Friday Features

Our ‘Friday Features’ share the stories and insights of some wonderful creative women in the UK who own amazing small businesses.

Covering: creativity (at home and in work), juggling life and work as creative women, the ups and downs of running a small business in the UK, and our wellbeing as creatives… we hope these posts celebrate the incredible women featured, support the creative community as a whole, and encourage any creative women in the UK who have a small business (or dream) to keep going.

Louise from Two For Joy Illustration
Friday Features

Friday Feature: Louise from Two For Joy Illustration, creator of cheerfully illustrated cards & stationery

This week’s Friday Feature is the ever so creative, Louise from Two For Joy Illustration. Louise is an award winning (very rightly so!) illustrator and designer – with a focus on cheerful cards and stationery… although, as you’ll read in her interview below, it sounds like she might expand into other products in the coming years, which is a bit exciting! Let’s get started… What inspires your creativity? So many different things. I would say I’m design-led, so i create a range of illustrations around maybe something topical – like my love for postboxes – or an idea I’ve had for a clever card (Like my children’s cards which all

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Jen from March and Bloom sitting on the edge of her desk in her branding and graphic design studio
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Friday Feature: Jen from March and Bloom, branding & graphic designer for brands that make a difference

Our second ever Friday Feature is the lovely Jen from March and Bloom. What Jen doesn’t know about good branding and graphic design, isn’t worth knowing! With a focus on brands who want to change their industry or community for the better, Jen brings heart, soul, and passion into her design work – creating brands that really make a difference. We asked Jen some questions to get to know more about her: Why branding and graphic design? Because graphic design is the absolute best. Because the moment I learned what graphic design was (at age 15) I was absolutely hooked. Because I cannot imagine doing anything else with my life.

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Jess from Thimble and Fabric, holding one of her embroidery kits
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Friday Feature: Jess from Thimble and Fabric, creator of easy craft kits for self-care

Well, this is a bit exciting. It’s our first ever Friday Feature (where we share the stories and insights of some wonderful creative women in the UK who own amazing small businesses). And our first feature is a good one… drum roll please… Jess from Thimble and Fabric. From embroidery to friendship bracelets, Jess makes gorgeous kits that are suitable for beginners and provide the perfect opportunity for a little creative self-care and wellbeing. We asked Jess some questions to get to know more about her: What first got you interested in crafting? I can’t think of a time when I wasn’t! I remember my grandma gifting me a sewing

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