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Inspiring Women: Jen Gale

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Name: Jen Gale

Age: 37

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Company Name: Make Do and Mend-able

Company Description:

Make Do and Mend-able is an online resource to promote Making Do and Mending as an alternative to buying new, and to facilitate the learning of new skills. On the site you will find tutorials, and inspiration for all things Make Do and Mend, as well as a nationwide Directory of classes, workshops, repair and re-use events, and pre-loved and ethical craft supplies.

Location:

I live in Wiltshire, but the site is nationwide!

Contact Details

Make Do and Mend-able

Twitter: @makeandmendable

Instagram: @makedoandmendable

FB: Make Do and Mend-able

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Song of the week: Drumming Song – Florence + The Machine #InspiringWomen

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I had an amazing time in the sun and rain at Towersey Festival this week and there were brilliant performances from so many musicians.  I am working on my write up of the festival which will include links to videos from some of the performers, but in the mean time I needed a genre change.

This morning I needed something really loud in my earphones to get around the supermarket.

What better than #InspiringWoman Florence Welch?

I had a full album playing by the time I’d got my veggies in the basket (I’m picky and indecisive) but this was on repeat and there’s probably people who were shopping today who think I’m really odd for dancing in Morrisons!

Enjoy!

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This year I have officially joined the WI.  Having dabbled in finding a suitable group for a few years, I am now apart of Steel Belles WI in Sheffield, a very new group full of great ladies.

2015 is the centenary of the formation of the WI and as we are entering the week of the centenary celebrations I’ve been thinking about the women who inspire me and why they do.  So here’s a top 4 women (in no particular order) that I think are awesome.  They are all people I’d like to be when I grow up please, or at least steal aspects from…

Tina Fey

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I bought ‘Bossy Pants’, Tina Fey’s autobiography and it’s hilarious.  I’ve read a huge number of funny books, but I’ve rarely laughed aloud to one as often as I did with this.  In my eyes, Tina Fey can rarely do any wrong – she wrote Mean Girls, she wrote 30 Rock, created ‘The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’, she turns up in all sorts of things and is a breath of fresh air; I even really like Baby Momma and Date Night, I know I’m somewhat in the minority with the last two.

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