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Hey Ya'll!

My name is Cece and I'm the Owner of FYNNESS.

FYNNESS started back in August of 2019 with a vision and a dream since I was a little girl. Let me just take you back a bit. My mother had a passion for sewing and making unique pieces when I was growing up. She was a dope seamstress! Growing up Jamaican, most parents always done things themselves and didn't like the idea of people doing anything for them.

My mother, Hortence Eccleston made amazing authentic pieces. Down to our church clothes, our dinning tablecloths, pillowcases and our bedsheets etc. I was fascinated as a kid just to sit and watch her design these garments from scratch with her sewing machine! I can remember the joy now. I was able to have my little input here and there. She loved that I was idealistic and creative. I mean what can I say? I get it from my Mama!  

I was able to create an idea of a design in my head and watch my Mama bring it to life! She was my Shero and my everything. Til this day I still have a church dress she made for me when I was 11. Addition to that her bedsheets and curtains are all with me. I fathomed on this thought for years as a kid. I just remember how happy it made us. It was like a secret get away from the world! I said when I get older I'm going to help her launch her own brand. Like honestly she was so talented, she made church dresses for the ladies in our neighborhood and for our family back home in Trelawny, Jamaica.

As the years went on my mother got really ill. She was sick beyond to the point of never getting better or back to herself. When I was 18 years old my mother was diagnosed with Dementia. Imagine you're mother not knowing who you are. My life turned for the worst, especially with a newborn. And right there that dream disappeared and I wasn't myself for years. The plan of getting my mother her own clothing brand was no longer a thing. How can I function without her? Life took it's course and I did what I had to do to take care of her. Time went by..........She was later diagnosed with Cancer.

June 19, 2019 my mother Hortence Eccleston had went to a better place. Where she was no longer in pain and suffering. One of the worst days of my life, especially losing my parents back to back. Whew! Stressed!

That's when it hit me!

Sitting down and going through memory lane made me realize the importance of the dream we both shared. Tapping back into being a kid and the time I was mostly happy and what brought me joy was her! The creativity and happiness we shared designing and putting garments together! All I can remember in that moment my mother always use to say to me "do what you do best naturally and succeed from it but don't tell anyone til the job is done."

And here we are, FYNNESS was born!

In the honor of my mother. The joy and wisdom she gave me growing up is what I want to share with the World. 

Everyone has the potential to be great! So why not FYNNESS that Sh*t! Ooops excuse my French! But really, that was the message all along and I thank her for it! 

So I'm here to encourage all my dreamers, entrepreneurs etc to Fynness Your Natural Niche and Endure Success in Silence! 

Sometimes all it takes is going back to your childhood to get back that spark!

So you guys FYNNESS with me!

  

In loving Memory of Hortence Eccleston

December 11/1946 - June 19/2019