About Me

Hi, I’m Beccy, yes with 2 cc’s. My actual name is Rebecca but pretty much nobody calls me that! I have loads of nick names but my favourite thing to be called is mama. Which is why this little side hustle is called Olivers Mama makes!

A degree in civil engineering (not very civil my dad says….. He thinks he’s funny) I have a bit of a thing for trains and bridges. A husband, a son and a busy data driven day job which can get stressful. I am no designer. I have no design qualifications or training, except a technical drawing module in my engineering degree and even that was with a pen and paper…. Yes, I’m that old!

I hate the bits of plastic shirts are wrapped in (14 last time I counted) and spiders don’t mind a beetle or a lizard. I only really like ready salted crisps and drink full fat red coke….. And tea, good old fashioned Yorkshire tea. I like holidays although I find flying very dull. Barcelona is my favourite city on earth. I guess that’s both my engineering and creative brain colliding.

I love a project and to create things (although buying craft supplies and actually doing that craft are 2 separate hobbies)

OMM HQ is my office at home, a carefully planned room that I share with my actual job, built during the pandemic (we also built a bar which is bigger!!!!!) the craft hovel as it’s been lovingly nicknamed. A cricut machine bought back in 2019 (it’s still going strong, even if it’s held together with gaffer tape, leopard print obvs~) the love of making things for family and friends grew. But quite frankly nobody needed any more Beaujolais Pleasant merch (that’s the bar’s name).

Then 2 years ago a mate at work made a passing comment about wanting something to commermorate a running challenge that he had completed. The only other option was not his thing so he asked if I had any ideas. I made him a hoodie, he loved it and that weekend he wore it to the Saturday morning run…. and as they say the rest is history, I had no idea what was to come next!

Aftert that I finally took the plunge and setup Facebook and Instagram pages and to my surprise I got my first order from someone I didn’t know or was related to, a real customer the lovely Anna.

She sent me her T-shirt to print my design on (I can testify that it’s still terrifying printing on actual running shirts!)

Fast forward a year and I’m north of 275 orders. The amount of “can you just” and “I’ve had an idea” gets more and more each week. I love your sketches to work from and bringing your ideas to life. I’ve taken commissions from running royalty, designed marathon and ultra marathon shirts, made special shirts for world tourists, sent things to Europe, Austrailia, New Zealand and South Africa, designed new logos for running clubs, the odd stag and hen party item, charity shirts and hoodies and school leavers hoodies.

Not bad for a northern bird who can’t draw!