SquiffyDesigns is here because of our daughter!
When we were expecting her – both Hugh and me were working jobs that we enjoyed but we weren't as creative as we would want to be. Having a child come along we sort of felt an urgency to set as good an example for her as possible so we had a discussion about what we would really like to do if we had all the possibilities in the world. We had talked about wanting to make things with our hands for a living before but we've always “seen sense” and stuck to the safe option e.i. our day jobs.
But thinking of our wee one, we both felt that we wouldn't like her to take the safe option in life, we wanted her to go for what she really wanted and to be happy. So we felt we needed to be good role models to her and took the leap (although a small one but never the less) and decided to start a business up.
Our daughters nickname for when she was in my tummy was Squiffy, so hence we named the business SquiffyDesigns in her honour.