Mae Rocks!

My daughter Mae has been a little spoiled with the rattles. Seeing as mum is owner of The Grateful Thread, she has a handful of different colours. Here she is rocking away with the baby blue stripey one. Rock on Mae whoohooo!

Welcome Clare!

Clare Cade has joined the Grateful Thread team as our new partner and European Representative! Clare is a wonderful asset to the team and will be taking over most active business throughout Europe as we have relocated to Vancouver, Canada. Please give her a warm welcome!

Kids Rock in Catalunya Spain!

These fabulous photos were sent to us by Maria Novelles of Catalunya, Spain. What absolutely gorgeous models! These kids are such rock stars! Muchas Gracias gracias gracias! I love to see kids having fun with our products. This is exactly the reason why we make them!

Paris Sale!

My sister-in-law helped throw an amazing Parisian sale of The Grateful Thread goodies. Just in time for Christmas! Here's some pics of the fab display. Many thanks to all those that came despite the rain! It was a success!

Lena Rockin' Out

This little girl can ROCK! She's so adorable!

The Grateful Thread in Paris!

This is the window to La Sardine a Lire, a fabulous kids shop in the heart of Paris! . We are delighted they chose The Monsters to be part of their window display! (Johnny Fandango must be off chasing the ladies).

The Grateful Thread On Tour With Motley Crue

Check it out! Vince Neil, Tommy Lee and Mick Mars all checking out The Grateful Thread goodies at the Backstage Artist Lounge on the Cruefest tour. We were so bummed we couldn't go, but with the bambino fresh out of the oven it was too difficult to get to New York. Hey, and Big Tone has become the official mascot of the tour! Check out his facebook page and add him as a friend if you want to follow him on tour http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000297557998&ref=nf

Mae Lilian Worth - Welcome to the world!

Our gorgeous baby girl was born Sunday August 23rd at 10:58 pm.

We are all doing well and at home getting to know each other. I am so in love with her, and excited about this new phase in our lives!

Evie Munchin'

Just thought this was a cute photo.

Evie doesn't quite get it yet, but she will no doubt soon!

PlushYou! Interview on Bluebottles Art Craft and Design Blog

Bluebottle Art Gallery in Seattle have kindly posted an interview with The Grateful Thread on their blog in part of promotion for the PlushYou! exhibition in October. Please take a wander over to check it out, as well as all the other interviews, and interesting tidbits from the creative minds over at Bluebottle.

http://artcraftanddesign.blogspot.com/2009/08/plush-you-interview-with-grateful.html

KiosKiosk

Many thanks to Hemmingway Design and other sponsors of KiosKiosk, a project designed to help up and coming new businesses by providing them a place to vend their goods for free. We spent 2 days at the Kiosk to vend our wares. Its located on the boardwalk of the Thames just near the mayor's office. We had lovely weather and were happy to promote our brand and products. We made a few sales and overall had a good experience. The Kiosk itself is remarkably well designed and adaptable. For more information regarding the Kiosk go to http://www.kioskiosk.co.uk/

Motown Martians

This is my contribution to the "Plush You" exhibition this year. Its not perfect, but turned out alright considering I have been 8 plus months pregnant nad been working full time until last week! Anyways, its a fun piece! Hope you like it :)

Nice Window Display

Our friends over at Carry Me Home, a shop in Kingly Court just off Carnaby street in central London have created this fab window rock and roll themed window display showcasing some of our guitars and some other great items. I love the "Glastonbaby" theme. NICE!

Another Happy Crazy Guitarist

Thanks Melissa of http://www.whatnowbaby.blogspot.com/ for sending these great pics of her superstar in action. Rock star quality!

KiosKiosk!

The Grateful Thread will be participating in KiosKiosk this summer. The concept behind KiosKiosk is to provide a venue for creative makers/designers to sell their wares. The Kiosk

is located next to the Mayor's office and the Design Museum on Queen's Walk (closest tube London Bridge or Tower Hill). We will be selling Saturday July 25th, and Saturday August 8th. Stop by and say hello if you have a chance! For more information on KiosKiosk, a list of the various exhibitors, or how you can get involved check out the website, http://www.kioskiosk.co.uk/

PULSE tradeshow 2009

So after much anticipation and preparation, we finally took part in our first big trade show. Pulse is primarily for gifts and design led products and was a good one to choose because it specializes in new product launches. We were pretty nervous at first, but we got a great reaction to our products and the look of our stand which made us feel pretty good. We had several orders for small boutiques around the UK and met some really interesting people. Overall it was a really great experience for us, and has really helped to give The Grateful Thread that extra push into the public eye. For a list of retail shops now selling our goods, please visit our website. http://www.the-gratefulthread.com/

Baby Blocks!

I have a lot of friends having babies lately, and I'm always stuck for ideas of what I can get for them. It's nice to do something a little personal if I can squeeze in the time. I made these little baby stacking blocks for my friend's beautiful little girl Lena. Hopefully the different textures and the bells I put inside will help entertain her. This is a really easy project and took only a little time, but I really enjoyed it.

Guitar baby rattles!

If your bambino likes rattles, why not let them shake in style?! You can start the little one on a road to rockstardom with these stylish rattles. Our latest invention. They are made from fabric remnants and come in 3 sizes and whatever fabric happens to be leftover. They will be available for purchase very soon from our online shop! http://www.the-gratefulthread.com/

More Spectacular Photos!

Some more wonderful style/action photos from my brother-in-law Akim. Aren't these fab? These little rock stars have been caught in some sweet rock n' roll poses. Watch out, I think a new Elvis is in the making! And how about that pooch? Please check out Akim's other fantastic photos and his short filmwork at http://www.akimzerouali.com/.

Great Photos!

My brother in law is a fantastic photographer. Check out this great style shot! He took a bunch of photos for us to use in our new upcoming catalogue. I can't thank him, or the bunch of crazy kid posers enough :)!