tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43583085465263927702024-03-14T04:20:06.651+10:00BrisStyleHi there and welcome to the BrisStyle Inc. community blog. BrisStyle Inc. is a community group of artists and crafters who live in and around Brisbane. We work to provide support and creative opportunities for our members through workshops, business and creative development sessions, markets (come and meet the makers), exhibitions and social get-togethers. Head over to our website www.brisstyle.com.au for more information. BrisStylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01866162937569836357noreply@blogger.comBlogger1036125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358308546526392770.post-955786745004360512020-05-04T14:08:00.000+10:002020-05-04T14:08:10.012+10:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.65pt 18pt; text-align: left; text-indent: 0cm;">
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<i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I'm Jemica, the owner, designer and maker behind Meekz Contemporary </span></i><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jewellery. I'm a qualified silversmith having graduated from Griffith University in 2009 and I love architecture and sculptural art. I have a real passion for geometric design and love making wearable art, that transforms the everyday into something unique and beautiful. </span></i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My business is a sustainable, ethical and handmade jewellery label. I draw inspiration from the urban environment and minimalist geometric forms around me. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Using traditional silversmithing techniques such as hand sawing, soldering, hammer texturing and oxidising, I bring to life my sketched drawings to create statement jewellery that can be worn every day. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Adopting an ethically responsible and environmentally friendly practice, all Meekz collections are made using recycled, reclaimed and repurposed materials such road signs, recycled sterling silver, electrical wire, recycled aluminium, copper and brass, transforming the everyday into something unique and beautiful. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By designing my own custom packaging from recycled card boards and card stocks and hand sewing all my own jewellery pouches from discarded industrial felt sourced from local recycling centres, I believe I can further contribute to a sustainable foot print.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I even use discarded timber, wooden blocks and tree branches to create all my unique jewellery displays and market stands.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In my studio I use a combination of recyclable and biodegradable materials and chemicals, adopting a cradle-to-cradle mentality to create all my exhibition and retail production work.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>This July will be my 15<sup>th</sup> year in business. I started Meekz Contemporary Jewellery while I was studying at University in 2005. My lecturer suggested I seek some feedback on my designs and so a group of students and I created a<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>small business called the JSO Collective and approached the South Bank Markets to see if we could have a stall at the Young Designers Markets and they said yes! <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Once graduating university in 2009, I left the Collective and went on to work full time in my own studio that I created with the help of my parents on their property, transforming an old horse stable into a functioning jewellery space. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>In 2015 some friends of mine asked me to show them how to make jewellery and I guess I fell in love with teaching. I still teach to this day and have created classes for all skill levels. My workshops offer an insight into the life of a jeweller. From private one on one sessions to group classes, each workshop aims to encourage creativity, confidence and learning while having fun.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5pt;">My business name came from a nickname I gave myself at high school – Meeka, as no one could say my name Jemica.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -0.5pt;">And when I applied for a trading name Meeka was knocked back so I changed it to Meekz and added a description so no one else would have the same name!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>And so Meekz Contemporary Jewellery was born.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -5.75pt;">I</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: -5.75pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -5.75pt;">work full time in my small business and love every minute of it!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>My designs have definitely changed over the years. My first designs out of University incorporated everything from recycled/repurposed/found fabrics to plastics to papers and of course metal. Over time I noticed I was becoming more a textile artist and wanted to find myself again so ditched everything that wasn’t metal and focused on silversmithing again (what I was trained in) and fell back in love with my art. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Technological advances over the 15 years have also played a big part in my redirection as well I think. The introduction of Laser Cutting was a big one for me. The value, perception, price and accessibility of machine cut acrylic saw my jewellery sales drop over night and I could no longer compete with this, so I dropped the line.<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I currently have 25 Stockist throughout Australia that are small handmade/sustainable or boutique style shops that I wholesale my designs to. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>My favourite of all platforms to sell would have to be at Markets or Events though as I get to meet my customers face to face and see them light up when they spot something they love. They are the reason I love what I do. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>My jewellery workshops are also a form of work I sell as well as the tools we use in class. I get so much joy from seeing a student light up with confidence once they have made something from scratch. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>My studio is small but I love it. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I have an old office desk that my grandfather converted into a jewellers bench, I have another row of jewellery benches for my students, a bench with a table mounted drill press, a metal guillotine/bender/roller machine and soldering station and a open shelving system with all my finished stock, market displays, market tools, marquee, tables, battery and lights and workshop tools, materials and displays. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>A typical day …well I try to start or end the day with some sort of exercise, I then have breakfast, then head into the studio – create a list with the days tasks and get to work making. I then have lunch and then head back to work to finish off what I can for the day. I then either exercise if I haven’t already with a friend if possible and then make dinner and then veg out to some Netflix or a movie, have a shower and then head to bed. Some nights I may even sit and make jewellery while watching TV. It's usually a late one for me as I am a night owl. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>How do I juggle everyday life/work… well I plan my life around a Diary. Everything gets entered into the calendar or it doesn’t happen. Like if I have a meeting tomorrow or want to catch up with a friend next Tuesday or I’m having dinner with my parents in a month, it all goes into my diary or I would forget everything! <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Love what you do! </b>Find your niche, something no one else has and make it yours. Your customers will love you for it and will keep coming back to you as they can only get it from you. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Believe in yourself! </b>You can do this, you are strong, you know your stuff and you are talented or you wouldn’t be starting this.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Schedule in Lunch Break /Time with friends and family and take Holidays! </b>Do this, its so easy to over look all of this and your mental state is worth more than money! </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Yep it is my core value! I use sustainable materials / methods and chemicals throughout my practise.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>At the moment I would have to say it's my Rain Bow Earrings and Necklaces. They just have that extra little wibble wobble and I love the combination of movement, mixed metal and mixed textures.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><b><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 13.86px;">"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."</span></b><span style="line-height: 13.86px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 13.86px;"></span></span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>In 12 months… designing even better jewellery designs, having hopefully a larger studio space, one that I can teach bigger classes in and that I can paint/ decorate and make my own!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Check out my website <a href="http://www.meekzcontemporaryjewellery.com.au/"><span style="color: blue;">www.meekzcontemporaryjewellery.com.au</span></a><a href="http://www.meekzcontemporaryjewellery.com.au/"><span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;"> </span></a> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It was one of the first markets I attended back in the day to sell my jewellery at. It was so long ago now that I can’t remember where I heard about it from sorry<b>.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Covid-19 has definitely made it hard for my business. I can no longer attend markets or events to sell my jewellery, teach classes or speak at PD Talks. </i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -5.75pt;">I</span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: -5.75pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-indent: -5.75pt;">however have been able to continue selling online. Definitely nowhere near as much as I use to make at events, markets or workshops, but it’s something while I wait for Centrelink … my fingers are crossed.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Before COVID-19 I had wanted to start holding monthly Ready To Ship Restocks on my website and treat the stock on hand as though it was a wholesaler and set it aside for when it sells. I had in the past run my website in a Make to Order format and didn’t get as many sales.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Now with everything going on I suddenly have way more time on my hands and so held my first Ready To Ship Restock in April and was blown away by my customers. Not only did I sell lots of pieces (which I was so sure I wouldn’t as it had never worked before) but that I sold OUT of items and had customers contacting me personally asking if they could order more.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Michelle Little Concrete Junglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181127105931405825noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358308546526392770.post-90800871258296006762020-04-20T15:53:00.001+10:002020-05-03T14:26:31.068+10:00Meet the Maker - Myclectic<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hi, I’m Anita the face, hands and brains behind the leather work label ‘Myclectic’. I’m earring obsessed so that’s mostly what I create.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Not the fact that I am an earring maker, that’s for sure but my point of difference is the materials I use. Leather is usually a material used for bags, coats and shoes. Why not earrings? </i></span><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">And interior design samples such as lux wallpaper or vinyl floor samples. Again I say: Why not earrings? I’ve even made earrings out of corporate cricket tickets! </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I don’t want to be known as ‘just another earring maker’.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Almost any material I look at I think ‘how would that look as a pair of earrings?</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I think I first started selling on Etsy and at markets around 2010 or 2011. But I have been a ‘maker’ since I was a pre-teen. That’s a LONG time ago!!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i> Yes and yes. I remember Mum sewing clothes for us when we were little and I’m very fond of a music box Dad made that was completely covered in sea shells.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I’ve been through a few names until I landed on the present one. First I was ‘Buttonbeads’ because I made button necklaces, then I started making little purses and bags using an awesome stash of vintage material I scored through BrisStyle contacts so I renamed myself ‘Mums Cupboard’ because I was using materials found in my own Mum’s cupboard as well as ‘other’ mum’s cupboards. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>And then when I started dabbling in leather, my hubby and I came up with the name ‘Myclectic’. It comes from MY kind of ECLECTIC, which is where I was heading. We shortened it to what it is now, registered it, plastered it all over the internet and now it truly is mine. It’s the name I had been waiting for.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>At first I approached this a business due to the fact that I was unemployed but eventually it has become more of a hobby again. Mostly because we needed to pay the bills and I found a new job.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I never really knew what my ‘style’ was at the beginning, I just started making whatever I thought of at the time. I started with the button necklaces because of a gift I made for a friend. Then because of the vintage fabric I acquired I moved on to bags. I went through the ‘glass cabochon bezel style’ jewellery stage next because I wanted to use up the fabric scraps from the bags I had made. This lead me to experimenting with different things to glue into the cabochon jewellery. Vintage doilies, fabric, old maps, vintage Laura Ashley paper samples and eventually, COMIC BOOKS. The comics were really cool and super popular but of course as with everything else I made previously, others were soon making similar things and I was bored and wanted to get on to them next thing’.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>That’s when the leather craft began.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Due to the tactile nature of my products, I sell mainly at markets and my very first market ever was a BrisStyle Twilight Market.</i></span><br />
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<i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Mostly inspiration comes to me from the actual materials I use. It's </i><i style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">the colours and the textures that get my creative juices going.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I’ve got the corner of an enclosed verandah in the beautiful old Queenslander home we currently live in. It has a fabulous large window I can gaze out of and over our quiet suburban street.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I have a table covered in everything I am working on and absolutely need. I have everything at my fingertips. Yes it looks like a war zone and I love it that way!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It really helps having a room solely for the purpose of working in. I can shut the doors and leave the mess. This allows me to continue what I was doing when I get home from the ‘other job’. I love not having to ‘pack up’.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Sometimes I listen to music through my ear phones but mostly I work in silence, that’s when the ideas start rolling. I talk to myself a lot too. Doesn’t everyone? </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>My suggestions are more about being happy rather than ambitious. I have a few. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Don’t compare yourself with others. Success and all things shiny on the internet are mostly illusions (remember that when you feel a bit down). Be careful not to become a slave to your followers. Make what YOU love not just what you think is popular. Don’t copy others it’s unethical and so unoriginal. Be yourself. Be real. Have fun. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>YES, always have, always will. I come from the ‘don’t waste it’ generation. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>If yes, how is your art/craft eco-friendly? </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I use even the tiniest pieces of leather for my earrings and save every scrap. I also use a lot of samples from my day job.</i></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Do you have a favourite item to make?</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Earrings.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>‘Don’t sweat the small stuff, everything is small stuff’ - from the movie Pontiac Moon.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I’m not going any where. I’m happy to just keep making earrings using lots of pretty upcycled bits and pieces. And I hope to be a bit more selective in my market venue choices this year.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>‘Less is more’</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I’m on Etsy and Finders Keepers Online.</i></span><br />
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/MyclecticStudio&source=gmail&ust=1587362933025000&usg=AFQjCNE27nHJgdR1k6-gnZh-OMGFLA0MrQ" href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/MyclecticStudio" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/<wbr></wbr>MyclecticStudio</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Many years ago I met a BrisStyler who worked in a shop called Incub8er in the Valley where I rented a shelf to sell my leather cuffs I was making at the time.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>She recommended checking out a BrisStyle market, which I did and was absolutely hooked.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>How long ago did you become a member and what made you decide to join?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I’m not sure how long ago it was, but it was a very long time ago. Way back before Instagram or iPads and when Facebook was still a big deal and there was no such thing as ‘algorithms’. I think mobile phones had just been invented. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>How do you think the Covid-19 situation has changed your creative practice?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>It's changed EVERYTHING! I had just started prepping for two of my biggest markets when boom. The world stopped. And retail pretty much died, a slow death. Markets are everything to my creative practice. Who needs earrings when people are dying. But a creative must create so I made gifts for dear friends, practical gifts. Fabric face masks. And then I decided to keep a "daily accomplishments" journal, just to keep on track and not get too down about what is happening. I will "make" for the duration but I am now more inclined to make more practical things for me and my friends. And do lots of studio tidying up in readiness for.... I'm not really sure? </i></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Do you come from a creative family Fiona?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">As a child my mother had a workroom. It was a room full of craft,
sewing, knitting, spinning, crocheting, doll making and crammed with things! I
would watch and assist her in creating whatever project she was working on at
the time. Regularly, she would be sewing and I was allowed to help with the
sewing machine, then create something out of the scraps.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I made little sleeping bags for my dolls, blankets, pillows for my
teddies, occasionally clothes for my dolls, but they weren't the best! Mum
still has a workroom today in a different house, and it is still brimming full
of things and she still sews.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">My Dad has always been creative too. He is lucky in the sense that when
he sees something, he can normally create it. More in the line of construction
or electrical engineering. Dad is also a great trouble shooter when it comes to
creating things. He created my keyring racks from his own design.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">How would you describe your work?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">My work is a combination of what I envisage and what is on trend. I have
a bit of a crush with beautiful fabric, but the item needs to be practical.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">My main lines are hand painted wood bead necklaces, hand painted key
rings, rice and lavender filled eye pillows - heat cool packs and beautiful clutch
bags. I also love to paint and sew, creating from scratch.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Has your work evolved since you started?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Yes, enormously. I first started making key rings. In fact, the key
rings didn't sell that well, then someone said 'can you make me a necklace?',
and I said 'yeah, why not'. </span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">So I moved on from there. I have found since, that the items which sell
well are also the items in which I love creating. Clutch bags, lavender eye
pillows, hand painted wood bead necklaces and key rings are Mac and Roma's most
popular items.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">How did you start selling on Etsy?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">In the beginning, I started asking around my Brisbane friends who I knew
crafted, how to go about selling online. They all said, Etsy! I thought why
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">It took me forever to set up my site because I didn't have any clear picture
of what I wanted. I tweaked it and I am now happy with it. I also wanted to set
up my own site so I used Big Cartel.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Who or what inspires you?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I get inspiration from so many different things. The colours in nature,
the weather, the ocean, the beach, my favourite colours.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">If I see something and I love the colours, I have to make a necklace
with those colours, seeing something in a shop, making necklaces and clutch
bags to co- ordinate with outfits.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I try to reduce, reuse, recycle. If I have purchased some fabric and
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">My studio or art space is my dining room table and a small area
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I keep all my paints in a large container, my brushes in another, my
beads in separate bags showing which size they are, my fabrics are piled up in
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">My brain cannot function if I don't have everything in the correct
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Do you have a favourite thing to make?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">At the moment, my favourite thing to make is our new clutch bags. I love
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The name, ummmm well, that's tough. I had been tossing up between a
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I thought it should probably have Roma in it, being my surname. Then I
thought hang on, my maiden name and married name, Macdonald. Together, as it is
part of my childhood and part of my adulthood in which I am creating these
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I would like to expand my wholesale market and start selling to small
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I want to keep evolving and creating pieces which are gorgeous,
practical and sophisticated at the same time but I want to keep the fun in it! </span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">My top tip is 'have the courage to do it'.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I have been slowly losing my hearing since I was 24 years old. When I
turned 40 I had my first cochlear implant and then had the second one in
January 2016. Since then my confidence has returned and I felt that I was able
to face the outside world again.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I felt that if I had the courage then I could create my own business and
I did it, but I was so scared of failure. If you don't try you won't know, if
you have failed or not. I thought it's better to try than to not try.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Can you describe your typical creative day?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">It usually involves having a plan of what I want to achieve for the day.
Having a plan, not necessarily written down but using that plan of getting
things done and not finishing until I have finished what I wanted to do.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I set achievable goals most of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Stay positive, work hard and make it happen. (My note: if it doesn't
happen, try again a different way.)</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">What is your favourite handmade item that you have bought?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lT8vAZCpLPo/WW8Mb5FPyJI/AAAAAAAADvQ/CKZbey4b_YwWD3pulyx4cwbbFB0_cuzDgCEwYBhgL/s1600/Picture4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lT8vAZCpLPo/WW8Mb5FPyJI/AAAAAAAADvQ/CKZbey4b_YwWD3pulyx4cwbbFB0_cuzDgCEwYBhgL/s1600/Picture4.jpg" /></a><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Delicious soy candles with amazing scents. They just keep giving.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Where can we find you online?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Mac and Roma has an online store at:</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><a href="http://www.macandroma.bigcartel.com/"><span style="color: #0000e3;">www.macandroma.bigcartel.com</span></a>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/au/shop/MacAndRoma"><span style="color: #0000e3;">Www.etsy.com/au/shop/MacAndRoma</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Why did you become a BrisStyle member?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I thought they would help to increase our profile and also there are
many benefits such as the great market locations and numbers of shoppers.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Why do you craft?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I guess because I love using my creative side. I see items which I want
to use in everyday life and see it made up into a finished piece. I can see the
finished piece and I want to achieve it.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you Fiona, it was lovely to learn more about you</span><i style="font-size: 11pt;">.</i></div>
Robyn Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04194283308815651210noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358308546526392770.post-2033980922352678082017-09-04T07:00:00.000+10:002017-09-04T07:00:09.285+10:00Monday Maker - Baby Bubba StepsHi Charlotte,<br />
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<i>Yes, very creative. I was always thinking outside the box. My Grandmother and mother were very creative too. They sewed a great deal of my clothing as a child. </i><i>I thought I was the coolest kid with a halter top (that my Mum made)!</i><br />
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<i>I design from 'real life'. I make ergonomic baby accessories that fit with my mission statement, "Making parenting....just a little easier". </i><br />
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<i>I believe we all have our own talents and refuse to mimic other maker's wares. </i><i>As my work takes shape, I mull over designs and ideas in my head until my artistry has exactly the feel that makes it complete.</i></div>
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<i>I heard about Etsy from other market vendors and after much reading of guidelines and well documented sales advice, decided this was the perfect handmade marketplace that had the ability to feature my Baby Bubba Steps - Bubba Gear in just the right environment for the exposure I aimed for, and in such a professional platform.</i><br />
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<i>Literally my fabrics provide my daily inspiration. I imagine the happy faces of Mums and Dads as they pour over my brightly coloured bibs and burp cloths until they have found just the right one for their precious little one. I just love seeing those satisfied faces when they find it.</i><br />
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<i>The person who inspired me to sew was my gorgeous mother-in-law, Diana! She always had several projects on the go. Her sewing room was a minefield of pins. One never went in without shoes!</i></div>
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<i>My designs are deliberately created so as to minimise wastage, yet to be ergonomic. </i><i>Nothing goes to waste.</i><br />
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<i>Even my offcuts from bibs have become environmentally friendly reusable face washer pads.</i><br />
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<i>I took over my daughter's granny flat style bedroom when she joined the Navy. I have cubby shelving and tubs for storing small pieces of fabric. I have over 20 entire bolts of fabric in my stock.</i><br />
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<i>Pretty hair bows and fluffy head bands. I love seeing little girl's faces light up when they see them!</i><br />
<i>Everyone deserves to feel pretty.</i><br />
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<i>A male nurse I work with calls everyone Bubba as an endearing name and he made me feel so special so I wanted to share that feeling with others. </i><i>Baby Steps, is intended to fit in with the different items I make for the different stages of Babyhood. So we get Baby Bubba Steps.</i></div>
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<i>Do your research!! Ensure you have an original idea. Shoppers always 'vote' for you with their wallet.</i><br />
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<b>What is a creative day like for you?</b><br />
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<i>A short walk into my sewing studio where I sit at my 'desk of creativity' and the juices are flowing.</i><br />
<i>If I already have a lot of stock I like to take out pen and paper and just draw, letting my imagination go. I always have 4 or 5 ideas on my "shelf".</i><br />
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'<i>It's not done until it's fully done, and doesn't look 'homemade'.</i></div>
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<i>Please don't judge - I listen to very old funky music from Magic 88.2</i><br />
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<b>Do you have a favourite handmade item you have bought from someone else?</b><br />
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<i>A set of makeup brushes in a purpose made roll up travel case- from a BrsStyler at the Ipswich Rail Museum.</i><br />
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www.facebook.com/baby-bubba-steps<br />
www.facebook.com/dollybeesgiftsandhandmadecrafts<br />
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<i>Almost two years now and I found BrisStyle through an online search of Brisbane Markets.</i><br />
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<i>I think it's important to have a sense of 'belonging'. The world is so 'me first' and I think people gain a greater sense of self and purpose when they belong to a group of likeminded crafters.</i><br />
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<i>Every single market, I meet new crafts people and learn from them. I also share my knowledge.</i><br />
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<i>I have a difficult time looking at things during Mall Shopping without thinking "I could make that better" so crafting is a natural.</i><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="gmail-m_-6950538208934593298s4"><strong>Were you creative as a child/do you come from a creative family?</strong></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I was always drawing and writing when I was young. My family lived on a small farm outside of Beaudesert so I was always outside, discovering and creating. We'd go on bushwalks and I'd come back and fill journals with sketches. I would see holes in tree trunks and imagine all the goings-on of the wildlife that lived there. It was really just a natural thing to interpret what I saw into art.</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>Whimsical, earthy, maybe even a little fragile. Like me :)</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="gmail-m_-6950538208934593298s4"><strong>How has your work evolved since you started?</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I used to paint mainly in oils, creating moody abstract landscapes, or dreamscapes.</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I still love these, but the transparency and honesty of watercolour drew me in, and being able to work in small detail was really appealing. </em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I love how one little tiny dab of paint can change everything about a piece. And how so much can be said with the finest of layers.</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="gmail-m_-6950538208934593298s4"><strong>How did you start selling online?</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I used to paint little cards on scrap paper for friend's birthdays and they would say 'I wish I could buy something like this from a shop'. It took quite a few years before I had the courage to give it a try.</em> </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="gmail-m_-6950538208934593298s4"><strong>Who or what inspires you?</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>My best friend Margeaux is the textile artist behind Willowynn, and a trail blazer for me in terms of taking a risk. </em></span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We worked together as park rangers before we had children and I watched her build this beautiful business around her to compliment her life. </em><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was like watching somebody discover themselves and like all bright stars, you can't help but want to follow them.</em><br />
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<strong>Do you reduce, reuse, recycle as part of your creative process?</strong><br />
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<em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I use an Australian printing company that is extremely passionate about the environment.</em><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I work from my office/studio in my home on the outskirts of Brisbane. </em></span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm lucky to have this incredible woodland right at my back door, so at any moment I can look out and see kookaburras, kingfishers and cockatoos in the canopy. </em><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It keeps me connected to the natural environment.</em><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I strangely go in phases where I just 'must' sew, or crochet, or paint dolls, or paint canvas. </em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>It's all rewarding. I try to just listen to what my soul is craving. But lets face it, when I sketch or draw, my hand more than often turns to owls. I just love them!</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="gmail-m_-6950538208934593298s4"><strong>How did your business name come about?</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>The name Fable came from a love of storytelling and a kinship with animals. </em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>Most of my work starts from words - poetry, music, quotes that get under my skin - and then in my head they manifest into images, mostly of animals. </em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I felt like what my art represented seemed something like a fable.</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="gmail-m_-6950538208934593298s4"><strong>Where do you see your creative journey taking you in the next 12 months?</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>Right now I'm just letting the natural course of things take me for the ride. </em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I think I've learned that trying to make something happen can feel like its forced, and then when you're not expecting it, an opportunity arises. </em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I've also got my husband joining me at my side this year to help with marketing and sales, so who knows where things may lead!</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="gmail-m_-6950538208934593298s4"><strong>What’s your top tip to others wanting to break into the creative market?</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I'm not sure I'm qualified to give top tips at this stage, but I think what I've learned from my own journey, and watching others along the way, is that it's important to stand by your integrity, so that what you put out there into the creative market is a product you truly feel proud of. </em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>Whatever else happens doesn't matter if you have achieved that.</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>Sometimes I feel most creative around my young girls, when they sit and paint with me and I am blown away by their imagination. </em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>Other days, it takes a quieter space and a lot of reading and listening to music, to sink into the zone.</em> </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="gmail-m_-6950538208934593298s4"><strong>What kind of music do you like to listen to while creating?</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>Emma Louise and Japanese Wallpaper are a few.</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="gmail-m_-6950538208934593298s4"><strong>What is your favourite handmade item that you have bought?</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I love my Erin's Window hanging ornament that was gifted to me. It features a woman and a wolf standing side by side. It feels very me.</em></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.fableillustrations.com.au/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="color: black;"><em>www.fableillustrations.com.au</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://etsy.com/au/shop/fableillustrations"><em>etsy.com/au/shop/fableillustrations</em></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I'm also stocked at Mudwood Studio in Kyogle NSW, and New Farm Editions, Clarence Corner Bookshop and Bowerbird Collections in Brisbane.</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>Just a few months.</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>How did you find out about BrisStyle?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>A fellow creative referred me.</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I wanted to connect with other artists and get a sense of the scene in Brisbane. </em></span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It can be hard to keep up with all of the action in such a big city.</em><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Why do you craft?</strong></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>It's an extension of who I am, and I'll do it until I don't want to anymore. </em></span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But I can't imagine that happening :)</em><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I think I was more curious and my Mother encouraged me to try different
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I<b> </b>do little things with my hands for your beautiful fingers and
ears. I really think that we don't need to wait for people to give us a gift to
feel loved. Our style is a way to present our identity, and I try to propose a
panel of colours to fit with our state of mind too. This is about feelings,
each jewellery piece has a story, and has come from a different part of the
world, so when somebody buys one of my products, a real relationship starts
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I worked with recycled buttons from my Mother, originally, and then when
travelling I decided to keep a piece of each place we visited by collecting a
few buttons that were really different from what I had ever seen. Then I
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Recently, I have created earrings, adding beads to my work. I am
surprise I didn't go to beads first but I always have been in love with buttons!
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Who or what inspires you?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I think I am inspired mostly by artists like Van Gogh, drawers of
Zentangling as well as writers of personal development books</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Brisbane and Queensland encourage me to keep my eyes open to creativity.
Everything around is so colourful! Nature is so impressive. I love patterns for
example and you can find patterns everywhere!</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Do you reduce, reuse, recycle as part of your creative process? </span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">YES! Some of my buttons and beads come from my secret box. Clients
sometimes offer me some of their beautiful 'leftovers' and hope I can do
something with it. </span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Sometimes, I can create something after many years! One of my last pair
of earrings has been made with a necklace I had stashed more than 15 years ago.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Can you describe your workspace?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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have a special room to create, I always go back in the living room to have
light and be near the kitchen to prepare cups of tea.</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I think the earrings are becoming something I prefer, probably because
it is new to me and I like to challenge myself. I also create my own gift boxes
and I really enjoy doing that.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I love Zentangling and drawing classes as well as drawing on paper or
fabrics. I am thinking about doing something with these new skills.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">How did your business/shop name come about?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Bagua Lala comes from Bague à Lala which means in French : <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ring of Lala. Lala, is one of my nicknames I
received from a friend at school and it stays </span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Where do you see your creative journey taking you in the next 12 months?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I would like to create a different line in jewellery, handmade cards and
decoration. But 12 months doesn't look like enough time so during this time I
will improve my skills and my style.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Do you have a top tip to others wanting to break into the handmade
market?</span></b><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I would say enjoy the opportunity to talk people. You don't need to wait
for them to purchase, try to imagine you are them and get to know your
customers.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">There are so many choices everywhere, and we are all trying to do our
best to please people.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> <i>But remember to continue to create things that YOU like by adding
love and piece of soul in everything you create.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Respect your product, they are born from you. They were just ideas
before you decided to give birth to them. Enjoy speaking with your stall
neighbours, you can share a lot of things and advice with other creative
people!</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Describe your typical creative day for us?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I put everything I have on my table before I start work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looks like a mess. Often I will go back to
a previous creation, to repair or to change something.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I like to go buying new supplies even if I have enough at home. I mix
what I already have with new things. Sometimes, as I told you about recycling,
I can buy something and wait several months before using it. That's really
funny because when I buy, I know exactly what I want to do with it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Do you have a Favourite inspirational quote?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">'The better is the enemy of good'. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">But it sounds so much better in French, "Le mieux est l'ennemi du
bien" and 'Do your best at this precise time, that's the most important.'</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Favourite Music while creating?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Music of my teenage years or any playlist I have made on Spotify. I have
one with just soft songs </span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">How long have you been a member of BrisStyle?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I am still 'new', I arrived in July 2016.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">How did you find out about BrisStyle and what made you take them plunge
and become a member?</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Thanks to Sarah from Designs of the Heart, when I met her at an Etsy
market and thanks to Meg from Stychy Wytchy when I discovered my first Twilight
market as a customer.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I wanted to be a visible part of a community. I like this idea in the
City. You feel supported and you can share. I like it a lot.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Why do you craft?</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I like this question.! I think I like to invite others to not forget
themselves, especially women.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">When you offer yourself as a gift, it is a sign of self-esteem and you
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I like to invite people to make a special gift too. Something with a
story, a personality. I think I like to achieve things. It makes me feel really
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de Shan, so nice to meet you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Were you creative as a child?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">It all started when I decided I wished I had a tail...</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">My mother ran my father's business from home, before I was school-age
and she would get stacks of butchers paper, make a few marks on a sheet and
then tell me to "go wild", and I did.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Every day I have her to thank for my creative wild side...</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Big eyes, big face, big personality... it probably falls into the
lowbrow art movement, very pop culture, lots of sass and a dash of darkness... </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">All the characters I draw come from my show *100 drawings in 100 days
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">How has your work evolved since you started?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Well it started with my 100 ideas which was hard, and I drew some guy's
shoes when I was on the ferry one day... now I get inundated with suggestions
from people that I only have to draw them, and they are all becoming more and
more detailed every year because I am able to just focus on drawing, not
worrying about "what" to draw...</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">How did you start selling Etsy?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">A friend of mine in the US started her shop on Etsy and I fell in love
with Etsy... so it was meant to be, we're a perfect match!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Who or what inspires you?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I am inspired by a glossy magazine, a fresh pack of pencils, pens, or a
new sketchbook. the smell of the ocean and the idea of tufted little fox ears
on hair clips... seriously, a pot plant could inspire me!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Do you reduce, reuse, recycle as part of your creative process?</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I do as much as I can - I only use paper bags and I have a stamp with my
logo on it that I use instead of stickers. Also,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all of my suppliers are local to me, like
within 25 km of my studio!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I try to keep it all on the Sunshine Coast so we support each other
rather than getting supplies from overseas.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Can you describe your studio?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">My studio always has at least two dozen projects in progress, in varying
states of "done-ness". I normally have to high-step (and even leap)
over piles of creations to get to the easel… It’s my daily accidental work out
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I am one of those artists who requires noisy trains and buses and lots
of birds squawking and some fantastic music playing really loudly in order to
create. Oh good grief I work in chaos! I paint with distractions full on! The
studio is practically ON a train station, so it's noisy, but it's a small town,
so it's quiet when the trains aren't running... The studio is kept in a state
of perpetual organized chaos!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Plus I have shelves, lots of them, and an easel, loads of paints in one
of those large plastic shoe organisers, so that each colour family has a
section and more coffee cups filled with brushes than i care to mention...</span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">How did your business name come about?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">My friend and I were throwing around names when I was first setting up a
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">It needed to sound like what I do is art, but also a bit posh. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to call it "That Art Girl"
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Where do you see your creative journey taking you in the next 12 months?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I am trying to get down to Sydney and Melbourne into some of the markets
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Do you have a tip for other creatives wanting to break into the handmade
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Do your research in your area of expertise in other markets overseas - so
google and get on Pinterest etc., to find stall layout ideas before diving in.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Go to some markets personally and find what excites you, and try to
create that sense of wonder in your own way.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">What's a typical creative day for you?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Work out first, coffee, procrastinate, make a list and then start
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Do you have a favourite quote?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">"Well behaved women rarely make history" - Laurel Thatcher
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Do you have a favourite CD you like listening to while creating?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Either Cake or Garbage</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">What is your favourite handmade item that you have bought?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">A gorgeous black and white striped vase that I use in my stall
display....it's so Dr Seuss!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Where can we find you online?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">"Lamington" in Noosa</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">"Maisy Moo" in Caloundra</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The Eumundi Markets</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">The Young Designers Market at Southbank</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Caloundra Street Fair</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Have you been a BrisStyle member very long?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Not quite a year</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">From fellow stall holders at The Eumundi Markets.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">And what made you decide to join BrisStyle?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I like to be able to reach more people who may not know about my art yet
and be more accessible to those in other areas, not just mine.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Why do you craft?</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">It's my oxygen.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">*</span><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;"> These are my coloured prints from my annual original pen and ink drawing
series “100 Drawings in 100 Days ”, which I have done every year for 5 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">This
began when I was an abstract painter and felt the need to start drawing again
to 'get back to basics'. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Now
in its 5th year, the show is held in November and is a silent auction for one
night, 100 minutes and the starting bid is $100. A percentage of the sales then
go to RedKite Charity for children with cancer, a charity that I have grown
with over the years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">All
of the characters I have drawn are at the request of my customers at the
markets, and followers on Instagram and Facebook - I like to involve them in my
process so that they feel more connected with my art and the pieces they will
then go on to own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">I
have created many sets of characters from movies, musicians, TV shows, as well
as historical figures, and have a range of calendars, matted prints on paper,
limited edition canvas prints and greeting cards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let's meet Bronny, the creative brain behind Raynbow Crow Studios.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I remember from a very young age being really into making mud pies. The way the sand mixed with the water was mesmerising to me. I’d then add my paints to them and much to my mother’s dismay insisted on painting the side of the house with the coloured mud concoction. </em></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>My mother was a talented fashion illustrator in her late teens and would have pursued a job in the fashion industry but WW2 was still going and jobs were scarce, though she continued to draw for the love of it and taught me many basic skills which I have never forgotten.</em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I definitely inherited my passion for art from my gorgeous mum and I was always filling sketch pads with various scenes from my favourite films or comics during my childhood.<o:p></o:p></em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>Unless I’m doing a custom order, my marbled creations are spontaneous for the most part. I adore spirals and swirls and marbling as an art form lends itself very well to these. </em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>The colours of my work depend on my mood generally and also what it is I’m actually marbling at the time.<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>As I’ve researched more and practised my art form my confidence has grown. I’m not scared anymore to take chances on materials that before I would not have touched, for example metal and glass. </em></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I’ve also become a lot quicker in my marbling, you have to work quickly before the paint degrades on the surface of your size.<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I saw the Etsy Resolution page on Facebook in 2016, and made it a goal of mine to open an Etsy shop which I did.</em></span> <em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I found the whole process quite painless and also joining Brisstyle was a huge help and support.</em><br />
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<span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>Other creative people have always inspired me. Reading their stories of both the good times and the bad is a source of encouragement and a reality check when required. </em></span><br />
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<span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>I have been a nurse for 27 years and now my art is inspiring me to nurture myself in a new creative way.<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<span class="s4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><em>My studio is under our house is quite spacious (when I’ve got the mess under control) and cool during summer. Like a lot people I always need more shelving to store stock in. </em></span><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My old massage table doubles as storage at the moment.</em><br />
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Thank you for sharing in our BrisStyler interview. Now, let's get to know this label of yours, Lava Living.</div>
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<i>In the beginning when I started shibori and indigo dyeing, I was so captivated by it that I would lose sleep at night thinking about my next creative session. </i><i>I would be up in the morning at the indigo vat before I'd even had a cup of tea!</i><br />
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<i>Although I had some very early successes I also had many failures and lessons learnt by mistakes.</i></div>
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<i>I now have developed a repertoire of techniques and designs that really work depending on the textile I am working with and the product I am making. </i><i>I still lose sleep thinking about new designs, but I guess that proves my passion for it.</i></div>
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<i><br /></i><i>I opened my Etsy shop in 2012 when I was creating screen-printed hand-made paper and some jewellery, but I only listed a few things and didn't commit to it or maintain it. </i><i>It wasn't until early 2016 when I felt I had more of an artistic identity, that I transformed the Lava shop with new branding and shibori collections on Etsy and social media.</i><b> </b></div>
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<i>I'm inspired by the natural world and people who stand up for environmental protection and equality in all living creatures. </i><i>People like Jane Goodall and the Dianne Fossey. </i><i>Ethi-cool design brands inspire me as well, such as @miomojo_italia.</i></div>
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<i>I've recently discovered the art of Shepard Fairy @obeygiant who does amazing screen prints for amplifierfoundation.org "art machine for social change"</i></div>
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<i>Often I buy commercial end of rolls and remnant fabric from Reverse Garbage and fabric stores along with upcycling bed and table linen from op shops. </i><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I even reuse shibori scraps.</i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>Currently it is a collection of cross body tote bags made from 'Australian Super Cotton'. A new and unique textile, grown, spun and woven in Australia.</i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I<i>'m looking forward to experimenting more with new shibori techniques and I'd like fill up my calendar with more events. I'm also planning on improving my branding image. So much to do, so little time.</i></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I love working with my hands and to see something transform before my eyes into a piece of art is </i><span class="s6" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 14.39px;"><i>truly </i></span><span class="s6" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 14.39px;"><i>rewarding.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s6" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 14.39px;"><i><br /></i></span><span class="s6" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 14.39px;"><i>I see craft as something that brings art into your everyday life rather than being something to view and </i></span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">admire once in a while</span>.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks so much Kirsty, it was lovely getting to know you a bit more and we look forward to seeing your beautiful creations a bit more in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>My mother knitted and sewed in any spare time she had. </i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since I was a little girl, I have enjoyed playing with paper, yarns and fabric, and I made my own clothes in high school and university. </i><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>After a career of science research and teaching, and then raising a family, I finally got back to creating artwork thirty years ago.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I love working with all types of textiles … fibres, paper, yarns and fabrics. </i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The tactile qualities of the materials give me tremendous pleasure, and I also delight in playing with different colour combinations.</i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>My ‘grande passion’ is calligraphy and lettering, and in addition to legible calligraphy commissions, I use letters, words and symbols as the inspiration to create innovative hangings, artist books, sculptures and wearable art using a wide range of techniques.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I had a fabulous year as the 2012 Artist-in-Residence at Brisbane Botanic Gardens creating many collaborative works</i> … <span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.triciasmout.blogspot.com.au/">www.triciasmout.blogspot.com.au</a></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>How has your work evolved since you started?</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>My original calligraphy work was only on paper or card. In 1993 I did a weekend workshop with famous English calligrapher Pat Russell, and this inspired me to put lettering on to fabric. </i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I now try to include lettering in as many different forms as possible …bookmaking, embroidery, appliqué, patchwork, papermaking, felting, crochet, knitting and collage.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>How did you start selling online?</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I haven’t managed to set up an Etsy shop yet, but I have details of items for sale on my website</i> …<span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.triciasmout.com.au/">www.triciasmout.com.au</a>.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">W<b>ho or what inspires you?</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>When I decide to enter an exhibition or a competition, I find the theme or title often gives me the impetus I need to start jotting down ideas. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Pat Russell’s tapestries and embroideries were my initial inspiration. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I enjoy seeing how other artists incorporate lettering in their work. </i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Denise Lach’s “Calligraphy: A Book of Contemporary Inspiration” is my current favourite.</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Do you reduce, reuse, recycle as part of your creative process? </b> </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>As much as possible I do try to reuse things in my stash leftover from other projects, or things that others have discarded. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Now that my children have left home, I have bits and pieces in each of their bedrooms. Sadly I am not good at putting things away, so any vacant table spaces quickly fill up, and I have to resort to working on the kitchen table!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I need variety, so I enter as many competitions and exhibitions as I can to give me a creative challenge. </i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I also really enjoy making multiples of my small books, which is very relaxing to do at night while watching TV documentaries. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>For the past two years, three friends and I have staged our “Shifting Seasons” exhibition in August at Richard Randall Studio, and we are doing it again this year.<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I will continue entering competitions and exhibitions</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Persistence and self-belief … and luck!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Describe your typical creative day?</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>It varies al lot. Some days I attend a craft group meeting, other days I work quietly by myself at home.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>“All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.” Willa Hoey<o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>“All glory comes from daring to begin.” Eugene F. Ware</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I prefer to work quietly when creating one-off artworks, but I watch TV documentaries when I’m mass-producing multiples of my merchandise items.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>A commissioned embroidered letter “S” on handmade paper by Pat Russell. <o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> two calligraphy artworks from Donald Jackson (official calligrapher to the Queen)</span></i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.triciasmout.com.au/merchandise.html">www.triciasmout.com.au/merchandise.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In February this year I was lucking enough to get an all access pass into the world of Bronwyn who is the human dynamo marbler behind <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1853452835"></span>Raynbowcrowstudio<span id="goog_1853452836"></span></a>s. She was the first of my studio visits I am going to be doing throughout the year.<br />
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I was just a tad excited to see what she did in her studio/workshop to make those fabulous marbled items. I'm sure there are a fair few of us out there that were introduced to marbling during their formative primary school years.<br />
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One of the things that make Bronwyn's space so amazing is the peaceful location and green front garden at her house. You pull up under a lovely lush tree and walk up some old stone stairs that look like they have been there since the 1950's.<br />
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Her space is set up in the rumpus room as we call it here in Australia under her house. The large glass sliding door looks out to a gorgeous hibiscus hedge. She shares it with her son and husband so there's also a drum set, guitar and a computer area.<br />
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I loved seeing her space whilst it was being used to create. It's great to have an area to let your creative side go wild. <br />
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The main item in her everyday marbling is her bath of liquid that she uses - I believe it is called "size". She has adapted a wonderful use of a table and frame that allows her to change the amount of size used to marble different things.<br />
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For a moment I was inspired seeing a bar fridge near her marbling table but it's only for the marbling.... I was wondering how I could fit one into my workshop. I'm still thinking even now.....<br />
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It was like watching an alchemist working when she was adding the colours to the size and then making patterns. It was a pleasure to watch. When I was there she was marbling paper and some of her amazing fans.<br />
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I absolutely love plants as any of you who know me would know so it was terrific to see she has a Fiddle Leaf Fig outside! She was on trend so much earlier then most of us.<br />
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It was a fabulous morning and I can see by the amount of work and the amount of love she puts into her creations that anyone who gets to own any of them is a very lucky person!<br />
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<br />Michelle Little Concrete Junglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181127105931405825noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358308546526392770.post-63484056756704401522017-04-10T07:00:00.000+10:002017-04-10T07:00:11.562+10:00MegmakesHi Megan.<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I’m still quite new – I only started November 2016. </i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So I’d say I’m still very much evolving. </i><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I can already see different patterns, colours and mediums used in such a short amount of time. </i><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>It’s very chill – I think of MegMakes as my hobby rather than my small business, as I absolutely love creating. </i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I adore my clutches from Tiff Manuell and my many earrings from Each To Own!</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I follow a fair few crafters on Instagram that belong to this community, as well as attending many BrisStyle markets.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I wanted to join this fabulous community and to be involved in the BrisStyle markets regularly.</i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I love it! It’s a fabulous outlet – and it results in fabulous accessories!</i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thank you Megan, and I look forward to seeing you at the next BrisStyle market.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Hello Michelle </span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><i>I was always creative as a child. </i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I sewed, tried copper enamelling, pottery, macramé (it was the 70’s), tie dye and anything someone would show me I had a go.</i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">My family was not very creative, but they allowed me to be creative. </span></i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">However, unfortunately when I went to high school and told my parents I wanted to be an art teacher I was discouraged as my Mum was a teacher and she thought it was not a good choice. </span></i><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Not being allowed to do art as a subject at school, I became creative in other ways. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I became a hairdresser and after finishing my apprenticeship I became a part time hairdresser and studied and worked as a fine arts jeweller. </span></i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">After having children I </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">returned</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> to hairdressing</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, and in my 40s I started ceramics. </span></i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Let's</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> not get too deep but my work is made though a very conceptual approach to the clay </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">-</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I want it to tell a story in the end</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">My work</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">at first glance is quite </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">conflicting and </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">varying </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">as </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I have a series of works that are fine and delicate and then I have a series that is robust and earthy. </span></i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They both have underlying themes of nostalgia, and embrace imperfection. </i><br />
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The porcelain series highlights femininity</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, and </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">both strength and </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">fragility</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> of the women and men before me</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, and grasps at capturing the idea</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ls</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> of </span><span class="s10" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">appearances and </span><span class="s10" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">things</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> from the past - grandma's tea set, embroidered doilies, </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">pearls, dressing up </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and afternoon tea. </span></i><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The series is based around my upbringing surrounded by spinster aunts, </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and childless uncles </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and the uncovering of stories of childlessness in marriages, secret adoptions, </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">wartime brides left at the </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">altar</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, war time poverty, </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">family scandal, and all the while the public appearance was </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">sternly</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> upheld</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and the pillars of society were celebrated by their peers. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><i>The family genetic pool is finished with my grandparents generation as all 13 of my grandparents’ brothers and sisters remained childless, and my mother was adopted. These porcelain works are embedded with all things that were considered of value and now remain only as memories. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">My stoneware range is conceived around the idea of the illusion of perfection. I </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">had an idea to make a dinner set where no pieces matched and were all slightly imperfect. I </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">make all my wares with a rustic haphazardness and disregard to be perfect, and often highlight the imperfections with gold.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I think my arts practice has evolved to be a more subtle and restrained message to appeal to more people.</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I want my pieces to be more usable for day to day.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I kne</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">w</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> people liked my work and I thought there was a market to embed other people's treasured memories in clay, however I think I haven’t quite mastered how to promote this side of my work yet.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I am inspired by a great potter Gwen Hanssen </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Piggott</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the great artist </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Rosalie </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Gascoigne</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Two great women artists </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">who started art late in their life, just </span></span>like me, a<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">nd succeeded in their craft.</span></i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Absolutely</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">We recycle all waste clay if it is damaged or broken </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">before firing. I re-wet the clay and turn it into casting slip. </span></i><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">If it is fired, then I use the pieces where I can in mosaics or art pieces. </span></i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I re-use objects which I press into my clay to leave impressions like cotton doilies, embroidered table mats, jewellery, keys. Sometimes metal objects are fired into my clay to create an </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">interesting</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> old </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">rusted </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">feel to them. </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I have solar powered electricity to run my home and kiln during the day</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><i>I have a fabulous new studio which is approximately 30 square metres of designated 'make mess' space.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>What is your favourite thing to make?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><i>My porcelain illuminators are my favourite thing, </i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I roll it thin and impress it with my memory objects (like doilies, or keys, or whatever) and push the clay to the absolute thinness where it becomes so fragile it is a challenge to get it to the kiln.</i></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><i>And yet when it fires, the porcelain is so strong, so beautiful and if the light illuminates through it, there is a residual impression of what I have pushed into the clay.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><i>And yet in some ways it is still so fragile - it says so much about what I want to say.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>How did your business name come about?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><i>Pink is the most beautiful colour in the world, it speaks of femininity to me.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Where do you see your creative journey taking you in the next 12 months?</b></span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><i>I have learnt so much through being involved with this positive creative community of BrisStyle. </i></span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><i>The artist community don’t always want you to succeed as it is very competitive, so I hope to gain more exposure and have more interest in my work through this network of great people, as well as have some work in a retail outlet. </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Do you have a top tip to others wanting to break into the creative market?</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Be passionate and true to yourself, and be prepared to spend a lot of time on social media and your administrative tasks. </span></i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">50% practice 50% </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">administration.</span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>What is a typical creative day for you?</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">My days are about to change as all my children are finished </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">high school</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> now. </span></i></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">So I guess it will be wake up late, read, do a bit of sunbaking…. jokes.</span></i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I wake up and lie in bed for an hour doing my social media and emails, at least one day a week I will spend doing research or any other admin tasks, other days I might do half a day but I try to head into the studio about 9am, break for lunch, back to studio until about 5-6 then do dinner and TV</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> then bed 10.30-11pm.</span></i></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What kind of music do you listen to while creating?</b></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><i>Abba, Katie Perry or Adele.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>What is your favourite handmade item that you have bought?</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">When I was in my 20s I bought a hand sewn leather travel bag, it was so expensive but </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">it's</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> still going strong.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><i>I also love my ceramics I collect around the world.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><b>Where can we find you online/stockists?</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><a href="http://thepinkplate.com.au/">Thepinkplate.com.au</a></span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/thepinkplate">https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/thepinkplate</a></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I have selected works in Red Hill Gallery in Red Hill Brisbane.</span></i></div>
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<b><span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">How long have you been a member of B</span><span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">risStyle</span><span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">?</span></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Only 4-6 </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">mths</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">How did you find out about B</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">risStyle</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Through a F</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">acebook</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> site I think.</span></i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I needed some help refining my E</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">tsy</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> store - still working on it.</span></i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Because I can!</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">About 6 years ago I was a bedridden cripple, I have had two back surgeries and took a few years to really rehabilitate and recuperate. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Clay and my arts practice </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">gave me a reason to get up in the morning and start living.</span></i><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Thank you Michelle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Today we meet Jenny from Textile Artisan.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4358308546526392770" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Hi Jenny</span></div>
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<b><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Do you come from a creative family?</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><i>Yes. </i></span></span><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">My Dad received a Soldier’s Settler Bloc</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">k in the Blue </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Mountains</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> after WW2.</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></i><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Both he and my Mother worked tirelessly to create everything that they need</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">ed from a home to poultry sheds </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">etc,</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> and Mum made everything that she could on a treadle </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">sewing </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">machine</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> as there was no power.</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></i><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Years later after her children had left home my Mother enrolled in ceramics at East Sydney Tech. and travelled </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">3hrs</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> per day for </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">2yrs</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> to become a potter.</span></i></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And how would you describe your work?</b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I make practical items using natural </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">fibres</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> and natural dyes. </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I hope that the items will </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">retain their use for a long time and c</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">ontribute to sustainable living.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Has your work evolved since you started?</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">The change has been in the size and type of loom that I use. I started with an Inkle loo</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">m that I made for myself when living </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">150km</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> NW of Bourke </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">NSW.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Then my Mother </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">purchased </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">a floo</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">r</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">loom</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> for me</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> that a retired Englishman had made</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">.</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">It had been advertised in the local paper.</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> He had been involved in the textile industry </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">in the UK. </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I was living outside Bathurst at the time and came in contact with a weaver</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> living in a railway cottage in Bathurst. That was</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> Irma Binder who was from Europe and a truly classical weaver</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> and my first weaving contact.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I built a website a couple of years ago and also </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">had a presence on </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Etsy</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">.</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Unfortunately I haven’t had the time to keep</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> these sites up to date.</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I intend t</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">o build an online selling point.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><b>What inspires you?</b></span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">The ability to</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> create</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> an item from the simplest </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">elements.</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Or to weave something that comes off the loom ready to wear, after finishing.</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"></span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"></span></span><br />
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<b><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">And do you reduce, reuse, </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">recycle</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> as part of your creative process? </span></b><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Yes. </span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic;">I make items from patches left over from cutting. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I also weave right to the end of warps and use th</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">e extra pieces for making up. </span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic;">I use up as much as I can.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><b>Can you describe your studio for us?</b></span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">My studio is the main bedroom of our retirement unit. </span></span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">My loom just fits in with some storage </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">shelving </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">around</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> two</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> walls and the rest in the </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">WIR</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">, I</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> have a beautiful </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">bushland</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> view in tw</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">o</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> directions.</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic;">My studio is part of my living space.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Do you have a </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">favourite</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> thing to make?</span></b><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I don’t have a </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">favourite</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">. Every item is </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">unique</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><b>And how did your business name come about?</b></span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">‘</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Text</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">ile</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">’</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> was a given but I was so g</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">lad that </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">‘</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Artisan</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">’</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> was available</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> as it means a skilled worker in the handmade.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><b>Where do you see your creative journey taking you in the next 12 months?</b></span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Due to several reasons I have not been weaving for 3 years so the next 12 months is my focused return to weaving</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> and online marketing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>What’s your top tip to others wanting to break into the handmade/creative market?</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Be honest in making your own</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> product of your best</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> quality</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">.</span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"><b>What is a typical creative day for you?</b></span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I am a </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">carer</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> for my blind/deaf partner so I try to have studi</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">o</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> time in the afternoons and evenings. </span></div>
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<span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I often spin in the evenings</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">. </span></div>
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<span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Dyeing sessions are governed by the availability of material e.g. I have grown Coreopsis and collect</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">ed</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> the blossom to store in the freezer until I have enough for a dye bath</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> (or too much for the freezer)</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">. I have a large stand of Goldenrod (another ancient dye source</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">) that</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> will bring on a big dying effort when it flowers. </span><br />
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<b><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Do you have a favourite</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> quote</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">?</span></b><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Never give up!</span></div>
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<b><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">What is your </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">favourite</span><span class="s3" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> handmade item that you have bought?</span></b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"></span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">A beautiful end delivery shuttle.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span></div>
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Let's say hello to Marissa from Delightful Beads.<br />
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<b>Hi Marissa so firstly we'd love to know if you were creative as a child? </b><br />
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<i>I was more of a tomboy.</i><br />
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<b>Do you come from a creative family? </b><br />
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<i>Yes, my Mother was a very creative artist and my Father sculpts.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>How would you describe your work? </b></span><br />
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<i><span class=""><span class=""><span class="s4"><span class="">I believe it’s modern and </span></span></span></span><span class="">obviously</span><span class=""> <span class="">handmade. </span></span></i><br />
<i><span class=""><span class="">A lot of it is very sparkly.</span></span></i><br />
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<b>How has your work evolved since you started?</b><br />
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<i>It is a lot simpler now.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>How did you start selling on Etsy?</b></span><br />
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<i>Just applied and am still posting listings from pieces I did a while ago!</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Artisans on YouTube who are at the top of their game as well as nature and Pinterest.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Do you reduce, reuse, recycle as part of your creative process?</b> </span><span class=""><span class="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4"> </span></span></span><br />
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<i>Yes. </i><i>All Silver and Copper are recycled. </i><i>Beads & findings from necklaces no longer needed are reused and <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">eco-friendly? </span></i><br />
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<b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Describe your workspace?</b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I have a great work space with lots of storage and high and low tables and every imaginable tool or gadget known to man!</i></span><br />
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<b>Do you have a favourite thing to make?</b><br />
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<i>That’s a hard question for me because I work in so many media. They are all very satisfying but I would have to say Precious Metal Clay is so amazing in that you have a chunk of clay, modify and heat it and voila your piece is now silver.</i><br />
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<b>Where do you see your creative journey taking you in the next 12 months?</b><br />
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<i>I definitely need to do more work to my website and Etsy shop.</i><br />
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<b>Do you have a top tip to others wanting to break into the creative market?</b><br />
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<i>Keep it simple.</i><br />
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<b>Can you describe a typical creative day for you?</b><br />
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<span class="s4" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class=""><i>It would start early and depending on what I am doing work through most of the day with 20 minute breaks throughout, sometimes into the night.</i></span></span><br />
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<b>Do you have a favourite quote you would like to share with us? </b><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>”If not us, who? If not now, when?"</i></span><br />
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<b>Do like to listen to music or watch a favourite movie while creating?</b><br />
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<i>Very occasionally I enjoy classical music, but nine out of ten, silence.</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Do you have a favourite handmade item made by someone other than yourself?</b></span><br />
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<i>I received as a gift a beautiful almost steampunk porcelain heart in powder blue from an artist friend.</i><br />
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<span class="s4" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class=""><a class="" href="http://www.delightfulbeads.com.au/">www.delightfulbeads.com.au</a> </span></span><br />
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<b>How long have you been a member of brisstyle?</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I would say about 18 months to two years.</i></span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How did you find out about BrisStyle?</span><span class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>When looking for markets to sell at I came across BrisStyle and put in an application form.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Why did you become a member?</b></span><span class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><br />
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<i><span class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I like how BrisStyle runs it’s business - they are a smooth, efficient and very friendly team.</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Why do you craft?</b></span><span class="" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>It keeps me busy and keeps my creative vein pulsing.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thank you Marissa.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358308546526392770.post-62018805599142422122017-02-20T12:00:00.000+10:002017-02-20T12:00:29.365+10:00Monday Maker - Nu4U<div class="s4" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<b>Well first we would love to know were you creative as a child Jo?</b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>Both my parents actively encouraged me. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>At the moment, a little bit quirky with a dash of individuality</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>It's evolving as I evolve as a crafter. I'm working in several mediums simultaneously and discovering that over time, I'm starting to merge them together.</i></span></div>
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<i>My newer necklaces are probably a good example of that. They combine my previous jewellery making with my basket weaving, recycling and use of natural fibres and seeds.</i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>A friend suggested it. When she saw my jewellery pieces she suggested Etsy as she thought it married well with my style.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>Mother Nature!!! ( LOL ) I know it sounds a bit 'out there', but a lot of the materials I use come from nature. I love taking something and reusing it in an unexpected way.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>I enjoy making banana fibre into string or adding blue quondong seeds to my necklaces. Each seed or piece of vine dictates how I use it, so I figure Mother Nature inspires me.</i></span></div>
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<i>My whole philosophy is to reuse and reinvent.</i></div>
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<i>I try to use recycled material as much as possible in my pieces. If it's not recycled it's made and processed by me using natural materials.</i></div>
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<i>These include pandanus, banana or lamandra into string, </i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>Glass and crystal ware are recycled into table lamps.......I'll even recycle wire and findings for my jewellery if I can.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>How did your business name come about?</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>I wanted a name which reflected my philosophy of reusing and recycling materials into useable and new pieces. </i></span></div>
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<i>I thanked her by making a special table lamp out of some crystalware.</i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>I honestly don't know. I'm just enjoying the journey at the moment. I think so long as I can sell enough at any time to pay for my journey, I'll be happy.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><i>Love what you do and work from the heart.</i></span></div>
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<i>By doing an online search for nearby markets and groups.</i></div>
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<b>Why do you craft Jo?</b></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I was a very crafty child in more ways than one. Ask my Mum! I have always had a wild imagination and constantly made crafty projects all my life. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>My mum made all our clothes as children and was the handy one around the house. She was very clever, I watched her make things and was definitely inspired.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I would describe my silver jewellery as mystical and magical. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I wish I could live in Middle Earth. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I draw inspiration from spirit animals, ancient symbols, fables and cultures.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I think my work is very talismanic, I like to invoke a dialogue between the wearer and jewellery piece.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Funnily, the themes in my work go around in cycles. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I have been making swords for two decades. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>The moon is always present, goes with my Lady of the Lake obsession. </i></span></div>
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<i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I started selling on Etsy about 10 years ago. At that stage I was running Metal Club, a silversmithing school for teenagers, as well as the Federal Village Gallery. So, I was not putting a lot of effort into my Etsy store. </i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I am now silversmithing full time and put consistent effort into my Etsy store with great results. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>l love being part of the Etsy community. Living the dream with thanks to Etsy.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Ancient times inspire me, a time when life was less complicated with a slower pace and a focus on quality craftsmanship. </i></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Vali Myers, Australia’s own Queen of Bohemia inspires me endlessly. Vali was an artist and a true creative spirit, she lived isolated in nature with 100 animals and 2 husbands. </i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I met her a few times and her advice to live my wildest dreams has always stayed with me. Please look up her art and life, she is an unrecognised National Treasure.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I try to use sustainable materials wherever possible. I always use reclaimed sterling silver and I only use reclaimed gold, as I have been up close and personal with a heap leach gold mine, its an extremely destructive process and has ruined many a river from source to sea.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I would describe my workshop as a Bohemian Paradise. A shed crossed with a curio store and a temple. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>It's a regular Woman Cave, lots of hand tools, crystals, specimens, embroidered wall hangings, trinkets, old boxes, antique family heirlooms, beads and metal all over the place.</i></span></div>
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<i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I need a rich collection of colour and forms around me like a cocoon when I work. </i></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>The Ace of Swords hit me like a thunder bolt at my workbench one day, I wasn’t even thinking about a business name at the time. The Ace of Swords is a Tarot Card, it is associated with focused energy, victory, determination, strength and power. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>In the next 12 months, I see myself building more loyal customers who love handmade jewellery and sending my jewellery all over the world.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Elise is not only one of our shiny new BrisStylers but also our last Monday Maker interview for 2016. </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Where DID that year go?</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hi Elise </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">and firstly, a big warm welcome to BrisStyle.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>My mum remembers that I use to make ponies from lego, torn up tissues and paddle pop sticks. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I have developed my own techniques and have gained confidence in my own ability to design my original pieces. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>There is so much online. I can spend hours and hours on Instagram and Pinterest just scrolling through all the beautiful images. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>My sister and I brainstormed names because I really suck at naming things. (Took me a week to name my dog!) </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I originally went with Elise Heather Creations but it was one character too long for a shop name on Etsy so it got changed to Designs.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Give it a go and don’t back down. There are going to be times when everything goes wrong and you could end up spending more than you earn but as long as you are doing what you love it will be all worthwhile!</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I like to potter around until inspiration strikes then take my time, making sure everything’s how I want it to be. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Usually I like to have the TV or YouTube on in the background but if it’s been a hectic few days I work in silence.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>My bathing lady from Laurie Melia. She’s awesome and has pride of place on my duchess in my bedroom.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I have an Etsy store ( <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/eliseheatherdesigns" target="_blank">https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/e<wbr></wbr>liseheatherdesigns</a> ) but I get lazy when it comes to updating it. I mostly connect with customers via Instagram and at the markets. </i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>I take custom orders and offer postage or pickup from Toowoomba.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Just joined! And am loving it already.</i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Well thank you Elise and WELCOME.</b></span></div>
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To find out more about this fantastic cause please visit the following <a href="https://blog.etsy.com/au/2016/07/07/make-for-good-2016/" target="_blank">[link]</a>.<br />
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If you are a BrisStyle seller please feel free to join in, you can still register <a href="http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2845522/Make-For-Good-2016-Registration" target="_blank">[here]</a>.<br />
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BrisStylers have absolutely nailed the brief for this campaign, creating a beautiful range of items which interpret the 'Creating Brighter Futures' theme.<br />
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Please take some time to visit these awesome sellers, favourite their items, share the love on social media, and even do a bit of Christmas shopping - remembering that funds raised go to creating brighter futures for girls around the world thanks these sellers, Etsy Australia and Plan International Australia.<br />
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1. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/AlmaB?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Alma B</a> - <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/474727393/makeforgood-childrens-rainbow-wall-art" target="_blank">Makeforgood Children's Rainbow Wall Art - Educations nursery art colour chart</a><br />
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3. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/EachToOwn?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Each To Own </a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/463469706/limited-edition-pilgrim-hodgson-x-each" target="_blank">Limited Edition / Pilgrim Hodgson X Each to Own Acrylic Laser Cut Wall Hanging / makeforgood</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/233680117/makeforgood-hexie-lush-glitter-pom-drops" target="_blank">makeforgood / Hexie Lush Glitter Pom Drops / Each To Own / makeforgood / Laser Cut Glitter Earrings</a><br />
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4. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/Fluturi?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Fluturi </a>- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/182117249/woodland-fox-pink-ruffle-scoop-back" target="_blank">Woodland Fox Pink Ruffle Scoop Back Dress Size 3 #MakeForGood</a><br />
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5. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/HappyPuku?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">HappyPuku </a>(left to right, top to bottom) - many more make for good items in store<br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/459800478/art-print-makeforgood-hand-printed" target="_blank">art print - makeforgood - hand printed original screen print, wall art, wall art decor, limited edition art, art quote</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/251638776/hello-yellow-cushion-pillow-round" target="_blank">Hello Yellow | Cushion, Pillow, Round, Handmade, Screen Print, Pom Pom, Decor, Kids Bedroom, Gifts for Kids</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/250909651/screen-printed-decorative-baby-pillow" target="_blank">Screen printed Decorative Baby Pillow - makeforgood - Nursery Cushion, Kids Decor, Gifts for Kids, Gifts for Babies</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/260084676/baby-play-mat-makeforgood-baby-blanket" target="_blank">Baby Play Mat - makeforgood - Baby Blanket Quilt, Baby Shower Gift, Baby Blanket, Gifts for Babies</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/474080485/canvas-tote-bag-makeforgood-screen" target="_blank">Canvas tote bag - makeforgood - screen printed tote bag, summer beach bag, shoulder bag</a><br />
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6. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/kazzycaboodles?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Kazzycaboodles </a>Creations<br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/459799654/made-to-order-raw-tiny-australian-opal?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">MADE TO ORDER: Raw Tiny Australian Opal Stud Earrings, makeforgood, Blue Flash, Sparkle, Natural Opal, Mineral, Unique, Stainless Steel</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/473286287/raw-australian-opal-cabochon-studs?ref=shop_home_active_3" target="_blank">Raw Australian Opal Cabochon Studs, Stainless Steel, Natural, Mineral, makeforgood, Glow in the dark, Resin, Unique, Handmade</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/479792749/raw-australian-chalcopyrite-cabochon?ref=shop_home_active_4" target="_blank">Raw Australian Chalcopyrite Cabochon Studs, Stainless Steel, Natural, Mineral, aqua, metallic, makeforgood, Resin, unique, Handmade</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/469555447/made-to-order-set-of-two-vintage-star?ref=shop_home_active_6" target="_blank">MADE TO ORDER: Set of Two Vintage Star Sapphire Postage Stamp Bobby Pins, Hair Slides, Blue, Metallic, Handmade, Geology, makeforgood</a><br />
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7. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/LaLaLaDesigns?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">LaLaLaDesigns</a> - <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/273574106/makeforgood-elephant-soft-toy-plush-toy" target="_blank">MakeForGood Elephant soft toy / plush toy for baby in pink and gold geometric pattern</a><br />
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8. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/laurajdesigns11?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">laurajdesigns11</a> (left to right top to bottom) - many more designs available in store<br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/477238581/makeforgood-summer-days-necklace-and" target="_blank">makeforgood / Summer Days Necklace and Earring Set / 12mm / Adjustable / Polymer Clay / Laura J Designs</a><br />
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- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/477236873/makeforgood-peacock-teal-polymer-clay" target="_blank">makeforgood / Peacock Teal Polymer Clay Double Drop Earrings / 43mm / Laura J Designs</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/477410139/makeforgood-the-may-necklace-and-earring" target="_blank">makeforgood / The May Necklace and Earring Set / 12mm / Adjustable / Polymer Clay / Laura J Designs</a><br />
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8. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/myclectic?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">myclectic</a> (left to right top to bottom) - many more items available in store<br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/461073576/makeforgood-leather-tassel-bracelet" target="_blank">Makeforgood, Leather tassel, bracelet, adjustable</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/472064969/leather-tassel-necklace-makeforgood" target="_blank">Leather Tassel necklace, makeforgood, turquoise leather tassel, red, purple</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/472068329/makeforgood-tassel-necklace-pink-lime" target="_blank">Makeforgood, Tassel necklace, pink, lime, orange, leather tassel necklace</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/458577854/makeforgood-leather-tassel-necklace-in" target="_blank">Makeforgood, leather tassel necklace, in pastels pink, blue, lime</a><br />
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9. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/purecute?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">purecute</a> (left to right top to bottom)<br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/471849349/makeforgood-halter-flamenco-dress-in" target="_blank">makeforgood Halter Flamenco Dress in Gold Ombre; Make for Good</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/252358018/makeforgood-girls-golden-pure-linen-head" target="_blank">makeforgood Girls Golden Pure Linen Head Wrap; Make for Good</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/252252015/makeforgood-girls-pure-linen-headwrap-in" target="_blank">makeforgood Girls Pure Linen Headwrap in Silver</a><br />
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10. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/sybellaShop?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">sybellaShop</a> - <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/476781569/clutch-purse-brighter-days-etsy-make-for" target="_blank">clutch purse - brighter days - etsy make for good - 8 inch metal frame clutch purse - large purse - girls - kisslock</a><br />
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11. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/TLHinspired?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">TLHinspired</a> (left to right top to bottom) (more designs available in store)<br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/463112668/ray-of-hope-shine-collection-mixed-metal" target="_blank">Ray of Hope; Shine Collection Mixed Metal (Copper & Sterling Silver) Pendant; Handmade Jewellery; makeforgood</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/476600663/copper-cuff-bangle-braclet-mixed-metal" target="_blank">Copper Cuff Bangle Bracelet; mixed metal; makeforgood; Cabochon; patina; restic; adjustable; unisex; minimalist jewellery; retro; pattern</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/473689761/ray-of-hope-shimmer-collection-small" target="_blank">Ray of Hope; Shimmer Collection Small Mixed Metal (Copper & Sterling Silver) Stud Earrings; Handmade Jewellery; makeforgood</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/463113984/ray-of-hope-sparkle-collection-small" target="_blank">Ray of Hope; Sparkle Collection Small Mixed Metal (Copper & Sterling Silver) Chime Dangle Earrings; Handmade Jewellery; makeforgood</a><br />
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12. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/WiredFusionDesign?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">wiredfusiondesign</a> - <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/249800310/elegant-turquoise-navy-beaded-earrings?ga_search_query=makeforgood&ref=shop_items_search_1" target="_blank">Elegant Turquoise & Navy Beaded Earrings</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My mum was crafty and my Aunt was a painter but I only remember making mud pies.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A little bit retro a little bit modern, feminine and complicated like me :0. I focus primarily on surface decoration as that is my first love and I like to wing it as I have a low boredom threshold'.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I started a looonnnggg time ago with a big hiatus where I moved interstate and was the main caregiver for my gorgeous gals- they were my priority for many years. Now that I am an empty nester I can indulge my passions again . My work has changed firing temperatures and am using new techniques but I look at my work from 20 years ago and I can still see similarities in the colour palette,the lustre used and the simple shapes although I was doing wheel work a lot more then and now I prefer to hand build and slip cast my original proto types.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ahh this for me is the big change... way back when you did art shows and sold face to face now the online world is massive. It's great opportunity to have a global audience, incredibly exciting but alas my photography skills need a lot of work so I don't really have a presence there as yet. I have a shop.. it's rather sad only two items listed to date.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Colour, pattern and texture be it in the natural world or man made... life really - it's full of amazing things.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My jewellery has evolved dramatically since I started back at university. I explored using lots of recycled materials as a source of inspiration and substance for my jewellery from plastic buttons, to hessian rope, to fabric off cuts and finally to recycled acrylic signs. As a silversmith this gave me great excitement to explore the possibilities, but something was lacking. </span></div>
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My hammer texture range explores mark making and texturisation. Featuring nine hand forged designs along with a combination of letter, number and symbol stamping, this collection provides the most possibilities for individual, personal and custom exploration. No two pieces are ever the same. Colour, pattern, texture and theme are the most inspiring characteristics of this collection for me.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My favourite quote is by Albert Einstein and is Knowledge is Imagination. This to me is great and I understand where he was going with this, but as an artist I have reinterpreted this and created my own personal quote and mantra. - "Imagination is Knowledge". If we first don't create, imagine and explore then how can we know! Knowledge can't be created without imagination and so hence Imagination is Knowledge. </span></div>
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Hi Brooke and thank you for taking the time out of your very busy schedule to share your experience with us.</div>
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Yes very, I was the crafty kid. I did all kinds of art classes and went onto study art and then interior design and merchandising.<br>
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Definitely influenced by family, my parents are very into DIY, we always lived in a half finished renovation!<br>
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Cute, simple home wares. I always liked making my own home wares and objects to decorate with so it all sort of came about from that.</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I</span> get a lot of inspiration from other handmade designers, as well as nature, colour. </div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I admire a lot of Australian designers as well as local people and other BrisStylers too!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I</span> used to do a lot or reduce, reuse and recycling work as part of my former job, I ran the handmade section at Reverse Garbage for 6 years before going full time with Vessel and Vine so that practice is definitely part of my creative process. I don't use a lot of salvaged material anymore but I try to be thrifty and reduce my waste and consumption as part of my business.</div>
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I work downstairs under our house and have a few tables and lots of storage and drying shelving in a corner of the downstairs space. Its not very stylish but it's practical. </div>
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At the moment it's new things, I'm currently trying out some new designs and that's always fun. One of my items, a little marble tea light/planter has been so popular I've made 1000's over the past two years so it does get a bit repetitive! </div>
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<i>We're expecting a baby in September so my plans for 2016 have changed dramatically! I wanted to do a lot more interstate design markets after having a go at Sydney Finders Keepers last year but those plans have changed! I just did the latest one down there a few weeks ago and it was hard work! I will be working on building up my online shop and adding new items to the range.</i></div>
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If you already make things that you think people will like go for it.! <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We're very lucky in Brisbane to have the amazing BrisStyle markets and development workshops, take advantage of learning everything you can and try a few markets cause everyone is so lovely and supportive. </span>If you like the idea of being a maker and dabble in a few different things, find something you really love and stick with it. Be original, give your chosen craft your own signature style to set yourself apart in the handmade market. It's a long road, I didn't sell anything at my first market! but I learnt little things here and there and it eventually all came together. </div>
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My new year goal was to have devoted admin and making days and stick to a schedule, well its nearly June and that hasn't happened haha...I usually check social media and emails in the morning, head downstairs and make up any Etsy or wholesale orders until mid afternoon and then come back upstairs and do some emailing or invoicing. Everyday is different cause I don't have a schedule but it's organised chaos!</div>
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I think I got this from the Create and Thrive podcast 'it's better done than perfect', I love that because I would procrastinate and put things off, like adding items to my online shop because I thought the photos weren't good enough or whatever the reason but I now think it's better to go for it and learn along the way! Another one is: "The best time to make mistakes is in the beginning when no one's watching!" haha</div>
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I usually listen to podcasts while I work as it helps me concentrate, I love BrisStyler, Jess Van Den's Create and Thrive Podcast its really great, lots of business tips and interviews with other makers.</div>
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I have loads of handmade items, not sure if I have a favourite! I just love ceramics, lots of things I've gotten from BrisStylers like a kitty planter by Bonnie Hislop, little dishes from Birdy and Clementine and Servant Ceramics.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today we get to meet Maki the Maker. Maki is such a busy little bee with workshops and origami classes. It seems as if she is everywhere making paper cranes, flowers and even cute little animals. Let's find out what keeps her going in the creative world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hi Maki and thank you for allowing us to get to know you a little bit more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My grandmother was a very crafty lady, so she influenced me a lot. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">Whenever she would be making craft, I would be next to her watching and helping her. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">Specially she taught me lots of origami skills. She used to make many thousands of origami cranes after she couldn't walk around easily any more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">My jewellery is a very Japanese take on traditional jewellery making. I use a lot of Japanese materials that are from Japan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">As I have had more exposure to jewellery making, I have had more inspiration to create new designs and new types of jewellery items. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">One example of a process change for me is switching from wax coating to resin coating when treating my folded creations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I take online orders for my jewellery, but I haven't started my Etsy store yet. I plan to in the future if I have enough time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">The look on people's faces when they see my creations gives me a really good feeling. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.6;">They always give me nice comments on my jewellery creations. I also want to show and share with everyone what is possible with origami and crafts from different cultures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The look on people's faces when they see my creations gives me a really good feeling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I always create in my home at a large table that is protected from wind for the resin coating process. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My crane brooches are very fun to make, as the patterns on the washi really stand out, plus </span>they're easier to fold for me.</span></div>
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My crane earrings and other tiny parts are fun, but it takes a long time to make each piece.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My favourite things to make are new products! It's fun to think about new products and new designs. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: 1.6;">I wanted to keep it simple, so I wanted a name that had impact and which showed that I was involved in the making process of every item. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the coming months I will have a new baby to take care of. I see that a lot of my work will be put into making my online store and selling online.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stalls at markets will be a bit more difficult to manage, so I will pick and choose my preferred markets to attend. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I think you should stick to your strengths, and try to create something that is unique and hard to find in other markets. Choose your target market, age group and budget that you want to share and sell to. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's also important to understand that your creations aren't for everyone, so focus on and listen to people who love your creations.</span></div>
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Mostly I create things during this time period. When there is a market coming up I normally work late into the night (sometimes until midnight - 1am) to make sure I've got enough products to display.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.6px;">I put photos of my creations on Facebook and my website.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 13.2px;">I wore a necklace that I had made to a BrisStyle Twilight Market in 2014 and a stallholder there liked my handmade necklace and told me about the BrisStyle community, I joined soon after.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1408843022475808/" target="_blank">SEPTEMBER 15th - Womens Space Sandgate</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can make stars at home from any material you have on hand too and post them into BrisStyle in bundles of 10 to - BrisStyle Inc. PO Box 633 Wynnum Qld 4178</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every woven star reminds us that we have to MAKE peace and safe spaces and that it doesn't just happen. Every star is a commitment to resist violence and revenge, to believe in forgiveness and healing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ending violence is OUR responsibility, not one person, not one organisation or leader. Us. Everyone is welcome. Everyone matters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Artist <span style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;">Maryann Talia Pau </span>first started the project in Brunswick Victoria, 2012 as her personal response to the rape and murder of a local woman Jill Meagher. Since then, it has grown into an international weaving movement with stars being woven by communities in Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Europe and the USA.</span></div>
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Bel - BrisStylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01784173538450481236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4358308546526392770.post-27325664283744559822016-08-01T07:00:00.001+10:002016-08-01T07:00:05.221+10:00Avril is this week's Monday Maker from the label Avril Bowie<div>
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My jewellery pieces are elegant yet simply designed using beautiful big glass beads that pack a wow into any outfit.<br />
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A friend mentioned Etsy to me years ago, 2007 or 2008, and it sounded great. So I signed up in 2009 but I really didn't use it to its full potential until a little while ago. I've also set up my own online shop finally which has been a great learning curve that I had been resisting. Looking back I now ask why did it take me so long to do that!</div>
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I grab a lot of inspiration from other creative mediums like textiles, textile patterns, ceramics and even architecture. Looking outside of my medium gives me huge amounts of colour inspiration and design elements that I can ponder on for days trying to think how I can utilise it in my glass work. I collect a lot of fashion and interiors magazines for inspiration. And I mean a lot. One book case shelf broke and 2 more are threatening to go. Oops.</div>
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I've recently learnt that my small glass chips can happily go into resin work, so I'm collecting the smaller bits in jars for future projects. My larger beads and broken bits get donated to a friend's plant pots to dazzle them up. And also I've found someone needing colourful shiny glass bits to decorate a sculpture in a mosaic style. So that will be great to offload the numerous containers taking up space in my studio.<i> </i></div>
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I've recently installed solar panels so I make sure I make during the day to take advantage of them.</div>
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I have a purpose built home studio with ventilation and safety built in which is great. I get the morning light in my studio which is lovely and lights up the glass so it's easy to get distracted with the colours at that time of the day. Right now it's tidy and I'm loving it this way.</div>
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I love making hollow beads. I can't stop making them. Big glass beads can be heavy so making them hollow lightens up their weight. And I love big beads. A bonus to making transparent beads hollow is that the light passes through the bead and highlights the clarity and colour of the glass. Pure beauty. Distracting, but very beautiful. :D</div>
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I'll still be creating and designing new pieces. The possibilities with glass are almost endless, so I'll be there thinking up something new. I think I'll be even more colourful. And I'll definitely have bracelets in my line up by then.</div>
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Make sure you're paying yourself as well as paying for your materials when pricing your work. It's nice to make something that you love, it's even better when you're getting paid for it.<br />
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After dropping my daughter off to school, I'll get changed and jump into the studio and start melting glass to take advantage of that time that she's away and to take advantage of the natural light. I might take photos of finished pieces or beads in that time too. Once my daughter is home again I'll clean beads, string necklaces or do computer work so she's not in the studio with me. I try to fit it all around her, so I may even do some computer work after she's gone to bed, too.</div>
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I love the one that's plastered on the underpass on McLachlan St in Fortitude Valley. The more I think about it the bigger it gets. I love how "it" can mean anything to anyone at any given time, changing the perspective on whatever you're thinking about. I never tire of that one.</div>
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I like Podcasts best because I found that listening to music while making beads is detrimental as I start wiggling or singing the words and that just throws the flame around and I can't keep the beads in the flame. So podcasts it is. I love getting wrapped up in a good story. Hello, Serial and Undisclosed. I ruined 5 beads one day because I was so focused on that story and not on the flame melting the glass.But usually I'm listening to Radio National segments - The Science Show is a favourite. This series, Plants: From Roots to Riches from the BBC is a good one. It made me want to become a botanist!Jess Van Den at Create and Thrive is a good Aussie crafting business podcast that I'll listen to. </div>
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<b><i>How long have you been a member of BrisStyle Avril?</i></b></div>
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3 years<br />
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Because of the shared information and the helpful community.<br />
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