My story about being a thrifty girl...
I grew up with a mother who made me clothes and disguises when I was little, a father whom I watched repair his moccasins and leather bags regularly and tirelessly rather than change them. My grandmother was an assiduous knitter and my aunt a professional hand seamstress.
Sensitive to the plastic arts and practicing painting It was at the birth of my daughter, with my mother-in-law (capable of sewing until 3am to finish the work in progress!) that I took a sewing machine in my hand so I wouldn't let go of it!
It all started 15 years ago with a stock of second-hand clothes that I owned and tried to sell at flea markets. Not being able to sell them and having the furious desire to sew but not the means to buy fabrics in the store, I looked at all these clothes that are no longer useful, because the cut is out of fashion, because there are stains or they are faded on the spot...
I started with clothes for my children, and scrunchies for my hair! Little by little, by dint of practice and always self-taught, I was able to present my first women's clothes, my first bags and pouches, very simple things on stands at creative markets.
The status of self-entrepreneur in 2009 allowed me to gain more credibility, in my eyes first of all, and to make bigger stands at music festivals.
The creation of my first shops on the online platforms in 2012, and especially on Etsy in 2014, has brought about a big change in my business, a certain international expansion, and greater creativity through special orders from my clients. Thanks to them, I am pushing my limits, and daring ideas in the form of challenges and unexpected mixes of rags!
And all this, from my home, from the top of my hill in the Haut Var...
