Website and Shop are open!

My Website

My Etsy Shop

I am so excited to tell you that both my website and Etsy shop are online!

I spent a lot of time doing the photography and struggled a bit with it but it's turned out nice!

I also made the website and I hope you like it. I really have a very deep dislike for Wordpress now I can tell you. Oh my.

I hope you like it and I'm looking forward to your feedback as always!

And please spread the word if you fancy it too! xx

To Market, To Market

Right. Here we go! Here are my market goodies!  Most of this is made from old Tshirts. I can hardly believe how many Tshirts I have hacked up and repurposed but the bin tells me: quite a lot. There are lots of little teensy bits of Tshirt all over the house! Any other material is either organic and fair-trade, sourced in Australia. Or it's a remnant I had in my stash. I plan to reduce the stash to zero and restock with oppy and organic and Tshirt fabric only. I am exhausted! But happy! 

Tshirt/Organic Cotton baby quilt screen printed by me

little screenprinted nursery decorations

Organic cotton and remnant jersey baby pants, screenprinted by me

Organic cotton screenprinted dress and nursery print designed by me!

Packing the car. Trying to remember to take a chair and a hip flask! I am so excited. And a bit nervous too! Thanks for all your sweet comments - I've printed them all out and stuck over my desk for encouragement!

Bear with me as I redesign my blog a bit to match my JoeyNomad site. It will be a bit messy for a while there, but it doesn't really matter. xx

Getting a bit serious

Did you have a good weekend? I did, but it was spent working, superhard.
I am excited to show you some pictures of what I've been making for my business. I have tested and trialled and errored but I'm finally coming up trumps! It's been a bit hard but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

As I told you all on Friday my little label is called Joey Nomad, and it is called Joey Nomad for two reasons:
Joe was the name of my late dad, whose simple message 'just do it' gave me the kick up the butt to go and see if I can make a more creative life for myself. He got very excited about some pants I made out of old Tshirts for my niece, and urged me to try and do something with the idea. So this venture is a small and fitting tribute to him. And I am a bit nomadic - me and my husband have lived all over the place before we ended up in Australia, and I can often be found snoozing in an economy class seat flying back home. So that's how the name came about!

My work has a lot to do with re-thinking clothing and textiles. I screen-print children's clothes and I make children's clothes out of recycled materials. And there are also some bits and bobs for grown up people. I use recycled, organic and remnant materials wherever I can.  I am slowly working towards a bigger goal, and once that's a bit clearer in my own head I will share it! It's all a bit scary. I am quite freaked out my first market this week - more on that later!
I hope you like my little bits and bobs.

Screenprinted toddler dress, organic cotton/linen

Screenprinted canvas

My labels are cute! 

THANKS FOR STOPPING BY! 

Launching in 3..2..1...

Ahoy! So my filling came out and now my tooth hurts and the prints got messed up and I forgot to take money out and it's all a bit of a mess over here. So without great further ado I fancy telling you about the name for my label and the little logo I designed.

I hope you like it. It is all designed by me, and I'm proud of my silly self. And I made a website too, but then I broke it. As aforementioned it is all a hot bothered mess.


I am looking forward to share more with you in the next few days. Really it's all about playful things, made mainly out of recycled materials, and also organic fairtrade cotton and merino wool from Noo Zooland. And it will in the future be about getting kids involved in the making-of-clothing process. Oh yes. But for now I need an ice pack on my cheek.

Thank you for your lovely comments on my wedding photos. You are kind as.