AMA Designs

AMA Designs AMA Designs is owned & run by Alison Aldridge. Bespoke Wedding Decor by commission. AMA Designs is the creative work of Milford-on-Sea resident Alison Aldridge.

She creates colourful, quirky and fun home and seasonal decorative accents, including wooden bunting, garlands, wreaths and desk accessories. Make your home a beautiful place to be with AMA Designs stunning range of hand-crafted home decor and accents. Her love of wood began as a child having been brought up in a boatyard and this nautical influence is reflected in many of her designs today. All h

er work is crafted to her own designs from a combination of wood, metal, glass fabric and wax, though not all at the same time! Alison creates colourful, quirky and fun interior and exterior home accents. Choose from seasonally themed hand painted wooden bunting and garlands, mixed media garlands and wreaths, colourful hand painted chalk boards, activity dice or her ever popular novelty mobile phone holder Deckchairs. Alison's passion is to create pieces that are a little less ordinary with a strong attention to detail and exemplary customer service, where no commission is too large or too small. Bespoke wedding décor and reception accents are a speciality of AMA Designs.

Arriving into Portsmouth and the Piscataqua River you are greeted by 2 lighthouses. The granite Whaleback Lighthouse fro...
01/09/2026

Arriving into Portsmouth and the Piscataqua River you are greeted by 2 lighthouses. The granite Whaleback Lighthouse from 1872 is in Maine whilst the Portsmouth Lighthouse from 1878, at Fort Constitution, is in New Hampshire. We anchored overnight at Kittery Point under Fort McClary built in 1844. Like Portsmouth, Hampshire 🇬🇧 there is a large Naval base on an island in the middle of the harbour!

The harbourmaster of Boothbay Harbour agreed for us to come alongside one of the quays to scrub off. We were up before d...
31/08/2026

The harbourmaster of Boothbay Harbour agreed for us to come alongside one of the quays to scrub off. We were up before dawn but had to wait for a lobster boat to load its pots before we could get alongside. Fortunately, we only had one pair of waders aboard so I left the skipper to it 😬and walked to the out of town supermarket. I came back 2 hours later to a super clean hull and an exhausted husband! So many people stopped in surprise as no one except pot boats scrub off like this in Maine!

Beautiful evening sunlight and reflections in the harbour at South Bristol on the Damariscotta River. The bridge apparen...
30/08/2026

Beautiful evening sunlight and reflections in the harbour at South Bristol on the Damariscotta River. The bridge apparently lifts 1000 times per month and the skipper had to check out the engineering when the opportunity arose. We only intending for this to be an overnight stop but the fog rolled in thick and fast the next morning ensuring another day at anchor for us! Even with all modern technology a passage through fog doesn’t appeal in this rock strewn and lobster pot rich waters!

We have started our return journey west. We found a protected anchorage among some interestingly named islands to wait o...
28/08/2026

We have started our return journey west. We found a protected anchorage among some interestingly named islands to wait out some wind and rain and then continued our passage passing through Friendship. I quite like converting the dull day photos to black & white for extra definition.

Flags at half mast in honour of Dolly Parton 🙏
26/08/2026

Flags at half mast in honour of Dolly Parton 🙏

A walk around the prosperous town of Camden with a wide selection of interiors shops, art galleries, restaurants and the...
24/08/2026

A walk around the prosperous town of Camden with a wide selection of interiors shops, art galleries, restaurants and the wonderful grocery store of French & Brawn! The humour of the pedestrian crossing signage raised a smile as did the dog stick library in Lyman-Morse Marina. A beautiful evening light and dusk skyscraper over Camden to end a wonderful stay.

Sailing into Camden we took a mooring from Lyman-Morse for a couple of nights. The home of many a windjammer, some old &...
24/08/2026

Sailing into Camden we took a mooring from Lyman-Morse for a couple of nights. The home of many a windjammer, some old & some new beautifully built replicas. Amazingly the Mary Day has no engine so relies of seamanship, the wind and a dinghy or two to reverse into her berth.

Rockland Harbour is protected by a long breakwater with a lighthouse at its end. It’s a long walk to get out there and w...
22/08/2026

Rockland Harbour is protected by a long breakwater with a lighthouse at its end. It’s a long walk to get out there and without a car a 2 hour walk from town to get to the start of the breakwater so we took the easy option and viewed it from the boat!🤣

Continuing our journey East towards Rockland we encountered our first thunder showers. Coats & jumpers required and comp...
21/08/2026

Continuing our journey East towards Rockland we encountered our first thunder showers. Coats & jumpers required and complete concentration from the Skipper navigating. He was in the shelter whilst I’m above deck watching for the zillion lobster pots which need avoiding. Passing Owls Head Lighthouse the skies cleared for a calm and peaceful anchorage overnight.

Entering Booth Bay Harbour we picked up a buoy or ball as they call it on this side of the pond 🇺🇸 from the Tug Boat Inn...
19/08/2026

Entering Booth Bay Harbour we picked up a buoy or ball as they call it on this side of the pond 🇺🇸 from the Tug Boat Inn & Marina. The tug boat itself is now a restaurant. Booth Bay Harbour is a lovely destination for a little retail therapy and absorbing the holiday culture of Maine.

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