Psychology degree ✅
Master’s in forensic science ✅
13 years in prison ✅ working 🙃
Halfway through life, I learned to sew… and started sewing toys.
Feels so right I can’t even think “am I too late?”
From my "Nature Quiet Book". A little fabric forest for curious toddler fingers to explore. Somewhere in the grass, a tiny ant is waiting to be found, along with a few other hidden friends scattered throughout the page. #fabricbook
I learned this from Beatrix Potter’s biography: naturalists who couldn’t draw used to hire illustrators for their expeditions. Another lost profession. Potter did it too, and wanted to pursue scientific research, but like many women of her time, she was prevented from doing so
This video shows British illustrator and amateur naturalist Jo Brown flipping through her mushroom-themed notebook, which contains detailed illustrations and descriptions of various mushrooms she has observed in the wilds of Devon.