Australian Animals Stitch Markers

Joanne makes her pieces up in Maleny, in the hinterland of Queensland's Sunshine Coast, and it's the beauty and fragility of Australia's flora and fauna that gets her designing – whimsical, colourful little conversation pieces meant to warm your heart.

She's originally from Sydney, where she studied graphic design and worked alongside polymer clay artist Belinda Jackson at 'Out of the Ordinary' back in the mid-1980s. Making things, and making people happy, has shaped her choices ever since.

Every piece is high-quality polymer clay, cut by hand – nothing machine-pressed, nothing mass-produced. No two are quite the same, and you might even spot a fingerprint or two.