Hi Friends! I am beyond grateful you are here and have found our Christian apparel store, dwell. My name is Jodi, the owner and designer of dwell. I have been in the t-shirt business for over 15 years and have printed, pressed, and shipped out hundreds and thousands of tees and sweatshirts to my awesome customers.
My t-shirt business has morphed quite a bit throughout the years. I was a young mom when I first began, and I wanted to create cute onesies and bodysuits for babies and toddlers. My very first business was called "Roslyn's Closet," which was named after our first born. I opened my first Etsy shop in 2006 and also started selling my clothing locally. Then in 2009, I opened "I Spot You" and started doing personalized baby clothing. I continued doing baby clothing for several more years but started to lose some of my passion; partly due to my children growing up and no longer being a mom to young children. Around 2014, I discovered a boutique marketplace called Jane.com and I started selling on this deal site. My first deal I had with Jane, I sold over 150 items in 3 days. Jane.com was one of the best things that ever happened to our business. I realized there was so much more I could create for them and began to sell mainly adult tee shirts. I loved that I could print anything for customers, from sports to holiday tees to faith tees.
So what does this have to do with dwell.? Okay, stay with me here, I'm going to try my best to share how dwell. came about. In late February of 2023, me and 2 of my close friends flew out to Redding, California to visit a church called Bethel. While we were visiting, we had signed up for the opportunity to pray with their prayer team. The weekend we were there, there happened to be a fluke snowstorm and they had to cancel our prayer time. However, they still prayed for each person that had signed up even though we never even met them. When I received my email, I was in complete shock...here it is below.
I knew these words were meant for me! God is so good. I mean, Jesus was wearing a T-shirt?!!! Come on. It just spoke so strongly to me, and I flew back home knowing I needed to do something...something more. These words stirred so much excitement in my heart and I knew right then and there that I wanted to create a Faith based clothing company. As I was praying for a name of the company, "dwell" was the only word that came to mind. I looked up the definition for dwell and it said:
1. to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside.
2. to live or continue in a given condition or state:
Yes! To dwell in Him...always. It was perfect!
Over the past few months I've been working hard on finding the most subtle and simple yet inspiring designs, along with the best quality tees and sweatshirts out there! I hope you love what you see and there will continue to be many more new additions. Blessings and much love, Jodi