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Here I am deciding to finally make the website more automated. I have placing band-aids on a few things for a while, but have finally decided that I need to revamp it entirely. Of course, to you, the dear reader... you won't notice a thing, but for me, it will mean many hours less web tinkering and hopefully a much faster way of updating our products. To this end, get yourselves signed up for the newsletter as discounts are on there way to all those subscribed!!!!
Spread the word!!!!!
Love
Fat Mumma xxxx
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
If you had one wish...
Was just reading a profile of someone on twitter that said... "I like to dance to Miley Cyrus and go on vacation". I pictured a scene where someone was granted one wish and that their one wish was to do that all day everyday for the rest of their lives. Wonder if that person would feel the same way about liking it?
This made me ponder on what I liked to do as a teenager and if I had been granted a wish like that what kind of purgatory would I be stuck in? "I like to dance to The Smiths and sit in my room contemplating suicide".... thank god I never got a wish fairy for that one!!!!
On a brighter note, I discovered a new colour today which is called "Cheesy Grin". What a great name for a yellow!
Love
Fat Mumma
This made me ponder on what I liked to do as a teenager and if I had been granted a wish like that what kind of purgatory would I be stuck in? "I like to dance to The Smiths and sit in my room contemplating suicide".... thank god I never got a wish fairy for that one!!!!
On a brighter note, I discovered a new colour today which is called "Cheesy Grin". What a great name for a yellow!
Love
Fat Mumma
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The weather brings us all down...
It's lovely to have the rain falling... watering the gardens and filling the rainwater tanks... but by gum it's brings everyone crashing down doesn't it? I really feel that running a small hand-made business from home is hard enough to stay on top of things without having a freezing cold office to work in as well!!!!
The good thing is we have holiday season almost upon us... so lets hope we manage to sneak in a few hot sunny days somewhere to break up the sunless monotony! :)
The sick children don't help either...
I did however find the motivation to finally update the shop today. The new backpack photos are now up http://tinyurl.com/l5llff. Just have to do the mini bags, day bags and zip-up-shoulder bags (before we change the design again!).
Love and Peace
Fat Mumma
The good thing is we have holiday season almost upon us... so lets hope we manage to sneak in a few hot sunny days somewhere to break up the sunless monotony! :)
The sick children don't help either...
I did however find the motivation to finally update the shop today. The new backpack photos are now up http://tinyurl.com/l5llff. Just have to do the mini bags, day bags and zip-up-shoulder bags (before we change the design again!).
Love and Peace
Fat Mumma
Sunday, June 7, 2009
School fundraising and not forgetting the 'FUN'!
If you have been following me on Twitter you will have seen some cryptic messages about 'Joan Jett' and 'I love Rock n Roll'. Well, my singing lessons finally came to a climax last week at our school fundraising night. The Idol, is something that has been running for the past three or four years at my daughters school and it's a great fundraising initiative that I have to spread the word about!
If you are looking for fundraising ideas or thinking of organising something similar let me give you the basic rundown:
The night was organised by parents from school who are musicians and were willing to practice a couple of times with each group wanting to put themselves out there for ridicule. The basic format was Intro, Trivia, 3 X Idol contestants; then interlude, then two more sets of the same (three in total with 9 budding idol groups).
The fundraising element came from selling tickets for tables of people, enticed by the trivia as well as the Idols. Also, at the back of the room were 9 tins, all representing an act and donations were encouraged to be placed in them. This then raised money and the highest amount won the Idol trophy (which was a gold sprayed microphone).
There was a trophy for the trivia winners and a disco for those that wanted to hang around afterwards for an hour!
So, the basic format is quite simple, but it does involve some very enthusiastic organisers and supporters. If you are interested in more details, comment on the blog and I'll respond with answers :)
Love
Fat Mumma
PS - We didn't win... but loved, loved, loved it and can't wait to get back up to do it again next year!!!!
If you are looking for fundraising ideas or thinking of organising something similar let me give you the basic rundown:
The night was organised by parents from school who are musicians and were willing to practice a couple of times with each group wanting to put themselves out there for ridicule. The basic format was Intro, Trivia, 3 X Idol contestants; then interlude, then two more sets of the same (three in total with 9 budding idol groups).
The fundraising element came from selling tickets for tables of people, enticed by the trivia as well as the Idols. Also, at the back of the room were 9 tins, all representing an act and donations were encouraged to be placed in them. This then raised money and the highest amount won the Idol trophy (which was a gold sprayed microphone).
There was a trophy for the trivia winners and a disco for those that wanted to hang around afterwards for an hour!
So, the basic format is quite simple, but it does involve some very enthusiastic organisers and supporters. If you are interested in more details, comment on the blog and I'll respond with answers :)
Love
Fat Mumma
PS - We didn't win... but loved, loved, loved it and can't wait to get back up to do it again next year!!!!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Mixtape Zine
We love living in a hand-made world and being part of fantastic zines like Mixtape. We have our first article and ad in Issue 9! Woopee!!!
Love
Fat Mumma xx
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Experimenting with stop animation
This was our first foray in to stop animation. I keep thinking it would be great to play with a Fat Mumma's version... this is the begining!
This also shows that having children does have it's fun days!!! :)
Love
Fat Mumma
This also shows that having children does have it's fun days!!! :)
Love
Fat Mumma
Monday, May 25, 2009
When you just do what you feel like...
With juggling house, kids, husband, freelance web work, gym and Fat Mumma's I don't often find time to sit and doodle. Yesterday I gave myself permission to just do what I felt like doing instead and sticking to the routine that drags me down! This is what I came up with, and even though it wasn't productive for the other parts of my life, it made me feel good!!! :)
New t-shirt design available in adult size on www.redbubble.com
http://www.redbubble.com/people/tracybell/t-shirts/3134160-1-mu-ha-ha-ha-haaaa
Love
Fat Mumma
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Babies with attitude
After being rejected by another Malvern market today, I was feeling low about our direction. Are we just too god damn funky???? Then I received this beautiful photo from one of our customers and thought... 'Whoa there with your negative thought processes... this little girls looks so good, how can we not feel happy to be dressing some funky young things!!!!'.
Comments welcome, just to lift me from my malaise!
Love
Fat Mumma
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Fat Mumma's New Products
Have been slaving away all day trying to get a new product up and running... will hopefully get this finalised in the next week... and then there will be pictures.
In the meantime, our new bags are looking fabulous and I encourage you to follow the link to Flickr if you're interested in buying on! Also, if you are keen on buying a bag, please subscribe to our email list as I'm currently formulating some special offers that will only be available via the newsletter. That's not to say you can't pass on the info, but you may not hear about it if you don't subscribe@!!! I promise I won't be inundating you with rubbish!
Love
Fat Mumma xx
In the meantime, our new bags are looking fabulous and I encourage you to follow the link to Flickr if you're interested in buying on! Also, if you are keen on buying a bag, please subscribe to our email list as I'm currently formulating some special offers that will only be available via the newsletter. That's not to say you can't pass on the info, but you may not hear about it if you don't subscribe@!!! I promise I won't be inundating you with rubbish!
Love
Fat Mumma xx
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Sunrise 10% discount
I haven't had chance to put up the information yet, but as part of the Sunrise Recession Buster campaign, we have joined and anyone interested in ordering with a 10% discount should email us with their order details and we'll contact you directly for payment.
In the meantime there are also some beautiful new bag photos available on Flickr waiting to be put up on the web (hopefully by early next week) along with the discount facility!
Flickr Fat Mumma's Bags
Thanks for your patience!
Love
FM
In the meantime there are also some beautiful new bag photos available on Flickr waiting to be put up on the web (hopefully by early next week) along with the discount facility!
Flickr Fat Mumma's Bags
Thanks for your patience!
Love
FM
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