I find my making can be sporadic, but also cyclical. I can be totally immersed in one medium for ages, then I move on to the next. I seem to always come back eventually though. The last few weeks has seen me experimenting with a thicker leather for my notebooks covers, making a new palette of watercolours with my own…
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Makers gonna make
Well it’s been a while in the making, but finally I have a grown-up/big person website! I LOVE making, and I LOVE teaching and sharing. I like to know how things are made, and I feel that the joy I get from working through a problem or tricky design should be passed on. As an artisan, I almost feel a…
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Sharing the skills
I was raised in a very frugal household. My father was very mechanically minded and my grandmother was a seamstress. I was taught to reuse, recycle, upcycle, mend and make do, and I actually love op-shopping and trawling markets so I can repurpose things. I like to know how to make things myself, rather than have people do it for…
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