You are specially invitedCome and enjoy our annual Christmas party!
When: Saturday, 25th November, 2017 @ 12noon
Where: 12 Centenary Park, Coronet Way, Eccles Salford, Manchester M50 1RE
Greater Manchester

This year, we are not just celebrating Christmas, but also the launch of our new bamboo wrap!

We are so excited about this new product and we hope you love it as much as we do!

What else will you be able to enjoy?

- Exciting new product launch
- Champagne reception
- A yummy Christmas buffet, 
- LIVE music and karaoke 
- Raffles and giveaways
- Stock to purchase and try
- Stalls


And there will be a Babywearing fashion show to showcase our beautiful wraps being worn by some of our lovely fans!

Tickets will be priced as follows:
* Educators and librarians £0
* General admission tickets (minus Christmas hamper) £6
* VIP Tickets (plus Christmas hamper) £16
VIP ticket holders will also be entered into our draw to win surprise prizes

​6th Anniversary speech
In the beginning, we were inspired by the huge benefits that a close skin to skin gave our own children especially while they were poorly and we then created our own range of stretchy wraps to fill this gap because of the added advantage of a pre-tie that stretchy wraps have.
After a few years, we started getting lots of inquires from customers with older babies and toddlers so we responded by entering into the world of woven baby slings. We started with mixed blends maxi-roses and we then moved on to the highly sought after SMPs.
 
Our biggest achievements came when we employed the services of one of the highly experienced UK textile experts and together, we created a special weave that had never been experienced before in the world of babywearing. A double layered weave that felt and wrapped like merino wool yet woven with high quality natural cotton yarns.
 
Our fountain of love launch was huge and the feedback has been fantastic. In 2015, we entered into the prestigious business competition organised by the University of Manchester and we won the first prize.
 
Despite our monumental growth, we are still a family business as our priority asides manufacturing beautiful and high quality British made slings is to nurture our children with all our might. We knew that with their complex special needs, they will need long term care and we wanted to be involved in the lives of children 100%, so a typical 9-5 job would never suit our type of family.
 
Today, we have so much peace above anything else and our children are moving beautifully in the right direction. All these won't have been achievable without your continued and loyal support, here's a heartfelt thank you from us.
A more comprehensive timeline of our achievements so far:
 
Around 2010, we started making stretchy wraps from our conservatory. This was in addition to the craft items we made at the time and it included items such as bibs and washable wipes etc
 
Around 2011, we started as subsidiary of Goodprice limited (owned by Mayor Osundeko) and our stretchy wrap fan base grew exponentially so we stopped making baby wipes and bibs. At this stage, we scored 3.5/5 in the UK bizziebaby awards. We started donating a percentage of our proceed to the down's syndrome association and several other smaller UK charities.
 
Bisi, director of Joy and Joe trained and became a babywearing consultant. Her current areas of interest are babywearing disabled children and her future aspiration is to create more awareness for babywearing with a Yoruba kanga-like textile called 'OJA' i.e (ethnic babywearing). Her plan is to go from sling library to library to demonstrate how this has to be correctly done.
 
Around, 2012, we moved into our own eCommerce platform and social media platforms. We won multiple awards for our stretchy wraps, we finally won bizziebaby gold awards with our score jumping to 4.7/5. These were assessed by a team of mums randomly selected and completely anonymous to us. We also received over 53 positive reviews and mentions from notable UK mummy bloggers including a 5 star rating by geeky mama.
 
We then added woven wraps to our collection of baby slings. We wanted sturdier slings for people whose babies have outgrown our stretchy wraps. The maxi-roses, blackberry ripple and SMP was born. We started weaving with one of the UK most talented artisan weavers run by a father and son team.
 
In 2014, we took on our own company accountant and lawyer. We became a UK limited liability company and our brand name Joy and Joe baby became a registered trademark. We then took on another weaving house to boost our production and our SMP noir was born. We also launched a vlog series called #carrymyjoy chronicles. We also stepped our tailoring up further by employing the service of a highly experienced tailoring house based in Rochdale, UK.
We were invited to the Manchester children's hospital to present our slings to the staff and parents in the NICU and we donated some of our stretches to the NICU ward.
 
In 2015, we then won the first prize venture further awards and moved into our own office premises. We were also featured in the highly sought after documentary. We launched our high end fountain of love wraps and our quirky wooden keepsake boxes were introduced.
Around December 2015, we launched our very first ambassador program for 2016 and we are so proud of the the family relationship that we all share. We have so many aspirations for the future and putting this together has given us the re-assurance that we have indeed come a long way considering our very humble beginnings.
This year, we welcomed our 2017 ambassadors. We moved into our new ultra-modern HQ that we named ‘ The Joy and Joe babywearing gallery ’  and  our official launch event was officiated by the Mayor and Mayoress of ST Helens. Products wise, we have branched into blankets / throws, bamboo stretchy wraps and our soft structured carrier (soon to be released). Joy and Joe founder, Adebisi was also nominated for ' the talk of Manchester' business awards under the ‘Female entrepreneur of the year’ category.

We couldn’t have achieved all of the above without your loyal support and patronage. We also appreciate our fantastic team of admins and ambassadors. Our admin and ambassadors play a huge role in maintaining the fun and loving relationship that we have within the Joy and Joe wrap family. If you are completely new to Joy and Joe, why not join our chatter page so that we can get to know you. Our admins and ambassadors will certainly make you feel very welcome.
 
To ensure that you stay in the loop, why not sign up to our newsletters as well. We are also always searching for talents, if you have any suggestions on how we can collaborate, please get in touch. In a few months time, we will be opening our doors to our 2018 ambassadors. How exciting! For the future, we are working on some really fun projects that we will be announcing on our chatter page from time to time.
Thank you all so much and keep on carrying your joy with love.
Cheers,
Bisi Osundeko
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Hello Joy and Joe families, hope all is well over at your end. It's almost as if we took a two months hiatus starting from the summer holiday period. We've been so busy working on some new projects (our new bamboo stretchy wrap and our upcoming soft structured carrier). We had our admin and ambassador exclusive woven wraps on our loom at the time so we had to pause the releases of our woven wraps. Plus, we went to Disneyland over the holiday and it probably took us way longer to recover from the playful Disney excitement haha! We also planned and executed a beautiful 10th birthday party for our daughter Joy so this kept us occupied. You can find photos and videos from Joy's party on our Joy and Joe family Instagram page.
Anyway, we are glad to be back to work and what better way it is to mark our return than with a woven wrap release! We also received news about my (Adebisi) 'talk of Manchester' business award nomination, so this is such an exciting time. Without further ado, meet our latest woven wrap releases

Original SMP design
Original double weave
Limited edition
Part of our artisan Yorkshire collection
Blend: 50% cotton, 10% ethically sourced luxurious wool, 15% tencel, 15% linen
Quad Pricing: RS: £175, Medium : £215, Large: £235, XL: £245, XXL: £255
Thick, super supportive and your perfect workhorse for heavier babies/ toddlers.
We selected the perfect textile picks to ensure that the contrast of the black and white comes out distinctively. The last time we wove a black and white SMP in this exact weave structure was in 2013 so you’ll all agree that we are kind of overdue for a re-weave. This time, we are giving you a quad blend version!
Crafted with a high end British weaving artistry and distinction. The shiver me paisleys design is a strikingly beautiful cornucopia of paisleys and skulls, ornamented with some artistic fine details, all intricately woven together. Loomstate and initially slightly stiff at first but your wrap will break in nicely with constant use and good washing over time. Please be careful not to over wash your wrap though. Many detergents reduce the longevity of any iuuwrap fabric if over used. Although we advise hand washing to ensure the longevity of your wrap, if you use the gentle setting of your washing machine, your wrap can withstand that.

 A remainder of our 2017 admin and ambassador exclusives
The colour way and blend was chosen by our fantastic team of admins and ambassadors.
Original SMP design
Original double weave
Limited edition
Part of our artisan Yorkshire collection
Blend: 60% cotton, 15% tencel, 15% linen
Triblend: Snood: £35, RS: £135, Medium : £155, Large: £175, XL: £185, XXL: 195
Thick, super supportive and your perfect workhorse for heavier babies/ toddlers.

​The purple warp here  is the same as that of the admin/ambaadoe exclusive but the weft her is a mix of golden yellow and torquoise
Original SMP design
Original double weave
Limited edition
Part of our artisan Yorkshire collection
Blend: 60% cotton, 15% tencel, 15% linen
Triblend: Snood: £35, RS: £135, Medium : £155, Large: £175, XL: £185, XXL: 195
Thick, super supportive and your perfect workhorse for heavier babies/ toddlers.
 
Crafted with a high end British weaving artistry and distinction. The shiver me paisleys design is a strikingly beautiful cornucopia of paisleys and skulls, ornamented with some artistic fine details, all intricately woven together. Loomstate and initially slightly crunchy at first but your wrap will break in nicely with constant use and good washing over time. Please be careful not to over wash your wrap though. Many detergents reduce the longevity of wrap fabric if over used. Although we advise hand washing to ensure the longevity of your wrap, if you use the gentle setting of your washing machine, your wrap can withstand that setting.

​The purple warp here  is the same as that of the admin/ambassador exclusive but the weft here is a mix of golden yellow and turquoise
Newer SMP design. We tweaked our original SMP here with the initial purpose of replacing the older smp design with the new. However, we have now decided to keep the two designs so that there’s something for our customers who love our original smp design and this new design for those wanting something different.
Original double weave
Limited edition
Part of our artisan Yorkshire collection
Blend: 60% cotton, 15% tencel, 15% linen
Triblend: Snood: £35, RS: £135, Medium : £155, Large: £175, XL: £185, XXL: £195
Thick, super supportive and your perfect workhorse for heavier babies/ toddlers.
 
Crafted with a high end British weaving artistry and distinction.

Nero and Bianca Kente
The N&B kente was woven as part of our admin/ambassador exclusive.
We have only 3 wraps and 1 ring sling left in this colorway and design
Original double weave
Limited edition
Loomstate
Part of our artisan Yorkshire collection
Blend: 60% cotton, 15% tencel, 15% linen
Triblend: Snood: £35, RS: £135, Medium : £155, Large: £175, XL: £185, XXL: 195
Thick, super supportive and your perfect workhorse for heavier babies/ toddlers.
 
The pattern in our geometric N&B collection is our first black and white kente and the second kente for 2017 to be woven. This is a gorgeous fusion of geometric patterns. black derives its significance from the notion that new things get darker as they mature and physical aging comes with spiritual maturity

Crystalline  gold kente
Black and goldish yellow smp
The geometric gold kente was woven as part of our admin/ambassador exclusive.
Original double weave
Limited edition
Loomstate
Part of our artisan Yorkshire collection
Blend: 60% cotton, 15% tencel, 15% linen
Triblend: Snood: £35, RS: £135, Medium : £155, Large: £175, XL: £185, XXL: 195
Thick, super supportive and your perfect workhorse for heavier babies/ toddlers.

​Benevolence
 
Benevolence is our newest 2017 design. Benevolence woven wrap is the softest of our current new releases. This design was inspired by the highly skilled doctors and benevolent heart surgeons who mend fragile hearts on a daily basis around the word and then give them a unique opportunity to grow and flourish.
In this design, you will see little hearts clustered around larger hearts. Joy was born with a hole in her heart but that hole was mended many thanks to the heart surgeons who took on this brave and complex surgery.  We will be donating a significant percentage of our proceeds from the sale of this particular release to either downs heart charity, glenfied hospital or great ormond street hospital. Both hospitals have contributed to the well-being of our darling daughter Joy.
This current release is a prototype run so we are hoping to further reweave this beautiful design next year. This is a design that we believe you will all embrace and love.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.. Quote by Baruch Spinoza

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts- Quote by Charles Spurgeon

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven. Quote by Ellen G. White

Deets
Traditional double weave
Prototype weaving run
Part of our artisan Yorkshire collection
Multicolor weft
The odd side has a distinct goldish yellowish colour so this is the wrap you need to slay your fancy passes. The odd side is like a surprise waiting to be unraveled. It beautifully pops under a natural light and the benevolence wrap is like having two wraps in one.
The benevolence is also significant in the sense that it has the lowest cotton content compared to most of our woven wraps so it is very fluffy due to its wool content, super soft and beautifully mouldable.
Blend: 30% cotton, 30% ethically sourced luxurious wool, 15% tencel, 15% linen
Quad, Snood: £55, RS: £175, Medium : £215, Large: £235, XL: £245, XXL: £255
Thick, super supportive and your perfect workhorse for heavier babies/ toddlers

 Joy and Joe blankets
A luxuriously crafted and artisan woven blanket crafted. The reversible two-tone design and chic fringing makes this throw ideal for layering up on your bed, keeping yourself cosy or draping over the sofa.
Woven  with our signature original double weave, woven on a more modern hattersley loom weaving loom.
The edges have been fringed by hand by Yorkshire based artisans.
This blanket should cover a standard double bed or you can simply use as a throw.
The designs we’ve used in our current prototypes are that of our neoteric SMP.
Our blanket is not so heavy hence very easy to store.
We recommend that you wash using the gentle settings of your washing machine for the cotton/bamboo blend and hand washing for the wool blend
Blend: Two options are available
Option A: Brushed cotton and bamboo
Option B: 50% brushed cotton and 50% ethically sourced luxurious merino wool
Current prototype is Black and gold. However, you can pre-order other colours / designs ahead of Christmas
You can pre-order your own blanket via this link