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  • FRAMES // There's never a 'free size' or one size fits all' approach to anything related to your business. Everything has to be thought right down to the minute details and requires constant tweaking to adjust to your clients and their needs plus also be aligned with your own what I call 'care goals' - goals which reflect what you deeply care about be it your own health, prosperity, wealth, children, family - whatever that may be. If you think you have framed your ideas and concepts in a certain way and they are not working, don't be afraid to adjust them to see them in different angles. It's a lot like getting new prescription for your glasses right? The optometrist reviews the health of your eyes and puts you through a series of tests to help your eyes frame into clearer vision. Your life and profession are no different. If you believe that something is just not quite right, make adjustments, shift perspectives, ask questions, keep searching and see how the results pan out. Nothing has to change radically or dramatically overnight but small, incremental steps to tweak and adjust can produce something significantly different in the long run. Hope your Thursday is full of fresh perspectives! 🌿💁🏻‍♀️
  • TRANSEASONAL // As a mum and a strong advocate for sustainable purchases, I’m constantly looking for something that I can use all year round for my kids and I certainly don’t wish to be forced to buy something purely because of a temperature change. This is part of the reason why I started @baby.peppers because I thought there was a gaping hole in the market, where blankets and bedding items were being manufactured according to seasons without much of a logical thought process. My hope for mums everywhere is to purchase mindfully and to help them make informed decisions. To make bedding items trans-seasonal, it’s not only incredibly important to choose the right kind of fabrics like cotton or bamboo but also the right kinds of dyes for the fabrics to adjust both in the blazing heat and harsh winters. Apart from fabrics and dyes, the right kind of quilt batting and its thickness is also very important to regulate body heat. Part of a child’s life journey is getting acclimatised to mother nature, regardless of the extremes in temperature and I want to do everything possible to help a mum through that journey. Victoria is braving 40 plus degree heat this week and my kids have been very comfortable in their bedding sheets and night quilts and I have been washing them cool and hanging them out to dry with zero negative effects. A little research and thought into your products go a long way indeed. If you are in Victoria, please keep cool and hydrate yourself and your little ones including pets! 🌿💁🏻‍♀️
  • MIRACLE // The next time you look into the mirror, tell yourself this: Despite your brokenness, your challenges, your vulnerabilities, your struggles, and your pain, you are still here. Still showing up for the world, your family, friends and loved ones and striving to be the best version of yourself every day. You’re still here and that means an awful lot because most people would have given up. The miracle you have been longing for; well you’re looking right at it in the mirror. No one can make it better and give your story the audience it deserves except you. As @brenebrown says powerfully in her bestselling book ‘Dare to Lead’ - “Vulnerability...is having the courage to show up when you can’t control the outcome”. The only difference here is that you already know the outcome-it’s going to work out just fine xoxo 🌿💁🏻‍♀️💗
  • KALAMKARI // When you work with artisan collectives, you realise they are not just making mere products. They are crafting works of art, works of culture, works of philosophy, works of tradition and heritage, and works of hope. I especially see all these values and traits infused into our Kalamakari quilts which are quite a story in themselves. The dyes for the fabrics are mixed using organic vegetable dyes and it takes 17 painstaking steps from treating the cotton naturally, to carving the wooden blocks, to mixing the natural dyes, to drying and washing, before the final fabric is ready for use. Approximately ten skilled artisans are involved in creating just one yard of fabric. An epitomy of slow and artful fashion and an accompaniment to a child through the years due to it sustainable nature. Thank you to @a_content_heart for styling this so beautifully in her littlest babe August Henrik’s nursery xoxo 💁🏻‍♀️🌿💗
  • EMPLOY // You won’t know how, when or where but it will happen. I’m a strong believer that energy, the universe and the higher good are not mutually exclusive. When you emit the best positive energy out to yourself and others around you, the universe works extra hard for you to align with your goals and creates the life that you want. The trick is not to do this with any expectation - go about your life as you would but stop to bring about an eclectic vibe and energy to your soul that creates a massive difference in your own life and the others you work with in a positive way. You were never working alone to achieve this, you’ve always and will always have the best employee on the team: the Universe xoxo 💁🏻‍♀️🌿💗
  • PERSIST // The thing about block printing and creating something solely with your hands means that no two products will ever be alike and there will be subtle imperfections no matter how detailed the craftsmanship. Our products are not manufactured using precision machines, artificial intelligence or complex algorithms. Just two hands or maybe twenty hands depending on the size or length of the fabrics and sheer persistence. And what I love about that is the direct co-relation that it has with any successful business model. A successful business always has a period of uncertainty, imperfections, struggles, challenges and discomfort and that is precisely what makes the business so successful. Those periods allow the business to search for solutions and to keep evolving and growing in the quest for continuous improvement. How else we can learn and grow if we are always so sure about everything? How else can we produce a better product if everything was always so precise and structured? How can the business have fun without any element of spontaneity? How can the business move forward without any random acts of kindness or generosity towards both its consumers and employees? Don't seek for perfection, seek for persistence xoxo 💁🏻‍♀️🌿
  • LIBERATE // I bet most of us have been in a situation where all it took was for one song, or a scene in a movie or a hug from an old friend, to just let go and bawl our eyes out. I have often been in that situation but never fully understood the reason for the unrestrained tears. The more I looked into it, the more I realised that the tears are symbols of repression. We have been holding so much in our minds, or rather should I say holding back so much that all it took was a small trigger to let those feelings out. To give 100% of yourself for a task, you need a lighter heart and mind. You need to declutter and filter through the weeds and let go of anything which no longer serves you. So if you find yourself crying at something which seems so mundane, don’t discredit yourself. That’s your brain’s way of letting you know that you have stored too much junk in your mind and it’s finding a way out for you to let go. Liberate and live xoxo 💁🏻‍♀️🌿💗
  • CONTROL // Did anyone else read M.Night Shayalaman's latest interview with @nymag? Night has always been cut from a different cloth - it takes a peculiar mind to understand his films and even those that have been labelled as "painful failures" still taught me something on a much deeper level. I think it is more apt to term him a philosopher than merely a Hollywood director. He always leans into discomfort, exploring very uncomfortable topics and showing what the mind, body and soul are capable of conceiving and achieving when aligned in harmony. Something he said in the interview has stuck with me for days now. "When you focus on what’s in your control, the universe will sort everything else out" - what a powerful statement and one that can be applied to any aspect of your life, both personally and professionally. In business, I always tell myself that I cannot control the sales, profits, losses and purchase decisions of consumers but I CAN control what I educate and inform them. For instance, I can educate them that our block printed quilts which are hand-quilted by a women-led collective are safely dyed with cutting-edge dyes from @clariant_international and pre-washed for optimum softness so when you receive the package at your door, your little one is ready to use them as they are. As Night says, divide your life into two columns - one that you can control and one that you can't. Focus your energy and give your all to any task that you can control and watch how the universe aligns herself to make wonderful things open up and happen for you. Ask yourself, what is in your control today? 💁🏻‍♀️🌿💗
  • INFLUENCERS // Having been in business for three years, many people have asked me what my thoughts are on influencer marketing. I often get raised eyebrows when I tell them that it’s a form of marketing that has existed for decades. Back then it was predominantly driven by print and television mediums but today influencer marketing is driven by social media. There is a general misconception that the larger the number of followers, the better your influence and therefore that person will be a good fit. I think it’s more of an art trying to find the right influencers to work with and it definitely should not be driven purely by the number of followers. Have you stopped to think that your own customers or even yourself have greater power to exert influence than someone else who have no experience with your product or service? In fact, all of us are influencers in our own right, having the acute ability to ‘influence’ a particular outcome, call to action or desire so it is really a term that needs to be looked at in depth. I decided to write an article reflecting my ideas and experiences with influencer marketing and where I have and have not found success. The article is now published on @thrive - link in bio to read! 💁🏻‍♀️🌿💖
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