Buy from Mumpreuners / Independent suppliers this Christmas

There are lots of fabulous women and mums I have met over the last few months on twitter, facebook, and mumsclub etc who have set up their own businesses. They sell or make excellent products and are definitely worth checking out for Christmas presents and Christmas ideas this year.

You can support the independent online retailers and buy a totally unique product for friends and family this Christmas.

I thought it would be nice to recommend all the lovely people I have come across over the last few months…go check them out!!!

Babipur – Ethical and environmentally friendly Christmas shopping for children and babies. Everything you need from clothes, cloth nappies and toys. (Have ordered from Babipur, great service :) )
http://www.babipur.co.uk/shop/index.html

SilverBirch Bags - Creating Hand-Crafted Bags and Personalised Gifts Just For You!!!
http://www.silverbirchcrafts.co.uk/

Little Lilypad Co - The Little Lilypad Co is home of beautiful and unusual gifts for all the family, without the designer price tags and plastic packaging.
http://www.littlelilypad.co.uk/

Shellybobbins – homemade crafts http://www.shellybobbins.blogspot.com/

Chloes Mummy - Personalised board books for babies and toddlers, perfect Christmas present!
http://www.chloesmummy.co.uk/

Socklings – gorgeous and carefully handcrafted sock toys, created in the U.K. by Michelle, who sews each of us by hand from a new pair of socks. Each Sockling is a one of a kind unique design. (Have ordered from Socklings, lovely work :) )
http://www.socklings.com/

Piddleypix – wonderful Friends in Frames and a whole lot more!
Family run business that gets much of our inspiration from their son, daughter and nephews!
Each and every one of Piddley Pix's pictures is hand drawn and then digitally painted, using a Wacom graphics tablet and pen. Most of our prints are Limited Edition and will only be printed a specified number of times before being removed from sale, never to be reproduced again.
http://www.piddleypix.co.uk/

Kiddiebase - This Christmas when you’re shopping for babies and children definitely visit http://www.kiddiebase.co.uk/. There are gifts, toys, clothes and much more for every age group from baby to 12 and even some ideas for Mums, Dads and grandparents in the handy KiddieBase gift guides! KiddieBase only select quality innovative retailers, most of them run by parents, to sell on their site – just add your choices from the different shops to one shopping basket and then pay securely via Paypal when you’re done.

Hippotree - Producing high quality, unique gifts for babies, children, around the home and any special occasion you can think of, we enjoy making personalised products. (Have ordered from Hippotree - plaque was beautiful :) )
http://hippotree.co.uk/default.aspx

Poppy sparkles - handcrafted jewellery, including my innovative range of jewellery featuring charms that can be removed, as well as gorgeous knitwear handknit from luxurious yarns.
http://www.poppysparkles.folksy.com/

ToyJeanius - Toyjeanius is the top toy shop for smart kids of ALL ages - from babies to toddlers, pre-school to teens! We have great fun with the toys we sell and hope that you will too! They sell lovely wooden toys. (Have ordered from Toyeanius, wonderful products, my girls love them :) )
http://www.toyjeanius.co.uk/

Minor Edition – Beautiful dresses for little girls (2-6yrs). A passion for colour, imagination and creativity. Dresses are designed by Ipshita and totally unique and affordable – a dress for any occasion! http://www.minoredition.co.uk/

Red Ted Art – Maggy Woodly has an inspiring website of all things crafts to do with your children, ideal for Christmas. She also sells art work and paintings, handcrafted cards and books.
http://www.redtedart.com/

Silvertouches - Subtle and beautiful, Louise’s range of fine silver handprint, footprint and fingerprint jewellery is a lovely way to keep a reminder of your little ones with you at all times. http://www.littlesilvertouches.co.uk/

Kenzo crafts - Personalised handmade keepsakes for all those special occasions & plaques for the home. Personalised Santa stop here signs.
http://www.kenzocrafts.co.uk/

Babysigning mum - I sell baby signing accessories that help to encourage babies and parents to keep up the signs when they are not in classes.
http://www.babysigningmummy.com/

Littlehathi - Distributors of Fair Trade, beautiful hand made crochet and knitted toys, gifts and clothing for babies and children.
http://www.littlehathi.co.uk/

Charlie Moos – get the party moving! Award Winning Party Supplies business specialising in handmade fabric party bags.
Check out the Christmas Moo wrapping paper! Love it!
http://www.charliemoos.co.uk/

Chicunique uk - Chic Unique is handmade jewellery inspired by life, love and everything else.
Ideal for Christmas presents or stocking fillers. http://mychicunique.etsy.com/

Fairyprincessshop - We sell gorgeous fairy dresses, princess dresses, fairy sets and fairy princess accessories - everything a little fairy or princess could dream of!
http://www.fairyprincessshop.com/

And Last but not least

Robinson Designs - Personalised letters from Santa / Father Christmas and personalised Christmas photocards - a perfect way to share a photo of the children as a Christmas card
http://www.robinsondesigns.co.uk/

49 days until Christmas......

Wow, now Halloween and Bonfire night are out of the way, its time to put all of your efforts into Christmas, planning the Christmas lunch, the parties, which presents to buy who, the Christmas card list etc etc.

But most importantly its time to sort out a letter from Father Christmas to your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews or friends children.

Picture the scene: It’s the week before Christmas and the morning post arrives with a personalised letter from Santa/Father Christmas to your child! Imagine their face as they open their very own letter from Santa/Father Christmas!

To send a surprise personalised letter is easy! Simply add your name here

http://www.facebook.com/robinsondesigns?v=app_2373072738#!/topic.php?uid=131302770227489&topic=214

and I will be in touch to ask for all the details to personalise the letter with your child’s name, town, achievement and what present they have asked for and we’ll post a beautiful, personalised letter to your child.

If it’s your baby’s first Christmas why not get Father Christmas to send them a keepsake letter?
All this for only £3.50 - with £1 going to Claire House Charity, a local children's hospice.
To ensure you receive your letter in time for Christmas, please put your names down as soon as possible as I will be contacting everyone at the start of December for their details and will be sending the letters out of 10th December.

Our letters are printed on high quality paper with a fantastic design.


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Personalised Christmas Photocards - on special offer £1 each

Why not send something a bit different this year to a normal Christmas card? A personalised Christmas photocard with the children or family on the front with a beautiful Christmas design?

Go to http://www.robinsondesigns.co.uk/christmas.htm to view designs.

Wow Check out this competition!! Win your Christmas Shopping at Babi Pur! £200

I love Babipur, a very friendly bunch with fantastic and competitively priced products!!

I have had the privilege to write a review for them on Ecobubs nappy and in return I got to keep the nappy, cant ask for better than that?

One lucky winner will receive £200 in vouchers to spend at Babi Pur or your Christmas shopping with us refunded. (up to the value of £200 and any excess made up with vouchers)

Babipur have some fantastic advice if you want to switch from disposables to cloth!

A few of my fave nappies, good old BumGenius V3, Flips with both stay dry and organic inserts and the ecobubs :)

Here are the competition rules:




How to enter

All you need to do is comment below with the answer to the following... Which 3 items from the Babi Pur website would make it on to the top of your Christmas shopping list?

BONUS ENTRIES: For bonus entries please leave a separate comment for each of the following you have done :



LIKEBabiPur on Facebook

ADD fan pictures to BabiPur on Facebook

FOLLOW BabiPur on Twitter

BLOG Blog about this competition - mention us on your own blog

TELL YOUR FRIENDS about this competition on any UK forum (separate entry for each one)

CREATE AN ACCOUNT & tick to receive our newsletters here

COMMENT leave a comment on any posts on this blog

RETWEET this post

SUBSCRIBE to our new Youtube channel BabipurTV & comment on a video for another entry

It is important that you leave separate comments as each comment number is counted as an entry!



All entries need to be with us before midnight on the 9 of December. The winner will be chosen at random on the 10th December 2010. If you have already bought your Christmas gifts we will refund your order up to the value of £200 and if your order was less than £200 we will pay you the excess in vouchers.

PHOTO ENHANCEMENTS

Do you have some lovely photos of your children or from your wedding day and think that it would look fab in black and white with a hint of colour coming through, such as your bouquet?

Well now you can get this done for a very low price of just £3.50

Robinson Designs offers photo enhancements.

Black and white photos, or black and white with a hint of colour. Photo's cropped, red eye reduction, wrinkles smoothed etc

Contact us today on enquiries@robinsondesigns.co.uk

Claire House gives Robinson Designs authority to raise money.

We have been given a letter of authority from Claire House - so we can now get on with raising money for Claire House.

Who are Claire House?

“The aim of Claire House Children’s Hospice is to enhance the quality of life for the child with a life-limiting condition, offering a high quality service with both personal and professional support. In partnership with the child and family, each child’s individual needs will be met; those of their family and significant carers will be recognised and respected in a safe ‘home from home’ environment.”



Located in Bebington on the Wirral, Claire House is a bright, vibrant place of hope. In addition to caring for our children and young adults, we also focus on the needs of the whole family, providing bereavement and other support for as long as it is needed. With no guaranteed government funding we need to raise in excess of £2.5 million each year to maintain our present levels of service.

For more info visit Claire House

So what are Robinson Designs doing to help raise some money?

We have decided to give £1 from every sale of the letter from Father Christmas to Claire House, and also all Christmas photocards sold will also give 10% of sales to Claire House.
We really would like to try and raise £100, but can only do this with your help.

If you know anyone who has young children and would like to receive a letter from Father Christmas tell them about Robinson Designs.
We also sell personalised photo Christmas cards click here to view http://www.robinsondesigns.co.uk/christmas.htm

Since having children myself, this charity has become closer to my heart, as its all something we hope will never happen to our children, but it does, and Claire House are there to help, if the unthinkable ever happens.

Competition Time.....win a letter from Father Christmas

Win a letter from Father Christmas!.


Its easy to enter….all you have to do is:

• LIKE Robinson Designs on Facebook and make a comment about our designs

• INVITE YOUR FRIENDS to our facebook group

• TELL YOUR FRIENDS about this competition on any UK forum

• FOLLOW Robinson Designs on Twitter , make a comment and retweet this post

Leave a comment on either this blog or my facebook page that you have done at least the above two points and tell me who you have invited.

Winner to be announced on 1st November

They have arrived.... Letter from Father Christmas

Imagine the excitement on your child's face when they receive a personalised letter from Father Christmas (St Nicholas or Santa)

With a choice of six letter styles to choose from, the letter is printed on high quality paper, includes envelopes and postage. All this for £3.50 (prices for inside the UK, £4.50 for outside the UK)

Each letter sold will give £1 to a favourite local charity of mine... Claire House, a childrens hospice for very sick children.

Letter headers to choose from

Sample letter

Also available, baby's first letter to Father Christmas, what a lovely keepsake for your baby's first Christmas



All letters will be sent out via 2nd class on 10th December 2010

Interested? Get in touch

Tell your friends and family, I would love to make at least £50 for charity, so I need 50 orders to achieve this.

You can order through twitter, facebook or facebook shop or email me

Letter from Father Christmas

I am planning on creating a beautiful 'letter from Father Christmas' (no offence to Americans or anyone who says santa, but I dont really like the word santa) for children.

What I hope to achieve by doing this, is to cover costs to design the letter and create it, but then donate the money to a children's charity, as I feel Christmas is about giving and not receiving.

It is looking likely that I will donate the money to Claire House; Claire House is a 10 bedded hospice for children with life limiting, life threatening conditions from across Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales and the Isle of Man.

Since having children myself I feel this is a well needed charity for the children who need it most in our area.

What do you think, do you think it is worth doing, and do you think I can sell the letters, and will you all help me and Claire House?

Do you think £3.50 would be acceptable?

Please give me some input

Competition Time!

To win a free design of your choice on digital file. That means you get the design (worth £10 special offer price at the moment) and can then print the design off where ever you please...kodak, photobox, Tesco etc.

Its easy to enter….

Just tell me which design you like on my Facebook page and why?

BONUS ENTRIES: For bonus entries please leave a separate comment for each of the following you have done :

• LIKE Robinson Designs on Facebook and make a comment about our designs

• FOLLOW Robinson Designs  on Twitter , make a comment and retweet this post

• TELL YOUR FRIENDS about this competition on any UK forum

• INVITE YOUR FRIENDS to our facebook group

Christmas Cards 2010 - keep your eyes peeled

I had such a fantastic response to the christmas cards I designed last year and have already been asked about orders for this year, I am going to get some more designs uploaded asap for you all to choose from if you want to get some ordered for loved ones for Christmas

Here are last year's designs...

Tushie Tuesdays is Back! And for the re-launch one lucky winner will receive:

http://www.babiesnappies.co.uk/2010/08/10/tushie-tuesday-week-17/

Look out for the new website...coming soon

Keep your eyes peeled for a newly designed website.
You will be able to see more designs and buy from the website too

AUGUST'S OFFER

Buy 4 photocards and get 1 photocard free

Take advantage of this offer, offer expires 15th August

One day left to get 10% off your order

July is nearly over (is it me or did it go slooooow? Must be the miserable and wet July we had), so that means the10% off will finish tommorow.

If you dont get chance to take advanage, look out for August's promotion and competition

Em x

Robinson Designs now on Misi..

http://www.misi.co.uk/gifts/50603/Baby_Girl_Birth_announcement_01.html

What is Misi
MISI is bringing together the UK's craft community and giving them a place to sell what they make. Buyers can find high quality products with a personal touch. MISI has been running since Late October 2008 and has already attracted more than 3000 sellers and is reaching 75000 visitors per month.

New Logo

I have created a new logo for Robinson Designs, what do you think?

Its the new header/logo for the website I am currently designing, and the blog will get a new theme too

Blog competitions

Keep checking the blog for more competitions to come

Our 100th FB Fan

Congratulations Kirsty Wilson, you are our 100th fan, you receive a digital image of your choice.

Look out for our next competition

Bye Bye Chickenpox :)

well Alex has got rid of the dreaded chicken pox, and is back to her usual self, lets see how long it takes for Beth to get them!

Visit my wedding website

Help Me tie the knot

Eeek! My daughter is one years old in less that 3 months

Time to start planning the party.

The end of September is always known to have a lovely Indian Summer, I remember my wedding well on the 30th September. I plan to do a little part for close family and have a BBQ, whether it will be an indoor or outdoor BBQ, that is the question.

I have just created her invites...

New Photo Birth Announcements

Available in landscape or portrait for girl or for boy, neutral option available too

Babi Pur - ethical shopping for babies

Babi pur blog... http://www.ethicalshoppingforbabies.co.uk/

Babi pur website... http://www.babipur.co.uk/shop/index.html

Visit babi pur, the place for green and ethical parents.

Everything from clothes to cloth nappies :)

Real Nappies are the future :)

I am Emma and I have a nappy obsession lol

I have spent over £600 in nappies but love them so much and they will and have saved us a fortune compared to disposable nappies which will fill all our landfills.

Coming soon, a link to all my nappies, cool sites etc

Keep watching

Slowly getting there...

Still getting my head around all this blog business!! I am slowly putting my blog together!!

Social Networking

You can follow Robinson Designs on Twitter, Facebook and Linked In

Portfolio

In the next few weeks I hope to be able to post a portfolio of my work and update it with any new designs etc

A warm welcome to my blog

I thought to keep up with the world of technology I would create myself a blog for Robinson Designs.

Keep coming back to read up the news

Emma