About Me

Hi! I am Natalie, creative at heart. I live in a little village called Irthington, along the renowned Hadrian’s wall in Cumbria. My husband and I and our five sons moved here from Durban, South Africa in 2018. I have been creating lifestyle products for 28 years. For the past 6 years I have also been making designer royal icing decorated cookies, but that’s a story for my other little home business. I started sewing when my firstborn was a few months old, and I couldn’t bear the thought of going back to work, and so my creative story began. I sewed for other small and large businesses, interior decorators and designers. I created a beautiful business in South Africa which I sold when we relocated to England. It lives on in the wonderfully capable hands of its new owner. Beloved Decor and Gifts is a rebirth of my original Work of Heart.