tinker, tailor, seamstress, spy, artist, chef, personal assistant, logistics manager, transport, adventure planner, front of house manager, poet, atmospheric designer, hairdresser, interior stylist, landscape artist, general hand-holding expert, midnight nurse, photographer, dancer, questioner of ethics and critic of general practices.

We started off making shoulder and laptop bags as well as camera cases and wallets from recycled materials such as advertising banners, seat belts and bicycle inner tubes. At present we are still making wallets from seat belts and bicycle inner tubes, bags from decommissioned sails (when they become available) and the odd other project that comes along, including screen printing. We also work with Cactus Climbing Equipment on some new and useful things to do with tough canvas :-)

I work on a bunch of different projects which have included Chalkydigits catalogue designs, The Wānaka Local Calendar (a community initiative in conjunction with Tidy Design), various business logos and document designs... Graphic Design is a two-edged sword for me. It's a passion for the right project and a conflict of interest when I am being asked to design something that will essentially become an environmental liability. I therefore tend to choose ethically sound or environmentally friendly projects that I believe in and that don't end up in the landfill. I am passionate about reducing waste and re-using existing materials and re-purposing them for new uses.

I am passionate about all things water. I started working with WAI Wānaka because their mission is to accelerate local action for our fresh water. I was initially hired to find a way to digitally and visually represent the Community Catchment Plan on the WAI Wānaka website. As with most projects for Community organisations this morphed quickly into a need to first look at the way WAI Wānaka's information was represented visually in all forms of print and digital media. Since I've started with WAI I've worked as a part time contractor, looking after the visual representations of WAI information through the website, social media, documents and presentations (where possible). We have come full circle and I am currently working on ways we can showcase the 60 actions that will help us mitigate the negative influences on our stunning waterways to preserve healthy ecosystems and community wellbeing for future generations.One of my favourite parts of the job is to go on-site with the passionate field, education and science crews doing the mahi on the ground and finding ways to showcase all their epic efforts in form of images, digestible snippets of information and short video clips.

My involvement included the initial setup and organisation of YAMI Sounz Summit as Exec Assistant, design work and registrations/ticketing for the summit and evening events. Great experience with a fantastic event over three years.

Atmospheric and Stage DesignFront of House ManagerA fantastic group of volunteers made the first TEDxWanaka not just an inspiring event to participate in for the talks but for the group dynamics and energy behind the scenes. This is what work should be like. Highly inspiring and energising. More of that please :-)

Project 421I was responsible for the design aspects of the massive re-branding project for the entire West Coast Region driven by Tourism West Coast, funded by the West Coast Development Trust.

Dressing and looking after the orcs (mostly) on the production of the Lord of the Rings in the studio and at various locations around new Zealand.

Kindermädchen and deck-hand. I mostly stayed on the Loth Lorien but spent some time and trips on the JR Tolkien, depending on where the family was. My main job was to keep 3-year-old Marieke safe.