Happy 3rd Anniversary - Our baby turns 3

It's incredible how quickly time flies. Exactly three years ago, we (Dorina & Maren) were sitting at the notary's office and founding mara mea. "You're now married," announced the man behind the huge desk. And so it came to be that we have dedicated the last three years entirely to our baby – mara mea.

We say THANK YOU! ❤ Thank you for 3 years full of joy, concentrated girl power, and incredible encounters. Thank you for making every day of this colorful adventure sweeter for us.

Left: Inspiration for our name and logo: The maple fruit. // Right: The first dip-dye designs were created in the kitchen. These later became our new moon diaper bag.

left: the first diaper bag prototype // right: first color gradients for the "starry night" bag

We involved friends and relatives in preparing for the first trade fair. Left: Logo for the trade fair booth // Right: DIY evening with tassels for a garland

With our first collection, "Catching Fireflies" (Summer 2016), we visited our very first trade fairs. Left: Playtime Paris, July 2015; right: Kind & Jugend Cologne, September 2015

Our first photo shoot with the 2016 summer collection . A flower shop in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg served as the location. Left: Soon-to-be mom Jessica Boehrs, right: mom of four Nadine Richter

Photo shoot for the Fall/Winter 2016/17 collection "Meet Me in Morocco" at the 25 Hours Hotel. Left: Christoph, our graphic designer & Maren // Right: Part of the team: Marlen Stahlhut, our photographer, Maren & Dorina, Rebecca from Elfenkind Berlin, Monique Bredow, our makeup artist

Shooting time with Rebecca from Elfenkind Berlin & Luise Bähr, actress

Our online shop went live in February 2016. The first packages were sent to you. The first online shop testers: our moms.

As soon as the winter collection hit the stores, we started working on the design of the 2017 summer collection. This time, Mexico and Peru served as our inspiration.

After more than a year of working from home, we inaugurated our first office with a small party.

Our joint production trip to India in April 2016.

Left: A short detour to the Taj Mahal. // Right: A designer's dream. A braid merchant in Old Delhi.

Photoshoot of the Summer 2017 collection at Ber Berlin and in the Berlin Botanical Garden.

We won first place in the Berlin-Brandenburg business plan competition in 2016.

Here we presented our business idea to the BPW jury.

After the win, two radio and some newspaper interviews followed.

In July 2017 we presented our 3rd collection at Playtime in Paris.

Deliveries are getting bigger and bigger. This calls for female power.

Our book "Sewing for the Baby Bump" was published by DK Verlag in March 2017.

We proudly held the first specimen copies in our hands.

Our first shoot abroad took place in the summer of 2017. Annelie Klein (left) photographed the Summer 2018 collection "Good Morning Guatemala" in Athens.

mara mea goes NYC. Playtime New York, Summer 2017.

Fall/Winter photo shoot in the gravel pit. The "Tibetan Diaries" collection will be available in stores in August 2018.

Here's to many, many more wonderful years. ♥️