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Helen Foot and Kate Millbank seek your votes on Fund 101, raising money for their innovative and sustainable Shropshire inspired Tweed. http://www.enterprisenation.com/funding-applications/helen-foot-design/   Helen is a woven textile designer based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. She gained a Masters from the Royal College of Art in 2010 and has been building up her…

Shrewsbury designer, Helen Foot, has been selected to showcase Shropshire’s foremost artists and makers in a new exhibition at MAC in Birmingham. From the 21st of April Helen will be curating PLOT 9 of ALLOTMENT, a new and innovative programme which explores democratic approaches to exhibition curation. The project sees the Arena Gallery…

After the success of last years networking events at The Creative Studio we decided after a busy old few months to run more but this time at our friends venue The Shrewsbury Coffeehouse on Monday 23rd April from 7-9pm. So if you’re an artist, musician, maker, designer etc come along…

If there’s one thing I really like, its people who are passionate about what they do.  So when I met Kelly Jones at the launch of Shropshire’s 100 apprentices in 100 days event in January, I wanted to know more. Its eight months since Kelly joined HEFF, or Heart of…

Woman to man at party: “And what do you do?” Man in reply to woman: “Iʼm a doctor.” We all know where it goes from there… “Ah, funny you should say that, but…. my left knee… just here at the top… do you think…?” Does the doctor cringe when asked anything…

Jelly Co-working days are becoming so popular that more and more Jelly locations are springing up all over Shropshire.  February sees the start of Whitchurch Jelly based at The Lodge at Dearnford Lake. As well as offering delicious locally sourced food, home-made soup and cakes, Dearnford Lodge also offers a…

During the first two weeks of this month (year), I have been oo-ing and ahh-ing along with everyone else who has any tinge of horticultural awareness. And itʼs all to do with the early winter months being so mild. Geraniums – not the hardy type, but the summer bedding Pelargoniums. Forgot…

I have been looking around my garden to see whatʼs flowering and what I might be able to bring into the house on Christmas morning. It might well be a rose – there are two flowering in the garden at the moment – the pure white climbing ʻIcebergʼ rose (you really canʼt…

Arts and Crafts writer Sarah Kennedy reflects on the Shrewsbury International Street Theatre Festival and looks forward to Christmas. I’ve been meaning to write a post about the Shrewsbury International Street Theatre Festival since watching Bruce Airhead’s final performance on Sunday 4th September. Here I am two months on, and…

I think we have reached garden clear up time. Bulbs should be in by now – that is, except for Tulips. I like to leave them until November as too early and they can succumb to ʻTulip Fireʼ. Thatʼs when, as the leaves appear they are all scrunched up and yuk (the…