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S+S '18

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Our Story

 

True North Slings are high quality linen baby carriers made by Canadian moms for Canadian and US moms. With a modern and minimalist aesthetic, True North Slings are designed to fit with your personal style while keeping your baby cool, safe and close. From newborns to toddlers our ring slings are perfect for the mom who wants to create a special bond with their little one while having her hands free.

 
How are you at asking for help? Personally, I'm garbage at it. Summer makes the whole "getting help" thing extra tricky around here because all of the grandparents leave town to enjoy their summer. Which is great if course, but then we're without any babysitters and scrambling to run the shop and take care of our two little dudes. I know it's a bit ridiculous to complain that our free babysitters are gone, because hey, at least we have free babysitters some of the time.... But man, it's been a hard summer. I've felt like I can either properly promote things, or properly stock and prep for sales/drops. I haven't mastered the art of doing both yet 😅 . So this week I asked for help sharing our sale and so many of you didn't hesitate to give us a boost. Way to make this tired lady all kinds of mushy! Every like, every comment and every share helps this sling shop to grow and I'm so grateful for it all! So thank you. Also how gorgeous are these three ladies with next season's sling? This is Fox!
Look how much smaller he was!! Just six short months between this picture and our last post. Geeze these babies grow too fast. He's crawling and eating and taking up way more than his fair share of the bed. I definitely woke up with his feet on my face this morning 😂 Blink and you'll miss it. Speaking of things that are changing - this Friday is sale day to make room for all the new fall lovelies! Sale will start at 10am mountain time with some wicked deals!
Confession time. I designed our triple shoulder slings and tested the design out until I was happy with it, but I never kept one for myself. I don't know why to be honest... We were plenty comfortable in singles, and I didn't really feel like I needed to 'level up' so to speak. Well friends, on Saturday I wore a triple shoulder to carry 20 pounds of my sweet, chunky Nicholas for 3 hours and my only complaint was that my feet hurt. Poor choices were made in the name of cute fall footwear. But that sling was a fluffy little cloud on my shoulder. So it's official. I've finally added a triple shoulder to my own collection. Yay me! And all of the fall colors coming on the 31st will be available in with this glorious option. How about you? Have you gone to triple town? What do you think?
Had an absolute blast shooting our fall colours last night! I'm blown away by how much this little dream has grown over two years, and even more blown away by all the beautiful people who support it! Every single one of our models were wonderful and made their slings look amazing. The teething a accessories from @thebabyniche were beautiful. The bows from @littlemissstella.xo were way too cute, and I may have put one on Nicky for just a second... . And last but certainly not least @marleyfeliciaphotos just being so plain wonderful. I'm speechless when it comes to her. True North absolutely wouldn't be what it is without her. Not even close. We know it takes a village to raise a child, but it also takes a village to build a business! So thank you all, models, collabs, customers and Instagram friends - I'm grateful for all of you! 😘 . Now this very tired sling lady, with very sore feet is taking a day off! Who let me go to a shoot in heels? 😂
I'm about to talk about fall. Please don't hate me for killing your summer buzz! Based on the feedback we got last year, we're happy to be releasing this year's fall colours on August 31st! I totally get it. You want to have your slings in time for all the pumpkin spiced drink sipping, crisp air walks in the crunchy leaves... Fall is beautiful and you don't want to waste a second of it. Totally here for it 🍁🍁 . This also means that our End of Season + Seconds Sale will be August 17th! Some slings will be marked down by 30% 😘
Happy news everyone! We've added another wonderful seamstress to our team and she will be making all of our triple shoulder slings! Her work is absolutely gorgeous and I'm thrilled to have found her. Kijiji can be such a wonderful thing 😉. Scaling this business and finding people who put so much care and attention to detail into their sewing is no small task, but once we find them you'd better believe we're grateful for them! Or team is up to five now and I love them all. Thanks to Sue, we will be releasing a batch of ready to ship triple shoulder slings in Tofino with blush and graphite rings this Thursday at 10am mountain! Going forward we will be working to stock the most popular colours in RTS triple shoulders as well as our regular shoulder. I'm SO excited to be able to offer these! Check out our story highlights for an intro to our three types of slings! And let me know if you have any questions!! Picture of the always lovely @simplelivingfolks in Canyon, which has just officially sold out for the season 😭
I had a major mom-win this week and it's worth sharing. Since not long after we added sweet little Nicky to our family, Alex has been getting more and more aggressive around him. I’ll spare you the details, but he was not fond of baby brother and he would be the first to tell you. I started trying this out on Saturday and today he told someone that he’s a good big brother and he loves Nicky. Melted. I’m sure we aren’t the only ones dealing with sibling troubles after a new baby. So here’s what turned this all around for us. I had to be Alex’s shadow for a few days. I was there to block every hit, shove, and head-butt that came Nicky’s way as gently as I could and then very calmly say “I won’t let you hurt him” and move on with whatever we were doing. If he was taking multiple runs at baby I would say “you’re having a hard time not hitting Nicky, you can hit that pillow” or the couch or something else nearby and non-living. Calm is really the key word here - and when I got distracted I wasn’t able to deal with it as calmly as I needed to. So for those first few days I didn’t multitask. We also made sure not to talk about his brother bashing ways around him. That’s it - so simple right? SO challenging at first, but then I could see it start to work and it got easier to scrape together the patience to calmly block a hit and say my line. I still have to block a few a day, but it is so much better than it was! And best of all I can see Alex starting to bond with Nicky - he’s so proud of himself for being a good big brother. Truly, it’s so amazing to see. Full credit to “No Bad Kids” by Janet Lansbury. I definitely recommend it for anyone living those toddler years.