Craft It at Six Months

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI I’m stressed. I didn’t know how stressed I was until last week Wednesday, when BAKE (Bloggers Association of Kenya) announced the shortlist for 2018 nominees; it’s a shortlist for the nominees whose blogs were selected by a select panel of judges to win a select title, the

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Charity of Knotty Things

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI “It was about 2014 when I started crocheting again,” says Charity. “Mum was unwell and I wanted to make her something to make her happy. Just… something. She’s the one who taught me how to crotchet when I was

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Muna turned two

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI Muna has horrible morning breath. OK, I’m being dramatic. It’s not horrible, really, but it no longer has the innocence of a baby’s breath. It used to smell like grapes and pumpkin and milk when she was little, now it has the whiff of black pepper, shoe

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Joseph of Manje Leather

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI Help me out here, will you? I want to describe how Manje’s store of preserved hides and skins smells like but I can’t quite finds the right words. [After several days of several failed attempts…] OK, here’s a morbid – and

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Florah of Trio Crafts & Rugs

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI In the six years “Tell me, Florah, in the six years of running your business here at Trio Crafts, was there ever a time you considered closing shop and walking away?” “Yes,” says Florah, exasperating, “and not just once but several times.

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Craft It takes it to YouTube

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI I got married early this month. On 3rd February. It was a Saturday, a gorgeous Saturday in this gorgeous Nairobi. As the bride, I had many worries and concerns before my Wedding Day. Concerns like,

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