As I was playing around with new photos to put on my business cards I quite liked this one; I decided to use it, it makes a change from patchwork images for which I don’t really have the time at the moment as I am working 15 hour days 7 days a week making face masks! So, it looks like I’m definitely getting the hammer out and nailing my colours to the mast. Probably bad for business but hey, making face masks is definitely not a money spinner (especially as I keep giving them away) and I might actually get some time off, or do some patchwork, using all these off-cuts from making face masks (I had to tell my apprentice off today for throwing pieces larger than 4 cm square into the stuffing box, not the patchwork pile)!

My original colours are quite different of course, which is why in true East German tradition I am not averse to getting the hammer out (or the axe.. different story and related to one of my other hobbies…). That’s also why I learnt to sew from an early age which seems to be a skill so many of my contemporaries in this country don’t have (hence the workshops). If you wanted to wear anything remotely fashionable as a teenager in the GDR you had to make it yourself. Not that I care much about fashion these days. I’m definitely more of a charity shop kind of person. My mum and I often used to make new clothes or bags out of old clothes or curtains. If you think this is a new idea, East Germans have been doing it since 1949 and it wasn’t a new idea then!

Anyway, the business cards are not the first time I put my head above the parapet, have a look at this:

Don’t you just love that eighties hairstyle!?