1/23/2024 0 Comments Little hoppa 3 in 1Our deposits had been paid, (from the sales of our house EEEEK), money had been spent on websites, marketing, imagery, videos, samples, we were ALL IN, in a VERY BIG way! Our factory closed for 3 months, and we had no idea when or even if they would ever re-open. We sold the London home that my husband and I had spent 5 year painstakingly renovating, to fund the deposit of our first Little Hoppa order (yes he is still married to me…just about LOL).Īnd then just as we were about to commence manufacturing of our first order…Ĭhapter 5 - The course never runs smoothly The 2 years that followed were fraught with challenge! It took 18 months of back and forth with a team of engineers, multiple manufacturers, countless samples and trips around the globe before we finally got it right. By then, my side-hustle styling and content creation business had taken off, and was just about keeping me afloat whilst I invested into my big idea! It was September 2018, I decided to hand in my notice from Barclays where I was VP in HR, so I could focus on launching Little Hoppa and growing my own product-based business. I finally plucked up the courage to do something about this thing, if no one else was going to do it, why not me? It was 20 months after ‘The list’ that my second baby, Reggie, arrived.Īnd once again, whilst feeding my new baby, I looked at the market to see if anyone had addressed the gap that that had been there 20 months ago, and to my surprise, they hadn’t. I searched high and low for a wooden baby bouncer, because the one we had, (which all the Mums I knew had bought and loathed) was just such an eye-sore, and not particularly well designed either! I was surprised to discover that nothing existed.Ĭhapter 3 – It started with a list on a scrap of paperĪnd so, right there, whilst feeding my baby on the sofa, I wrote a list of all the things as a Mum with a keen interest in design, and a desire to invest in more natural, planet friendly products, I could not find! It was a pretty long list and one that I am still adding to today.Ĭhapter 4 – Turning the big idea onto a reality …. The whole idea of toxic plastics going into our babies mouths, and then going to land fill and washing up on beaches, it just didn’t sit well with me!Īnd so.I started doing what all budding entrepreneurs do, I hit google search HARD! Many late-night feeds were spent trawling the internet. I had wanted to try and avoid plastic where I could with my babies, not just because I hate the look of plastic, but also because it is just SO bad for the planet and our health too. I could not really understand how the baby industry, at least in the UK, had so little to offer parents looking for alternatives to plastic, and baby products with style. There was stuff EVERYWHERE, products I had bought largely out of a sheer lack of choice or alternatives. I no longer recognised myself, or my home! Every corner was covered in baby tat, large bulky items that were rarely used and that my baby seemed to grow out of as quickly as we were buying them. I was loving being a Mum, but I looked around at the home I had so passionately and painstakingly designed, and it had been taken over. I was sat in my living room, tired, hungry, and quite possibly still in my PJ’s. It was about 6 months into my maternity leave, from a then 12-year career in Recruitment & HR, that I had what I can only really describe as one of life's significant moments. With his almond eyes and his Wella-Shock-Waves hair, it is fair to say that he’s been stealing hearts since day dot. Here’s Teddy, the very reason by Sofie exists! the baby the nurses affectionately named ‘The Disney Prince’.
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