I'm at my local makers market. Actually, one of 20 held every month across the north-west of England.

Perhaps you've got a talent for making things or just love handmade goods. If so, this programme's for you.

I was doing the art, thinking I would start doing it properly and I didn't until I was forced to.

And I'm really thankful for it because, yeah, it's quite taken off.

If the word artisan sounds a bit old-fashioned to you, think again, recent years have seen an upsurge in handmade goods.

Those who've chosen to strike out on their own to make stuff

report high levels of that elusive thing many of us are after. Happiness. Do what you know,

do what you like, do what your hobbies and stuff like that. That's the kind of advice I took.

You're working in IT and you kind of lost your mojo. Have you got your mojo back? Are you happier doing it?

I love it.

I love Cootman. I'm creative. Did the pandemic surgically remove the social side of work

revealing the bare bones of many jobs to be a bit, well, rubbish? Or is there just something about

working with your hands? We talked to a philosopher author, and motor mechanic, Matt Crawford.

There's an intimate connection between the brain and the hands. When everything in life is

mediated through screens, we're really removing ourselves from the kind of creatures that we are.

And I think there's a kind of deep sense of something being not quite right that can catch up with you.

Today on Business Daily, join me, David Reed, as I meet corporate escapese turned artisans.

We look at the upsurge in makers markets, pottery, painting, hot sauces, even balloon animals,

and explore whether the rewards from rolling up your sleeves might not just be a better living, but a better life.

And what colour should we do the snake's tongues?

Red!

There's definitely something mesmerising

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