears with attitude. Each bear is an individual ‘one off’ kind and made with high quality mohair and handcrafted using traditional teddybear making techniques and mostly using nut and bolt joints and various fillings. Not suitable for young children.	Tiffin - Preserves christmas cakes and puddings	Trish Auciello - Flower and garden photographs and greetings cards	Ghezals – Hand-made Elizabethan and Middle eastern sweetmeats, confectioneries and floral waters
Gary Malone -Original Watercolour, Oil and Acrylic paintings	Nellie Sheep Woolcraft - Hand knitted childrens aran knitwear, crocheted blankets knitted boottees etc.	The Woodland Creations – Hand turned wooden gifts including, pinch pots, cake stands, cheese boards, bottle stoppers, bowls and wooden fruit.	Kate Yardley- Reindeer Dust & Magic!Raising Funds for “Help For Heroes”
The Adorable Ark – Hand crafted animal themed fabric items including sock animals and kitty angels with verses.	Picture coming soon…      Daren Bell - Canvas Prints and Photos. Christmas / Birthday cards etc..