Loading... Feb 2 Our Featured Maker: Jackalo Welcome to February's edition of our Maker of the Month where this month we talk to the wonderful Marianna Sachse from Jackalo. We love her passion for sustainability and how it inspired her to make a difference with her amazing brand. Discover her quality designs with a "wear and play" feel and retro style. Tell…
Loading... Jan 14 Our Featured Maker: The Faraway Gang Welcome to 2020, a new decade! We wanted to help you beat the January blues by talking to Sally Jackson from the Faraway Gang all about her nostalgic style jumpers as well as keeping you warm with the benefits and care for merino wool. Tell us about the story behind The Faraway Gang and how…
Loading... Dec 17 Four Tips to Help Minimize Your Waste at Christmas Christmas is a time to come together and celebrate with your nearest and dearest but it can also be quite a conundrum of what to do or how to recycle your waste. So here are a few helpful tips to curb your "eco anxiety" that we hope will help you declutter post-Christmas and get you…
Loading... Nov 30 Our Featured Maker: The Dou-Doods Tis the season to be jolly...which means its the month of Christmas! This month we met with the lovely founder and entrepreneur Monique Horrigan from The Dou-Doods. She talks to us all about the inspiration to start her brand and how important comforters are to babies and children through their early development. Tell us about…
Loading... Nov 25 Ways to Celebrate Your Baby’s First Christmas Your babys firsts are precious milestones that you want to mark and Christmas is no exception! So we thought we would put together some ideas to help you make this Christmas extra special with perhaps starting family traditions or creating family keepsakes and really giving your family the magic of Christmas this Christmas! 1. Take…
Loading... Nov 21 Eco Parenting: Wooden Toys Versus Plastic Toys Christmas is nearly upon us and many of you will be buying toys for your loved ones, its estimated in the UK the average spending on toys at Christmas is around £86 per child (up to 11yrs) and each child receives an average of eight toys each! (Source: NPD).
Loading... Nov 15 2019 Guide to Green Gifting So much preparation goes into Christmas but the excessive amount of waste it leaves us with is something definitely not worth looking forward to! So, we have some eco-friendly gifting tips that will save you from the most waste-producing part of the season! 1. Buy Organic for Adults Organic gifting is just about taking an…
Loading... Nov 13 Sustainable Stocking Filler Ideas 2019 Stocking fillers are small but an exciting part of every child’s Christmas. If you are tired of the plastic and toxic clutter that comes into the stockings every year and want to go for an eco-friendly, sustainable option, we bet you’ll love our top picks! 1.BANDIT MASK £7.50 Give your children the sustainable superhero mask…
Loading... Nov 12 Stylish & Sustainable Gift Wrapping Ideas for 2019 After spending hours choosing and buying your perfect Christmas gifts then comes the arduous task of wrapping... only then to see it all the paper ripped off in a nanosecond on the big day and then finishes up in the bin! To me the wrapping of a present is all part of the the joy…
Loading... Nov 5 Introducing Children to Sustainable Living: 7 Tips Teaching your children about sustainability can sound like a huge task but it can actually be really fun and great to capture their imagination as well as teaching important lessons about care and love and respect the enivorment and everything in it. We put together 6 tips to help inspire you and your own little…
Loading... Nov 1 Our Featured Maker: Love Heartwood Welcome to Novembers edition of Maker of the Month, we are super excited to meet and talk to Liz Pearson from Loveheart Wood and find out more bout her beautiful wooden toys and gifts she makes... Tell us about the story behind Love HeartWood and where it all began? I’m the other side of 40…
Loading... Oct 5 Our Featured Maker: Totem Kids Welcome to October and Autumn has certainly arrived as its feeling alot colder! So to warm you up we've been chatting to founder Kate Bonhote all about her creative inspiring fun brand Totem Kids. She has a real passion for sustainability and thinks change is not happening fast enough in this months "meet the maker."…