I wasn't trying to make a keepsake. I was trying to get rid of a deadline.
I got tired of watching mothers feel behind at remembering their own child. There's a whole industry of beautiful books, and every page in them has a date on it. Miss one and the blank stays blank. Most end up with three pages filled in and eleven months missing.
That's not a mother failing. That's a book keeping score.
I'm a designer in Johannesburg, and I was never organised about any of this either. My friends gave me a keepsake box years ago, and I made Hareloom because of what happened to it.
It's mostly full.
