Welcome to Rudh Sten

So here it begins. I’m currently sat in bed which is also our sofa which is also our breakfast table and also my make shift ironing board. We are living in a caravan, yes a caravan. My ever patient partner, two wonderfully resilient children and me in our little bean can. We do have an actual house, it’s just mostly mud walls and blown out render at this point, but we are knee deep in a full house renovation and well on our way to our little dream home. Last October we bought our house via an online auction, you’ll need nerves of steel and a partner with a strong squeezing hand if you choose to partake in such a venture. So, we are now the proud owners of a wonky, crumbly, slightly damp and more than slightly drafty Cornish cob cottage. Before getting started on the house we needed a space to store our belongings and a studio to work from. March saw us pouring concrete wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow, sawing splinter after splinter, hammering, measuring…re-measuring, sawing a bit more off, pushing it that way a bit, no…pushing it back the other way a bit and before long we had our ‘big red’ shed up, water tight and ready to store cushions, toy cars, mattresses, foiling equipment and the like. Amidst the ‘house work’ and keeping the children alive I’ve been working towards having a children’s book published which I’m now very excited to have published, printed and ready to be enjoyed by literature hungry little hearts and eyes.

Rudh Sten is a place for me to create home made, hand produced items designed to help people live a more balanced life, aiming to bring back the best bits of the past that are sadly now slipping away. In the long term I plan to have more to offer, but this is my starting place and I hope you’ll set sail on this voyage with me. Please sign up to my newsletter to receive monthly emails celebrating the best of British hedgerows, gardens, vegetable patches and month by month seasonal colour charts as well as new products to buy here at Rudh Sten.