Exciting Tessie news!!

To make room for our lovely new creations,

We are reducing our prices on all items in our Etsy Store!!!

Our signature Messenger Bags have been reduced from $60 to $30 and our super cute Mini Bags are down form $20 to $10.  How cool is that!

Claire Messenger  Bag
now $30

Anna Messenger  Bag
now $30 

Bernie Mini Bag
now $10 

AND all our cute little animals are reduced too!

Supe cute little
Tessie fabric Owl
now $10

Elephant!
now $20

Mr Blue Monkey now $15

The Sale will continue until the  9th July, when all remaining Etsy Stock will be available at the Mamma's Markets! 

Stay tuned for some upcoming Special Offers for the Mamma's Markets

Come over to the Etsy Store to check out the full range of products in the Tessie Sale!!!

x Gillian for Tessie Designs

Lovely Mamma Day

The Mamma's Market on Saturday was such a great day! We had a lovely spot on the verandah.

Our little box of animals were very popular! 

And all the girls looked beautiful in the sunshine.

The Awesome Teenager was an awesome help,

These two were the stars of the stall! 

And I fell in love with these girls all over again.

Yay May!

I've gotta good feeling about May. I think it's gonna be a cracker!

Things To Love About May
- We are sponsoring over at A Beautiful Mess this month. Check Elsie's site out- super cute! Such an inspiration.

- Lovely Husband and I WILL go out on the date night we have been trying to schedule since Valentine's Day!

- Mum and I will be at the Mamma's Market on the 21st of May. I can't wait. We will be INSIDE the hall this time, so bring it on weather! You can't get us!!

- And I am looking forward to many more days like this one.....

What are you looking forward to in May?

X Gillian for Tessie Design Company

5 Cool Things from Last Week!

1) We started the week at Victoria Point, playing on the sand flats with my oldest friend Linda and her gorgeous boys. So cute to see them looking out for the twins!

2) Gavin and I watched Team America on the Apple TV.

 hee hee... Inappropriate puppets are always funny...

3) I am trying to be positive about the fact that we were RAINED OUT of the Mamma's Market on Saturday. Totally our own fault.... Rookie Mistake= putting a Non-Waterproof marquee over our lovely fabric bags and cushions!!! 

BUT mum and I learned a lot about what we need to do to have an easy to set up, successful stall. The stalls inside the hall looked awesome and there were heaps of customers, so hopefully next time (21 May) we will be in the Hall!!

4) I went to Canvas at Woollongabba for afternoon drinks and tapas with my gorgeous freinds Mel and Ang (and Mels' gorgeous friend Nyssa!) on Sunday. How civilised!! No one had a nappy bag with them, no one had to breast feed anyone and there wasn't a baby wipe to be seen!!! It was just lovely.

5) Mum made these great upcycled Army knapsacks embellished with Tessie Fabric. I love love love them!!

And the unofficial #6- my sinus infection has finally cleared up. Yee-Hoo!

x Gil for Tessie Designs

Mamma's Market on Saturday!!

Mum and I will be attending our first Mamma's Market on Saturday at The Buderim Memorial Hall. Looking forward to it!!


I am remembering when Mum and I collaborated on a range of ceramics in about 1992- we did a Market in the Memorial Hall. Now, 20 years later, we are back there, with our new business (and a little bit more grey hair.... on both of us!)


Come and see us there if you can- it looks like a really professional operation with a bunch of cool stalls!


x gillian for Tessie Designs

Welcome!!

Ok, so THIS is our new Tessie Design Company Blog!! 
(Typepad hurt my brain, so i am using Blogger now and it's awesome!)
Mum and I are really looking forward to being part of the Mamma Markets at Buderim on March 19th. It looks like it's going to be heaps of fun!

And here is a peek at our new bag style- The Tessie Satchel. She has two huge pockets- one front, one back, an interior zippered pocket and a mobile pocket. Oh, and she is super cute!! This is my prototype, but we will have some for sale at the market. Well done Mum on creating this pattern from scratch!


X Gillian
for Tessie Designs