What have been the lows and highs of your journey?
I think I may be just at the end my real low point which is this lock down. As I have the more flexible job as such, I have been homeschooling my kids in the mornings and then going into the workshop in the afternoons. My team has been amazing, but trying to run a busy small business on half days has been tough. But this too shall pass, so I cannot wait to give it my full attention again.
There have been many more high points; going to my first design festivals, especially the London Design Fair (I was a photographer/artist for years but hadn’t really dived into the design world), being invited to work with Olivia Rubin x Etsy collaboration and meeting an amazing group of women makers, seeing my lights in some amazing projects on TV and styled shoots, hiring my first employee… However the real high point was this summer when I got the keys to my first proper workshop. I had gone from my kitchen table, to a box room in my house, to a tiny shared space in a maker’s studio called Rodhus to a larger space in Rodhus, to our own workshop. It’s bright, it’s perfectly laid out and I cannot wait to finally run workshops and events here as we moved in during the pandemic.