Breathing new life into old items with upcycling
A stay-at-home, single mum, Mary partly developed her passion for upcycling because of her nine-year-old daughter, Leah — to make something new and useful out of unwanted items.
“We’d go to parties in people’s houses and I’d be struck by the amount of disposable things — toys — that, if something goes in them, they’re gone. I thought ‘wouldn’t it be nice to go back to things that have a life span, a history’,” she says.
