Mums who started a side hustle with just £8 from their kitchen table during maternity leave turned it into a £100k-a-year business selling children's clothes.

Hollie and Jade Anderton-Schofield, 32, couldn't find "cool" clothes they liked for their son, Beck, now two, and decided to design their own when he was just one month old."

When family said it was good, Hollie bought an £8 pack on five vests from Tesco and started getting designs printed.

The couple started an Etsy account in March 2024 and after 50 sales they started their own website for Beck and Co.

In their first financial year they made £30k and have now already made £75k in their second year - and are on track to make £100k.

Hollie, a full-time teacher, from Ellesmere, Shropshire said: "It was a very happy accident but it was very much an accident."

"We had our son via IVF in February 2024. I've always wanted to dress our little boy really cool and I found when we were looking for clothes that girls seemed to have a huge selection and boys didn't."

"I wanted cool, alternative clothes."

"It was my idea. A fever dream from a lack of sleep."

"I've got a bit of a habit of saying ‘I can do that' so I said to Jade ‘I'm going to try to make something, I wonder how easy it is to print a T-shirt?'."

"So I drew up a design and I printed it onto a little vest for our one-month-old son and people said it was good."

"I set up an Etsy shop."

"We put baby grows on for £5 - I bought a five pack of vests from Tesco for £8. "

"Then it snowballed."

The couple knew they had a good idea after making £3k in May 2024 - after releasing their first collection.

All of the clothing is illustrated, designed and printed in-house from their box bedroom and the couple says their focus is on "comfort, quality and not charging parents a fortune for clothes that will not fit in six months' time"."

"We started with babygrows and quickly realised that they are nigh-on impossible to print on so then we started working with T-shirts," said Hollie. "

"Then we branched out into sweatshirts and now we've got T-shirt and shorts sets, we've got some pyjamas in production at the moment, we do long-sleeve T-shirts, short sleeves, we did trousers as limited editions in the summer and we've got some samples ready for the next 12 months, which is super exciting."

Hollie designs all the clothes herself which are inspired by their own interests and are also family-driven.

She said: "We are full millennials, Jade and I, so most of our T-shirt designs will take inspiration from a millennial song or a joke. "

"We don't like cringey slogans that you often find on kids' clothes. With every collection, we think of things related to the season and try to fit millennial humour into them and make them look edgier than the stuff you usually see. "

"We think of what parents like and the stuff that makes us laugh as parents and go from there."

"We want to stay relevant without being cringe."

Their favourite design includes a ‘Matcha Made In Heaven' sweatshirt.

Hollie said: "Matcha is kind of all the rage and we do a matching parent sweatshirt that goes with it."

"Jade's favourite is our Jammie Dodger design, which coincidentally is our bestseller as well, we print so many."

Despite their success Hollie still loves her role as a teacher but is excited to see the business grow.

She said: "In the first financial year we made £30k a profit of £2.5k."

"In year two we have made £75k so far and a £20k profit."

"We're on for £100k by April."

"It's just so different to anything either of us has ever done before, so it's exciting. "

"We love that we are building towards our son's future. It's all for him and there's something really nice about that. "

"It's a legacy that he can take on from us."

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