Creating a handmade life.
Hello. I’m Anna and I’ve been making things my whole life. As a kid I spent hours dreaming, planning, and creating. Splashing in streams, making messes in the kitchen, stitching crooked lines, hosting tea parties in playhouses, printing my own magazine, building tree forts, and organizing home made carnivals and restaurants was how I filled so many days. There were some great successes and so many failures but the results were less important than the chance to discover what I could create.
I’ve never given up making things with my hands. I studied art in college and then followed my creative interests to small scale sustainable farming, dabbled in cheese making and baking, and settled into constant projects in the kitchen and at my sewing machine. Creating something tangible reminds me that I am not just an observer or consumer. It is the way that I put a bit of myself into the world, learn how things are made, and what really matters to me.
Currently, I live on the coast of southern Maine with my husband and two young children. I spend most days with my kids, encouraging their curiosity and creativity. With my little remaining time and energy, I find myself living out my creative dreams in small ways: cooking for my family and friends, writing as often as I can, sharing my knowledge as a master food preserver, tending a small plot of vegetables, and sewing things for my family and to share with you.
