Introducing Gettymops.... a little dream that I am slowly developing from a hobby into a teeny venture, and eventually (hopefully) even a small business. I love to sew, really love to sew, and have made lots of lovely things for friends and their children, but now think that I can make them to sell to others. I have two little boys (two and eight months), and although I adore them, I need to get started with something other than housework to challenge my mind. I think the things that I make and will be making, are rather sweet and if not totally original, at least unique in their particular design. I also happen to think that they are high-quality and well made.

I have been tinkering with the idea of running my own business, utilising my ability to sew, for some time, but lacked time and real inspiration until earlier this year. Somewhere in the back streets of the Left Bank of the Seine in Paris I found a shop that has inspired me with the ambition to perhaps own something similar one day. It is a beautiful, white-framed, white-painted nursery-furniture shop, selling everything a new parent could want for their baby or small child's bedroom. Old-fashioned cribs, beautifully carved cot beds, tiny rocking chairs, and all manner of changing units, chests of drawers, and miniature wardrobes. But what I really loved were the soft furnishings and other accessories. Cushions, curtains, bed linen, changing mat covers, rugs, lined baskets, framed prints, all chosen to help make a child's bedroom look like something from a story book. Yes, I suppose everything in there was a little pastel and wishy-washy, but this helped tie the whole shop's display together. I was in heaven and walked away dreaming and thinking: if only.....

So here goes, and this really is the VERY beginning. I can introduce Gettymops, the name I have chosen for my new-born business. In actual fact I didn't choose the name, my two-year-old son did, inventing the word when he was trying to pronounce 'forget-me-nots' in the garden with me one day. It was one of those words that you laugh at and treasure, and when I was beginning to think of a name for my business, it seemed to fit. What I am now making is a range of nursery accessories, including, (but by no means limited to!): doorstops, applique fabric pictures, fairy-tale wall hangings, applique cushions, curtain tie-backs, and the perennial bunting with a Gettymops twist. I have some more designs that I haven't yet tried, but at the moment my mind brims with ideas, so watch this space........

.... p.s: these pictures show some of the things that I have made. My Stars-and-Stripes Dragon Doorstop, my Fairy-Toadstool Applique Picture, and an example of the Gettymops Letter Bunting.