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🎉 COMPETITION TIME 🎉 Today is Blue Monday 😥 Blue Monday is claimed to be the most depressing day of the year. Christmas is over, it's cold outside and the summer holidays seem like a world away. 🌨️ ...So we thought now would be the perfect time for another competition! 😊🎈 Up for grabs this time is a private ring carving workshop for 2 people with @maggie__cross at @stiwdio3cafe. 💍💑 All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning is like this post and comment who you'd choose to bring with you and why. It could be your bestie, your brother, your girlfriend or your gran?! 🙌 The winner will be selected at random and announced on Valentines day. If you've won we will then arrange a date and time that suits you for when your special workshop will take place. 💕 Good luck! 🍀 We'll also be running the competition on Facebook and will collate all entries into one draw. ✨ • • • #crafts #makersofinstagram #lostwax #ringcarving #silver #jewelleryquarter #competition #westwales #aberteifi #learnanewskill #makingisgoodforyou #slowliving #aseasonalshift #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #creativeminds #jeweller #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #contemporarycraft #showmeyourrings #roughluxe #wax #cast #valentines #oneofakind
Our stained glass workshop which ran this Saturday Our stained glass workshop which ran this Saturday with the amazingly talented and patient @beansawyer teaching this wonderful craft. The results are great I’m sure you’ll agree. More sessions available to book online. #stainedglass #stainedglassart #craft #makeitinwales #artisanrising
Hot Desking at Stiwdio 3!🔥👩‍💻 🙌 Our Hot Desking at Stiwdio 3!🔥👩‍💻 🙌 Our new desk rental area is now open upstairs at @stiwdio3cafe!💅🌟 What better way to start the new year than with a fresh work space for your business. Whether you’re a freelancer, creative wanting to get a bit messy, a small business or part of a larger company we’ve got desk space for you. It’s a central location on Cardigan high street with plenty of plug sockets, wifi and great coffee and food downstairs. 👌🥗🍰 • Hours: Half day – 8.30am to 12.30pm or 1.00pm to 5.00pm Full day – 8.30am to 5.00pm (Monday to Saturday) ☁️☀️🌧 • Cost for a desk for up to two people: £10 for a half day £20 for a full day (including one free tea or coffee with any meal purchased) ☕️ • Please visit our website for more info and further photos of the spaces available. Booking forms coming soon! If you’d like to book in the meantime or for more information please give us a call on 01239 758088. 👋 • • • #crafts #makersofinstagram #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #creativeminds #artforall #exploretocreate #creativemindset #contemporarycraft #hotdesking #deskrental #coexist #commmunity #teamwork @stiwdio3art
We’re super excited to have Alice Thomas joining We’re super excited to have Alice Thomas joining us to teach macrame in 2020! 🙂🌿Hands up who’s keen to make plant hangers and wall hangings?! 🙌 Workshops and dates to be announced soon. Stay tuned 👀 • • • #crafts #makersofinstagram #macrame #planthanger #macrameworkshop #learnanewskill #makingisgoodforyou #plantdyedyarn #naturallydyed #slowliving #rurallife #aseasonalshift #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #creativeminds #artforall #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #textiles #contemporarycraft #macramedecor #macrameplanthanger #jutetwine #ethicaldecor #homedecor #naturaljute @a.hazeldesign 🌟
@gwilymllywelyn will be putting up his exhibition @gwilymllywelyn will be putting up his exhibition of documentary photography today at @stiwdio3art We have a Public View this evening from 6pm. Please do pop in to say hello. #photography #documentaryphotography #stiwdio3 #makeitinwales #stiwdio3art #visitcardigan #visitwales #cardigantown #design #create #instagood #instawales #instapic
This broadcast just sums everything up for me (@su This broadcast just sums everything up for me (@suzipark) It is totally brilliant. It sums up what I wanted Make it in Wales to be. It’s taken years... and it’s been a tough road but I think the message is becoming clear to people (and I am totally aware that we are not the only people shouting this message but what is clear is that finally, the message is getting heard). Craft Craft has many different connotations in people’s minds Craft to me means handmade Craft means using your hands to make things Craft means companionship (if you share the activity). Craft can also be lonely. Think of the crafts person in their shed/workroom/studio. (Good) Craft takes time Experienced craft-makers share their skills through teaching. As a customer you learn in a few hours or day, what that maker has learned and perfects in YEARS. The difficulty for all of us? Monetising that activity. For ALL of us in craft..... the maker wants to make but needs to sell in order to eat 😀 The educator needs to employ the maker but needs to sell courses in order to pay the maker and to make a bit on top to keep the wheels turning 😌 The ‘hobbyists’ make loads of stuff and then wants to sell it 🥰 there’s a fine line between running a hobby and stepping into running a business. (A fine line but a MASSIVE leap. So anyhow. This broadcast is utterly brilliant. It’s filled me with hope and excitement and ideas 💡 #crafts #bbc #maker #makersofinstagram #makerspace #makeitinwales #stiwdio3 @ruthelizabethpackham @jackieshackson @ericafrancesgeorge @clairecawtetextiles @cat_colourfield @beansawyer @melintregwynt @marissathereze @studio_nd_shoemaking @st.dogmaels_pottery @maggie__cross @welshbaskets @cambrian_wool @nant_designs @allinaspin @juderileymarbling @lliojames @nialewistextiles @coldatnight @m.s.upholstery @katievictoriadavies @appleseedjewellery @stiwdio3art @m__jewellery__ @klick_._klack @theboyfrost @laurathomastextiles @furseamanda @nationalwoolmuseum @georgetheframer
😍 Hands up who’s keen to learn a new craft in 😍 Hands up who’s keen to learn a new craft in the new year? 🙋‍♀️ In February you could upholster a locally handmade milking stool with @m.s.upholstery using fabrics woven up the road at @melintregwynt 🤩 🐑 We have gift cards at @stiwdio3cafe if you still need to get presents for your loved ones. Or send them hints! 😉🎁 • • • #upholsteryworkshop #milkingstool #learnanewskill #create #makingisgoodforyou #welshwool #organic #slowliving #rurallife #teaching #upholstery #aseasonalshift #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #art #creative #creativeminds #artforall #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #textiles #wool #contemporarycraft #newyear #woven @stiwdio3art
Great to have Ruth with us all day yesterday. 18 l Great to have Ruth with us all day yesterday. 18 ladies in total needle felled robins and penguins with us 🐧 they are SO cute we just had to share 💕 Ruth will be back with us next year sharing her expertise in needle felting and wet felting..... if you’ve ever fancied a go. #needlefelting #needlefelt #wetfelting #fibre #wool #makeitinwales #crafts #taketimeout #learnsomethingnew #slowdown @ruthelizabethpackham
😍 How gorgeous is this willow basket made by Cl 😍 How gorgeous is this willow basket made by Clare Revera?! You can learn to make your very own with us on February 1st at @stiwdio3cafe 🙌 What would you put in yours? 🍎 @welshbaskets 🦔 Lovely photo by @thebristolartisan 📷 • • • #cyntell #willow #traditionalbasket #willow #basketry #welshbaskets #framebaskets #willow #holly #hazel #briar #weaving #looping #weavingwithnaturalmaterials #weaving #create #contemporarycraft #makingisgoodforyou
Christmas shopping this year could be so much more Christmas shopping this year could be so much more fun if you shop locally. @justacard has been campaigning for over 5 years (and not just at Christmas time) to ‘big up’ independent local retail. 💕 Cardigan High street is awash with wonderful independent shops. (I live in Pentrecagal and Newcastle Emlyn is a wonderful town to shop in too). Clothing, food, vintage, antiques... you name it we’ve got it all in our doorstep. Support local business and let’s see the High Street thrive 💪 @stiwdio3art @stiwdio3cafe @qbcardigan @mundos.shop @hiutdenim @coldatnight @cardiganbaybrownies @crwst.cymru @bara_menyn @canfas_ @castellaberteifi @st.dogmaels_pottery #cardigantown #shoplocal #craft #christmas #justacard #shopsmallthischristmas
Who’s got their decs out then?! 🙋‍♀️ 🌟🌟🌟 Ours are up at @stiwdio3cafe and we’ve still got lots of Christmas courses going on in the run up to the big day. 🎅 Why not come and create some super cute decorations or gifts with us whilst enjoying a mince pie and a mulled wine or two? 🥧 🍷 Stained glass, recycled metal wreaths, withy window decorations, hand lettered labels, greenery wreaths, needle felt robins or penguins, lino-cut cards, rubber stamps, paper-cut star garlands... 🎁 We’d be lying if we said we weren’t now feeling festive and a wee bit excited over here!🎄 • • • #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #art #creative #creativeminds #artforall #imaginationarts #imagination #artforallages #creativethinking #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #christmascraft #Christmas #craft #contemporarycraft #christmascraftnights #handlettering #felting #linocutting #wreath #papercutting #mulledwine #aberteifi
🎶 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎶 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas 🎶 🌲The tree is up in Stiwdio3 and we are loving this one that Jonathan from Drifter made for us. The front of Stiwdio3 is looking wonderful having been decorated by Beth and Maggie. Thank you ✨ Our latest exhibition in the Gallery is up. Public view on Saturday between 2 and 4pm. Pop by and see us. Plenty going on. Festive workshops, browse our little retail shop for Christmas gifts, have a coffee and cake @vickynorthbirdhq 🍰 or lovely lunch @finesse.catering, @elbowsandcrumbs What’s not to get (Christmassy) excited about? 🎅🏻🌲✨☃️🎁 #christmasgifts #stiwdio3 #makeitinwales #christmastree #festive @stiwdio3art @stiwdio3cafe @iamgoinglala @maggie__cross @pippa.makes.art
Who’s feeling festive? 🎅🙋‍♀️ If you’re not yet you will be once you’ve attended one of our (buy one, get one half price!) Christmas workshops at @stiwdio3cafe! 🎄Ho ho ho... Still to come we’ve got rubber stamp making, Scandi willow decs, recycled mini metal wreaths, festive yarn wrapping, hand lettered labelling, screen printing cards, stained glass, quilled snowflakes, paper cut star garlands, textile printed baubles, wet felt stockings, needle felted owls, robins or penguins, withy and tissue paper window decs and lino cut cards. Phew! 😅🌟 Who’s coming to what? There’ll be mulled wine and mince pies...🍷🥰 🥧
👋 Say hello to Helen Hickman. Naturally dyeing 👋 Say hello to Helen Hickman. Naturally dyeing and hand spinning yarn, @nellieandeve is based on a mountain somewhere here in West Wales and makes things by hand from her garden studio. 🍂 The products she makes reflect her love of a homespun lifestyle. 🐑 Coming from a long line of creative women, seamstresses, embroiderers and home makers, ‘nellie and eve’ is named after her grandmothers. 💛 We’ve got some delicious workshops in the calendar with Helen for 2020! Weave a Welsh wool rug / sitting mat or knit a chunky infinity scarf in February. 🔥 • • • #nellieandeve #weavingworkshop #frameloom #learnanewskill #create #makingisgoodforyou #plantdyedyarn #naturallydyed #slowliving #rurallife #teaching #weaving #aseasonalshift #weaveandbehappy #pegloom #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #art #creative #creativeminds #artforall #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #textiles #knitting #contemporarycraft
@ericafrancesgeorge is a self-taught, make it up a @ericafrancesgeorge is a self-taught, make it up as she goes along kinda girl! 🙌 She grew up in rural Devon making things. Did a science degree. Got disillusioned. Got married. Went travelling, in wagon, pulled by a horse (for 5 years). Made things, wrote. Joined an eco-community (8 years). Became a parent. Had part time jobs. Made more things. Got divorced. Got remarried...💍 10 years later she's still making, still writing, still showing up, still questioning the way we look at things. Making things is the one thing Erica can’t not do. 🧡 In the process of crafting, (a papercut, a print, a poem, even a pair of socks), she finds kinder and gentler ways to see and be herself in this world, to find ways to cut the crap and get on with living the best life she can. In that creative space she can find simplicity in the complex and discard the noise. 🕊️ Erica likes to think that life is a conversation with the universe and all we can do is show up, ready to listen and ready to talk. The rest is just a case of joining the dots. 🌙 So here she is, putting it out there in the hope that you might feel encouraged to question your view too. 🧠 We love Erica and everything she does! 😊 She's come up with a super lovely 'Slow Blooms' workshop for us and it's buy one, get one half price as part of our festive promotion! 🎁 ...In this workshop you will create a (very) small, hand stitched bloom. Choose from a wide selection of pre-loved fabrics and outcomes; a brooch, a pendant or a hair slide. 💐 The repetition of small, simple stitches is the ideal respite from a world that spins too fast. Here, you can go slow and put your attention where you really want it…🌱 • • • #alwayslearning #artistsofinstagram #artforall #artofinstagram #artoftheday #art #creative #creativeminds #artforall #imaginationarts #imagination #artforallages #creativethinking #exploretocreate #creativemindset #artinthehome #christmascraft #Christmas #craft #contemporarycraft #christmascraftnights #MakerMonday #slowstitch #sewing #textiles #papercutartist #printmaking #botanicalart
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Stiwdio 3
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