Mimimyne recently teamed up with Asobi, the eco toys wholesaler, to bring customers a wider range of toys made in Europe and abroad. Asobi is the one stop shop for all your needs for eco friendly toys and green games. Some of the great brands available on Mimimyne now include Bioviva, the award winning designers of eco friendly board games, Merry Mache’s eco friendly papier-mache Christmas decorations, kidsonroof and their Casa Cabana and Christmas Totem Tree and Calafant and their great cardboard toys like the cardboard play castle Calacastle.

Cardboard play castle by Calafant

Asobi has a carefully thought out environmental policy and makes sure all their suppliers have too. Mimimyne is very excited to be working with Asobi, will continue to add more products and hopes to have a few exclusive offers soon as well, so keep an eye on the website!

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Mimimyne is featured today on the The Green Familia ethical christmas gift list! For day 2, TGF focus on ethical Christmas gifts for dads and feature Twisted Twee’s excellent Pine Tree and Pine Cone twinset for Dad and Baby.

TGF Ethical Christmas Gift List  Day 2.

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Mimimyne is one of the Finalists for the Green Business award (part of the Thames Gateway Business Awards)!
The awards are given to SME’s who are based or operating in the South East London, East London, Essex and Kent area. I’m excited to be in the running for this award, can’t wait till the 6th November!

Finalist in Thames Gateway Business Awards in association with HSBC

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I was recently sent some tickets to take my children along to hear LMA Orchestra perform classical family concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, and I thought I’d tell you more about this great opportunity to introduce your children to classical music.

This concert series is quite unusual as it is especially for kids and their parents. They play games, tell stories, sing, clap and dance and the children even get a chance to conduct the orchestra and sit in amongst the players. Very few orchestras do this and they are trying to get as many children there as possible. The orchestra makes no profit from these events they are purely to pass on knowledge and exciting learning! Here are some of the events they’ve got coming up:

Mini Maestro Family Concert
Saturday 17 October 2009, 4.30pm
Beethoven Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’

Come and enjoy our friendly Family Concerts, a musical playground with full orchestra where everyone can listen, learn and join in the fun and games. Go on a musical treasure hunt, take a quizz and face the challenge! Enjoy a ride on our orchestra side-car or play musical chairs. You might even get to conduct the orchestra!
So join us for a feast of musical treats. See you there!

Ticket prices: Children £6, Adults £8
Tickets available from the box office: 020 7766 1100
Buy tickets online
Concerts last for 1 hour and are suitable for ages 4 and over.

Mini Maestro Family Concert
Saturday 14th November 2009, 4.30pm
Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven’s 5th Symphony

Come and enjoy our friendly Family Concerts, a musical playground with full orchestra where everyone can listen, learn and join in the fun and games. Go on a musical treasure hunt, take a quizz and face the challenge! Enjoy a ride on our orchestra side-car or play musical chairs. You might even get to conduct the orchestra! So join us for a feast of musical treats. See you there!

Ticket prices: Children £6, Adults £8
Tickets available from the box office: 020 7766 1100
Buy tickets online
Concerts last for 1 hour and are suitable for ages 4 and over.

Family Carols by Candlelight
Saturday 12th December 2009, 4.00pm
With special guests Vivamus, Choir and conducted by Rufus Frowde
Ticket prices: Children £8, Adults £12
Tickets available from the box office: 020 7766 1100
Buy tickets online

Enjoying a family concert at St Martin's in the Fields

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Had a wonderful time at the Mumpreneurs Networking Event to celebrate Business Mum Week 2009! We had about 30 guests including four babies and toddlers, already keen networkers! Guests included Natalie Lue of Bambinogoodies,
Vicky Linnett of Flamecat (www.flamecat.com), Olivia King-Boateng of the Excelsya Women’s Business Book Club (www.excelsya.co.uk), Wanda Hu (http://www.sweetpotato-archimedia.com), Oleander William (www.creativelifestyle.org.uk), Sarah Dawnay
(http://www.kid-shops.com), Iveta Tancheva (www.mumslikeyou.com), Fiona Monks
(www.bttradespace.com), Suzanne Dibble (www.lawyers4mumpreneurs.com), Alexandra Tham and Caroline Wall from www.green-eyed-monster.co.uk, Birgit Medele (www.clearofclutter.com) and Christine Pitzer (www.mandamania.com), Jo Molloy of Pea Productions. Such was my excitement on the day that I managed to lose my list of all the delegates, so please contact me if I’ve inadvertently left you out! Antonia Chitty gave a great talk about how she set up her own PR business and became a successful author (her books include the latest The Mumpreneur Guide): I found it particularly interesting that she plans her activities each day very carefully to stop her wasting time staring at the PC in the morning and trying to work out what to do first (so easy to do!). Alison Rothwell of the SEO Training Club had some great tips for time-saving tweeting if you are using Twitter in business. Some good tips: use Hootsuite to schedule tweets and Tweetdeck to read them, so you don’t have to wade through everything. Alison also confided in me she runs four businesses at the moment – how amazing is that! Lana from the East London Small Business Centre gave a short talk on how to access funding in the area. We all had some delicious dim sum and jasmine tea and enjoyed hugely having the chance to connect with other business women in a friendly and relaxed way. Next time I hope to have experts talking about blogging, law for small businesses and ecommerce, so watch this space!

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