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It’s August. The sun is shining. The kids are still off school. People are eating ice creams and going on holiday. So naturally, at Making Trails, it’s Christmas... Welcome to Augustmas. Thanks to the lovely Lynn Hollingsworth for the title! There is currently an army of gonks taking over the workshop, sleighs being sculpted and fibreglassed, paint everywhere, and an alarming amount of discussion about snow, baubles, Nutcrackers and festive colour palettes. And this is only the beginning. The...

Well. That was quite a launch! Burton’s Bollards officially hit the streets this month, with 20 wonderfully weird, colourful and completely unique bollard covers popping up around Burton town centre. The project has been months in the making, bringing together some incredibly talented local crafters to transform the humble bollard into everything from fairies and flowers to local characters, creatures and, of course, one rather magnificent giant purple dragon. The idea was always to create...

Some projects just tick every box. Art? Tick. Coffee? Tick. Spending the day creating something alongside a wonderful group of people? Big tick. To help celebrate 125 years of the Nestlé factory in Tutbury, we were invited along to run a community art workshop with a group of local pensioners. Armed with a giant coffee jar artwork, we set about creating something that celebrated the factory and its history. Nestlé supplied what can only be described as a mountain of coffee beans, both roasted...