In stores now

I am pleased to announce you can now find JazyJae's products in two Blue Mountains stores.
Up at Blackheath there is a lovely store called Studio 52 it's a place for local creative artists and designers to be able to sell their creations. Currently they have my reversible bibs, hair tie and slide sets, magnets with more to come soon. If your up the top of the mountain I highly recomend you check them out. Lots of amazing things are in there including The Natural Soap Emporium who are based in Blackheath.
Another store that is now selling JazyJae's is Sherman and Betty they have my hair tie sets and hair slide sets.

Returning to the world

After a long break that was much needed I have returned to the world.
This time round it will be under different formats of exposure. Rarely will I be at markets, will do the occasional one as it is very hard to do markets with children let alone when your a single parent with small children.
You will see JayJae's online I will keep you all updated as this becomes more detailed, working out finer details on how I will be doing this.
I can say JayJae's will be in at least one store in the Blue Mountains with the possibility of another in the Blue Mountains also stocking products. Will make official announcements on these later this week with what products and where.
Products that are staying include reversible dresses and hats, denim totes, mini-chef aprons. As I work out what others I will continue to do I will let you know. There will be a couple new ones too.

So for all old customers I would love feedback from you all on what products you loved so I can try my best to keep these going.

Some pictures to oggle

Thought I'd share some photos of recently made Out and About Pants.

These pants come in sizes 1-4 for both boys and girls. Are made from fine cord with quilters cotton pockets and turn up cuffs. Pants are a long fit and the cuffs do turn up aproximately 5 inches so you can buy in a size too big and have them fit for a while as pants then later as 3/4 pants with the turn up.

Have you got a Mini Chef?

If you have a Mini Chef in your house or know a mini chef you need one of JazyJae's Mini chef aprons. They are great for the aspiring Min chef or just those kids who like to help out in the kitchen.
suitable to fit children between the adges of 2 and up to 10yrs (smal 10yrs) with it's adjustable strap for over the head that can be adjusted with the snap closures and the two long ties for around the waist.

All will come in a variety of colours for the body fabric and a pocket of a fun print that is fully lined the pocket measures about 6 inches by 10 inches. The apron is about 49cm in length and about 44cm across at the widest.

Soon will be up in the made it store or if you see a picture of one on the Facebook page that you like contact me and you can buy it.

Super Kid capes.

I now shall be starting on my Super Kid capes. great personalised item that is made to your childs individual taste.
Just choose a colour combination from the following colours of red, blue, yellow, green, pink,purple, orange. there may be other colours available depending on what I can get my hands on.
Then choose the letter that will be appliqued within a circle on one side.

Then finally choose the picture to be appliqued on the other side. You can choose from kite, guitar, rocket, car, flower, butterfly, plane, boat and ice-cream.

Makes a wonderful gift. Just $20 plus postage.
The cape has an adjustable tie on it so it can fit all children and comes at the length of aprox. 58cm.
Just email me at jazyjae@bigpond.com to place an order.

facebook follower?

Now that I am back just thought I would check to see who uses facebook and if your a follower. So please let me know in the comments if you follow JazyJae's on Facebook. That will be updated more often with pics or specials I am running. I want to save the Blog for special posts so as to not clog up blog sphere with little pics or having to put a full blog entry in.
So go over to the JazyJae's Facebook page here and follow away. You may just catch a special of the day or week on there.

I'm back

after a long break I've decided to get back into it all. I miss it way too much and it was a great sorce of keeping me motivated in all areas of my life.
I had a market stall today at an election day market that was a very quiet day yet I made a lot of money even with discounting my clothing stock by 20%. Sorry no photos as I forgot my camera and the battery on my phone is almost dead.
I have made the decision to delete several things. However I do have a load of new ideas so watch this space.
Thankyou to those people who came today and gave me so much praise, I truelly needed it and appreciated it greatly.

The Winners

Well we only had three entries so everyone wins really. However I did a random number generator thingy and came up as Bec in for first prize. So Bec choose $35 worth of product from the for sale pages on my blog. Xina you came second so choose a notebook and I'll include those hair pins you mentioned. natsha lucky third so choose some magnets.
Thanks for entering ladies.

Facebook page reached 200 fans

Ok somehow  my Facebook fan page reached 200 likers as they now call them.
Anyway I will full fill my promise of doing a giveaway when the page did reach 200 fans.

So my giveaway will have 3 winners. First random drawn one will recieve $35 worth of product of their choice. Second random drawn one will recieve a notebook and hairslides of their choice and 3rd drawn will recieve a magnet set of their choice.
All you need to do is leave a comment and tell me what you would choose. Go to the facebook page and look in JazyJae's for sale albums and take your pick. click on the link over there on your right.
I will do the draw on Friday 29th October by the time I go to bed.

Saying goodbye

I've had to come to a very hard and heart breaking decision. JazyJae's is going out of business. after nearly two years of working my but of I'm saying goodbye.
Not a decision taken lightly. After all I have put my heart and soul into it. Just very recently spent a lot of money on logo designs, packaging and signage. However due to lack of sales and having pretty much every clothing piece copied I'm spent. Way too much money, time and designs lost to pick it all up and keep going.
When your pouring your energies and heart into something that is only giving back satisfaction of creation it is heart breaking. When people scrutinize your work at one market and come back to the next one with pretty much exact work is even more heart breaking then when people who are suposed to be friends it crushing. after all this business was named after my two most gorgeous creations my children so to say goodbye to it is a hard thing to do.
I may keep putting the odd thing here and there up on madeit but I am over it and the politics that come with it.
Over the last two years I have met some geniunly lovely and awesome people. To them I send wishes of great success. I just hope you don't suffer the same fate I have. A few I have formed wonderfull friendships with.
To those who have copied whilst smiling and saying how lovely and well made my things are....."You may be making a load of money now but in time it all will come crashing down and you will have no one but yourselves to blame"
So for now I am slowly selling of my stock through my facebook page and some will go up on Madeit when i have the funds to pay the fees.
Goodbye my lovelies!

New art

I have a new painting in my home which was given to me by the artist herself. Not properly hung yet but it is close to where it shall be hung.

I think it is sweet.

I'm raising money for Child Wise

Over at my Facebook page I am running a fund raising sale for a wonderful organisation Child Wise go here to find their about us page. I came accross them when I was in Melbourne for a conferance for my job. The company I work for supports Child Wise through the sale of hand creams that all the proceeds from sales of the creams go directly to their "Stop sex trafficking of children and young people" campaign. Just $27 buys a child all the school supplies they need to go to school which includes: uniforms,books,pencils,backpack. Then $54 buys a child a bike to get to school. Through having just these simple items it keeps children in Cambodia occupied and getting an education which in turn helps prevent them becoming vulunerable from being a target for sex trafficking. The organisation also helps get children and young people out of sex trafficing by providing them a home and education and rehabilitation to go on and become the amazing people they were ment to be.
They not only do great work in Cambodia they also work in the Asia Pacific region including here in Australia.
I was so moved by the presentation done both on the business school day but also actually on conferance day that when I got back home I really could not stop thinking about them....and have not stoped thinking about them since.
I don't seem to be moving many hand creams in my job but I just knew I had to do more and will probably continue to work to raise money for them for as long as I can.
My only other way I could think of immediately to help out was through selling of all my older stock and donate 20% of the sales to Child Wise.
This organisation and what they do really touches my heart. I was a victim of abuse as a child and teen and now I am a survivor so there is nothing more heart warming to me more than knowing there are people out there who are helping to enable our most vulnerable people to become survivors and wonderful people. All people should have that!
So please check out the sale and buy something to help. If there is not something in the sale albums that apeals to you. Go to the Child Wise site and make a donation.
Thankyou for your support!

Awfully miserable weather here today!

This is my view from the front window where I sit and browse other blogs which is about all you can do on days like these....

Hope it's better waether where you are today.

Go Dragons

My little girl is a mad Dragons supporter (NRL for those not in the know). I have no clue why she has chosen this team as I don't follow NRL I am a sad Aussie Rules supporter and follow the Demons. She is super excited over her team being in the Grand Final tomorrow. So last night she created a poster.

So tomorrow when I usually would be doing JazyJae's things I am being a good Mum and making her a red and white cake and commining up with other red and white food to be made and eaten, along with trying to calm her down so she does not burn herself out before kick of.

Blogtoberfest day #1

For my first blogtoberfest blog entry I will alert you to the fact I am having yet another sale on my Facebook page to raise money for Child Wise Australia.
Sale starts Monday.
Currently uploading a lot of stock...pretty much all my old stock to make way for the new stock comming out. So click on the Facebook icon over there to your right and become a liker so you can get your hands on some JazyJae's products whilst helping out a fantastic organisation.

It has come to that time of year once again.

To be honest I had totally forgotten about Blogtoberfest for this year. I am hoping I do be good and blog something each day...even if it is a picture and small blurb.
Click on the gadget over there to your right to register.

Your little Super Hero!

Do you know a little Super Hero? They all need their very own very own cape!

This one I made for my 5yr old super hero this morning in her choice of colours and motifs.

I shall be making these in a number of different colours and colour combinations. Each one will have a colour matching letter side for the child's name then the other side will have one of a number of motifs. They will fit 2yr olds to 8yr olds.
I like them a lot and think they are super cute and look way better than the mulit run ones out there.

What do you think?

I'm back

I had to take a very long and much needed break from JazyJae's due to so much snowing me under both emotionally and physically. However I'm getting on top of things and making an attempt at a come back. Does that mean I shall be on top? I sure hope so. I also hope that not just about everything I do gets blatantly copied.

I have been busy by getting cutting some simple things first up and cut a number of notebook covers and I am now halfway through the sewing up of them.
There are some summer pants in the making also but will show more on them another time.
I have a few oldies and goodies that have been tweeked a little in my new line along with a few newies. I do hope to be more regular with the bloging of JazyJae's antics as it comes up.

Raising Money for a cause

Been a bit distracted lately. Last week I was away for a conferance for my other job. Then this week I have been real busy with things for my daughters school.
Plus I have been getting things going for selling a lot of stock on my Facebook page. You can fine the album of the sale through here. I am raising money for a wonderful cause and charity. Child Wise Australia they help prevent child abuse and sexual abuse of children and young people. They also do a lot of work with those who have been victims and turn them into survivors.
So go to the Facebook page and purchase as 30% of the sales go to the charity organisation. As will any other sales I make through the month of August.

Newly finished

Today I finished of some more "Princess Skirts". Some very cute ones in there. I really love making this two layered special skirt. It's a lovely full skirt that looks great on little girls who love to twirl.

They all come as a one of design!