We have had a great couple of weeks and would like to thank everybody that has come to our pop up shop  or visited us online.
A huge thank you to everybody that has supported independent designers and shopped local and handmade this Christmas.
Eat, drink, be merry and we will see you next week for our review of the year...

Gwin's products are inspired by personal memories of growing up in Derbyshire and the associations made between pattern, colour and emotional memory. The etching and torch-firing processes make it possible to offer customers personalised patterns, phrases and colour made-to-order, allowing you to recreate your own emotional relationships in an item you love.

Creating desirable objects from everyday waste . Innovative jewellery, lighting and artwork created from recycled plastic bags. By transforming waste in to a covetous product, the intention is to challenge people’s concept of value. 

Daisycat cards are handmade and printed at Tori's home in Nottingham. Inspired by Tori's love of pattern, colour, vintage, retro and nature, but mainly her daughter Daisy and her wonderful imagination, her love of animals, birds, flowers, polka dots, buttons and googly eyes. 

Skyline's elegant and simple designs adorn stylish mugs, perfect for cuppa!

You can find more work by Skyline at the Handmade Nottingham pop up shop and in our online shop.

You can find more work by Rolling Roses at the Handmade Nottingham pop up shop and in our online shop.

DING DING makes things!
 Hand screen printed jewellery, accessories, fabric and notebooks all featuring geometric patterns.

Katie is a Nottingham based designer maker specialising in unique origami jewellery and sculpture created using recycled and reclaimed books.

You can find more work by Katie Stainer at the Handmade Nottingham pop up shop and in our online shop.

A love of tea, among other things, inspires the fantastic stationary designs of Lovely Cuppa.
Lovely Cuppa believes the essence of handmade is trying to produce polished looking designs from a reasonably primative setup, each one being that little bit different from the last, so you can guarantee they are completely unique. 

You can find more work by Deborah Ballinger at the Handmade Nottingham pop up shop and in our online shop.

In the run up to Christmas we are celebrating the great local designers, makers and vintage sellers, whose wares adorn our pop up shop. So, It is time for yet another designer's spotlight!
Sharing the limelight today are Molly's Mum, Zalisander and Newton and the Apple.

Lex Watt of Zalisander Contemporary Jewellery takes inspiration from everything around her but is particularly interested in the visual aspects of growth, encrustation and the reclaiming of man made structures by nature.
Her work revolves around surface texture, which she then accents with natural gemstones from reliable sources. With her designs, Lex seeks to invoke the sense of wonder she felt as a child when reading stories of fairy-tale treasure.

You can find more work by Zalisander at the Handmade Nottingham pop up shop and in our online shop.

Newton and the Apple plunder the wonderful worlds of nature and science to create a gorgeous bunch of handcrafted accessories for you and your home.

Working from a small studio in Nottingham Newton and the apple use their background in auditory neuroscience and graphic design to create items that are fun, unique, and just a little bit special. 

In the run up to Christmas we are celebrating the great local designers, makers and vintage sellers, whose wares adorn our pop up shop. So, It is time for yet another designer's spotlight!
Sharing the limelight today are Zeus Labels, Re-found Relics and Katie Abey.

Zeus Labels re-purposes vintage fabrics to make glorious soft sculptures.

You can find more work by Zeus Labels at the Handmade Nottingham pop up shop and in our online shop.

You can find more work by Refound Relics at the Handmade Nottingham pop up shop and in our online shop.

You can find more work by Katie Abey at the Handmade Nottingham pop up shop and in our online shop.

Here at Handmade Nottingham we are dedicated to promoting and showcasing local creative talent.
Our pop up shop is brimming with enchanting textiles, jewellery, prints and homes accessories from 30 designers, makers and vintage sellers.
With Christmas around the corner we thought we'd shine the spotlight on Nottingham's  great creatives, and hopefully give you some marvelous gift ideas for the ones you love, in this, the season of good will.
Our first two creatives to share the limelight are Rhea Clements and Hannah Stevens.

Hannah's illustrative drawings are turned into a range of tote bags, greetings cards and jewellery. Her designs feature a range of quirky illustrations from pirates with beards to space travel, as well as a selection of cute animals and vintage style crockery. 

After a great deal of preparation the Handmade Nottingham pop up shop opened on November 1st at the recently refurbished Malt Cross. 
As the proud purveyors of exquisite; local and handmade products our shop features the work of 30 designers, makers and vintage sellers from across the county!
The shop space is beautiful, which will come as no surprise to anyone who has ever had the pleasure of visiting the gorgeous former music hall. We are overjoyed to be part of a new chapter in the Malt Cross's history, but alas, as a pop up shop, we will not be there forever so be sure to pop in and shop local and handmade this Christmas!!

Okay, so now we come to the end, thanks for checking out our blog and reading about our recent adventures.
 If you would like to see more photos from the Bird in Borrowed Feathers Market pop over to their website, or their Facebook page. If you would like to see more of our pop up shop, come and say hi, we'd love to see you!!