Enviromental Impact
When you've been doing things with your hands all your life, you don't immediately think about environmental awareness, it wasn't a particular goal of mine.
What I did notice was my hesitancy to discard leftover materials. Textiles have a tendency to produce a lot of waste that I wasn't comfortable just throwing it away.
The most interesting things you create can come from scarcity and ingenuity. I knew that I had to figure out a way to utilize what I had, and I had to change my state of mind to not focus on what I needed to get, but more on how I could constantly make use of 100% of what I already have - a “Shop my stash” kind of mentality.
Now I make my own fabric color combinations from my existing inventory if I run out of one color, I will make a new combos, experimentation is everything.
All of my scraps fabrics & yarn are collected into large bags and reused for packaging and filling materials (pillows, quilts). 
I use recycled paper for all packaging, or refurbished materials collected from around the city that I screen print onto.
The frames in the “OUT OF CONTEXT“ collection are upcycled and repurposed, broken apart, painted, varnished and are reassembled together by me.