Grace & Diggs

Welcome and thank you for your interest in my work. My name is Linda Mullen and I am the owner + creator of Grace & Diggs. My business is the best expression so far of one of my favourite things to do: create large and small things out of re-purposed items.  It intrigues me to be thinking about this series of questions:  Here is this thing that I found. What else could it be? What can I make from it? In a world of mass consumption and the messaging that goes along with it (want more, buy more, be more) I find a quiet calm in paying attention to discarded items and using them to create art and experiences. My daily work is a reflection that I am enough and that have all that I need. I trust that the outcomes provide delight and whimsy for others. I grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and was lucky enough to have parents who took me to a cottage on a lake and let me and my feral friends run wild in the surrounding countryside.  We built forts & tree houses, made props from items that we found or swiped from home, and invented stories to animate them, . This is all I have ever wanted to do. Along the way I have practiced architecture and teaching and find these professions feeding current pursuits in helpful ways.