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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Business
Penelope Green

'There's more to me than being a mum. I wanted to create a job for myself.'

It takes a village: Jessie Barrett, right, with her baby daughter, Remi, and her mother, Rosa Knowles. Picture: Simone De Peak

JESSIE Barrett had a wealth of experience as a childcare educator but when she had her first daughter, she saw a gap in the market for a unique activity for kids.

"I was looking for activities to do and we could never really find something that was different, the same activities were circulating, my daughter needed something on the sensory side, something out of the norm, messy and fun that fostered her creative instead of hindering it.

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