Simone Giertz

You know, I think in the beginning of building stuff, you run into the limitations of your skills so much.

So I feel like, honestly, building gets less and less frustrating.

Or like, I love it more and more, the more I know.

The limitations are fun, but it's like when you have an idea of something and you want to make it a certain level, and then you just...

have to compromise with the materials and the tools and the skills you have.

So I can't remember first time where I felt like... I'm proud of this.

Wow.

This was so smooth.

I'm so proud of it.

I feel like a lot of people, I watch them build stuff and it's just like watching water pour down.

It's just so easy.

And for me, it's just like...

trying to shove a toy car into a wall.

I'm from Sweden, and you have to choose either sewing or woodworking, and I chose woodworking in middle school.

And I remember the sense of pride when I got to bring something home, and that thing of like, oh my God, I get to show my parents this.

And...

I think that is kind of the feeling that I've built my job around.

It's like the sense of pride and wanting to show people something that I made.

And back then it was like a little wooden spoon, you know, and now it's a slightly larger spoon.

Wooden spoon.