Welcome, Fellow curious human!
So glad you’ve found us here at Sticks and Strings! This is a community where we want to inspire you to dream your wildest dreams, follow your strangest curiosities, and have that “if they can do it, so can I” moment. Here I strive to make creativity universally accessible, using my own experience, inexperience, curiosity, and admittedly odd brain to help make creativity universally accessible.
This is a space where all are welcome, where sharing knowledge is encouraged and trying something new is celebrated - no special skills required! We’ll do our best to find basic, affordable, and environmentally conscious supplies (like sticks and strings… see what I did there?) for our endeavours - anything from learning to mend clothes to experimenting with food scrap dyes.
So why listen to me?
A fair question, and the honest answer is that’s kind of the point. The point is that I’m not special. I don’t have a bajillion dollars for supplies and classes, my asthmatic and creaky body is definitely not athletic (though that hasn’t stopped me from biking and hiking my way through a bunch of countries), and I can’t focus on one thing long enough to master it, yet I still follow my curiosity.
I still try (and fail - like the time I had way too much recycling hanging about and tried to make paper for the first time - it turned out grey and weird, but I still used it, and the next time I made paper it was slightly less weird). And that’s what I want to share with you, that (despite my nagging perfectionism) I try it anyways, and so can you.
So, strap in and join me for the ride. It might be bumpy as I try, fail, learn, and try again. Whether you support the work by purchasing something, joining in the conversation, or just quietly browsing - you are truly welcome here!
