Category: The Leonia Project

A quick project 10 years or more in the making

May 30, 2025

Today I want to share with a you what could be a quick sewing project, although I have to admit that it has taken me at least 10 years in the making. You may be asking whether I’m generally someone who starts a project with a great deal of enthusiasm and then doesn’t quite get round to finishing it? Well, you may have a point. I often like the creative problem solving part of a … More A quick project 10 years or more in the making

The Leonia Project: Re-purposing old book pages for a new lease of life

July 23, 2024

Today I want to break my blog silence with a quick post sharing some cute gift tags, book corners and even jewellery that I made some time ago under the umbrella of The Leonia Project. Inspired by the fictional Leonia of Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, the aim of The Leonia Project is to take old, discarded or found objects and give them a new lease of life, instead of always turning to the new. … More The Leonia Project: Re-purposing old book pages for a new lease of life

Introducing The Leonia Project

January 16, 2022

A new year is traditionally a time for reflections and new beginnings and today I want to share a new project that has been in the active making for the last part of 2021 but that has been active in my mind for a lot longer. The Leonia Project is my response to an intensifying unease with the amount of waste generated by modern living and a concern about the capacity of our shared planet … More Introducing The Leonia Project