About

I have always been interested in crafts and art and first started trying to make clothes for myself when I was 11. I really love making things as it allows me to have things which are utterly unique, and it's fun! I do a bit of everything, sewing, papercraft, origami, art, jewellery making...

I'm currently trying to set up a business selling my stuff in amongst working as a receptionist and a waitress in order to actually get some money, but it seems to be taking FOREVER! I'm really looking forward to the time (in many years probably!) when I can give up the low-paid jobs which don't use my skills and finally do what I love for a living. I'm lucky to have the skills and the passion anyway, even if at the moment not many people are really seeing them.

Fashion, and making clothing, makes me feel like nothing else. I talk about it and it gives me a sense of exhilaration, and I love how much can be expressed through clothing. Sometimes I feel bad that I'm choosing to make clothes instead of helping people or doing something to change the world, as fashion is superficial and capitalist and money grabbing, but I have this irrational love for it and it makes me so happy. Besides, I'm not interested in the "you must buy this handbag for this season and then get this one for next season otherwise you shall become a social outcast", or "unless you weigh 7 stone or less you are an unattractive fat pig" side of fashion, I want people to express their personalities through their clothing, and my personality and my dreams, and just make beautiful things which people feel joyful to own-whatever their size or shape.

I'm a very girly girl, I love pink and I really love the shapes of clothing from the 1940s and 1950s- pencil skirts, little puffed sleeves, seamed stockings... I love reading and writing and I'm looking for independent magazines to write for. I'd also really like to sing in a band and I'm always trying to write songs. I love cocktails and dancing and having fun. I have a lovely boyfriend who I'm very happy with. I'm also really interested in the environment and how we can preserve it, I recycle and I try to buy organic stuff. I am also quite political, I'm very into human rights, anti-war, anti-sweatshops, pro-womens rights....

Well I think I've covered all avenues there! Add me as a friend if you like the sound of me. x x x