We LOVE our little team. Get to know the people behind the emails, stories and products. As a small business, we want Mustard to be a happy place to work and to have customers who feel cared about. These are the people we trust to take care of you, get sh*t done and bring our business dreams to life. Meet Becca Job: Creative Director (honestly hard to pick a title!), Big Sister.Lives with: Jono my husband, Dylan my big boy (11) Ellis my little boy (3) and baby boy number three on the way. Oh and Alfie the cat!Favourite country: India, I long to...
Here at Mustard we are huge believers in supporting small female owned business. We've been asking ourselves how we can help and contribute to the conversation Black Lives Matter has put firmly at the centre of our minds. We'd like to celebrate some brands and businesses that we love in our own communities that are owned by Women of Color. Being a business boss is a brave and wonderful thing, Ladies, we salute you! ULO Ulo transforms traditional wax fabric into products that are made in small batches with the aim of bringing joy and color into people's lives. We met founder Dinzi Amobi at...
Did you know - our lockers are magnetic? Well now you do! We're going to show you how you can truly make the most of that knowledge! The lockers are made from steel + finished with a beautiful matte powder coat so you are able to stick magnets all over them. Here are some very cute magnets we've found to go with your favourite colour locker... Googly eye magnets Just because everyone needs to bring their locker to life…add some personality to your storage! Letter magnets We're so excited that we will soon be selling these typographic delights. Never have...
Create adorable pom pom magnets in literally a minute! This has to be the fastest way to add something special to your locker. You can use them to stick photos, reminders, shopping lists, weekly schedules, inspiring quotes... They'll turn your locker into a magnetic notice board in just one simple step. What you need Pack of 2cm felt balls Hot glue gun and glue inserts Round mighties magnets Step by Step one. Squeeze hot glue onto the Mighties magnet and push and hold the felt pom pom on for 10 seconds... repeat as many times as you like! Yep, it’s that easy! Felt pom...
Times are strange and we're all in need of some warm fuzzy feelings, some things to keep us (or our kids) busy and feeling inspired. We asked our little Mustard team to share the things keeping them going and bringing some joy right now. 5 things to create with Becca Making things is what makes me feel like me! It doesn’t have to be a huge project + it certainly doesn’t have to be perfect but making something that didn’t exist before always makes me smile. Here’s 5 ideas for things to keep you feeling creative. one. Embroidery kit These lovely kits will...
Times are strange and we're all in need of some warm fuzzy feelings, some things to keep us (or our kids) busy and feeling inspired. We asked our little Mustard team to share the things keeping them going and bringing some joy right now. 5 things to watch with Jess I have been a big watcher of TV + Movies since I was a kid. I just really enjoy snuggling up on the sofa, with a blanket + watching things that make you happy or sad or maybe just any emotion which is a little escape. Here’s my top five...
It's been over a month for most of us since lockdown began. The mixture of emotions is strange and confusing, there's elements of the 'slow down' that for many of us have deep positives yet it all sits so uncomfortably within the greater suffering and worry. For many freelancers it's been a time of less pay checks and more 'spare' time. What happens when the creative work dries up but you have time to ponder, evaluate, draw and dig deeper? New ideas are born. Like this. We teamed up with Brighton based illustrator Melanie Smith of Smith & Wonder to bring an...
It's time to take your mustard locker to the next level with a leather tassel keyring you can make yourself! Follow our simple DIY to add some bling to your locker... What you need Faux leather 32cm x 10cm - (this is the tassel piece) Faux leather 9cm x 1.5cm - (this is the hook piece) Fabric scissors Ruler Pencil Tacky glue Mustard Made keyring Step by Step one. Using a ruler, draw a line 2cm in from the edge along the longest side of the tassel piece. We will call this line ‘a’. Then draw 6 vertical lines underneath the...
We'd like to introduce you to Natalie Jeffcott... There's something so magical about walking into a person's home and feeling like you're being told a story with every detail. It seems that Interior Photographer Natalie Jeffcott has picked up inspiration throughout her life, from all the homes she's walked into with her camera and created a captivating home for her family. We take a look at how The Skinny in Blush has been styled in three different ways in three different rooms. Tell us a little about you… I’m a Melbourne based freelance photographer and live with my partner Nick, teenage son Arthur and 2...
There is no easy way to say this. The world as we know it has completely unravelled. It sounds cliched but never has it been more accurate to say that we took so much for granted until now. Simply going to the shops to buy groceries feels like an extreme privilege. Never before have we considered whether or not we'd be able to buy pasta at the supermarket or counted down our toilet rolls like they were days before Christmas. We wanted to share how the Coronavirus has impacted us as a business because we know that there are millions of...
This has to be the most useful DIY and if you're anything like us, a label making session is your idea of a Good Friday night in! Just imagine all the things that will now have an official spot with it's very own magnetic label! It's a super fast way to add some personality to your Mustard locker! What you need Dymo label maker Refill embossing tape – 9mm - we found some more colours on eBay but your label maker should come with some too Self-adhesive magnet strips – 15mm Scissors Step by Step one. Punch out the desired word on your label...
Let's just take a minute to appreciate how great it is that International Women's Day has gathered momentum and become a celebrated day of the year. It's a day to be proud, to look back on how far women's rights have come and to celebrate the achievements of well, half the population! It's also a time to consider what the women of the world need to create true equality. As a female owned company we take pride in knowing we are walking a path that would have been impossible (or at least damn hard) in the past. We are grateful to have grown...
