15/07/2019
Mini Make and Do was my first business venture. It’s where I learnt about working with children and families. Where I learnt how to promote and market my events and workshops and work out profit margins.. I learnt the importance of surrounding myself with like minded talented people to deliver the best workshop I could imagine. I spent lots of time sourcing loo rolls, odd socks, colourful buttons, google eyes, feathers, ribbons. I discovered Re-Create / Ail-Greu where I still go when I need bits and bobs for props and set for shows.
I ran Mini Make and Do alongside my other businesses, most recently Shelley Norton Stage School & Management and The Talent Shack but as those businesses grew MM&D had to take a back seat. I still get the craft trolleys out at Talent Shack summer schools and family events and look forward to when my third child, Maude, is old enough to make loo roll and wooden spoon puppets with me just like my other two did (that was how the whole business idea started)
I have lots of lovely memories of running these workshops with Cathy, Becci, Nicola and Seren and helped by Mali and Amy... I’m sure there were more... and of course my Mum who I quickly discovered was a very useful person to have by your side when running a workshop and is still by my side in everything I do. Thank you to everyone that booked me to do a workshop, Wales Millennium Centre, St Fagans, Cardiff Council... and all the families who invited me into their homes or party venues to run birthday parties.
Mini make and do lives on in everything I’ve become and will always be grateful for what I learnt. It set me up for what I do today.
Love
Shelley
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Goodbye Harbour Festival! It's been fun!! Hope we can come back to play next year!
