About Miss Emm
Miss Emm is my nickname, passion, and creative outlet.
This website is a way of sharing my passion for creating beautiful things. I hope you enjoy it.
emmjay xo
once upon a time… where it all began
The first piece of timber was cut in 2009, the first paddle photo posted to the internet on Fetlife in 2010, and the first pixel of this website created in 2013.
However, my interest in kink began much earlier, back at a time before the answer to all things was a mere Google search away. Like no doubt countless others I didn’t really know where to look to learn more about these ideas floating around in my head. I met a couple of people with vaguely similar interests, but kink remained largely a figment of my imagination.
Eventually I tracked down a kink event, and discovered there were myriad other fetishists and kinky folk out there who shared my interests, and had an endless array of fetishes and kinks I had not even conceived of. As a result, much of my early exposure to kink and bdsm was in person, before I’d read anything meaningful about it or seen the endless supply of images and video available on the internet today. It was definitely an unplanned leap into the deep end.
Paddles and canes were not even on my radar when I first began to discover the kink world. They were just two of the numerous implements and paraphernalia associated with the subculture, from rope and handcuffs to latex and pvc. However, once I did discover them, the opportunity to combine form and function into my own creations that bring such enjoyment to others was too much to resist.
the timber epiphany
Until 2009 I didn’t have the slightest interest in timber. Wood was something that came from the hardware store, got used to make houses, and was burnt in fireplaces during the winter. Then one day on a whim I decided to teach myself how to make wooden furniture. Call it an existential rebellion against the flatpack, a desire to create permanence extending beyond my own fleeting existence on this earth, or perhaps most accurately, just a whim.
and so the interest was born.
The only problem was I didn’t actually know anything about how to make wooden furniture. I bought a few woodworking magazines, borrowed a couple of books from the library and rustled through the toolbox in the garage at mum and dad’s house, and soon realised I had a lot to learn, and that cheap rusty old tools do not a masterpiece make.
Whilst pondering all this new found lack of knowledge, a friend familiar with my interest in matters of a fetishistic nature suggested I try making a wooden paddle before embarking on my pipe dream of furnishing a house with museum quality pieces of my own creation. This seemed like an eminently sensible idea, and in keeping with my preferred dip a toe in the shallow end approach to trying new things.
paddle No.1
Soon afterwards, paddle No.1 was born. It was far from perfect. In fact it was far from good, probably even struggling for eligibility into well below average. But although I didn’t realise it at the time, it did possess some of the key characteristics that have come to define the style of the myriad paddles which have followed it off my workbench over many years. It still sits proudly in my workshop as a reminder of where it all began.
the present day
Woodworking remains my passion in life. Whenever time permits you'll find me at my workbench drawing inspiration from my timber collection to create new impact toys.