Elise Heslop decided to hit pause on corporate life in 2012 and take her family on a gap year in Italy. After that, everything changed for the Melburnian. The sojourn had been a chance to spend more time with her husband and two boys, but it also freed her up to change careers altogether – and leap into the world of fur niture-making.
“I’d spent a lot of years working in marketing for larger companies,” Elise explains. “But deep
