Waste isn't waste until we waste it
My Name is Andrea Ngabo Woods. I am 44-year-old Croatian, living and working in Kilkenny, Ireland for the last 10 years.
I am a proud mother to two beautiful children, Laura and Elijah. I base my life on God, art and music. Anxiety and depression survivor and mental health advocate.
(This first paragraph sounds more like a CV cover letter.)
Kamba Design has been only an idea during Covid-19 lockdown, but I spent too many years as an employee that my mindset needed to be renewed, and willing to take risk and to have faith.
My whole life, I am working 9-5 jobs. I was sure that working from home and being an artist was something that happens to someone else, not me. That you need either a lot of money, or to know someone who knows someone, to succeed in running a small business.
As a depression, anxiety, and childhood trauma survivor, I found great peace and calm in making art with my own hands. This is how it started: making art and daydreaming.
Then positive feedback from my friends became more and more obvious, so I went ahead and registered my small business.
I quit my 9-5 job, old anxiety kicked in telling me I cannot do it and that I will fail.
But The God always has last saying in my life.
Kamba Design and I became the story I was daydreaming about.
I am a real person, I do not always have it all together, but I am extremely happy and blessed not only to share my artworks with you, but to say to anyone who is daydreaming and doubting themselves, it is possible.
You just must keep knotting and daydreaming…whatever is you are dreaming about. Just keep knotting…