Your hometown?
Blackmans bay, Tasmania, which is a small beach side town 20 minutes south of Hobart. My favourite thing about living here is being able to lay in bed at night and hear the waves breaking on the beach.

Favourite food?
I have to say Italian as everything we eat has an Italian twist, my husband is an Italian chef!

Favourite restaurant?
My dining room because I have a chef cook nearly every night, I am a seriously lucky girl!

Favourite recipe?
My mum's relish recipe - I could have it on anything.

Favorite market?
This is a hard one as all the markets I attend are great but the market in Kulumuna, Qld sticks in my mind. The design market in Hobart is also a favourite as it is one of the first markets that featured Ruby Victoria Letterpress.

Favourite travel destination?
I would really like to visit Fremantle in Western Australia again. I lived there for about a year and loved it.

Dream travel destination?
Bologna in Italy. This is where my husband's parents are from.

What do you enjoy most about your craft? How long does it take to make one of your creations?
I love carving the intricate linoblock. I am not really known for my long attention span, but I can spend hours carving intricate designs to print. It is my meditation, my me time, I also really love setting type, rumagging through tiny little pieces of type and setting it all in rows of neat little blocks to be printed.

My inspiration comes from life in gereral, things that I see when I am out and about with my family, books I read, people and gardens I visit. I am forever pinching cuttings of plants, a joke that I have with my husband. I will often think "that's kinda cute I could use that". Lately I have been having a bit of a love affair with teapots, teacups and teaspoons, I am not sure where the interest has come from but it has been fun collecting tea related things from tipshops to draw and then carve out for prints.

Depending on the size and how intricate the design it can take up to 3- 4 hours to carve a block to print. The letterpress type setting can be a very long process as every letter has to be pricked out, set, spaced out and locked into a chase to be printed and this has to be done perfectly otherwise type may fall out and get damaged or will damage the press.

In your words, why are your creations unique?
I think my work is unique because everything is completely original. The linocuts that I use in conjunction with my letterpress cards and other stationery are from original drawings which are carved by hand then printed. I do not use printer blocks that are premade and I try very hard to not go down the photopolymer plate route as I want my work to remain completely handmade and different to other letterpress printers. I like to use my own design and my customers at the markets like the original, personal approach to my designs.

I am going to be following these ideas through with a new range of wedding stationery fronted with linocut carvings and letterpress type on 100% post consumer recycled paper. This will be for people that are interested in something different to the traditional white silver and gold on their wedding day. I have just recently printed some wedding invites for a lady that was getting married in a traditional Indian wedding and wanted something a bit different. She chose recycled card with black type and the red flora design.