Come and shop with Mum and Working!
All of the businesses below are run by Mums (and Dads)...
Funkreations is a range of fun, colourful art for children’s rooms created by artist Caroline New. There is an extensive range of characters and subjects in stock but the great thing is that you can have a painting of anything you or your children’s imagination can conceive. www.funkreations.co.uk
If you're looking for stylish products inspired by a nautical lifestyle then you'll be delighted with our collections.Our pages are full with brilliant bedding, neat storage, fun accessories and some imaginative gifts. www.nautical-living.co.uk
Turn your child's drawing into a masterpiece. Create funky modern art for your walls, a unique, personalised greetings card or a precious gift for a loved one.
We also transfer photographs onto canvas and for the artist themselves we have Paint By Numbers Gift Sets with a difference...they can paint directly onto canvas.
Perfect gifts for all occasions including Christmas and birthdays or just because...
Babyface is a children's bedding company offering something different for your childs bedroom.
We specialise in beautiful handquilted and appliquéd bedspreads and accessories in a variety of childlike themes. Our themes include the highly decorative Fairy and Ballerina for girls and the Pirate and Seaworld for boys. Our Little Indian Range is suitable for both girls and boys and our Snugglepie Baby range is perfect for younger babies.
Our hand quilted and appliquéd bedspreads are made from 100% cotton and come with a comprehensive collection of specially designed accessories including Pillowcases, Cushions, Curtains, Laundry Bags , Rugs , Cot Bumpers and Nappy Stackers.
Visit our website and see for yourself how Babyface can transform your child's bedroom.
Children’s art on canvas – hand-painted to co-ordinate with your home. Throw away those scraps of paper and let Lorraine Penney turn your little ones drawing into a unique, stylish work of art you will want to hang on your wall!
Hunkydory home produces high quality, handmade lampshades and cushion covers in a range of unusual and designer fabrics. The site features everything from classic retro inspired by 50’s, 60’s and 70’s vintage fashions, to modern contemporary style, colourful children’s fabrics as well as gorgeous shabby chic and funky kitsch designs.
Hippins is the online childrens shop where you can find everything for discerning children from groovy designer childrens clothing to funky nursery furniture, baby bedding and nursery accessories, traditional wooden toys and unusual gift ideas for Christenings, childrens birthday presents and new baby gifts!
Lilis Things is run by Charlotte Tedbury (Mum to Lili - hence the name!). She will paint your existing children's furniture to your own design, or she will take your own idea and transform it into a thing of loveliness!
Wooden, hand painted toy boxes, personalised with your Childs name. High quality children’s furniture, personalised Keepsake Boxes, Children’s tableware…and magic reindeer food!
Malcolm Sutcliffe makes gorgeous hand-blown glass vases, bowls and plates. All the glass is free blown, no moulds are used to shape the glass only wet newspaper, wooden blocks and the traditional glassmakers tools. For some time now Malcolm has been exploring the watery theme of the sea with dolphins and whales as the subjects also polar bears from the arctic and African elephants in the sunset. Since moving to Cornwall Malcolm has been doing more work just using colours, softly blended together, without any of the figurative element.
Multi-tasking Mum Krista paints in acrylics and oils. Her work is at once bold and personal, abstract and figurative. She has a fascination with colour and is not afraid to introduce intense brightness to an intimate scene. Krista's large canvasses and stunning use of colour offer a spectacular framework for her exploration of the human form, in which she focuses on the female figure, and more her recent landscape based pieces.
Ruth fits running her fantastic site - Bedroom in a Box, around looking after her 3 children. She was inspired to set up the company when she wanted to re-decorate her daughter’s bedroom but didn’t want to use an interior designer or make the room look too overly ‘matched’ and wanted to avoid the hassle of shopping with 3 children! Bedroom in a Box provides everything you need to create an individually styled child’s bedroom – and delivers it straight to your door. Follow the step-by-step plan to create the room you want, including made-to-measure curtains, bed linen, cushions, lampshades and paint.
If you are looking to buy the original artwork from your favourite children’s books, visit Images of Delight for the best in contemporary children’s book illustration. Run by Mum Linda, there are some gorgeous pictures to buy from classics like The Gruffalo and Angelina Ballerina.
An exciting new range of wallpaper borders, bed linen & stamps to help you be the creator of beautiful bedrooms & playrooms for your children. Mum, Nula, has taken the themes for the Noolibird collection from the things that captivate her own two children and their friends. Fairy Gardens, Medieval Knights, Farmyard and Safari are among the themes.