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  Well, I’m in! My products are stocked at the East Cliff Creatives shop in Marine Walk Street, Hythe, Kent and I am doing my first shift. This is my dream - for about 15 years on lunch breaks from my office job, I have wandered the High Street looking wistfully at empty shops and dreaming of filling them with beautiful things - but honestly, without a lot of money behind me it probably wasn’t going to happen for a long long time to come - if ever.  When the opportunity came up to sell my goods in this beautiful...

    And I’m back!  It has been a busy few weeks, closing the marketplace down and turning my website back around to focus just on my own products again. It has been a whirlwind six months, and after a short break, I am refreshed and ready to take my business in a new direction.  So, whats the plan?  Well, first of all what people have told me they love buying handmade because it’s more unique. But I think I can go one step further. It normally costs hundreds, if not thousands of pounds to have a handbag custom made. ...

*Quick Announcement*     Hello to all our customers and followers - just to let you know from the week beginning of the 15th March, Remade Reloved will no longer be run as a marketplace and it will revert to being a place for me to feature my own products and passion for upcycling so I would be thrilled if you want to continue to follow me.  The Marketplace concept was a way to bring together creative people over the Christmas period to sell their products in view of lockdown and it’s been amazing to have been able to facilitate...

Gorgeous Upcycled Queen Anne Style table from our very talented Ali Dakin - Click here to shop now!   I imagine you have heard of recycling, but what is upcycling? It's a trendy word for what people have been doing for centuries - making use of what they have rather than throwing something away and buying a new one. The fashion for buying new things rather than repairing or reusing old ones is a new trend and only really took off in the last 20 years or so. It's part of the reason for the environmental crisis - the burden that...