About

All about Mary and Dolls and how we came to be!

Hello, I'm Sally and Mary & Dolls is my creation, and I'm very proud to say so!

So how did M&D come to be? Let me tell you a story...

Before running this business I ran another one - The Obsessive Gardener which as you can probably guess from the name didn't sell jewellery, it was in fact a mail order plant business. Plants are very much a seasonal business and so I needed something to cover the winter months when plant sales were pretty much non existent. I've always been creative and so having a sideline along these lines made perfect sense so after a lot of consideration I began making jewellery and selling it on eBay. I called this branch of the business The Jewellery Shop at The Obsessive Gardener - a bit long winded! My circumstances changed and I was no longer able to sell plants but continued with the jewellery side of things and decided to grow that. The name no longer made sense so I decided to rename and therefore rebrand my business which is when it became Mary & Dolls.

Why Mary & Dolls?

I wanted a name that meant something personally to me so this took a while. Not wanting to name it after myself I chose a family related name and named my business after my Grandmothers' - Mary and Doll (this is a nickname). A lot of people assume that my name is Mary and my helpers are my 'Dolls' but that's really not the case! My logo also reflects this choice of names - Marys favourite flower was a violet hence the purple flower in the logo, Dolls favourite colour was cerise pink which is why the heart is that colour. Teal is my favourite so this filled in the rest.

Mary and Dolls is based in Bedfordshire, UK and thank you for reading!