MarieArt - Mom & Daughter crafting together!

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Cherishing the love, Strengthening the bond, enjoying the companionship, enhancing the skills through crafting, a mother and daughter inspiring the handmade community in Qatar. Meet Cristina Alves and her 13 year old daughter Marie Alves sharing their love of crafting together!

Cristina started to show interest in crafting when she saw her cousin in Portugal making 

handmade products. This made her look into crafts and she started learning from from books, vídeos and people who are experts and started crafting 8 years ago.

At the beginning it was a trial and error experience, and all projects did not turn out successful, but as she started practicing with patience and perseverance she improved her skills and became better each day. 

Today MarieArt Collections is a her little business with different variety of handmade products. All details about MarieArt could be found at www.rush360.qa by seraching for "MarieArt" or Handmade.

She loves to crochet more than anything else and brings out some lovely creative products! Her products vary and she accepts orders for personalized items as well. Like her facebook page and keep up to date with her creativity and ideas.

Cristina and her family have been living in Qatar since 2013. When she shifted to Qatar she did not know from where to get her craft supplies, hence got down all her supplies from Portugal.

Christina's daughter Marie who is a grade 8 student of Al Hekma International School in Mamourah is sharing her passion of crafting with love! Marie learns from her mom as well as does her own research and spends her time making little bracelets, necklaces and dream catchers!

MarieArt Collections are made with affectionate hands using recycle materials as Cristina says "You can do anything when it comes to recycled materials, you just need a bit of imagination!"


Cristina is hoping that one day she would have her own space to sell her products and at the same time teach children handcraft skills.

We asked Cristina and Marie to share something with our readers.

"l would just like to say that l do know that chatting with your friends all day seems way more interesting than making handcrafted products, but to be honest l manage to do both at the same time. Just because you do handcrafts or any other kind of thing does not mean that you have to spend all your free time on it. Everything should be done with moderation and this also applies to any hobby you have"
Cristina

"Handcraft is pretty fun and l think all kids should try at least once in their lifetime as minors and not adults. So just think about it and search anything on the internet and just try to make it".
Marie

Next time, you need some gifts for your loved ones or when you feel like redecorating your home or just get that craze of owning something that is handmade with affection remember Cristina and Marie and give them that encouragement, support and satisfaction of appreciating their creativity by placing an order with them and buying their products!

Our sincere thanks to Cristina and Marie for sharing their passion and journey with us and we wish them success in their endeavour.