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I have fun at work. Sometimes so fun that I participate on our craft courses on my free time. At the moment I am on a traditional shoe making course. It's a hard sewing job but relaxing and fun. Besides my feet are so small that there is never too much sewing with the shoes.
People often think there are only reindeer nomad Sámi tribes but that is a colonial and stereotypical point of the view marketed to the other nations by the explorers in the past and the media today. Forest Sámi people for example have rich lifestyle and their source of livelihood never based on one source. Traditionally Forest Sámi vary their source of livelihood according to it what is available: hunting, fishing, berry picking and at least from early 1600 having few sheep. Many Forest Sámi people are very creative and skillful in crafts. They did it so much and well that they sold their craft products on the markets already hundreds of years ago, even in the way that other Sámi people worked as their suppliers.
My Forest Sámi family is more craft makers and suppliers than reindeer nomads. Forest Sámi craft and art of craft is in Kemi Sámi language "tuejje / tuojje" (depending on the dialect). My Forest Sámi great grandpas have made for example quite a lot of traditional shoes and I am bringing it back. 💕