POP-up jewellery making workshops for children are being held in Wellington town centre’s Pop-Up Shop this week while it is taken over by local crafter Fern Taylor.

Fern, who lives in Holyoake Street, Wellington, will be holding jewellery making workshops for the first time since starting her PrettyBaby business nearly eight years ago.

The idea came to her after she put on a session for youngsters attending her daughter’s birthday party and saw how much they enjoyed it.

Fern has hired the Pop-Up Shop from the town council from Monday to Saturday (May 29 to June 3) and will hold the workshops every half-an-hour between 10 am and 12.30 pm daily.

She can take up to 12 school age children at a time, but places need to be booked in advance.

Fern, who is qualified in childcare, used to work in a children’s nursery and still volunteers in the town’s Isambard Kingdom Brunel Primary School, which is attended by her daughters Arabella, aged seven, and five-year-old Matilda.

She has previously been part of the ‘Handmade’ consortium of more than 50 local crafters who have hired the Pop-Up Shop from time to time over the past few years.

Fern said: “It is the first time I have done it on my own and I am hoping that by having a high street presence people will come past and see what I am doing.

“I was feeling all prepared for it but now it is getting close I am getting a little bit nervous.”

PrettyBaby offers everything from hair bows, clips, scrunchies, and Alice bands, to birthday props and ready-made DIY jewellery kits, or customers can create their own kits from a wide range of beads.