Remember phone books, those, bulky dog-earred tomes of indispensable reference? You might find one as a small repurposed basket at Maker’s Loft, a comprehensive shop for do-it-yourself crafters.
“It’s my own little brainchild,” said Jennie Sullivan, its sole owner.
Opened in Nov. 2018 on Pine Forest Road near the fairgrounds, Sullivan stocks a bounty of supplies and completed works from its sweeping menu of craft projects.
“I don’t tell you what to do, I just have the example so you can do what you want,” she explained. “Some people are extreme visionaries and they can just go there and see it and do it.”
A denizen of the westside for 20 years, Sullivan worked as a store manager of a McDonald’s for 11 years, and twice that long with the local Boy Scouts as its District Training Chairman. Grafting her business background with setting up projects helped her…