Posts by Emily
Calling all Folksy Fashion designers!
Fashion designers of Folksy have been invited to enter a rather swanky competition this week. In a new television series for Sky Living, pop superstar Rihanna will be searching the UK for the next generation of raw, undiscovered designer talent and has picked Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts to head up the challenge for her. [...]
Competition time from the National Trust magazine!
We are very excited to announce a great little competition from the National Trust magazine. Two For Folksy pieces will be given away every day this week via the @NTMagazine twitter feed, with a bespoke craft tool kit up for grabs on the final day of the competition (this Friday). For Folksy includes collaborations with some of Folksy’s talented [...]
Winner of our Folksy Finds competition
Thanks to everyone who entered our Folksy Finds competition to curate their own featured items page around the theme “Christmas is Coming”. We had tonnes of entries to look through and it was a fun challenge to choose our winner. Some of our favourite entries were Claira Turvey‘s favourite picks, a great Christmas food themed entry from The Butlers [...]
Frankly – the new Folksy blog is here!
Hello, Frankly, the new online magazine from Folksy is here! frankly.folksy.com. Celebrating making in all its glory, Frankly will bring you interviews with the best makers and designers from Folksy.com, will discover new and emerging talent and share with you stories that inspire creativity in all it’s forms. For tips on how to make the best of [...]
Featured Sellers – Ladysnail and EmmaJoy
From the Imagination of Ladysnail – illustrator and printmaker bringing cute little doodles to life. EmmaJoy – delicately hand drawn greetings cards by graphic designer Emma Holton. See more of Folksy’s fab featured sellers…
Featured Sellers
Symetricolour - musical boxes made from recycled items. True – solid products for your home using reclaimed timber. See more of Folksy’s fab featured sellers…
Bye for a while
As part of the Folksy site re-design we are also re-launching the Folksy blog with shiny new features, craft and design updates and news. Only a couple of weeks until we launch now so with that in mind I’m off to work on layouts, designs, logos and most importantly fresh new content. Folksy.com is running [...]
Featured Seller
Jools Yasities is a multi media artist working with watercolour, acrylic, charcoal, ink, stitch and collage to create bold designs inspired by nature. Jools lives in Widnes with her youngest daughter, Natascha and her “amazing, patient, supportive and long-suffering husband, Jay”. Her other two children, Dominic and Hannah have flown the nest but I’m told [...]
My Essential Kit
Kim of Folksy shop Kimbows creates handmade fabric jewellery using glossy painted wooden beads and pretty printed fabrics. With a background in fashion design she has always loved to sew. From vintage sewing books to sand paper & plastic, here she shares with us the craft kit she cannot live without. 1. My really big [...]
Make A Statement
I have this chair. It’s a kitchen chair that my brother picked up for 99p. He reupholstered the seat with a striking vintage fabric, painted the ornate back spindels in a bright white gloss and gave it to us wrapped in a large red ribbon as a Christmas present. It was a GREAT christmas present. [...]