Jo Jack is a keen woodworker who runs sign-making classes for women in rural communities. She makes rustic wooden signs of all shapes and sizes and sells most of them via her Gingham Girls Facebook page.
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What started as a hobby is now a full-time business for the Balclutha woman who was a police officer for 18 years.
Jo designs, stencils, cuts and paints the signs in a converted shipping container beside her home and she employs a couple of high school students to help with the sanding.
Originally, the signs were made from wood milled on her husband's 400-hectare farm but now she has started using timber from a local sawmill because demand has outgrown supply.
