Alliday meet our makers: Favoring Brave
/We have a new close up with one of our artists for Alliday, Favoring Brave. Ash and I have worked with her before on the entry area for her shop in the Philcade Tower. We both have gorgeous journals from her. Read about her business and work below. And if you haven't put the Alliday evening holiday party on December 12th in your calendar and bought tickets, visit this link.
Tell us a little about yourself and your creative business.
I am Jill, an Iowa native, Tulsa transplant, and the face behind Favoring Brave and The Bookerie shops. I started making beaded jewelry to sell my local Farmer's Market at 14 and put myself through college doing that, always secretly bitter that I didn't make something more awesome. Not that beaded jewelry can't be awesome, but I longed to do something really original. So after college I moved to Tulsa, got a job, quit the job, and bought a spiral binding press to start making hardback books into journals. The jewelry followed shortly after, and now I make almost 200 different items out of the books...