Making things with my own hands.

After being away for a long time, I finally managed to find some time with the best friend and we chose to spend it at a leather workshop at Bynd Artisan. We signed up for the Leather Quadro Workshop on a weekday afternoon. The store / workspace in Bynd Artisan is beautiful, with the various leather products & leather on display – there were tables right inside where the class was conducted. We were supposed to make four items: a little wallet, coin purse, bracelet, and keych

This lovely wallet was the outcome of my “first” foray into making something for myself back in 2012 (“first” in inverted commas because we’ve obviously made other things back in the day during D&T & Home Economics classes, but that’s another story. Now I’m making stuff that I actually like / will possibly use). Back in 2012, I signed up for a long wallet workshop at (now defunct?) Black Cotton Factory in Hong Kong. The workshop was run by a friend of a friend in Hong Kong, w