Making Mustard

Our make-your-own series is back and this might just be our favourite one yet... This week, we're making this really easy, perfectly sized and super cute daisy mirror!  This little DIY is perfect for those handy hooks on the back of your locker door. Make your mirror, hang it up and when you're getting ready in the morning it will put a smile on your face and make life a little bit easier all at the same time! Get your crafting supplies ready, because this is a fun one!   What you need: 5 x Wooden discs – diameter 4.5cm x 2mm thick Round...

Today we are back again for our 'Meet the Expert' series and this week we are talking to the amazing Chloe Hardisty, founder of cult craft brand Cotton Clara. If you haven't been around for Meet the Expert before - hello! In this series of blog posts, we pick the brains of other business owners to learn some more ourselves and share their expertise with you! Whether you have your own business or you're just a big lover and supporter of small businesses (we see you and we appreciate you!) we hope you find some inspiration and some take home nuggets of wisdom! ...

Have you been loving Lilac as much as us? Are you wondering how to incorporate it into your home? Don't worry, we're not going to go and tell you paint your walls purple - although that would be pretty awesome! We had a lot of fun creating three lilac looks to inspire you to incorporate our favourite new shade! If you have been wondering where a Lilac Shorty would work or weren't quite sure how to style it up, hopefully these three looks will get your imagination going! We teamed up with the lovely, colourful Kip & Co, using their...

This week we launched our new, deliciously colourful and delightfully beautiful packs of The Hangers, in 'Summer' and 'Winter'. If you've been struggling to pick just one colour then these are the ones for you! In case you missed it, Summer packs contain Berry, Blush, Lilac, Mustard and White, and Winter contains Navy, Ocean, Olive, Sage and Slate. Of course they come in both adult and kids sizes (because colourful wardrobes are for everyone!) and clip or top hanger style.  With the launch of Lilac we now have 10 colours to make up our Mustard rainbow, so we could not be more excited that...

This week we welcomed Lilac, the newest pretty pastel addition to our colourful Mustard rainbow. Now we have ten colours in our range, meaning that there are so many possible colour and style combinations to choose from - even we can't decide on a favourite!  We're dreaming of a whole wall of Skinnies, or maybe two different Shorties on either side of our desk. The Twinny is the best way to mix and match colours, with so much space for baskets, hangers, maybe even some rainbow shelves!  Seeking colour combo inspiration? Look no further! We've come up with some of...

Do you already have a locker in your life? Struggling to pick the one for you or which one to add next? We're here to tell you more about the lockers you love to love! Meet our family of beautiful, functional storage and accessories. We're going to tell you all about them, how they became part of our gang and the best uses for them! Read on for all of the organisation inspo you could ever need. The Originals Cast your mind back to 2018...seems like forever ago now, doesn't it? Especially after the last year! Well, 2018 was the year...

If you're not in the UK, you may not know that the whole country has been in lockdown for three and a half months. It certainly isn't the end of the road, but this week some of the restrictions were lifted. This means that retail stores are now allowed to open, including some of our lovely stockists who have had their bricks + mortar stores closed all this time! We wanted to show them some love as this is such a huge week for them, coming back to their shops after a long time away. Mustard wouldn't be Mustard without our amazing...

Something we are super proud of here at Mustard is our collaboration with Beam. If you haven't heard about them already, Beam are a fantastic charity working to help get people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness into stable, paid training and work. We donate £5 from every single order through our UK site to Beam, and so far we have raised a mind-boggling £50,000!  Today we are picking the brains of Beam founder Alex Stephany, finding out all about the work Beam does, what actually is a social impact business, and how other people and businesses can do more...

It's time for a super handy DIY!  These instructions will show you how to make a washable paper insert for your baskets to keep all of your little bits + pieces neatly tidied away. This DIY is great if you like to use your baskets for craft supplies, toys (hello lego!) or kitchen storage because it can be easily removed to clean + it stops anything from falling out! Ready to take your baskets to the next level? What you need Washable paper: Small 55cm x 48cm / Large 50cm x 72.6cm (here's where we got ours from) A printer Tape ...

Over the last few months, Mustard has welcomed a few new friendly faces to our team. With Em on maternity leave and Lizzy moving into a new role, we were in need of some new Customer Happiness Heroes. Say hi to Paris in Australia and Lu in the UK! We feel so lucky to have found these two when we did and have them as part of our locker loving family.  Customer Happiness Hero, we hear you ask? That's the title for our lovely people who help you with all of your locker queries. If you ever pop us an...

International Women's Day is celebrated every year on the 8th March. It is a day to both celebrate the achievements of women all over the world, and also recognise the continuing gender disparity in society and push for social, economic, cultural and political change. As a business owned by two women, International Women's Day felt important for us and we wanted to shout about it! We are choosing to celebrate women in business, our family, friends and wonderful team. This year, the theme for International Women's Day is 'Choose to Challenge' because a challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our...

Last week in our blog we told you all about Wordbits and how our beautiful, colourful magnet collaboration came to be! This week, we are hearing first hand from Annabel and Shanna, founders of Wordbits, about their journey. We got the lowdown on how their practical alphabet magnets came to life.    Behind the scenes shooting for the Wordbits Kickstarter campaign.Let’s start at the beginning! What made you want to start a business? Is it something you had always wanted to do, or did you have a different career path in mind growing up? Fun fact, Shanna always wanted to be a CEO...