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.

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

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