Astrum People

Athena Drakopoulou lives and works in Athens, Greece. She has studied graphic design, but never worked as a designer. Her professional career includes visual merchandising and window dressing, scenography, puppet making, art teaching to children and theatrical games with children and youngsters with special needs.  Athena has just opened her store in Athens dealing in [...]

Sandra Hodder lives in the small Community of Boat Harbor on the South Coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Crafting is her favorite pass-time thing to do. She has been crafting for so long time that she couldn’t sit for a minute without actually doing crafts of some form or another. So, Sandra loves crafts and crafting. [...]

Chryssa Theodoritsi is a graphic designer who lives in Greece. Graphic design is what she does for a living. She is obsessed with dogs, cameras, cycling, chocolate, sun and, of course, handmade things. Sewing is one of her latest obsessions. It relaxes her after a hard day at work, and it makes Chryssa happy to [...]

Claire Manwani is originally from London, where she started learning pottery at a local arts centre in 1982.  She also studied for a while at Sir John Cass School of Art. Eventually Claire Manwani ended up working at the arts centre for 6 years, after which she ran a pottery studio with a couple of [...]

Wan Xin is a creative person from Malaysia. She was born on December 4th, 1990. Now Wan Xin is studying degree in Mass communication. In spare time she likes drawing and sewing. She has been keen on making something special since her childhood, and sewing is one of her favorite hobbies. Wan Xin likes rainbow [...]

Kathleen is an architect who has turned into fibre artist and graphic designer. Kathleen was born in Singapore, then she went to Australia, then – to Japan, and now she lives in Munich. Her love for the crafts must have come from her mother and the fact that for a short time, my parents had [...]

Cynthia Headley Art is a one woman run design studio creating everything from Art Dolls to Books, Illustrations to Logos, and Stained Glass to Web Banners! Cindy is a creative, positive thinking, natural born artist. She is a native of VA’s Historic Northern Neck where she started creating art at a very early age, as [...]

AP: Tell us some words about yourslef. JG: I am Jan, 42, and I run www.comfypets.co.uk I have been with my Partner now for 17 years, we don’t have any children but we do have 16 Chihuahuas sharing our lives. I am now a Licensed and Registered Dog Breeder of Chihuahuas in the South West [...]

AP: Tell us some words about yourslef. JW: I am from the UK and have been living in New Zealand since 2006 and have never looked back. I moved here with my husband. We have a doggie called Raisin and he is a Yorkshire terrier and a wee boy called Phoenix who was born 10th [...]

Ilona Dimura was born on 10 March 1993 in Odessa, Ukraine. Since her childhood she has been fond of sport, music, drawing, dancing, handicrafts etc.  Ilona moved to Germany at the age of 16. Now she is 18. Ilona has found a new hobby, and she is going to tell us about it!  AP: Your [...]