Our first stallholder profile in a new ongoing feature is Stacey from WittS.Made
https://www.facebook.com/pages/WittS-MADE/134420143323861?fref=ts
Name :
Stacey & Sam Witt
Business name: WittS. MADE
Town you live in now: Gracemere, Queensland
What is it that you make and what skills do you
use?
Home wares, furniture, storage pieces,
wedding items
What inspired you to start your business?
Stacey wanted to turn her creative abilities
into something productive and that would be of benefit for us financially.
Something she was able to do whilst also a stay at home mum.
How long have you been ‘creating’?
Art was one of Stacey’s majors at High School
so it has always been something she was passionate about doing but WittS. MADE
was launced September 16th 2011
Is it a full time/ part time/hobby or business?
It is part time for the moment with little
ones at home and once our time is freed up with them growing up and going to
school we hope to make it into a business that we are both able to commit to
full time.
Where do you sell your creations? Online/markets
etc..
Online (Facebook), The Handmade Expo Market, Rockhampton, word
of mouth and on occasion other markets.
What makes what you do special or different?
We like to have items that not only look good
but are functional and whenever possible create things that have dual
functionality. With four kids we appreciate the need for storage without
breaking the budget.
What is the most rewarding part of what you do?
When we are able to make someone’s idea come
to life. Many of our creations have spiked from a customer’s idea. We work
together to create something that ticks all the boxes but is also unique to
that customer.
What is your favourite product that you make?
For Sam it’s the beds/furniture as he has no
previous experience in carpentry and so each item is a challenge but therefore is
truly one-of-a- kind as it is constructed from our own plans rather than a
model/plan/design of someone elses.
For Stacey it is the finer
details on any of the custom made items, to begin with it is nerve racking as
you want very much to do it just right but when it is completed it is all that
much more rewarding because you have created something different to what you
may normally do.
Do you teach classes or workshops?
No but on many occasions we have talked people through how we
have constructed things, especially the casement window transformations. We have had people say to us our ideas are
ones they may not have thought of and we have inspired them to go home and try
it themselves.
