December 2005- research and design was complete and the Patent was approved, so I took a deep breath, bit the bullet and commissioned the first print run of 1,500 Baby Feed Wheels- 500 each of pink, blue and lemon from a printer over the Pennines in Lancashire, and a Harrogate based designer to develop the Chiggs website.
Just a few days before Christmas [*Chiggs fact* Christmas day is also Chiglet (AKA our daughter, Holly's) birthday] the boxes and boxes of Baby Feed Wheels, packets of pram embellishments and endless envelopes arrived at Chiggs Towers (AKA the spare bedroom).
Once the New Year arrived, I had a major resolution to fulfil- sell Baby Wheels! In the design process I’d added “To…..” and “From…..” on the reverse of the cards, and decided to present them with an envelope so that they could be sent as really useful ‘New baby’ congratulation cards (or gifts- just like I’d given to my friend). So, another deep breath, and I made appointments to visit a couple of local greeting card shops- and received a fantastic response! Both shop owners loved the cards, and placed wholesale orders there and then. Chiggs was on it’s way!
Tags: Baby Feed Wheel, new baby card, wholesale