Grub Street

The Grub Street bookshop, located in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy (one of Melbourne’s favourite inner northern suburbs) is one of those cosy local bookstores that you instantly fall in love with. Shelves packed high with second hand books, and the delicious smell of well-worn paper and ink in the air. You could go hog-wild in there …

Do what you loveJo JetteSeptember 11, 2018Books, bookshop, book store, reading, writing, passion, book shop, book seller, Brunswick Street, FitzroyComment

Paper Renaissance

I first stumbled across Kelly Campbell Berry’s literary artworks quite by wonderful accident, having been looking for an image to accompany an article I was writing about bringing written characters to life. I had fallen down the proverbial internet rabbit hole and somehow ended up in the land of book sculpture…

Cut Off Your Hands

Somewhere over the rainbow, in the land of Oz, a jewellery maker works deep into the night creating the most amazing silver, shiny things. Yet it wasn’t always so, and it has only been in the last couple of years that Alana of Cut Off Your Hands Jewellery has made creating things from metal her life. Sounds pretty darn cool right?

Do what you loveJo JetteApril 29, 2018jewellery, silver, brutal, design, sculpture, passion, passion projectComment

Always hand print

Let’s face it doing what you love is not always easy. Most of the time it’s a challenging mistress and you end up sacrificing a heck of a lot more than you ever thought you would. Any spare time or money you may have had goes out the window, and you will probably be left wondering if you’ve become some kind of socially inept Gollum, cutting yourself off from the world so that you can devote all your time to your precious (the answer is yes, yes you have – but let’s say you’re a loveable Gollum).

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