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January 5, 2017 Rosefinch Studio

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I'm Lauren Nesbitt, the designer, illustrator and founder of Rosefinch Studio - the home of illustrated paper goods. I live in Somerset, UK with my Husband and three miniature poodles. I love to post DIY craft tutorials, ideas, inspiration and snippets of my day-to-day life here. View all posts by Rosefinch Studio

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Happy Fri-Yay! I hope you’re having a good one so far. I’m pleased to announce the launch of a brand new personalised card and print for @wearenoths, Yay! (swipe to see full range). These are both absolutely perfect for newborn babies! Have you ever been in a hot air balloon? I’ve been in one over Bath, Somerset and I absolutely loved it! Shop link in bio 💕

A bit of a delayed post but @lucyridges_commercial travelled all of the way to Somerset from Manchester to help me with my @wearenoths shop photography a couple of months ago. Here are some of the behind the scenes shots. Lucy did such an amazing job, I’d highly recommend her!

Happy Fri-YAY! I’ve had a bit of an insta break and haven’t posted since April... I didn’t realise it was this long. I’ve been doing lots of designing in this time, including this brand new personalised card, perfect for all of those special rainbow babies out there! It’s available on @wearenoths and @etsyuk. 🌈❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #rainbowbaby #abmlifeiscolorful

I’ve been working away on new designs recently, I will share some progress pics with you all soon... However, I couldn’t resist showing you a very special crocheted cushion which was made with lots of love! I run a fortnightly crochet group in Bath, UK (there are approx 30 of us joined). Some of us grouped together and made this beauty to celebrate the third anniversary of the group. It’s going to live in the coffee shop we hold the meetup in. I do a fair bit of crochet in my spare time alongside running the shop and have a separate account @teacakeandcrochet if you’d like to see more! (apologies for cross posting). 🌼💕

Wow! I haven’t picked up a paintbrush since finishing art college many years ago. It feels great. I’m working on some new card designs for my @notonthehighstreet collection and thought I’d try something different 🎨 @wearenoths

Happy Valentine’s Day to all those celebrating! Here’s some crocheted heart envelopes I recently made to decorate our fireplace with! You may have seen these on my crochet account @teacakeandcrochet, where you’ll find the pattern reference. Sorry for the cross posting. I hope your day is filled with L O V E, laughter and happiness! ❤️

Happy Friday all! I’m in my workroom today on the computer working away on new designs. I’ve found it really difficult to get my creative juices flowing this year, but the bright sunshine today has inspired me to get going again and I have a lot of exciting plans to make a start on. Also, my Husband just made me a nice cup of tea and chose my favourite mug, so there’s lots of things to be happy about today. 💕

I run a fortnightly crochet meetup in @picnic_bath and yesterday evening we all made sunburst granny squares for a collaborative cushion to mark our third anniversary! As I work from home all week it’s so nice to socialise with like minded people over a cup of tea, delicious cake and colourful yarn!

A throwback to a yummy hot chocolate I was enjoying this time last year! It’s certainly the perfect weather for one.

Morning all! I hope you’re having a good day so far. I’ve received a replacement printer today (what a time for it to be unreliable, hey?!) and also this MASSIVE stamp delivery just arrived! This should keep me going until the end of this year I hope. 🇬🇧❤️

It’s Day 5 of #MeetTheMakerWeek and today’s prompts are ‘action/progress.’ I thought I’d use it to let you know what I’m currently doing! I spend a lot of time printing and packaging orders, in between working on new products, general admin, photography, social media, research and the list goes on.... I’ve sent out a LOT of cards this week and this is a snippet of one of those printed this morning whilst I was in the process of packaging it.

It’s day 4 of @joannehawker’s #MeetTheMakerWeek and today’s prompt is ‘Why?’ This is quite a personal post for me. These beautiful photos are from our wedding in 2014. At the time I was feeling a little lost career wise. I went through an extremely rough time at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (the less said about that the better I’m afraid), but I still managed to graduate with a Textile Design degree in 2008 which I’m immensely proud of. After being advised to take a year out due to severe mental health issues caused by the course and lack of support and understanding from the lecturers, my creative juices just weren’t flowing when I’d finished the course. Whilst I felt relieved to have graduated, I also felt very deflated and worked in a variety of retail jobs in London for a few years afterwards, followed by a job working with students at a local University when we made the move to Somerset. As soon as we moved out of London, I found my creativity again which only heightened when we started planning our wedding. I did lots of crafting prior to the big day and I felt so happy and excited. I’d always imagined doing a creative job and it was at this point I decided to leave my full time job and open Paper Doily Party Shop. The business has evolved since then, but I’ll always remember why I started it and feel very grateful that it re sparked my creativity levels and improved my mental health! ❤️

It’s Day 3 of @joannehawker’s #MeetTheMakerWeek and today’s prompts are ‘When, Where and Workspace.’ This is a photo of my much loved peg board which lives above my desk and makes me smile every time I look at it. It’s from @blockdesign who I would recommend. I took this photo last Summer when my workroom was a lot more organised! Paper Doily Party Shop began after my wedding in 2014 when I became addicted to making handmade party decorations and left my full time administrative job at a University in Bath. It’s evolved quite a lot since then, but I will always remember why I started the business. I’m based in the small Somerset town of Shepton Mallet. I’m a real country girl at heart (addicted to watching Escape to the country 😂), and I fell in love with Somerset the minute we made the move from London. I run the business full time from a spare room at home. This works really well for me, I just need to get a little more organised!

It’s day two of @joannehawker’s #MeetTheMakerWeek and today’s prompt is all about what I make. When I first started the business, the bulk of my products were handmade party decorations inspired by those made for my own wedding, but in the past year due to popular demand I’ve been focussing on expanding my personalised greetings card range. All of my card designs originate through drawings which are then skilfully developed on my very trusty iMac. All of my cards are then printed and packaged in my workroom to the highest standard. I did a lot of similar design work at art college several years ago (Chelsea College of Art and Design in London) for my degree in Textile/Surface Pattern Design and it’s only over the past year I’ve really started to get into it again. This is where my efforts are going to be focussed next year and I have a rebrand planned to reflect the evolvement of my business. Exciting!

Hello! It’s Lauren here from Paper Doily Party Shop in Somerset, UK and I’m really excited to be taking part in @joannehawker’s #MeetTheMakerWeek. Here is a photo of me taken a few months ago in my favourite coffee shop. This adorable pup (Reuben) actually belongs to a friend, but I have 3 miniature poodles of my own called Felix, Mabel and Blossom who do a good job of making my working day that extra bit happier and entertaining! #meetthemaker

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