A child of the 70s I grew up with a ‘make do and mend attitude’ and always enjoyed creating things from objects that would otherwise find themselves in the bin. My most successful project was a three storey shoe box house with matchbox chests of drawers and ‘real’ fabric curtains. I persued art and design as a career but after two years at college found myself questioning how I was actually going to make a living out of ’art’ and left with an A level and a head full of daydreams. Having tried various alternative careers, I discovered that creativity can be applied to so many areas of life and also ‘kept my hand in’ by producing a painting here and there, a poem or two and have been working on producing  a novel for the past four years. Sewing has been my main outlet more recently and last winter I found myself with enough items to stock a modest craft stall …and so ‘bees make honey’ came out of the hive.