Almost 9 years ago I was heavily pregnant, with big dreams and a man who would support any wild idea I threw at him. One afternoon he came home to me sitting in the middle of our lounge room floor, 4 year old on my lap, note pad in hand, paper all around me and eyes wild with drive.
We hand in hand made my dream a reality and Jade By Design was born. We started a Facebook page, with in a week I was out of product and knew I was onto a good thing. One month later we were at the markets, with our cute little store ready to get our community behind Jade By Design. I was so passionate that when our second daughter was born, not even 48 hours old we were back at the markets making a name for ourselves.
Within 6 months of Jade By Design coming to life on my lounge room floor we had our first boutique. It was tiny and kinda smelly but it was ours! We did upgrade to a nicer store but still wasn't my ideal location. My dreams were bigger than my budget.
3rd year - we were onto bigger and better things. Bigger store on the main street. A much bigger store. And this gorgeous man of mine, put in the long hours painting and getting all those manly jobs squared away, ready for me to stand proud in front of our friends and family at yet another grand opening!
The 5th year we moved into my PERFECTLY PERFECT STORE. We re-branded Jade By Design into JBD. Sweet and punchy. It just rolled off the tongue. With my closest friends and family we turned this beautiful location in to JBD HEAVEN. It made my soul sing and my spirit dance. We started our website and things were just perfect. I was proud of me, proud of us. We had the website, the shop front consisting of 5 fully styled show rooms, hosting private events, Jewellery parties, candle making days, school holiday events for the kids, styling weddings and parties, collaborating with designers, styling photo shoots and it was full of fun.
Unfortunately that dream came to an end 14 months later. Not due to the lack of passion, love and drive but we were expecting our third bub and that was a difficult journey. I was told when I was 20 weeks pregnant our lives would be forever changed with an expected disabled child. My focus needed to purely be poured into my family. Our shop front closed along with our website. We went cold! I needed to do what i thought was right for my family much to my heart break. We couldn't of been more blessed when our son was born healthy, no health issues what so ever. By the time our son was 4 months old, baby number four was on his way.
We are now a family of six! Wow, with four children ages - 13, 8, 2 and 9 months. I have continued to dabble with small sales, candle making and helping style events but nothing too big as four is a lot of humans depending on you. I found, even with being so time poor, I needed more. I missed my customers, I missed being creative and mostly, I missed feeling free to be just me. JBD is my outlet. It allows me to share my experience, knowledge and passion. So we are back baby! I love this part the most of all - the unknown!
