For the latest Stockport news sign up to the MyStockport newsletter here Nichola Holtby has turned a handicraft hobby into a business on course to turnover £1m - and it’s been such a success her whole family is now involved.
Nichola, 44, lives in Romiley, Stockport, with husband Sean, 51, and their children Macie, 20, Evie, 18, and Spencer, 13 and together they run the creative gift company A Beautiful Sign.
Nichola writes heartfelt poems that are lasered onto hand-crafted wooden items. Despite the difficulties of lockdown, the company came into its own over the past 12 months, as the signs became a huge online hit as gifts for those who could not meet up with family and friends.
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