THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT- AS ANNOUNCHED ON MY INSTAGRAM ALL PRODUCTS FROM MY WEBSITE WILL BE TAKEN DOWN FROM THE 20TH JULY. AFTER THIS DATE ALL NEW PRODUCTS WILL BE GRADUALLY LAUNCHED OVER JULY AND AUGUST- MAKING TIMES ARE ROUGHLY 4 WEEKS BUT DUE TO DISCONTINUING ITEMS THERE HAS BEEN A SURGE IN ORDERS SO PLEASE BARE WITH ME AS ITS GOING TO TAKE LONGER FOR ME TO MAKE AS MOST ORDERS CAME IN OVER A FEW DAYS SO ITS GOING TO TAKE LONGER THAN 4 WEEKS FOR THESE- IMPERECTION BAUBLES WILL BE DISPATCHED THROUGH THE MONTH OF AUGUST - AGAIN THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR KIND SUPPORT AND THE WESBITE WILL BE UPDATED WITH NEWNESS VERY SOON

About HollyEmilyDesigns

Where it all began......
My name is Holly and what started as a hobby and a passion for clay craft, slowly evolved into hollyemilydesigns and in 2019 my small business was born . My vision from the beginning was to create meaningful handcrafted pieces that would be treasured for years to come with the uniqueness of personalised keepsakes. 
From just a small space on my dining room table, my Etsy store continued to grow and with the uncertainty of what would happen with lockdown in 2020 the unbelievable emerged.  My hobby bloomed into a fully running full time small business.
In all honesty I still can't believe how this period of time was, it was crazy. Working till 2 am most nights, manic post office drop offs and mostly spending my time elbow deep in bubble wrap! 
I'm forever thankful for all the orders, social support and being connected within the community of which I was growing, in this period of time.  Without any of that happening my small business would not be where it is today.  
I expanded by creating my own crafting room, fully designed and equipped to help me on my small business journey.  After the madness of 2020 and already having thousands of Etsy orders under my brand, I ventured into creating my own website.  
A lot has happened over the last 4 years particularly and for those who have followed my journey from the beginning may have a little insight to whats been going on.  So........
What's changed?
Family life and home changed massively in 2021.  We sold our house and moved to my husbands family farm where we built our new home.  As you can imagine this was an extremely challenging time, for so many reasons but what kept me grounded was being able to continue to grow my small business and keep creating with clay. 
As my children have gotten older and living on the family farm, day to day life has been much more demanding.  Not just this, the inputs required for my small business evolved and changed. Social media platforms became more time consuming, costs for products kept increasing, fees for selling continued to spike, along with services like royal mail taking a negative impact, it was all sadly taking a massive toll to myself mentally and physically.
Just being a one person small business and trying to factor in all these forever moving components, it felt like the goal posts were getting smaller and smaller, I was inputting more and more hours but getting further behind.
In the spring of 2025 everything changed.  My health sadly wasn't in a great place and I was just in a constant cycle pattern of slightly feeling better to then come crashing down again being ill. I knew something wasn't right, which made me completely re-evaluate everything in my life and it was beyond terrifying.  
Which is where it's led me to today.......  in June 2025 as I had no answers to what was going on with my health I was adamant that I was closing my small business for good.  Mentally that took a massive strain, the thought of loosing everything I had built from scratch, all the late nights, 7 days a week working, blood, sweat and tears just over! It was so hard to wrack my brain around this concept as hollyemilydesigns is my baby.
So in the last month i've taken a step back and took the plunge of a complete re design of everything.  All my designs and products of how they were have now gone and i'm currently in the process of re launching the new hollyemilydesigns.  
What's happening next?
Now that I have got my head in a better place mentally and have managed (fingers crossed)  to get a handle on some health issues, i'm in the position to move forward with my new re design.  I'm slowly rolling out my new designs and personlised keepsake products on to the website.  I'm going back to basics with everything having a more rustic and simplistic feel, natural in theme with a symmetry not just with the creations, with the website as well. 
Thank you all so much for your amazing support through this time, it;s been incredible.  I'm excited about the new future for my small business and keep your eyes peeled for regular updates of whats to come, top of the list is Christmas.
Thanks for taking the time for stopping bye to read.
Holly x x