More personalised organic baby clothes!

I'm really pleased I've finally found them - organic baseball tops for babies that can be personalised!

I already had little organic baby vests, T-shirts, hats and bibs to print on with your own text and a fun selection of motives but I just couldn't get hold of organic baseball tops. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of printable baby textiles out there but I really wanted the baseball tops to be organic!

Maybe it's because I studied biology for my BSc and MSc that I've become suspicious of many of the products available or maybe it's because I'm a Mum - I go out of my way to buy organic food, especially meat. In fact, I actually feel guilty if I don't take the organic option if one's available. I spend a lot more money because of it but at least I feel I'm doing the right thing by my kids...

Anyway, it's obviously a little different with general clothes, especially as the kids grow older (although the fair trade element remains important). But a newborn baby's skin is 5 times thinner than that of an adult so when I started this shop I was determined only to offer organic products if they were to come into direct contact with a baby's skin. I do, however also have highest quality wool (cashmere) in my range...

So I'm really pleased that I've been able to extend my selection.

In fact, I've also just included personalisable kiddies' aprons. These aren't organic, the material has to be somewhat sturdier to cope with all the butter and sticky stuff the kids regularly get on it.

My big kids, Joanne and William love baking and 'helping' with preparing the dinner - although I'm actually still recovering from all the baking in the run-up to Christmas! Their birthdays are in Nov. and Dec. so we were baking fairy cakes like there's no tomorrow to hand out at school, nursery and the countless parties round that time...

Personalised baby carrying slings

What a cold and snowy weekend we've just had! If the snow would at least stay then it'd be great for the kids to play with but it's just wet, cold and miserable outside. So the kids spent most of the weekend running riot. By Sunday afternoon we were all desperate for a bit of fresh air...

Luckily the sun DID decide to emerge from the clouds for a bit so we wrapped up warmly, got out the bikes for the big kids and set off. I put Josephine (almost 4 months) in her baby carry sling so I'd have my hands free for the others.

I do like carrying Josephine in the sling, she feels so close to me, snug and warm. She tends to look around a bit and then falls asleep. I've used the sling indoors as well. From 5pm onwards Josephine starts getting restless and wants lots of attention. But I still have to feed the other two and get them ready for bed so I often just carry Josephine round in her sling.

I wrote a press release on the sling the other day. It's one of the items I sell in my shop. You can design your own colour combination for the sling and have your baby's name printed on it... I just love it!

The joys of trying to work with sick toddler around...

Today my little boy (3) didn't go to creche as he has the flu. He's feeling rather sorry for himself, poor thing! And so much also for my intended day's work...!!

As most entrepreneurs, I feel rather 'driven' to work and am subsequently quite annoyed if I am stopped from doing so. However, having read William's favourite book to him 4 times and crawled all over the floor with his race cars I realised that this was the whole reason for setting up my own business!

I wanted to spend quality time with my kids as well as having a challenging and satisfying career - in a foreign country whose language I still have difficulties speaking, let alone writing...

The Internet is a great space for venting creativity and allows Mompreneurs like myself to establish themselves on an equal basis to those who spend 1/2h in traffic before starting their 9-5 shift... Although I have to say that I miss the office banter I have discovered that online social networks are quite good at letting off steam, too! For instance, there's a really inspiring new Mompreneur group I've just joined. The group focuses on European Mompreneurs and is quite an interesting site...