My name Jessica Blomkwist and I am a mother of two young children.
During my maternity leave I got the ideas for my first two products - CheckMe and CoverMe.
At first I hesitated to make them. I thought “The world doesn’t need more things!” and I wanted to do something more meaningful with my time.
But changing the world alone is not easy and much more feasible if I had a business.
Now I can influence who makes my products, make sure they have good salaries and benefits so they can provide for their families. I can make sure that our products are made eco-friendly.
And we make them in the highest quality with new smart solutions so that they can be used for a very long time reducing unnecessary consumption.
But most important, I make sure our products are not “extra things”. Instead we make things that mothers need for their children better and improved.
I hope you will look at my designs and that you will enjoy our products!

The cheap shirts you buy in the chain stores and discounters - are you thinking that it is someone who sits at a sewing machine or hand-sew the straight seams fine as your shirt is made of?
I did not use to do so...at least not very much
A nice stroller brand "boasting" about their nice "tailor-made" seat covers.
Tailor-made ... yes, it is true ... but the fact is that all strollers, even the cheapest brands, have tailored seats and sleeping areas. Or, are not all these women (or men) tailors? Are they only machines?
Before the issue of labor abuse in the textile industry occurred to me, I thought the production of my clothes was made using “machines", not that it is a poor, underpaid woman with a 19-hour working day who sewed them for me!
Sure, sometimes I heard about child labor doing work for large companies. Of course I thought this was terrible, but as soon as something like that came up in the news, we were told a lot of resources were put into resolving the "problem" of child workers. Then I did not think much more about it.
Without doubt, the worst must be if it is a child in a foreign country who sews the clothes that your son or daughter will wear. But it is also does not feel good to know that even if the adults who sew often do so in a hazardous workplace, with excessively long work days and a salary so low that they can not provide food for their family.
Would you like to change this?
It is you, the consumer, who decides!
Often it is when you have children of your own when you begin to think about these important issues.
How children and mothers in other parts of the world live their lives, and how the environment is affected by the choices we make.
I also started thinking more about these issues when I had my children.
I started to think about how I could make a difference.
But I realized that it was very difficult.
At the same time, I begun to work on my products that I wanted to start producing, so that more mothers could enjoy them besides me.
But then I thought...
What a useless job...
Make more stuff...
For a world already flooding with things. I was close to give it up and started thinking about what I would do instead.
I am a trained craftsman who helps people to tile their bathrooms and living spaces. They are certainly happy to get a nice bathroom, but do I help the environment or anyone "for real"? No! Well, so back to square one. What could I do that makes our world a bit better?
You actually want a reason to get up and go to the job on Monday morning (apart from the need to pay for living).
I saw on TV about the poor girls from Cambodia, who was abused in so many ways.
I want to help them! Who would not?!
It is still my dream to be able to help them!
Give them a good job, good salary, education for them and their children. Simply help them with a stable foundation for a safer future and the opportunity to build a secure society for their children. I watched a TV show about the poor workers in India who walked knee-high in liquid poisons to color yarn to make fabrics for our clothes, and how they had backpack sprayers with gallons of toxic pesticides on their backs as they sprayed the cotton fields - where they also became exposed to toxins and fell ill. Not to mention the polluted environment in many parts of India.
How can large corporations take advantage of people this much? I wish that all companies truly cared about people and the environment. There are some, like the apparel maker Patagonia. Businesses like these must grow more in numbers and prioritize the ethical and environmental benefits before the biggest gains. Of course I realize that businesses must be profitable, but to what price for society? And how much money must a company earn, really?