RingaRosesDesigns

Hand-painted personalised gifts for babies and children

Bridgnorth, England On Etsy since 2014

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RingaRosesDesigns

Hand-painted personalised gifts for babies and children

Bridgnorth, England | 1,047 Sales

5 out of 5 stars

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Announcement    LAST ORDER DATES FOR CHRISTMAS 2020
Please note - these are my last order dates to enable me to fulfil orders before our Royal Mail last posting dates, which are recommended dates and DO NOT GUARANTEE delivery before Christmas. In light of the huge demand on the postal service this year, PLEASE ORDER AS EARLY AS YOU CAN to avoid disappointment. Thank you.
UK orders - 15th December
Orders to USA and Europe - 9th December
(Other Countries - please contact me to check)
Orders received after these dates will still be processed, though my dispatch time may well be extended over the Christmas period.

May you and your loved ones stay safe and well at what continues to be a difficult time,
Alison

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Last updated on 03 Nov, 2020

LAST ORDER DATES FOR CHRISTMAS 2020
Please note - these are my last order dates to enable me to fulfil orders before our Royal Mail last posting dates, which are recommended dates and DO NOT GUARANTEE delivery before Christmas. In light of the huge demand on the postal service this year, PLEASE ORDER AS EARLY AS YOU CAN to avoid disappointment. Thank you.
UK orders - 15th December
Orders to USA and Europe - 9th December
(Other Countries - please contact me to check)
Orders received after these dates will still be processed, though my dispatch time may well be extended over the Christmas period.

May you and your loved ones stay safe and well at what continues to be a difficult time,
Alison

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About RingaRosesDesigns

Sales 1,047
On Etsy since 2014
  • Bridgnorth Town Hall from my window.
  • Hand-painting a little rabbit, probably my favourite design (though the duckling is a very close second!)

Welcome to my Etsy shop, and thanks for your interest in my range of hand-painted gifts for little ones.

I guess I have always been a bit of an 'indoor type' of person. As a child, although I did own a shiny Raleigh bike and did my fair share of playing out with friends, I was more often than not found sewing dolls' clothes, or making collages, or threading beads or building models of some kind or other (how avidly I used to watch Blue Peter with it's 'sticky-backed plastic,' toothpaste tube lids, wire coat-hangers and 'Here's one I made earlier'!) My older brother was (and still is) both a talented artist and skilled plastic modeler, and I spent many hours in his company, watching him paint the finest of details on model planes.

I have also always enjoyed drawing, and particularly love sketching flowers and animals from real life or photographs. We always had pet rabbits when I was little and the margins of many notebooks over the years have been decorated with doodles of rabbits in various poses!

In my previous working life as a primary school teacher, I had lots of practice at writing children's names clearly and when my daughter was small I enjoyed decorating and personalising gifts for her and her friends. I find the names people choose, and sometimes the reason for that choice, really interesting and when an order comes in for a personalised item, it is the first thing I look at.

Although these products themselves are not hand-made, each one has been individually hand-painted by myself without the use of any stencils or transfers. I have chosen to decorate wooden things as I love the feel of wood and all the natural variations in grain and colour, and for children I think wooden objects make a welcome change from all of the mass-produced items made from brightly coloured plastic. I also like the idea of giving a gift that will really last and I hope that the things I paint will be used and enjoyed, but will also be treasured for many years to come.

I am based in the lovely old market town of Bridgnorth in Shropshire, and I am fortunate enough to have a small studio above a shop on the High Street, which looks directly onto our Town Hall (built in 1652 according to the sign above the door). On a bright day the sun is reflected off its white walls and I often paint to live music, courtesy of the regular buskers on the pavement below (there is also a shop across the road which sells marvellous egg custards - how much better could life be?)

Please have a browse in my shop. I hope you'll find something you love!

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