Perri Lewis is about to change the way you think about craft. That is, if you think about craft like I do. With fear and maybe a teeny little bit of loathing. For me this stems from 'not being very good at it' and maybe being 'a little scared of...

In the last couple of years my home town of Portsmouth has undergone something of a curious transformation. This normally risk-averse island has been putting two fingers up at the cainophobic by opening up a number of jaunts that would not look out of place in my former residence, London....

Vintage is no longer the preserve of the charity shop queen or the yesteryear aficionado. It's now the church of the bedroom entrepreneur. It's the cutting edge marketing campaign that the global brand latches on to. It shrieks 'creative', 'new' and 'different'. Except it's not; everyone is at it now....