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Where Inspiration Blooms

Name: Where Inspiration Blooms
Address: The Studio, Featherbed Lane, Chartridge, HP156XQ, GB
Telephone: +447410611988
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Welcome! We're Jules & Caroline and we run workshops, with the help of a wonderful community of local teachers.

We have 2 inspirational spaces near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Our classes include pottery, art, craft, horticulture and wellbeing.

19/01/2025

🎼Red and yellow and pink and green....🎵🎶

Once you can make your own lampshade, you can literally make a rainbow of opportunities for your friends, family, and home🌈

As luck would have it, expert upholsterer is back with us next Saturday, 25th January, to teach you how to make drum lampshades. They're the perfect place for beginners to start... and you don't need to be good at sewing or even have a single crafty bone in your body... they're great fun to make and even better fun to admire as your very own handiwork when you get home.

For more info, we've popped a link below or you are very welcome to pop any questions in the comments.

https://www.whereinspirationblooms.co.uk/product-page/lampshade-making-workshop-january-25

08/01/2025

Some people know that my entry into the crafting world started with upholstery about 15 years ago, and I was really lucky to have been taught by one of the greatest teachers of our time, David James. He was always so patient and kind, and utterly passionate about upholstery. Today, along with his family and many of his grateful students, we said goodbye to David, after a short illness before Christmas. He has inspired so many people in his lifetime, and helped to breathe new life into hundreds of old chairs.
I haven’t upholstered for about 10 years, but coincidentally started this chair for my niece last October. I finished it over the Christmas holidays, and thought of David as I was stitching, and offered him a silent apology as I banged away with my electronic staple gun - a true atrocity for such a traditionalist. He despaired of all the modern, foam filled chairs that I brought to our classes, but gave them equal thought and consideration as more traditional chairs.
So this post is a big thank you to David for his teaching, and to the wonderful group of women I got to know through upholstery, who then inspired me to branch out into other crafts. Without those classes it is likely that Where Inspiration Blooms wouldn’t exist.
Here is the little chair that I covered for my gorgeous niece Rosie, which she and their cat Mack (pictured) take turns sitting in. Thanks to Suz for the photo.

03/01/2025

It’s going to be a cold one tonight, so it is perfect to make some ice art. Just put a bit of water in a bowl or bucket and decorate with flowers and foliage from your garden. Tomorrow it will be frozen solid, ready to be taken out and admired!

23/12/2024

Last-minute reminder for anyone who is having as much success with their pressie buying as I'm having with doing regular social media posts!!

The good news (for you)...is that we sell digital gift vouchers via our website. They're instant, you can choose almost any amount, and if you want something to print off and pop in a card, I can make you a bespoke pdf and email it between now and 9pm tomorrow night. You just need to send us an email to request it.

The bad news (for me)... is that if I don't get my act together on the old socials pretty sharpish, Caroline may need to consider interviewing her cat as our next marketing guru!!

Happy Christmas Eve Eve folks (there's just over 2 hours of it left, so I may even have time to sneak another post in tomorrow for you lucky people😉).

PS Link to vouchers here
https://www.whereinspirationblooms.co.uk/gift-card

25/11/2024

Practising gratitude for the small things.

New gloves... not only snuggly warm and lovingly hand knitted but triggering memories from a lovely end of Summer holiday to Scotland, where they were bought.

Simple slow wintering pleasures.

Thank you, lovely Sarah

23/11/2024

Aren't these the cutest Christmas creatures?

A huge thank you to the super talented who taught needlefelted Christmas decorations today at The Studio.

Jackie will be teaching one more class with us this year (Satturday 7th December), where we will be making this adorable little owl and sn*******ng reindeer decorations.

And... she has very kindly let us add 2 extra spaces as we know so many folk were disappointed that they weren't able to get a place.

On a windy grey Saturday, these little cuties really do bring us such joy!

20/11/2024

Today was a day that I was glad to watch the sun set on... and I stood there, badly dressed for such a freezing cold wind, making damn sure it really was done!

Tomorrow, I'm going to get up early, watch the sun rise, and celebrate the opportunity for a fresh start.

19/11/2024

The outdoor lights are up.
Getting all the sparkly, festive feels now...🌟

18/11/2024

Thought you might like to see our most recent interior additions at the Pavilion.

This lovely old building really is finding her voice now as our dream of a beautifully grounded and nature-inspired nurturing space takes shape under expert eye. All of the pieces of The Barn that we once loved so much are slowly evolving here... with all of the learnings and lessons it taught us!

A couple of simple book cases and some old lights and ta da!

Next up... outside lights...

10/11/2024

DAY 7 - A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY

Well, I'm not sure how well my personal 7-day challenge went (seeing as it actually took about 15 days to complete!!) but the good news is that our social media mojo did return, so I guess you could say it worked!!

Today, in response to some lovely emails and messages asking if we are actually planning to run any classes after mid- December as there's hardly anythung left on the website, a date for your diary!

Classes for Spring 2025 will be on the website, available to buy from 9am next Saturday, 16th November.

As well as our regular pottery classes, courses, and workshops, we will also have lots of lovely new classes and a couple of new artists and craftsfolk joining our teaching community.

It's going to be a very busy week getting everything live and spotting the inevitable typos and wrong venue errors!

The piccies featured today are pieces made by novice potters on our Play with Clay course, which in Sping '25 will be celebrating its 6th birthday!

Hope you have a lovely restful Sunday,

Jules & Caroline xx

08/11/2024

6 - PLEASE TELL US ABOUT YOUR EVENT...

It's that time of year again, where our social media feeds are filling up with lots of lovely craft fairs, events, and markets.

If you, like us, are having trouble keeping up with what's happening and when, then we've got a plan!

Last year, we compiled our favourite events into a blog post (which took HOURS of work creating visuals and putting them all in date order!), so for this year, we have a cunning time-saving plan.

Our community calendar has been very neglected of late, whilst we prep all of our 2025 classes, but we are dusting it off and hopefully filling it fuller than santa's sack with seasonal sensations.

If you're having an event/fayre/market, selling handmade goods at an event, are supporting a local event or simply know of a fabulous local indie business or charity event then please email us on the usual Jules and Caroline email address.

We will need
- an image to promote the event
- the date, day, venue and time
- a link for more info or to buy tickets
- anything else you think we can use to promote the event for you

We will start popping the events up as soon as we get 5 mins here and there, so please spread the word.. thank you x

PS if you want to make a donation to charity alongside submitting your event info, then we are collecting for

06/11/2024

DAY 5 - TRYING TO LIFT THE MOOD!

Today was a day best forgotten (for way too many reasons).

We are both pretty devastated by the US election results and worried about what the next few years will bring, especially for women.

In an attempt to make ourselves feel better, we thought we would try to help make someone else feel better. (A tried and tested method for us both that usually works! 🤞).

We have decided to give away a pair of places on 2 of our upcoming workshops (where we knew we could squeeze in a couple of extra folk sharing a table).

The classes are Intro to Monet... an artists study in watercolour painting and Ceramic Houses.

If you and a family member or friend need a little pick me up for whatever reason, let us know below which of the workshops you would both like to come to. You just need to comment Monet or Houses (we don't need any other info). You can enter multiple times if you like by tagging different friends you would bring... it's up to you.

The Monet class is this Saturday, 9th November from 10am to 1pm, and Ceramic Houses is Saturday 16th November from 3.30-5.30pm.

These are the last 2 places left on ceramic houses this year, so all the more reason to enter! Deadline to enter is Thursday 7th at 9pm. We will randomly choose a winner for each workshop when we are together on Friday morning and let them know via a direct message. We will need to hear back from them by 6pm to let us know that they can come, or we will contact the next person on the list until the places are gone.

Hope you're all fairing OK today. Good luck, and we hope you might find a little joy from our workshops.

Lots of love, Caroline & Jules ###

01/11/2024

DAY 3 - WANTED...CLOTH BAGS FOR FESTIVE FUN

We've just loaded our final festive class onto the website. It's a bit of a hybrid class... think basic sewing skills meets Christmas recycling!

On the evening of 29th Nov, we will be joined by the lovely Sam from .sam who will be teaching us how to turn an old tired cloth bag (you know the ones that you sometimes get given for free or that you've inadvertently ended up with and now have their own drawer!) into a fabulously festive appliqué reusable gift bag.

Not only does this make us happy because its a fun upcycling project but we also love it because it's a great way to pick up a few basic sewing skills from our local expert.

You can find more info here
https://www.whereinspirationblooms.co.uk/product-page/upcycled-christmas-bags

If you can't make it or don't fancy it, but you have a stash of fabric bags just waiting for a new home, then we'd gladly take them off your hands... all donations very welcome 🙏

We've put a piccy of some 'before' bags in this post just in case you don't know which ones we mean.

Right off to start the weekend now!
Have a lovely evening 😊

31/10/2024

Day 2 - 🌱GREEN FINGER NEWS🌱

Whilst Jules has been attempting to get bike-fit (see previous post!), Caroline has been taking her free time in a far more calming direction!

Caroline's passion for growing may have wained somewhat when we had the huge grounds at The Barn to maintain (it was a real hard slog keeping an acre under control and growing a fledgling business) but once the shackles were off her love of plants, planting, growing and gathering came back like a welcome old friend.

She's grown the most gorgeous dahlias this year (swipe left), which has been quite an achievement given the variable weather...plus... and this is a real tell tale sign for me...has gone back to photographing interesting, quirky and beautiful details that she sees on her morning cuppa garden strolls... look how wonderful the little coiled tendrils are!

Whilst most of us have only just begun the annual pruning and clearing garden jobs for winter, Caroline has already planted her seeds for next year both metaphorically and in real life.

From Spring '25, horticulture and beautiful blooms will make a joyful regular return to our workshops and classes at The Pavilion. Where Inspiration will bloom again under her expert green fingers as she shares her passion for, and extensive knowledge of, seasonal locally grown flowers.

I mean, who else do you know who loves the greenhouse so much that they've put up fairy lights in it? 🥰

Now, all we need to do is find a free day to actually put them online!

28/10/2024

"The thing with posting on social media is that you need to be consistent" (I piously used to preach on my marketing workshops!)... but the reality of these things, especially as small business owners, is that sometimes you don't feel like it.

You're busy... preparing, selling, teaching and clearing up from workshops, wading through the annual accounts whilst, loading and unloading the kilns, planning next term, sourcing 2nd hand wreath materials... you get the picture🤯

Then there's home and the eternal laundry mountain, meals to cook, football boots to scrub, lifts to drive, gardens to maintain....families with all their varying needs to support.

And that's before the elusive oasis of 'self-care' even gets a look in...

It's no wonder things like the creativity and social media mojo sometimes go astray.

But, with the start of half term comes a natural break in the routine and a renewed sense of sociability (plus we thought you may enjoy us sharing a wee bit of WIB news)

We've created our very own 7 days of news challenge, which we hope will keep us on track for the next week...join us if you fancy it ...

DAY 1 - THE BIKE SHOCKER - RARE FOOTAGE OF WOMAN ON BIKE

The pictured 51 year old 'cuddly' woman (photo deliberately chosen to avoid the side view😉) has been out on on a bicycle, not once but TWICE since August and in even more of a shock (probably to her more than anyone else!) she's enjoyed it both times.

Granted in this pic, she's borrowing a bike bought for her daughter when she was 11 (which strangely wasn't too small for our vertically challenged amateur velodrome athlete) but apparently the words "I think I like this" were uttered on more than one occasion. Sadly, however, for 2 consecutive days, they were followed by wincing every time she sat down on anything solid.

Any cyclists out there are keenly invited to offer support on undercarriage cushioning to avoid the shortest cycling career in history.

Watch this space....day 2 is a 'moggy missive with a marvellous ending' 🐈‍⬛

15/10/2024

A quick post to welcome our newest teacher... super Sam Slater from .sam

Sam is a top sewing bee, who we've known for quite a few years now. She's a treasured member of our Monday Club community, a wonderful supporter of our business and a marvellous seamstress, who has mended and altered many a garment for both of us over the last couple of years.

She's extremely passionate about reducing the amount of clothing that goes into landfill and it's been really inspiring to watch her business go from strength to strength over the last couple of years.

But our highlight has to be the look of pure joy, accomplishment, and pride that we were privileged to have witnessed last Wednesday evening after Sam's first ever class teaching. Sam was literally buzzing, and it was so inspiring to see.

Sam's back teaching again this Wednesday evening in part 2 of her Basic Sewing Skills course (which sold out super quick so will definitely be running again early in 2025). She's also got 2 spots left on our Make Your Own Pj's one day intro to dressmaking this Saturday. It's a fab class where you'll learn how to make a pair of pyjama bottoms from pattern cutting right through to hemming...and then once you've mastered the art you can make pairs for the whole family.... or slouchy 'pants' or even shorts! It's a super versatile and fun pattern... not unlike the lady herself😉.

Please join us in welcoming Sam into the Where Inspiration Blooms community 🤗

Here' a link for more info if you'd like some.

https://www.whereinspirationblooms.co.uk/product-page/make-your-own-christmas-pyjamas

03/10/2024

This Sunday, we will be celebrating the full turning of the wheel of the year with the last of our Framed Hedgerow Seasonal Papercutting workshops.

Twelve months ago, our lovely friend Stacey from began her seasonal stroll through the seasons with an intricate Autumnal design and this week as we reach the end of her immersive nature walk you can choose any of her 4 beautiful designs to cut and frame up.

This, as with all of Stacey's classes, will be a proper treat of an afternoon... calming, soothing, and nourishing. Just how we like our classes!

Which season is your favourite? Which one will you choose?

28/09/2024

Confession...I've been utterly rubbish at doing posts since the start of term!

Luckily, Caroline doesn't appear to have noticed!!!

It's probably a bit short notice for most of you, but....we're at Shopping Marquee at today and tomorrow.

We've got a lovely selection of 'you know who's' ceramics (can't tag her or she'll spot this post!) Plus some seaweeds and acorny bits from me. We are spreading the word about our upcoming workshops.

The sun is shining and so far it's been lovely having time together. Just don't tell her about this post...it might ruin the vibe 😉...

Address

The Studio, Featherbed Lane
Chartridge
HP156XQ

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 9pm
Tuesday	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	9am - 9pm
Thursday	9am - 10pm
Friday	9am - 10pm
Saturday	9am - 10pm
Sunday	9am - 9pm

Telephone

+447410611988

Website

http://www.whereinspirationblooms.co.uk/

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