About Us

About

I am a mother of four, a corporate lawyer by training — I hold an LLM from King’s College London — and a maker by something far older and quieter than any qualification I have ever earned. I grew up surrounded by the kind of beauty that most people walk past without noticing. The flower markets of Rawalpindi in the early morning. My grandfather’s paper stash, dusty and magnificent, full of things I could not name but could not throw away. Leftover fabric from my tailor — scraps of lawn and silk that were too beautiful for the bin. Vintage Pakistani wedding invitation envelopes, thick and embossed, gilded at the edges, still faintly smelling of celebration. Long before junk journal was a phrase anyone searched for, I was already saving these things. Folding them. Layering them. Turning them into something that felt more true than what they were before. Trinketz began in 2008 as something small — a home-based business making bespoke favour boxes for weddings and birth announcements, the kind of handmade things that made people stop and ask who made this. It grew slowly from there, the way handmade things do, until it became what it is today: a journal brand, a free tool for Etsy sellers, and a quiet ongoing love letter to the materials most people overlook. I have been part of the Graphics Fairy design team for years now, which means I spend a great deal of my time in the company of vintage images, aged papers, and makers who understand that beauty lives in the worn and the kept. Four children later, still with chai brewing on the stove and a craft room I am never quite finished with — I would not change a single thing.[/vc_column_text]