Heike Theis is Minu.
What is your main website?
www.minu.co.nz
What will you be selling at Craft2.0?
… just nice stuff ^_^. My aim is to produce affordable art, small things to decorate your walls as well as home textiles and plush toys. Most of my drawings or prints on paper or fabric show strange little creatures… characters form a yet untold story like a childhood memory.
How or when did you get started crafting?
I have been an architect, web designer, illustrator, potter and conservator. But I think my creative origin goes back to when I was I child and saw my first creature in the shape of a cloud.
What inspired you to begind creating the crafts you currently make and sell?
I find inspiration in absolutely everything! An old wire on the street, a walk on the seaside, a word or phrase I read somewhere, lines in old wood, the shape of a cloud as well as browsing through blogs, magazines, flickr, galleries and exhibitions.
What is your favourite material to work with at the moment?
Paper and ink, felt and fabric.
I would be lost without my …..
little imagery friends
Where do you do most of your crafting?
I am working at home in a small spare room and on a desk in the sun room. Organised chaos rules the scene. I have a wall of inspiration with sketches, drawings and prints between newspaper cuttings, letters and used or found items.
What’s one bit of advice you’d give a new crafter wanting to start selling their creations?
“Find out what it is that makes you want to stay up all night and work, and do that.†Quote from Keri Smith
Are you launching anything special at Craft2.0?
I hope I get the first item of my new print and plush series ready.
What’s the best thing about being a crafter?
Doing what you really love, with your own hands, putting smiles on faces…
What websites, blogs are daily reads?
flickr, twitter
Pencil, crayon, pastel or pen?
Pencil
Where in Wellington are you from?
Mt Victoria
Where can I buy your stuff?
minu.felt.co.nz and minu.etsy.com and a few local shops.
