A sewing machine won’t bite you

Ever watched Kirstie’s Homemade Home on TV and thought, that’s great, I’d love to do that, if only I could thread my sewing machine…writes Anne Horner Yes, me too. But don’t despair. Angela Richardson of Wellington has the answer: she is going to be running  Know Your Sewing Machine classes. I interviewed Angela in her …

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Chic teenage entrepreneurs

Meet Wellington’s newest and youngest entrepreneurs, Samira Nadim and Olivia Mumford , both 18. Together they’ve formed Follies Vintage Corner  and are selling and hiring out elegant clothes of another era from a stall in the new craft market above the Old Sale Rooms. “We’ve been friends since we started at Courtfields School together,” said …

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Art Boot beats the weather

On a weekend when the weather caused everything from flower shows to pig racing to be cancelled actross the district, 30 painters, printers and glass makers doggedly turned out to make the town’s first Art Boot Sale a modest success. “We had to hurriedly re-think our plans to be outdoors in the school playground under …

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Art Boot sale in Wellington

Wellington painter Fiona Brabyn is one of the first artists in the town to sign up for the Art Boot sale happening on Saturday, July 7th, at the Wellington Junior School playground.

“I know there have been a couple in Taunton a year or two ago but it’s a really exciting idea,” said Fiona, who paints in a studio behind her home in Jurston Lane.