New Product Samples

This week we will be finalizing colour-ways for our new designs. We have also received new organic fashion fabrics so will be sampling those too. In the interim, I thought I would share our new product developments.

Inspired by all things European right now (and yearning for that overdue trip), we have developed a eco-friendly tea-cosy. Hand-printed on hemp/organic cotton fabric with water-based inks and insulated with Bamboo wadding. I am quite happy with how this turned out. I just want to re-size it as my tea-pot is a little larger than most so I want to make sure it fits over all pots.

Do you like my new porcelain tea-cup sets? Some of you may already know that I collect vintage tea cups as posted here. I have a weakness for roses and these treasures were scored at the New Farm Antiques Centre. I wasn't as fortunate with sourcing quality goods at the Woolloongabba Antique Centre yesterday but it's also the luck of the day.

I am equally excited over our new fabric bread basket. This is also quilted with the bamboo wadding (no nasty polyester here). This is only our first sample but I am impressed with how well it stands up even when filled with bread rolls.

We will be making these to be reversible with coordinating fabrics on either side of the wadding. The other change will be to replace the cheap poly/cotton binding with our own cut fabric one.

I am anxious to make these products with the new designs very soon and to cut and sell some as craft kits too (hear the crafters cheer).

These china doorknobs are totally unrelated except that I also found them at the New Farm Antiques
Centre for only $15 for a set of 3. I couldn't resist.

Please contact me if you are interested in being a stockist of Thea & Sami eco-friendly homewares.

Eco Mama

I love going to the beach and Byron Bay is one of my favourite destinations. Sunday was an especially good day as I was able to mix pleasure (day at beach) with business to personally deliver an order of Thea & Sami hemp/organic cotton homewares to Eco Mama, a lovely new store that just opened in the town.

The shop is located in a lovely old house and is the brainchild of owner Mia Maddison. The address is 7 Marvel Street, Byron Bay. For enquiries, contact Mia on 0410 616 441.

Featured wares include hand-made items by local designers using sustainable materials and recycled fashions and vintage goods such as Glomesh purses and other bags.

I love these little ceramic bowls by Zani McEnnally and the salvaged wooden display table.

If only I had the figure to wear these retro crocheted edge, chamois bikinis.










I don't surf but I can appreciate the beauty of this surfboard made of balsa wood, a sound environmental choice.

The winners of the Pets and Bones fabric giveaway are announced here. You still have time to enter my other blog giveaway.