The Thumbsie® Team

I am a Mum to three girls and live in Wendover, Buckinghamshire with my husband. I was juggling a London based Sales Director job with my family life before I founded Thumbsie® over ten years ago.

My youngest daughter, Isabel, was the inspiration for my business as she struggled to give up sucking her thumb. When I made a thumb guard to help her to stop sucking her thumb, I realised that I wanted to help lots of other families who were struggling with the habit; and so Thumbsie® was born.

I'm Izzy and I'm the reason mum started the business. I used to suck my thumb and didn't know how to stop, most of the time I didn't know I was doing it. I was just 5 and stopped thumb sucking in 5 weeks, mum always says that I was her inspiration!!

I enjoy helping mum, and often package up reward charts or search the internet looking for fabrics that will appeal to children.

I have worked for Thumbsie® since Jo began the business and we have been friends for 25 years. I am the author of our children’s book ‘Thumbs up for Ted’s Thumbsie®’.

I have been writing stories for over 20 years and have always dreamt of publishing a book, so the opportunity to write a book to help to promote this kind thumb sucking solution was one I was really excited by. A chance to combine my life long ambition and promote Thumbsie® in a fun way was a gift.

Sewing Thumbsies® is ideal work for me - I can fit it around my other work, as a theatre costume designer and maker, plus my busy family life. I started working for Thumbsies® around 4 years ago when my daughter was around 9 months old.

I have always loved sewing and getting to do my favourite hobby everyday for a job is fantastic. I always look forward to seeing what fun and playful fabrics I get to sew into thumb guards.

I’ve been working for Thumbsie® for over a year now. I’ve always been quite creative and worked in fashion retail for 10 years previously in styling and window dressing

I started working for Thumbsie® when my daughter River was just 8 weeks old. It’s just been ideal to fit into our new life style as I can choose exactly when I do the sewing, I see it as a bit of me time amongst the busyness of life.

I am a freelance seamstress, originally trained in costume design and construction, and after spending 10 years travelling the world and working for The Walt Disney Company I recently took a step back to focus on my young and growing family! It’s great to be able to keep sewing and have enough time for family life.

I have never seen anything like Thumbsie before so it’s fun to be working on something so innovative!

I first started working with Thumbsie® whilst I was on maternity leave with my second child, nearly two years ago. It has been a great way for me to earn an income without leaving my two children. It Thumbsie® has grown so much since I started, I still really enjoy it. I work around my current job, where I am a police officer.

I enjoy doing arts and crafts in my spare time, I find it really therapeutic and this way I’m working for a family business, around my family.

I work as a freelance graphic designer, from home, and have two busy children. My Thumbsie® work allows me to fill in time between work projects and gives me 'thinking time’ – sometimes for my design work or simply to escape and catch up on my favourite pod casts or music, which I love!

For me working for Thumbsie® Ltd allows me to craft but with a real sense of purpose, helping to produce a fun product that can really make a difference is both important and rewarding to me.

I'm Nathan and I deal with all things to do with the written word: from blogs to social media and lots more.

I've worked for charities, corporations and trade associations throughout my career, and I love writing all about Thumbsie and the amazing work that they do. Best of all, I love seeing how a Thumbsie® can make a real difference to a child's life.

In my spare time, I love to read, travel and – occasionally – go jogging!

I have known Jo since 2001 and worked for Thumbsie® for almost a year after redeveloping the website in 2019. Alongside the website, I support and advise on digital marketing and customer engagement.

As a Dad of two, working for an organisation like Thumbsie®, which puts families at the heart of what they do is very important to me. The role is not only meaningful but also gives me the flexibility to work around my family life and other work commitments.