Hello! This is me... I realise that I haven’t shared my face for a while, on the grid I mean. I am Bryony. I live in Birmingham. I have 3 cats, 2 children and 1 baby (Vesta).

I’m a cancerian, with a Leo cusp. Im mainly extrovert. Though definitely preferring my own company as I get older... relishing alone time... or maybe that’s just covid, I can barely remember.

Im a pretty emotional deep feeling person. I think that’s why I chose to do what I do with Vesta. After a career in retail I found myself despondent with mass manufacture and wanted to create a world for myself that was free where I didn’t have to answer to anyone, and was putting something good into the world.

I recently remembered my first foray into social enterprise, I was 8, and went door to door selling shells I’d collected on the beach to my neighbours. I donated all the cash to children in need.

So it’s clearly in my path to be doing something that gives back.

This is me outside my studio in Digbeth. basking in the sun of last weekend. Hopefully when lockdown lifts we will be able to open the studio periodically, and you guys can come visit us!

I’m looking forward to pottering around digbeth in the spring, after work..
Popping into some of the cool indie bars digbeth is so known for. I’m ready for the buzz of the summer when people will sit outside @thewarehousecafe eating and drinking.

What are you looking forward to this spring/summer.

#vestaliving #vestasustainableliving#marchmeetthemaker2021 #sgiew_folk#digbeth #socialenterprise #eco

I didn’t post for #iwd2021 this year. I couldn’t decide what to say in a year where woman’s rights and equality has taken a massive backwards step.

Woman are more likely to have lost work and pay than men, more likely to have taken on the additional emotional labour in the household. Woman have had to birth alone and been isolated from their support systems with a new baby.

The news and backlash this week has been so challenging.

A woman slandered and disbelieved in the press over her own personal lives experience of racism and mental health.

A woman walking home from her friends abducted and killed.

I can’t even. It’s too much.

We should be able to talk about our experiences... we should be able to walk alone.

Sending love and strength to anyone affected this week by the noise. We will continue to push forward.. what else can we do?

See our guide below for how to use our reusable face wipes. It’s such an easy change to make.

I watched The Dig on Netflix (www.netflix.com) over the weekend. Id really recommend it. It follows the story around a self taught archaeologist and the woman who employed him, to dig up a mound suspected to house an ancient remains. 

There’s a sense in the film about the fragility of life.

Our bodies, once we are gone will return to the earth... there will be nothing left of us.  It begs the question, what will the archaeologists of the future be digging up of ours? Mountains of plastic and baby wipes that still haven’t decomposed... is that really something that should happen? It’s always important to think about our own impact on this earth, and what we might leave behind. I sometimes imagine our children having to clear up the mess of their own nappies and wipes which will still exist.

Most plastic takes up to 700 years to degrade, and even then it will still exists in  micro plastic form.

We are mere custodians of our piece of time here and it is our duty to do what we can to look after our beautiful home on earth and we can do this by making thoughtful choices about what we consume, buy and do.