Brand Spotlight... Filemon Kid...

Now Autumn is approaching we have some awesome new brands and collections over at Skellywear.com

One of our amazing new brands is Filemon Kid...

Filemon Kid is cool clothes for cool kids!

Our motto is impulsivity, joy, playfulness and simple design with unexpected touches.The idea is that the playful and colourful design will match the play-friendly garments.
We believe in accountability and a broader perspective. 
Organic and natural materials and water-soluble ink based printing is essential for us.
We do our utmost to tiptoe with as small eco footprints as possible.
We care for the children, we care about our planet and we care about originality and expression desire.

Life's meant to be lively!...

This season features awesome leggings, wickedly rad beanie hats and a gorgeous dress...

Filemon Kid is definately as fab as it looks and unisex to boot!!!...

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Leonie x

Brand spotlight Zezuzulla

"Fair work, fair play, fair trade, fair play"


A great motto from one of our Favourite Brands originating from Poland...
We asked Krystian from Zezuzulla a few questions about their amazing brand....


Why did you start the company?

We started a company soon after the Julo, our beloved son, was born. We were looking for ideal clothes for him and didn't find any, so we've had to make them ourselves :). Emilia was a pretty popular blogging-mum in that time and when she showed her work to the people, she received so strong, positive feedback, that she decided to start Zezuzulla. And then, on 12.12.12. it all began...

Hedgehog Shorts

Where do you get your inspiration from?

Nature, childhood and freedom are the greatest inspirations for us. We don't look on what other's do, just focus on ourselves. We value the practical side of the clothes - we don't want our stuff just to look cool, but we want the little people inside the clothes to feel comfortable (AND cool) in it. Our lives are focused pretty much on Julo, so he always tests all items and is our toughest critic. And I guess, it makes Julo our main inspiration... :)

Red Fox Dress

What's your favourite print?

Working on each and every print is a great fun! Sometimes we like to wear it corresponding to the certain humour the Julo seems to have that day. We love when Julo choses which one he likes to wear today. He sometimes mix it quite spectacularly! :)


What are your plans for the brand for the future?

We love the business model we have for now. We fit Zezuzulla to work well with our family and not get over it. Keeping things much under our control. We don't aim to have business representatives everywhere, we want to prosper slowly, not rush anything. Let people see and feel that our things are truly made out of love. Of course, we want to rule the world someday ;), but don't want Zezuzulla to be just a money-maker. It's a part of our family, and we want to keep it that way.

Brown Fox Dress

What's your favourite activity with your son?

We love to enter Julo's world, let him in charge of things. And, yeah, the little guy likes it too ;). He makes awesome stories out of nothing. He loves to draw - we often play a double-draw game - he draws something, then the adult draws another thing, everything pretty random. After the doing is ready, we together make up a story for it. It becomes not only a piece of art ;), but an unique, and often pretty funny, tale that we actually created together.



If you haven't seen Zezuzulla's new S/S collection then check it out here 

We really do love Zezuzulla over at Skellywear.com (hope you do too?) the quality really is outstanding and the prints are just gorgeous and quite unique and unisex too...

Looking forward to the next collection...

Leonie x

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Zezuzulla S/S ...

Have you seen the latest collection from the amazing Zezuzulla?

No, well here it is...

Zezuzulla are one of our favourite brands here at Skellywear.com 

...gorgeous prints, unisex designs (dresses aside) and amazing quality...

Sleepy foxes, Apple balancing hedgehogs what more could anyone want?...

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Much Love 

Leonie... x

Christmas Giveaway!

Win a Maxomorra Christmas Moose apron and a Corby Tindersticks Ralph Raddish soft toy... Ralph likes Science and Ready salted Crisps!... A man after my own heart... Click below to enter... X

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Zezuzulla...

Zezuzulla is a fresh, fast developing brand from Poland that we really Love!

Their motto is:

Fair work, fair pay, fair trade, fair play...

You can't say fairer than that!...

Devoted to giving the best garments possible, all made from snuggly certified fabrics with great designs and simple Scandi style prints...

We hope you’ll like their ideas and clothes! (We Do!)...

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Leonie x

Nottingham Comic Con...

This is what we got up to last weekend...

At Nottingham Comic Con...

Yes, we pretty much spent the day wondering round taking photographs of the smalls having there photos taken with The UK Garrison... Again, this is the 3rd year we've done this...

Some great artists showing some great art and some amazing merchandise wanting to empty our wallets!! 

We'll be there next year... X

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Super Awesome Dresses...

As much as we love to stock gender neutral kids things...

We have some amazing dresses in stock at www.Skellywear.com (if your lil dude loves to wear dresses we think that's awesome too)...

From super Scandi masters of awesome prints DunsSweden and More Than A Fling...

Under The Sea Dress... 

Super awesome DunsSweden cat dress...

Awesome Urban starryness From NununuBaby...

Super awesome retro inspired velour from Villervalla...

Beautiful and bright from AlbaBaby...

Fantastic nature inspired autumnal prints from Maxomorra...

For more gorgeousness check out www.skellywear.com and to be the first to hear about all the new things why not sign up to our newsletter over at www.skellywear.com at the bottom of the page... I'd put a link to it directly but honestly my technical blog skills arn't that great right now... Sorry x

Leonie x

Hello...

So...
I've neglected this blog for way too long now, its been on my ever increasing to do list... 
Time to get my butt into gear and resurrect it...

Its been a whole 2 years since (well, just over!)since  Skellywear.com launched...

To celebrate the 2 year mark we have a fantastic competition to win a voucher for £75 to spend with us you just need to pop over to Juniorstyle London at https://www.juniorstyle.net/shopping-guide/competitions
for details on how to enter, the only snag is theres about 38hrs left to enter so Go... Go... Go...

Its been an eventful 2 years, we've taken on some awesome new brands such as Zezuzulla http://skellywear.com/skellyshop/cat_991998-Zezuzulla.html a fantastic brand from Poland who's motto is...
Fair work, fair pay, fair trade, fair play...
What could be fairer than that?...

We've still got the amazing retro inspired AlbaBaby http://skellywear.com/skellyshop/cat_820167-AlbaBaby.html on board and were lucky enough to view the S/S16 AlbaBaby collection in Denmark this year whilst visiting CiffKids trade show in the gorgeous city of Copenhagen...

Scandi favourite Maxomorra http://skellywear.com/skellyshop/cat_787928-Maxomorra.html are available with there stunning Mushroom... super Christmassy Moose... Retro inspired Petunia prints a real standout...

The amazing Danish brand Molo http://skellywear.com/skellyshop/cat_981840-molo.html and there super awesome prints of space, cats and birds...

So yay... 2 years of excitement and real hard work, bring on the next 2 years and beyond...

Thankyou to everyone who has supported Skellywear.com along the way... Without you guys we wouldn't be able to do this... 

Much love

Leonie xx

Thursdays Threads...

Lovely lovely dresses...

This weeks Thursdays Threads is all about the dresses...

Grubbies Prairie Dress...

To quote Grubbies...

'A plucky little pinafore for young ladies who are far too busy for buttons. Perfectly placed pockets for thinking'

This fantastic little pinafore is just fab, poppy red zip, poppy red pocket piping, 2 perfect pockets...

Denim, sleeveless and enough room to go adventuring in, dress up or down... 

British brand, British made...Available here...

Duns Sweden...

Ladybird dress...

The cutest of the cute all over black ladybird print on a red dress, yellow sleeve and neckline piping...

Super soft, organic GOTS certified cotton 

Available here...

Maxomorra...

Black and white distressed all over star print on a beautiful black dress...

Long sleeves, elasticated wrist and neckline gives some shape, whilst a chest seam allows for a slight A line shape to the dress...

97% GOTS certified organic cotton 3% elastane...

Available here...

All available at www.skellywear.com

Thursdays Threads...

Corby Tindersticks are quite frankly amazing... They are quirky, fun and just plain old gorgeous...

We do love Corby Tindersticks here at Skellywear HQ...

Interactive weather maps... 

We all know how let down we feel with the UK weather right?... Well now you can create a weather system of your own!!!... Each map comes with eight moveable printed weather symbols... With the release of the new Japanese weather map there's 3 maps to collect UK, the World and now Japan... Learn some geography whilst having fun!...

Corby have also come up with an amazing road map... 

A printed canvas bag containing a road map, vehicles and a play along character... 

No batteries or flashing lights just childrens imagination and adventures... The map can be anywhere in the world and the fun can be as crazy as you like... Beep beep!...

There's also new characters to add to the old gang of Ralph Raddish, Hip Hop Harold and all the other guys...

Gaston Gary Gledhill, Pomelo Perkins and Bertie Humbug Caterpillar... Bertie is my favourite... What's better than a funky caterpillar?... NOTHING!...

These cheery cheeky little guys are lovingly printed with eco friendly dyes onto organic hemp jersey... (Corby source eco friendly materials wherever possible... They care for the world we live in guys!...)

So if you want fun, funky, quirky design led toys Corby Tindersticks are the ones for you... 

Available at www.skellywear.com

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... Little Titans Tights...

Dude... How cold is it this morning?...

Its freezing... Time to get the de-icer out and the thermals and the Little Titans Tights for boys and girls...

Little Titans...

Quirky, snuggly, warm and really really cool...

Keep those little legs warm and those little toes toasty...

Homegrown British brand available in four designs from:

www.skellywear.com

Thursdays Threads... Corby Tindersticks, Grubbies, DunsSweden..

So, here we are post Halloween, post Bonfire night... Heading very quickly towards Christmas... (How fast has this year gone by???...)

So this week at Skellywear has been all about Dungarees and Stripey socks and tights... Keeping those little legs warm...

Grubbies Outlaws Dungarees... We've featured them before, they are a firm favourite at Skellywear... Unisex, fun, built for adventure, pockets, pockets and more pockets, British made for added coolness!...

Duns Sweden... Stripey orange and purple long sleeved organic cotton top... Stripey socks... Gotta keep those toes and legs warm now the chilly weather has arrived... Red and Brown stripes, contrasting yellow toe, heel and top band... Totally cool and organic knee high socks for the coolest boys and girls...

Corby Tindersticks... You Are Ace... You Are Ace... You Are Ace... Caramel coloured Robot pompom hat... Who doesn't want a hat that's tells them how awesome they are every time you wear it??? 

Orange Rainbow robot... Totally cool, totally awesome travel companion, big enough to go everywhere, small enough for small hands to squidge...

All available at www.skellywear.com

Thursdays Threads...

This week features an all Scandinavian and all organic line up...

L'asticot... Swiss Ethical Kids Design. Organic fairtrade clothing for kids.

Beautifully soft grey organic Berber pants... With a fantastic added feature of purple stripy extensible leg cuffs... Allowing the pants to grow with your bubba... 

Roll the cuff up and roll it down, also making it 500 times easier to tuck super snuggly warm trousers into wellies... Allowing for easier puddle jumping... 

Who doesn't want to look super awesome when puddle jumping?...

L'asticot Cardigan... 100% Super snuggly Organic wool cardigan in English rib and moss stitch...

Super pixie hood completely lined in purple stripy organic cotton jersey...

If this cardigan came in my size I would definitely be wearing it...

Cosy enough for these chilly autumn days...

Maxomorra... Long sleeved GOTS certified organic cotton black top, simple and plain 2 poppers at the neck allowing for stress free dressing... We've all had those moments of getting someone's head stuck in a neck hole right???? Or is that just me?... 

Great for underneath a coat, cardigan or a body warmer... Simple and stylish...

www.skellywear.com

Thursdays Threads...

It's Thursday... And what a Thursday it's been?!... But that's a whole different story...

Time to showcase/pimp out the beautiful clothes/brands we sell...

This week is one for the girls... Not a pink frilly princess dress insight instead...

Maxomorra:  A swedish brand selling great organic kids clothes... 

A beautiful GOTS certified organic cotton with a smidge of elastane to keep the shape & allow for movement ( just cos you're wearing a dress doesn't mean ya don't wanna move) black and white distressed star print long sleeved dress... Elasticated sleeves and neckline give some added shape...

Hat... Maxomorra again GOTS certified organic cotton and elastane... double sided... Keeping that little head toasty warm now that autumn is in full swing...

DunsSweden... A Swedish brand (not sure if the name gave it away?!) GOTS certified Organic orange & brown tights with turquoise toes and heels... Who doesn't love stripey tights???.. 

Corby Tindersticks... Quirky fun British brand... Orange rainbow robot... Everyone needs a sidekick so why not a robot?!... After all tank girl had a kangaroo sidekick.

Thursdays Threads...

To introduce and some of our fantastic brands here's our pick of the week...

Ruff and Huddle: Lucky Hand Baseball Tee.. 

Tattoo inspired back print, available with red or black sleeves... What could be cooler than the newest kids street label from London?.. Nothing!

Grubbies: Outlaws denim dungarees...

Baggy, low slung fit... Unisex... Time for some outside autumnal fun, roll up the legs and wear your wellies...

Little Titans... Regatta stripe tights for boys (and girls)... Quirky, fun & keeps those little legs toasty...

All these fab British brands are available on www.skellywear.com 

iPads, Survivors and Wallee's

Decadent I know but we have a pair of iPad Mini's in the family... (Along with a fair few iPhones, Mac Mini, a pair of MacBook Air 11"s... but that's a whole different post...) the "Family" iPad Mini (tho in the eyes of the Boy - It's his...) a 16g white Wifi only is protected to the hilt with a Griffin Survivor Case -

plain black and now sporting an array of mini stickers on the back of it...

Possibly not the most kid friendly looking one out there, but I figure I've spent a few hundred quid on the iPad and want it to last so may as well have the one thats used by the military and is as good as indestructible… plus boy seems to be able to hold it easier and I can stop having heart attacks when it slides off the sofa or gets used as a teething toy by the 18 month old... Or during those hulk smash frustrated mini toddler wig outs...

..."Daddies" iPad mini a 32g Black Wifi/Cellular (on Vodafone) is incased in a Wallee Case with a Wallee Pro bumper

…We love the Wallee range… We have 2 Wall Mount Disks in the garden (One at Adult height and one at toddler height), 1 in the kitchen for Music, Browsing and Recipes, also a Pivot that wanders round the house... Design cues from the iMac here!

The X on the back of the case.

only downside to this is that the boy now wants a X on the back of his iPad and as such I'm now trying to work out ways to build one into his survivor!

(Ps if you want to buy a Wallee case use this link for a 5% discount ..You're welcome!)

This is the first of my Tech/Geek/Apple posts hope you enjoy it?
I'll be posting about the Apps we use and how we organise/integrate and entertain with our tech at home and whilst out and about...any questions about any of it?...ask away!

J