About Me
Hi, my name is Tracy Jervis welcome to my website.
I have always had a passion for crafting, even as a small child I would pinch my mums’ roses out of her garden to make perfume, I got my dad to get me a small set of wood chisels and some wood and I would sit for hours carving, I remember making a horses head, I also had a go at making candles with an old set of pans and I gave them out to family and friends, my oldest friend has still got the teddy bear candle I made her. My dad and I would make all sorts of things, we even made bricks and fancy blocks to make a wall around our garden.
When I had my son we would sit in the front garden making pictures and things out of items we had gathered on our walks in the woods, people would walk past and say how nice they were. I would make him a novelty birthday cake each year.
As he got older he soon found out carrot cake was his favourite so each year he has a carrot cake and sometimes I will try to make it resemble something different, one year it was a plasters bucket and trowel.
My son and I moved back to my home town of Retford, we soon started a tradition of me making him an advent calendar each year, one year I made him a trained pear tree with small baubles hanging on it filled with sweets.
I trained as a childminder so I could be at home for my son as it was just us two, I loved teaching the children about nature and making stuff, unfortunately my health went downhill and I was struggling to walk, I needed a total hip replacement and had to stop childminding, I haven’t been able to go back to childminding as my knees are really bad too. It was really hard to tell my clients I had to close.
My mum loved crafting with me, she taught me how to knit, we decided that we would make all our birthday cards so I got us a cutting machine Big shot from Sizzix, we made little chickens and ducks for Easter and other cards. Unfortunately she was diagnosed with Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer and had to spend a lot of time in hospital, dad and I would spend all day with her, so I taught myself to crochet whilst we would sit and chat with her, I made her bookmarks as she liked to read, I even made her a little bag to keep her travel nebuliser and water in, unfortunately we lost her to the cancer just 12 weeks after been told she had cancer.
I found comfort in crocheting and started making Christmas items to give to family and friends, they loved them and said I should start a crafting business. I have been on different crafting workshops and courses, Indian block printing, Jewellery making, gel block printing and willow weaving.
I really love willow weaving and have even got some of my sculptures at my local library, My willow is locally sourced from south Leverton.