About Handmade By Mee
A magical world of little people and toadstools!
Handmade By Mee Description
Handmade wooden fairy doors, and handmade dolls, hearts, bookmarks, gnomes and other felt items, all made from 100% wool felt.
I am a mum to four boys, the eldest of which is now 20 years old. We have been a Home Educating family for over 7 years and it is thanks to this that I have started 'Handmade by Mee'.
I have always loved making things. I can remember knitting and sewing as a child, along with making endless books from scrap paper and stapled together to hold my stories.
I lost touch with my creativeness for a long time, and it had a reprise when i had my boys. Drawing and painting, playdough models and things made from junk were the name of the game. . along with a few knitted items of baby clothes and crackers for christmas! I also loved to decorate cakes. . . . I even did one for a friend's wedding once!
And then we started to Home Educate and the craft side took off!
We were always making something from all sorts of materials! Wood, paper and cardboard. . . I even started knitting again but socks this time! I began to write, and draw and paint a little again, and my lovely old sewing machine was put back into service for several projects. . . . bags, wizard robes, Roman soldier tunic, chef trousers from an old sheet and more recently Lord of the Rings style cloaks. My eldest son used it about 6 years ago to make several bags out of some old curtains!
Then I found myself drawn to the Steiner /Waldorf style of education and I began to make simple little flower girls for our season table, which led on to a slightly more complicated Father Winter and Mother Earth. A few dressed bendy figures followed and then as they were so expensive to buy and lacked 'cuteness' I looked for another version and I discovered Salley Mavor's Felt Wee Folk and I was very soon hooked! My sons were requesting all sorts of little people and then after some lovely feedback from friends, Handmade by Mee was born!