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Jewellery designer Leah Wood on painting, Polaroids and life-changing parties

As a mum, you always treat your kids and husband. These sunglasses were a present to me because I hadn’t looked after myself for a long time. I spotted them online and thought, ‘They’ll look good on my face!’

This is one of our family’s cameras. My mum [Jo Wood] has a lot of Polaroids of her with my dad and famous actors such as John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in the 1970s. I love the click, the flash and the instantaneous picture.

I was 18 when I met my husband My dad’s mother Jack at a party. I plucked up died when I was the courage to get some young and I punch he was serving cherish this – and that was that! jumper – it’s the We married nearly only thing I have ten years ago from her. She and when I look knitted it for me at my [wide when I was nine gold] wedding so it’s 30 years old. ring it reminds me of those vows.

I always remember my dad [Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie] saying that he wanted to copy his brothers My maternal who were sign When my daughter Maggie grandmother painters and [eight] came home from was a doll maker. When she played guitar, school with this picture, I said, passed away, I asked my and now he inspires ‘Holy cow, that’s really good! mum if I could have this doll. me. I painted a portrait Picasso would be overjoyed I love her fishnet tights, of Vivienne Westwood recently, but I if he saw it. He would say, umbrella and eyelashes. haven’t shown it to her. My dad wants me “I’ve got to take you as my to put on an exhibition, but I’m too shy. apprentice!”’ I’m going to push her forward with art.

When I was thinking I became a vegan after about what to call This necklace was made in Northern Peru by I watched What The my american cocker women of the rainforest whose homes are on Health on Netflix.I t S chiefer H aywood- spaniel, I chose the frontline of deforestation. It means a lot shows how animals ouise L Wilson after finding as they have taken the time are treated and the name on an old to find the seeds and slaughtered. Then reggae tape. He is assemble them I thought, ‘What am now 18 and has got into something I going to cook?’ I’ve lost so many times; beautiful and been going through this my brother Tyrone handcrafted. cookbook ever since. once found him down a muddy hole n Leah is an ambassador for the charity – he was so cold he Cool Earth, which protects endangered

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