Organic Bib by Nell Clothing
August 10, 2009 
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On a recent vacation to see my family in Manchester, England, I was dragged to a local arts and crafts outlet by my very arty mom and sister! (My sister, Rachel, produces beautiful ceramic artwork which you can see in my previous post, Green Ceramic Artwork.)
The Manchester Craft and Design Center is in the heart of Manchester City Center. I was still slightly jet lagged and in all honesty ready to collapse in front of a television, but I persevered with our artistic adventure and was very happy with what I found…
Inside the old Manchester building were a huge collection of small stores owned and operated by local artists. I think we spent about 2 hours looking at all the amazing hand crafted “one of a kind” creations and artwork. My favorite store was easily the little organic, hand printed clothing store owned by Nell Smith.
Nell Smith hand prints all of her clothing and uses the softest organic cotton you have ever felt! My favorite creation was a bright white organic bib with a cool little giraffe and a simple statement;
“HELLO!”
I bought several things that day, and my VISA card was about to explode, but my prize find was the organic bib and I was super excited to give the bib as a gift to my wife. Well needless to say, Katie was extremely happy with the baby bib and we were both excited to add it to our ever growing bag full of baby stuff. (Hopefully a little one will be with us soon!)
Anyway, to cut a long story short, our Nell Clothing baby bib traveled with us in our luggage all the way back to Texas where it was added to our baby pile. We were mortified to discover the next day that one of our dogs had chewed it to pieces!
After some frantic web searching I found Nell’s store on Etsy and was extremely happy to see that she ships internationally. I whipped out the VISA for one last spending spree and once again, a cute organic bib with a little giraffe was heading our way on a plane!
The “Hello Giraffe – Organic Cotton Bib” costs about $13.50 and Nell will ship to pretty much anywhere.
Nell describes the bib as;
Uber cute 100% organic cotton bib, hand printed with love in my Manchester-based studio. Perfect present for a special little someone.
My wife and I agree with every word of the description and we can’t wait to let it loose on our first baby!
So what are you waiting for? Go get yourself a unique, hand printed organic cotton piece of artwork, and unleash it on your little ones!
Check out more of Nell’s creations;
http://nellclothing.co.uk/store
Read Nell’s blog;
http://www.oureverydayearth.com is the best