Mitzi, Ate Remi, Ate Lisa, and Ate Pilita - four individuals threaded together to make a DIY dream come true. Know their love story.

Mitzi, Ate Remi, Ate Lisa, and Ate Pilita - four individuals threaded together to make a DIY dream come true. Know their love story.

Mori Notes is an artisan community of designers, crafters, and advocates from all walks of life founded by Mitzi Uy. This small group of passionate seamstresses creates innovative journals, wallets, and organizers from recycled materials to fulfill their vision of a brighter future and ignite your passion for fun and functional crafts.

Get to know how this passion project turned into a growing social enterprise, lovingly sewn by four individuals. 


Meet Mitzi, Ate Remi, Ate Lisa, and Ate Pilita

Mitzi just quit her corporate job and was looking for life’s meaning and purpose.

Ate Remi, hailing from a family of seamstresses, was sewing rags which were then sold for just a peso a piece.

Ate Lisa who lived her whole life sewing for different companies found herself staying at home without any clients.

And Ate Pilita, a stay-at-home mom, was looking for something to help with their household’s growing financial  needs.

This was two years ago. Little did these people know that their seemingly separate paths will later converge into one, step-by-step threading their passions into a bigger purpose. And that's how social enterprise Mori Notes was born.

 [L-R] In photo: Ate Pilita, Ate Lisa, Ate Remi and Mitzi.

 

DIY Dream Come True

After her corporate stint, Mitzi spent her free time writing all her thoughts in her journal. Having a knack for DIYs, she started making her journals from upcycled materials which she then called pursebooks. It was through this little passion project that she formed the concept for Mori Notes.

What started out as small orders from family and friends soon grew into bigger and bigger demands. A definite affirmation that she's doing something right, Mitzi was inspired to do more designs and even create other upcycled products like purses and bags. But despite her rising success, Mitzi felt she could do more, that she could take the goodness she's received and share it with others.

 

Jot Down & Zip Up in Style: Mori Notes's Pursebook (Photo from Mori Notes's official Facebook page; Human Nature doesn't carry this product but we do have Mori Notes's Dual-Zip Purses)

Partners in Passion

Through “Sikap Buhay”, a group who connects entrepreneurs to the community, Mitzi started working with stay-at-home mothers from the nearby barangay, Kaingin Road, Balintawak, Quezon City.  There, she met Ate Remi, Ate Lisa and Ate Pilita who soon become her partners in taking her DIY dreams to an even bigger scale.

With every Mori Notes product sold, the nanays of Kaingin Road not only got to earn more for their families, but also realize their passions and purpose. Needless to say, it changed their lives for the better and just further empowered them to do more good. The nanays are now equipped with better sewing techniques acquired from crafting innovative items like the Dual Zip Purse and the Reversible File Bag, among others. And even until today, Mitzi, Ate Remi, Ate Lisa, and Ate Pilita all work together closely into putting love and hope in every stitch of every product.

 

[L-R] Leading Ladies at Work: Ate Pilita, Ate Lisa, and Ate Remi discuss what material to best use for Mori Notes's next product.

 

Doing More Good

As Mori Notes grows, they are reaching out to more communities in Quezon City and Valenzuela City to take the journey with them, providing an avenue for more mothers to earn more for their family, work at the comforts of their home, and fulfill their life’s purpose.

Ate Remi, Ate Lisa, and Ate Pilita are at the forefront of this effort, going to other barangays to train mothers on sewing and binding. But more than that, they encourage fellow mothers to realize their full potential, to be not just sewers but artisans who contribute to their communities.

[L-R] Sewn with love: Ate Lisa working on a Mori Notes product | Mori Notes Dual-Zip Purses

 

Mitzi, Ate Remi, Ate Lisa, and Ate Pilita –  four individuals who started on the different paths, now all threaded together to sew yet another goodness story through Mori Notes!

 

Learn more about MoriNotes through their official Facebook page.