Finished it! (The sandwich bag). Might even get round to uploading a pic of it sometime. Working away on our new packaging designs. The postal backlog isn't helping...
Anyway, I thought I'd upload a picture so you can see the kind of thing we do. Here's our matryoshka doll pin cushion- isn't it lovely?!

Evening all
I hardly feel I have the time to update this blog- how do people do it?!! We are working furiously to get our products 'out their' at the moment. We've finally uploaded our gorgeous fairy tale height chart onto the website, and are pulling out the stops with the Christmas stuff (yes, I know it's only September). We have re-thought our packaging too, so we are waiting with baited breath to see if the new boxes are as good as we think they are...watch this space!
And as for my little darling's lunch bag...it has been guiltily left on the back burner since I started it. I have had almost hourly reminders (she is 4, that's her job) to finish it and it is slowly getting there. Just have to sew the handle and the fastener on and we're done. Need to get my skates on though- first day of school on Wednesday and we can't have her turning up with her sandwiches in a Tesco's carrier bag. Will of course keep you posted.
Bye for now,
B

Hello world, Kotori Kits calling....

Hello there!

After 6 months of good intentions but not quite getting round to it, the new Kotori Kits blog is born. Life has been hectic, setting up our new company while looking after 5 children under the age of 4. Now that we are sending 2 of them off to school for the first time (eek), we are hoping to have a bit more time on our hands. Or am I being a deluded fool for thinking that?

('We', by the way, are Beverley and Katie.)

So- a brief history of Kotori. We were originally 'Mummy Made It'. We started the business because we wanted more mummys to get into sewing. Nothing beats that special feeling of seeing your little person wearing/ playing with something you have made especially for them. And it seems that their favourite things are the things you've made....

I am continually frustrated every I hear the same cry 'I wish I could do things like that....' You know, you can. After frogmarching my ante natal group into a room with a sewing machine and not letting them out until they made something (against some resistance), I really got the bug for getting people sewing. So a lifetime of thinking about starting a business became a life where I have started a business. As simple as that eh? It turns out that Katie (one of the ante natal non-sewers-but-now-a-convert) and myself make a great team. So off we went...

The response to Mummy Made It was really positive, which felt great, and we were surprised to get so much positive feedback from people who aren't in the baby-bubble. This led to the decision to rebrand to Kotori, and we haven't looked back.

Anyway, enough chat for now, must finish the packed lunch bag that I am making for my special little girl.