Creative Craft & Flea has become one of the most inclusive pop-up markets out there
“My business is named after my childhood dog Beau. I create all handmaid, hand-painted wooden peg dolls and sensory play toys. I also make story spoons that go with books, so the characters just give another element, and you can learn through play.
"I used to teach art to autistic adults so that’s where it all really spiralled from. Playing through toys gives individuals something else to interact with instead of having to sit there and be taught one way; it gives them more of a three-dimensional learning experience. My little peg dolls are my favourite to do. They can be decorative or just something to hold. So many people buy them as worry dolls.
"It’s the independence of it too, a lot of these people are like me who just do these things as a hobby, who really get something out of it. Rather than the big corporate businesses that just use machines and create this stuff and sell it for half as cheap.”“It’s my wife’s business. She started this when we first went into lockdown. She started sewing masks. She sold them on Etsy at first and it just went from there. She didn’t really have anything else to do.
"The bags go quickly. One of the designs was the one that really took off and it sold over and over again. It allowed us to feel encouraged and keep going. You find that once a design takes off, another one might take off. And every now and again you sell another.“We found that since Covid, people seem to really want to actively change their shopping habits. I think people realised that there are local businesses that could really use the help.
"We’ve always been very supportive of the kids and with this distillery, he’s so keen to make it a success that he deserves the support. We enjoy talking to people and being at markets can be nice. He takes pride in what he’s doing, and we take pride in him and what he’s trying to do. We try and help him. You should always try and help your kids I think, you should always try and help them be better off than you at their age.
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