Meet The Medrano Kitchen taking part at 2020’s Mexican Christmas Market. Alexis: ‘ I am Mexican-American born in the heart of San Diego, just 15 mins from the border of Mexico. My family and I moved to the UK when I was 9 years old in 1998 (if you are trying to work out my […]
Meet Casa Orozco taking part at 2020’s Mexican Christmas Market. Casa Orozco is a small business that grew from the love of creating chic and accessible artisan jewellery with high end beads and high quality material inspired by the vibrant colours and culture of the founders beautiful home country, Mexico. Jacky: ‘I am a Mexican […]
Meet art-mkt taking part at 2020’s Mexican Christmas Market. Nury: ‘I’m a pharmacist by profession and I have lived in London for almost 4 years. Although I’m fully dedicated to my 3 1/2 year old daughter, I have now found a passion in crafts, mainly crochet. My passion has taken me to create things such as […]
Meet Adry Barrios Designs & Creations Studio taking part at 2020’s Mexican Christmas Market. I am a Graphic Designer/Illustrator running my tiny studio at home Designs & Creations Studio in Bristol, where I illustrate and put my colourful illustrations alive in products such as coasters or bags to name a few, inspired by my Mexican […]
!Hola soy Paulina Diaz-Bárriga! Trabajo como Terapeuta Ocupacional en el NHS con personas con psicosis, bipolaridad, desorden de la personalidad, esquizofrenia, y depresión, etc. Acute in-patient así que es para cuando la gente está en el momento más crítico i.e. suicidas, deprimidos, con mucha psicosis, estrés, etc. Llevo trabajando ahí 2 años […]
Por Dani Morandi de momME Estamos viviendo un año sin precedentes, yendo día a día con una incertidumbre total, con una serie de responsabilidades que anteriormente no teníamos, además de estar constantemente readaptando nuestras rutinas a la realidad que se nos va imponiendo mes con mes. En marzo, todo mundo estaba con mucho miedo, pero […]
I was born and raised in Mexico City, I can still remember the smells of my Saturday’s doing the weekly shop at the market, the colours of a Sunday in Coyoacán and the busy sound of the Zocalo on a special event. I will never forget getting lost in the hundreds of rolls of fabric […]
Two years ago, after a trip back home to see her family, Dory took the opportunity to visit the southern states of Mexico where her appreciation of the colourful and varied skills of the crafts people in the region gave her the idea to support those artisan communities by bringing the stunning arts and crafts […]
Welcome to the Mexican Craft Collective! 2020 – the year of the lockdown, the obligatory face masks, curfews. For many, a year to forget. For a group of Mexican Women, the lockdown became the start of something amazing. The Mexican Craft Collective was created in the summer of 2020 when a group of Mexican women […]
