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Functional or decorative things lovingly made from materials or objects that needed bringing back to life.

Hello! Just a couple to things before I begin, the first being thank you for taking the time to look at my shop and to read this. Secondly, an apology, I'm not good at stuff like this. I never know how to say what I want to say in the right way, so the following may seem a bit clunky, but I hope you get the gist of it.

I suppose the best way to begin would be to explain myself as a maker. I was the kind of child who was just happy to potter about at home making things from bits and bobs I found around the place, and to be honest not much has changed. I like to reuse things and revive them, giving tired materials and objects a new lease of life, or reinvent them, turning them into something else. I can't abide waste, all the energy that goes into producing something only for it to be thrown in the bin goes against the grain for me. So pretty much everything I make has been something else before, or has needed a bit of TLC to return to its former glory. For that reason, I don't have a specific thing that I make, I will look at what has accumulated in the garage, or in the cupboard under the stairs, or somebody may give me something they think I might be able to use, and I will go from there. I like to learn and use lots of different skills and techniques. That said, I do go through phases - I am enjoying revamping furniture at the moment, and I have rediscovered my love of fabric. Before that it was crochet, I still love it but it does take me a while as I'm not very good at the complicated stitches, so I just focus on the colours. I love colour, and colour combinations.

Oh, and I'm not very good at photography, I don't know why, so please don't let the pictures of my endeavours put you off!

So that's it really. Everything you see in my shop will be as described above, and I will endeavour to tell it’s story each time.