dear darling design ️

19/04/2026

𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭 ✍🏻

A special one for a very special family 🌈🩵

01/04/2026

01/04/2026

You can now shop at The Local Bar Branton for the month of April 💌

How lovely that Laura & Paul are supporting small local businesses each month by allowing them to rent a space in the perfect place. Come along for a little browse, catch up with friends, drinks, coffee, cakes & lots of upcoming events.

I’ve stocked up on plenty of cards for all occasions, my Doncaster prints & my children’s book are also available. Anything personal you would like in particular then feel free to give me a message.

Myself & She is A Felter’s specialties will be here all month. 🫶🏻

- Love Rachel, dd ✍🏻

31/03/2026

From 1st April, we're really pleased to be welcoming two new makers to the dresser shelves!!

Rachel at dear darling design is a really talented illustrator, and specialises in personalised images and illustrations as well as poems! 🖼

Stacey from She is A Felter is quite new to selling, but makes beautiful needle felted designs and creatures, which are all one of a kind and absolutely beautiful!! 🪡

Please pop in and take a look throughout April - and help us to support small local makers and businesses!!

14/03/2026

Customised to you, by me ✍🏻

🥕🧑🏼‍🌾🪴🥕🧑🏼‍🌾🪴🥕🧑🏼‍🌾🪴🥕🧑🏼‍🌾🪴🥕🧑🏼‍🌾🪴🥕

11/03/2026

‘𝓞𝓾𝓻 𝓯𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓵𝔂’ ✍🏻

An A5 bespoke family illustrated portrait, put together by a few different photos with slight tweaks added for preference.

I just love the shimmer on this one 😍

DM to order 📩

02/03/2026

💌 M O T H E R ‘ S D A Y 💌

Last minute Mother’s Day cards.

Turning my ‘positive popstar prints’ into a Mother’s Day spesh ✌🏻

Because if you’re anything like me, you’d be chuffed to nuts to receive either of these 😂

DM to order in time for the 15th March 📩

31/01/2026

‘𝔀𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻’

is now offering gift vouchers 🎀

With me basing a lot of my work off photographs - I’d say this would make a fabulous wedding gift. It allows the happy couple the opportunity to choose their portrait of choice to remind them of their picture perfect day - illustrated by me, with love, from you ✍🏻

Allow me to cater your budget to create a bespoke keepsake, that will be sure to pop a smile on the recipient’s face 😊

Available to purchase via direct message 📩

24/01/2026

☁️📚P U B L I S H E D !✍🏻🪽

I am absolutely overjoyed that my very own CHILDREN’S BOOK - ‘ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀɴɢᴇʟꜱ ᴄᴀᴍᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴛᴇᴀ’ is now available to buy on Amazon.

🔗 link in bio 🔗

What a proud, pinch me moment! 🥰

This is something I have been working on & wanting to bring to life for a while now, from waking around 4am with the draft stuck in my head. Typing it out on my phone notes to illustrating my thoughts on paper, sat at my kitchen island between all the madness. It’s finally here, in book form - just how I imagined.

This is such a heartwarming little story that means so much to me & my family but also so relatable for many. We have all suffered some form of grief in our lives & this is such a beautiful way to get your little ones talking & take a trip down memory lane together.

I started this little business to use what my grandparents gave me - a passion for creative art & writing. I said I would always keep them alive in stories & I did just that. Martha can read it all by herself & Nancy loves that she’s a main character.

Imagination is so important to me & I feel nowadays we spend more time losing it than getting lost in it. So to inspire my little ones as my elders did for me, is everything.

Please help me share this post to spread the word as far & wide. It would mean the absolute world to me if you purchased my book & let me know what you think of it - I hope you love it just as much as we do.

Love Rachel, dd ✍🏻

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18/01/2026

‘𝓜𝔂 𝓗𝓮𝓻𝓸’ 🕊️

“Something in the Heavens tells me that we’ll be together again”

A not so ‘secret’ santa bespoke gift for my brother in law of him & his late father, on his wedding day.

🫶🏻

14/01/2026

How 𝓰𝓸𝓻𝓰𝓮𝓸𝓾𝓼 are these 🥹

My very first request for a baby scan illustration & I think we captured the little one perfectly.

Two A5 bespoke portraits of ‘𝓞𝓾𝓻 𝓕𝓪𝓶𝓲𝓵𝔂’ & their little pooch ‘𝓡𝓾𝓯𝓾𝓼’

Absolutely loved bringing this to paper & seeing it hung on their wall ➡️

Such a special & thoughtful gift to open on Christmas Day.