About

Kelly Doust has been making and reinventing things in her own trial-and-error way since she was a girl, and scouring flea markets and charity stores for vintage fashion and homewares from her early teens. It wasn’t until she and husband James bought their first house (a Victorian cottage in Sydney’s Inner West) back in 2007 that she started creating things in earnest for her home, friends and family. Until then, she found sewing up a hem to be quite exasperating.

Before writing The Crafty Minx, Kelly worked in book publishing and public relations in Sydney, Hong Kong and London, and as a freelance writer. She currently writes for Australian Women’s Weekly and Vogue magazines.

*Author photos taken by Stuart Scott at Blue Door Studio