Tag: craft community
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Beginning
The starting point for Kindred Handmade was on this beach in Estepona. Last year I was visiting family in Spain for what was supposed to be a short holiday, when the first lockdown started and we couldn’t leave for 4 months. All flights were grounded, all travel suspended. For 2 months we weren’t able to…
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Jobs
I don’t currently have a day job – my main job is being a mum to a toddler and my 2nd job is Kindred Handmade. In a previous life though I was a cafe manager This is a pic I took at the fabulous Cafe Coco in Oxford, where I worked for 3 very happy years. Even…
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Hands On
With this title you might be expecting a pic of me working on my art, but when I think “hands on” what pops into my mind is my allotment. We first got it in 2018 when my daughter was just a few months old, and it had been neglected for a long time so the…
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Process
I think that in any portrait, the part that’s going to make it or break it are the eyes. The person is there, their character, their story, their feeling, who they are. So if the eyes aren’t right, nothing is going to be. When painting a portrait, digital or otherwise, I return to the eyes…
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Art In Use
These pics were sent to me by Oana who has bought this little cat painting from me in January I think it looks beautiful in her living room The thought of something I made existing in someone else’s life is still so strange to me
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On My Desk
On my desk there is always a lot of mess. I don’t have a proper craft room, I have a teeny tiny room that was supposed to be my daughter’s, but she’s too little and still sleeps with me in my bedroom, so I use “her room” as a study. It’s very small and full…
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World Book Day
When I was very little and throughout my childhood I had a favourite book. It was called “Poveste din pădure” (Story from the forest) but I always called it “Iepuraşul ȋn poieniƫă” (The bunny in the clearing), from the first verse of this rhymed book. I don’t really remember my grandma reading it to me,…
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Meet The Maker
I’m Jo. Like most people who live in Oxford, I wasn’t born here. I have lived in several countries, I speak 4 languages, and for most of my life “on the road” was the best place to be. I have made a home wherever I was, whenever I needed, again and again. What is a…
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