Usually found: in my sketchbook or at my bench
Hometown: Charlottetown, PEI
Age: 27
Occupation: Jewellery designer/metalsmith and most recently the metals studio technician at the Nova Scotia Centre of Craft and Design ( I begin in September)
Tell us about your art: My work up to this point has been one-of-a-kind pieces. My work [...]
Name: Sarah Marie Lacy
Usually found: Behind my easel, or behind my laptop
Hometown: St. Catharines, Ontario
Age: 22 years
Occupation: Artist, freelance web designer and freelance social media marketer (I like to keep busy!)
Name: Rebecca Shorten
Usually found: When I’m not at school learning how to be a Social Studies teacher, I’m either at home in my office/studio in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Hometown: I was born and raised in Burnaby.
Age: 32
Occupation: Student, soon-to-be teacher and part-time potter. My occupation is a work-in-progress, really.
Tell us about your craft/art: I am [...]
The bread and butter of what I do are actual sock monkeys made from socks. It used to be re-using old socks, but that’s hard to keep up with since you want socks that don’t look too worn/dirty or are too full of holes.
Who are Just Us Girls?
The original “girls” are Jodi Nutbrown and Susan Roggeveen, childhood friends from Charlottetown, PEI. Afer losing touch for many years, they reconnected and discovered that they had a mutual dream to start their own business, so they began brainstorming about what type of market they could tap into. They wanted [...]
