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Congratulations to Paula Fazekas of www.mummyvswork.co.uk who is the lucky winner of our Leap Pad Giveaway! I’ve sent an email to you Paula, please email me asap with your postal details and we’ll try and get your prize to you in time for Santa! I hope you and your family have lots of fun with it, and thanks to everyone who entered the competition.
Happy Christmas to all our blog readers from Mimimyne
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We’ve got a wonderful offer for our blog readers from LeapPad!
LeapPad 2′s are very popular educational toys and retail for £80, but we’ve got one to give away for one lucky reader (sorry, UK based contestants only).
To enter, all you have to do is comment on this blog telling me why you think you should be the lucky winner and one winner will be chosen at random by Friday 14th December!
Just a quick overview of the product
The LeapPad 2 retails at around £80, LeapPad was one of the 2011 Dream Toys and is now a 2012 dream toy as outlined by the British Toy Retailers association – demand in 2011 was massive. Primarily designed with learning in mind, even gaming on LeapFrog’s smart toys delivers stealth learning.
LeapFrog’s LeapsterGS Explorer comes in two colours: Green and Pink and has the following features:
3.5 inch Resistive Touch Screen
2 GB memory
Backside camera for taking photos and recording videos
Built-in Microphone for recoding voice
Library of more than 300 games and applications
3 Free applications
A motion sensor
LeapFrog’s LeapPad 2 comes in two colours: Green and Pink and has the following features:
5 inch Resistive Touch Screen
4 GB memory
Back and frontside camera for taking photos and recording videos (2 megapixel)
Built-in Microphone for recoding voice
Library of more than 300 games and applications
3 Free applications
A motion sensor
Optional rechargeable battery pack, costing £29.99
Maths
Escape of the Sillies teaches number recognition, classification, counting and grouping of numbers.
Science
Splurgle for the Explorer GS only, teaches the basics of physical science – with unlockable Splurglepedia entries around the science of liquids and their various states.
English skills
Reading at different stages, spelling, phonetic learning and writing skills within a number of apps. Downloadable ebooks, as well as Pet pad offer a lively reading experience with various options to interact with the stylus.
Visit Leapfrog educational toys for other educational games and videos.
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I’m very excited to announce that I am now officially a member of Sage’s new Business Experts online advocacy programme.
The unique Sage Business Experts programme started in September 2012 during which Sage recruited well connected business people to join a group which aims to support and advise the UK business community via Social Media. I’ll be blogging about any events I attend and passing on my expertise about social media and internet marketing. Not accounting, which I will admit is (ahem) not my strongest point…
Sage Business Experts come from a range of businesses across the UK in sectors spanning food manufacture to IT services. More information and bios can be found on the Sage Business Experts web page – I’m in very good company!
People who join the programme will receive;
Free access to Sage mentors – a named contact who would be able to offer help and guidance on business questions – such as marketing and PR
Access to Sage software products and support services
Promotion of their business – featured on the Sage Business Experts web page with links to their website
Invitation to Sage Business Expert events – an on-going part of the programme will be several events per year where Sage and its Business Experts can share their knowledge
Sage’s Social Media specialist, Cath Sheldon commented, “We are passionate about supporting UK business potential but we can’t do this on our own. Our ‘Business Experts’ have been handpicked for their advice and expertise on the issues that really matter to business. We look forward to growing this group, learning from them and giving them even more of a voice to support businesses across the country.”
Sage is still recruiting for business Experts to join its programme. If you would like to find out more you can follow Sage on Twitter.
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Like most women, I am not immune to the charms of a really great handbag. I have a set of criteria for handbags involving a generous assortment of pockets, zips that don’t break, a strap that you can put over your shoulder but also looks good if you hold it in your hand, being weather proof and tough, but of course I want my bag to look good as well. However, I’m not really an It Bag girl as they are simply too expensive – until handbag rental appeared, that is! Now you can try out a fantastic new handbag without spending a small fortune, and by renting rather than buying you are actually being very green! Mimimyne has partnered up with Handbags from Heaven to offer a fantastic 20% off for their members when they shop at Mimimyne, as well as lots of other treats from different retailers, so check it out and you can have the bag of your dreams!
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Slightly later than promised due to a more than usually hectic day, I’ve randomly picked our two winners with the help of Random.org and am happy to announce they are Carol Anne Adamson and Sarah Hearnden. Sarah said it was difficult to choose but she would treat her three step grandchildren to an item of clothing each, and Carol Anne Adamson wanted a Rock-a-Bye Baby Organic Baby Gift Box (pictured). Hooray, now you can buy your prizes! An email will be winging its way to you shortly with your winners code. I’d like to thank all of you for your wonderful entries which I’ve loved reading, and for becoming a fan of Mimimyne’s Page!
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If you were given £50 to spend at Mimimyne, what would you buy? We’ve teamed up with the email marketing provider little green plane to offer two people the chance to win £50 to spend online at Mimimyne!
All you need to do to enter the competition is “like” Mimimyne on Facebook and tell us what you would like from Mimimyne for £50! The competition runs until the 30th September 2012 so what are you waiting for? This competition is for UK Facebook Fans only.
You can enter the competition here. Good luck!
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Mimimyne is very excited to announce that Slugs and Snails, the fabulous boys’ tights, are now stocked at our shop!
Slugs and Snails is a small family run company based in the west of Ireland. Their tights were invented when busy mum Kathleen, trying to keep her little boy warm in winter, discovered that she couldn’t buy tights that weren’t in feminine designs and colours and had a moment of inspiration. Their tights are perfect all year around, either for skiing, outdoor pursuits, layering under clothes in cold weather or as a breathable alternative to jeans and trousers in warmer weather. The leaf logo on the back, the design that covers the tights from foot to waistband and the non-slip sole mean the tights can be worn on their own as an alternative to trousers. The tights are great for potty training, and mean no more cold legs or lost socks!
The tights are are Oeko-Tex 100 certified which is the highest standard for children’s clothes and are produced in Turkey – as the designers wouldn’t make any product they wouldn’t be 100% happy to put on their own little boy. Tights are beautifully wrapped which makes them the perfect gift for new borns, Christmas and birthdays. Celebrities in Ireland and the UK adore their products (Peaches Geldof, Angellica Bell, Sarah Cawood, Cerys Matthews, Amanda Lamb, Charlie Condou, Boris Becker and Donal MacIntyre all have Slugs and Snails tights for their babies and
toddlers). In the USA and Canada Jesse Csincsak (from the USA Bachelor) and Autumn Reeser (from the OC and Entourage) are both supporters of Slugs and Snails and their little boys Noah and Finn have and wear their own funky boys’ tights!
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The lovely Amy Cooper of the Secret Seed Society is one of the designers whose work we are proud to stock here at Mimimyne. She has created a range of story books and seed packs for kids which are aimed at getting kids to grow their own vegetables – and eat them! Anyway, the other day a video of her speaking at a Ted conference at the LSE popped into our inbox, and it is so fab we thought we’d share it with you.
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Now is the time to create the new future we choose for the World.
As we stand in 2012, many of the ideologies running our world systems have failed. Some of us fear there is no other belief system that has enough strength behind it to succeed. Yet, we have a plethora of solutions and ideas amongst us that could lead to a brighter future, argues Think Act Vote in their book ‘The Future We Choose’.
Now is the time to create the future that we choose for the world. New book launched by Think Act Vote (?!X) shows us how.
The Future We Choose brings together over 200 forward thinking voices, from the general public mixed in with those well known, from fashion designers to historians, campaigners to presenters. Here they share the vision of the world they want to live in with their ideas of how to create it.
The book revolves around ‘The Futures Interview’, which also asks for a Future Soundtrack and five all time favourite weblinks. Launched by radical think-tank Think Act Vote (?!X), it was founded to create a new conversation around democracy and how we create the future we choose.
‘An idea that could send a transforming fire to the future.’ Ben Okri, Author and Poet.
The Future We Choose features contributors including Wayne Hemingway, June Sarpong, Kriss Akabusi, Katharine Hamnett, Lynne Franks and Dan Snow sharing their answers to these questions. It is a personal, political exploration of what we value, and how we can live these values in our every day lives. It aims to provide a space for the reader to stop, think about the world they choose to live in and how we then create it. Input was gathered from music festivals, social media and the corridors of parliament. It ends with an afterword by campaigner and activist Sam Roddick, who poignantly encourages us to believe that anything is possible.
The project began with a fashion design competition back in 2010 in the run up to the UK general election. Think Act Vote founder, Amisha Ghadiali said: “If politics were a fashion brand, you wouldn’t wear it. We want to use creativity to create a community around the choices we make for our future.”
The book was previewed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the Rio+20 Earth Summit with an event at the Hub Culture Pavilion. In the UK, it launches officially on Wednesday 25th July with an event at The Arch Gallery in East London. This will bring together many of the contributors for an afternoon of talks, workshops and live music.
The Future We Choose is supported by a variety of people including Tim Smit from The Eden Project who said, “I feel a new form of democracy stirring and it is exciting and vital. Go make a difference I say. Read this book and start now.”
Want to find out more? Come to the Future We Choose Event on Wednesday 25th July - I will be reading from my entry in the book! The book will officially go on sale on the 25th July in the Think Act Vote Bookshop.

Posted under Father's Day Gifts
We were thrilled to find Twisted Twee’s Pint and Half Pint T shirt sets were a top pick for “Cool Daddies” in Sainsburys Magazine this month, and ever since they were featured they’ve been selling like… well, Pints and Half Pints really!
The ‘Pints’ are printed in the UK using organic inks but are not made of organic cotton, all the Half Pints are organic and printed with organic ink. We’ve got every size and colour available in stock apart from the Purple Half Pint T-shirts in 12-24 months but remember Father’s Day is on June 17th and we would say pretty please, order by the 11th at the absolute latest so we can be sure of getting them to you safely!
