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Miss Mollee Designs
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Miss Mollee Designs

Miss Mollee Designs has grown out of Jenny Mapstone’s love of sewing, taught to her by her grandmothers and mother. Jenny creates rope bowls, coasters and mats as well as polymer clay products in her home at Narrabri and sells them all online.

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Miss Vet
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Miss Vet

Miss Vet is a livestock veterinarian by day, and an artist by night. She, Jill Kelly, paints the finer parts of bush life: horses, pink lipstick, a well-shaped cowboy hat.

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Mink & Me
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Mink & Me

Coonamble businesswoman Lucy Moss founded Mink & Me in 2015, after moving to the rural New South Wales town with her farmer husband. She now juggles the business with two small children, as well as supporting their farm business.

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One Designer’s Dream
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One Designer’s Dream

In 2020, Emily Burton was teaching at Kinross Wolaroi School in Orange NSW while making jewellery as her creative pastime. She now owns a thriving pearl jewellery business, Peggy & Twig, which has been featured in the likes of Vogue Australia, Graziher and Country Style.

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