'Meet The Maker' - A Crafty Conversation with...

 ...Lisa from Our Little Craft Company!

Welcome to your 'Meet the Maker' crafty conversation! Can I get you a drink? Tea, Coffee, Soft Drink... Something Stronger?!  

Now I do like a proper coffee from a proper coffee shop....but if the suns past the yard arm then I'll have a large g & t please!

Would you like some cake?  

Yes please, but home-made, can't stand shop spewed Kipling crap stuff, I am a cake snob of the highest order.

Sit down, make yourself comfortable! Time for introductions... What's your name,where do you come from and what do you do?  

Hi my name is Lisa, I'm from Conisbrough and I do sewing, wltm man or lady or even ladyman to buy all my stuff, for fun, friendship and sales beyond my wildest dreams!

So... are you Yorkshire born and bred?  

Yes, from good Yorkshire stock! I'm Trip Jacksons daughter and that's about as Yorkshire as you get!

What's the earliest thing you can ever remember making, was it any good and have you still got it?

That's really hard, I've always made stuff, I remember making teleport bracelets from plastic bottles which looked just like the Blakes Seven ones. They were ace and I wish I'd kept one but we played with them to death.

What have you made most recently? (and do you like it!?)  

The last thing I made was one of our Beach Bum bags, in black denim and a mustard yellow William Morris type print and yes it was one of those that I'd have been more than happy to keep if it hadn't sold on its first outing! A sort of Woohoo/boohoo! moment.
(I have a lot of those)

 

What are your 5 craft cupboard essentials?  

Coffee, iplayer, Janet (my trusty sewing machine), good scissors & a cheerful disposition!
Everything goes wrong twice if you're grumpy.

What music do you like to listen to while you make? Do you prefer to 'Get on Down' or 'Boogie on Up?  

This is boring I know, but I tend to listen to radio plays and comedy shows on iplayer rather than music all the time. So if the afternoon play is "get on down" I'm that and if The Mighty Boosh is "Boogie on up" then I am that. Although the song I can't get out of my head at the moment is "Telephone Man" by Meri Wilson, it's so saucy I love it!

If I gave you £250 to spend on craft supplies and equipment what would you buy?  

Don't tease, unless you're actually going to give me the cash then I think that making me ponder its use is torturous, to both me and Keith at Waltons of Goldthorpe and the boys of Barkers at Doncaster market who would probably get about half each! I'm a cloth hussy I've got men all over South Yorkshire tempting me with there fabric wares as it is, with £250 I'd be putty in their hands....are you trying to ruin me??

Other than your own, name a shop, website or blog that you really love:  

Too hard, I can't think of one, I could probably do a top 50 of textiley ones alone!
But Sugar Alchemy make an absolute to die for cheesecake!

What's your favourite craft magazine?

Mollie Makes

What online craft site do you prefer? 
 
www.ourlittlecraftcompany.co.uk of course, can't believe its not an option..tut tut!

What is your favourite part of the designing/making/selling process?
Coming up with the original ideas, Shopping for supplies, Making the items, 

Selling online and at fairs, Networking or Other:

All of the above, I love it all I tell ya!

And finally...

What question would you like to ask the next person who features in 'Meet the Maker...'?  

What's the worst bit of what you do?

Where can we find out more about you and your work?

www.ourlittlecraftcompany.co.uk
on facebook
on twitter as @Ourlisa
& I also do the odd blog for Yorkshire Made don't ya know!

'Our Lisa and Our Sally'... we will be featuring an interview with Sally next week!