Folksy Friday. What is folksy.com?

Do you ever get sick of not knowing where your purchase was made? Wish you could buy more local? Then folksy.com is the place you want to visit. Folksy is a place to buy and sell handmade products made right here in the uk, by everyone from the most professional veteran crafter to tiny cottage industries and everyone in between.

I have been a member since 2010 selling my Fashion Magpie Jewellery store items. It's really easy to use, everything's straight forward. I highly recommend it.

It was founded in 2008 by James Broadwell, a former researching and designing digital services for the BBC, and is celebrating its 6th anniversary this year! It has over 1 million sales of independently crafted sales with a community of 13,000.

One of the best things about folksy is talk folksy their forum a great place to meet the community you belong to, It's also helpful if you need advice. Recently I meet a lovely lady on there who gave me the opportunity to write a guest blog for her.( Read it here) it's definitely something I want to do again someday.

To visit my shop just click here