I’ve been blogging for a few months now … and I realised I haven’t really introduced myself or Knots & Kisses properly! I thought my readers may like to know who I am , why I set up Knots & Kisses and what we do here. So here goes … I apologise if I bore anyone!

I’m now based in Essex, after meeting my lovely Other Half at the Isle Of Wight Festival in 2006.

I am obsessed with all things vintage … old metal coffee shop signs, vintage jewellery, 1920’s corsets, antlers … pretty much anything. This has always inspired my artwork and has gone on to inspire the wedding stationery here at Knots & Kisses.

I worked for many years as a Visual Merchandiser in various high street stores, but always felt I was wasting my life a little bit and my creative talents. So in 2005, after a family tragedy, I decided to go travelling on my own for a year … and visited Australia and South East Asia. When I got back I took a ‘normal’ job for a while but soon realised that what I needed to do was set up my own business.

I had previously styled and designed my sister’s wedding, producing handmade invitations, thank you cards, menus … it was a country style wedding based on thistles and lavender, and I handpainted pebbles for peoples place cards and wrapped raffia and lavender around the napkins for the tables.
I had also helped a few work colleagues by making their wedding stationery while I was a Visual Merchandiser, and for some reason I was passionate about Wedding Design!

In 2009 a friend asked me to help her with her wedding stationery and this was the catalyst for me quitting work and setting up Knots & Kisses full time. Her wedding was in a theatre and was very dramatic so I designed pockets to fit theatre ticket style invitations in, and also produced a handpainted art deco style table plan for them.