I love, love, lovidy, love making cool things! Always have, always will.

I started out making matchbox dioramas, foil covered box robots and pop up cards as soon as I could wield a pair of scissors and have gone on exploring every kind of media and project I could get my sticky paws onto!

Here's an example of how I tackle a project...
So my gran taught me to knit when I was 7, but I soon forgot the tricky cast-on that I could only do under her watchful gaze. Let's just day my knit stitch was more of a knot stitch. But one day I had a fun idea to make bags that looked like animals and I didn't have a sewing machine so knitting would have to be the answer. I had yarn, chopsticks and YouTube's How To Knit videos. This could work! Well the chopsticks not so much, I gave in and bought a proper set of knitting needles soon after. The critter noses were a challenge, no one had anything like what I wanted, so short of striking up a business deal with some factory in China I decided to make my own. This involved trying out various modeling clay nose sizes & shapes and doing a lot of laundry to see if they would survive. Lo & behold the Kuddle Kritter was born! These have evolved into purses, backpacks, hot water bottles, mitten/scarves, hats you name it.

Needle felting came later, when my neighbors got some sheep & alpacas and we got into fiber in a big way (literally). We took a felting class together and it was love at fist poke! In case you didn't know needle felting is the art of taking a hunk 'o' wool or roving and jabbing it with a barbed needle a billion times. The wool interlocks and gets tighter as you poke it, so you can shape it.

The gourd houses came about as I had fond memories of a ceramic mushroom shaped fairy house, night light I had as a kid. I really wanted to find something similar for my little girl but could find anything so I made one out of a gourd! Lots of learning curves later and voila! The Gnome Place Like Home line took off. Now with battery powered tea lights, plu-in lights, Christmas ornaments, bird houses and photo cards of whole villages of Gnome Homes.

Anyway that's just a wee peeky into the crazy workings of my brain. Maybe I'll add to this one day but for now the studio is calling so I'm offski! Happy creating and dreaming!

K