ABOUT US

Our Story

It all started with the birth of a boy named Jack.  His grandma turned up at our sewing school for lessons after not being able to find the early learning fun toys that she was looking for and decided to make them herself.

Her first project was a Christmas tree for the then 1 year old to decorate. After buying numerous felt trees whose decorations wouldn’t stick or didn’t last, she thought there must be a better way. 

Over many cups of coffee brainstorming about what and how we three ladies could make quality, stimulating toys for very young children, a truly great friendship and “ Andre and Oskar’s Creative Early Learning” was born.  And who may you ask are Andre and Oskar?  They are the fur babies that sat on our laps every week while we drank our coffee!

 

Our Aim

To make quality, long lasting, stimulating magnetic designs that can be handed down from one generation to the next.  Each of our designs are made so the littlest and oldest of hands can use them without becoming frustrated and as the little ones grow and progress, they can become story boards and educational tools.

 

How we do it

We use a variety of brightly coloured fabric from fur, to leather, with sparkles and everything in between to stimulate little imagination and senses.  They are handmade and machine embroidered in Australia.   The colourful backgrounds have a double sided magnetic sheet enclosed within, and they can be placed on any metal fridge door, magnetic whiteboard or wall painted with magnetic paint. 

After a lot of research and development we have changed our elements and method to guarantee 100% safety! 

Small magnets have been removed and fabric elements have magnetic sheet attached to the back.   We come up with another alternative that is 100% Safe for all. 

ALL elements are now a minimum of 4cm x 7.5cm x 3mm thickness.

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Our Magnetic Storyboard Sets allow you to create your own unique display and adjust it at any time. You simply create a scene by placing the magnet elements onto the magnetic landscape (you will need a whiteboard or magnetic surface to attach the landsape too);  then the elements can be arranged and rearranged at leisure.

  • Create and make up stories – hours of fun and creativity for little ones active minds.
  • Great for everyone to be involved, or play anytime at their leisure..
  • It can be used as an educational tool to learn spelling and names of animals 
  • It will help improve fine motor skills and boost imagination.
  • The elements are made from MDF Board approx 4cmx7.5cm or larger with a magnet attached to the entire surface on the back.  Printed with eco-friendly ink.
  • These can be used over and over (we recommend you wipe the elements with a damp cloth, do not soak or place in water.
  • You can use this set with our other magnetic storyboards and make up many different stories.
  • It is suitable for ages 1+ and up.

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2019 - 2022 A fun time making our Story Boards during COVID lock down, with plenty of time spent at the machines.

Moving forward into 2023 we have embarked on many new products. 

Personalized Gifts for Everyone!  Products are printed and created using our designs or we can print your photo's onto many different products.

From Mugs, Tumblers, Jigsaw Puzzles, Glass, Rock, Slate, Tile, Aluminium, Acrylic, Note Books, Purse/Wallets and more.  Hundreds of products and Thousands of designs and ideas. 

What we can now produce is limitless - time is the biggest factor which we all need more of! as our ideas and creativity are endless.

Picture-Perfect Memory Quilts -  Actual Photo's Printed and placed on 100% Cotton - (not sublimation - we can do that on Polyester fabric) this is an actual print - pressed onto the material.  Awesome and looks fantastic.  

We have made a our Wedding Quilt, a Navy Quilt for a good friend and Jack's Baby Quilt using this method.  Again, the possiblities of what we can do with your photos are just endless. 

Here's our latest pictures

Wedding Quilt 45"x45"   (Karen & David 2004)

In the Navy!  Quilt 45"x45"   (Mimi & Clinton, VIC)

Jack's Baby Quilt  32" x 45"

 

the perfect give for every Nanna!

Nov 2023- Jan 2025 We opened Andre & Oskar's at Aspley Hypermarket - we needed an outlet besides PBC Baby Shows & Gift Fairs.  Mainly, one the could be opened every day and locked up every night without having to set it up and pull it down a couple of days later.  Shows are very exhausting and expensive (and the travelling all round Australia was fun but difficult).   

We all go through times of great loss - August/Sept 2024 was one of them.  We lost the best part of our team and we miss mum deeply.  However, she was amazing - the most creative of us all and whilst we struggle to continue we know that what we've been trying to achieve to make creative storyboards has helped us to evolve and create something exceptional and educational for little ones.   

2025  We are moving along  - We closed the shop at the Hypermarket - 2 reasons - there was not enough ROOM for all our machines and we could not be in 2 places at the same time to we MOVED to a much bigger space - and with that space we now got lots of machines that do all different things  -  We still learning all the things we can create and its just amazing.... 

Here's a little list of what we can do now .....

Sublimation  -   Mugs, Tumblers, Tile, Slate, Glass, Aluminium, Polyester

DTF - Direct to Fabric Printing -  Garments - Cotton, Linen, Polyester, Silk (any fabric) - T Shirts, Quilts, Towels, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Coolers, Backpacks, Umbrella's and more....

UV Hard -  Glass, Wood, Canvas, Metal, Plastic - From Golf Balls, Pens, Picture Canvas Frames, Tumblers, Glass Vases, Window Decals, Phone Case, Video Books, magnets to a small Suitcase .. and more....  Golf Shoes, Leather accessories too.

UV DTF -  Stickers that will stick on any Hard surface - Tumblers, Drink Bottles, Glass, Vases, Metal, labeling childrens school items - i.e. pencils, pens, books, rulers etc.   (not fabric or clothing though).

Small Roll Printer/Cutter -  Stickers & Labels - max 60cm W. (A1 to A6) in Vinyl, Fabric Wallpaper, Magnet

Laminator - max 64cm - Magnet, Vinyl, Wall Art, Paper

Large Roll Printer Cutter - Wall Art, Textured Art, Signage, Magnet, Window Decals, Wall Decals & Wallpaper, Gift Wrap and more ....