Welcome to The Winged Donut


 Hello!

Since this is a new blog, I thought the best way to start it would be with a welcome. I'm Ashe, the owner of The Winged Donut, a shop you can find on Folksy; I create felt donut plushies, something I have been doing for a couple of years, and I originally sold through Etsy, but the shop came to a close after some changes over on the site made it harder to sell (I will cover that in a future post because I do have some opinions regarding Etsy and the perspective of being a UK seller)

This blog is not just going to be a space for promoting my shop, rather a space for logging my creative process, particularly in design. My intention is to share how I come up with my designs, and discuss some of my methods, why I use them, etc. I find social media is quite limiting in the fact I don't feel I can articulate my feelings and opinions as well, and thus the reason for the blog. I'm very new to blogging so this will be very fun and interesting for me, and hopefully those of you who follow along.

I do have an Instagram for updates too, which can be found as 'thewingeddonut', if you would like to follow me over there for quick snippets of what's happening behind the scenes and in the shop.

So with all of that said, I hope you will stick around and see where The Winged Donut goes!

Ashe

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