Blog Giveaway: Mother's Little Helper soothing balm

'Mother’s Little Helper' is the environmentally-friendly must-have for nappy bags, handbags and glove boxes, now available from Nudey!Rudey! 97% organic and containing no palm or nut oils, and packaged in a gorgeous and reusable tin, it's a sumptuous and soothing New Zealand-made balm, ideal for quenching dry skin, protecting nappied bottoms and soothing itchy skin on a swelling pregnant belly.

Not only that, but $1NZD from every tin of Mother’s Little Helper is being pledged directly to Catherine Bolt's charity Project18. If you haven't heard about this charity before, take a look at Catherine's blog - you can read all about her incredible mission which involved a move for her entire family, husband and 9 children to Indonesia to raise an orphanage for abandoned children and increasingly vulnerable orang-utans.

I have one of these beautiful, environmentally friendly and socially conscious tins of balm here to give away to one of my followers - just comment below on why you'd like me to send it to you, and we'll draw the winner one week today (Monday 9th November.)

Fantastic Find: the Oz Material Girls

The Oz Material Girls are a 'fabriholic' mother/daughter team who started out selling personal items from their own fabric stash. Their hobby quickly turned into a full-blown company selling quilting materials from their online store and also on Ebay. They have heaps of wonderful fabrics and pride themselves on providing their customers with friendly advice, informative communication, super fast delivery of orders, and above all quality products.

The Oz Material Girls are currently celebrating their 5th birthday and have been running lots of giveaways on their blog to celebrate. The current giveaway runs until October 31st and if you enter, you have the chance to win a Shabby Rose Lecien Fabric Gift Pack - some gorgeous shabby rose fabrics and a lovely retro vintage collectable Singer Sewing Machine Tin to store them in. Check here to go to their blog for more details - don't try TOO hard to win though, as my name is already on that prize!

Blog giveaway and fantastic find: Tat your Tot

Tat your Tot is a wonderful website with a really innovative and gorgeous product - personalised identity temporary tattoos or 'Identitats' for kids.

As a parent of three myself, I know how scary it can be to lose your child even for the shortest amount of time in a busy place. Identitats come in all sorts of different designs, and have on them contact and medical details (either already printed or you can write them on yourselves), so if a parent's worst fear should happen and their child goes missing in a crowded place, they can quickly be returned to them.

The great thing about the Identitat concept is that it pleases everyone - kids love nothing better than tattoos so will wear them with pride (I can imagine my little ones not wanting to take them off) and parents can take their children to busy areas safe in the knowledge that they are armed with all the information they need for a speedy return.

And now for the best bit ... Marieke at Tat your Tot has very kindly offered to give away 4 packs of each design of 'Write on tats' to one lucky reader of my blog!!! All you have to do is to tell your friends about the wonderful Tat your Tot site and concept - every tweet, Facebook or blog post mentioning Tat your Tot and this competition will count for one entry each (this includes RTs too!) - comment below once you have spread the word and how many entries you have made, and we will draw the winner one week today (Friday 11th September)!!

Good luck!

xxx Jenny & Marieke xxx

100 reached! So it's giveaway time again...

I know, it's actually not been long since my last giveaway, but this one is a special 'extra' one to thank everyone who has added themselves to my Facebook fan page to enable me to get to 100 fans and obtain my very own Festoon URL. I reached 100 within just a couple of days and am so thankful for all the fab support that I decided to giveaway some more bunting as a celebration and a big thank you!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!

So.... this time I am going to give away one of these two bunting swags to one of you:

One is a funky retro boys' banner with a spaceman theme, the other is a gorgeous girly design we call 'Girls Play' and they are both 3M long. The fabric used in girls' play is now actually out of print, so this one is the last of it's kind!

To win your bunting, please just let me know which one you would like to win, and why, and please please become a follower of my blog if you're not already. The winner will be drawn out of the hat by my 6 year old this time, one week today (Friday 14th August) I will take a piccie of the draw taking place!

Good luck folks, and don't forget to tell all your friends to enter too!

My first blog giveaway!

Well, I thought it was about time I did my very first BLOG GIVEAWAY (cue expectant drum roll!!)

All you have to do is to take a look at the online shop on my website http://www.festoon.com.au/ and tell me which one of my bunting designs is your favourite, and why. There are plenty to choose from!

If you are drawn from the hat one week from now (that's July 21st!) then you will win that bunting!!! Tra-laaa!! Easy eh!

So head on over to www.festoon.com.au, choose your favourite design and leave a comment here. The winner will be contacted via email so be sure to leave your email address so I can contact you.

Good luck xxx