In honour of Wimbledon and Test Cricket, Turner Pocock Cazalet have offered a very tempting discount on their beautiful vintage-style wallpapers featuring a cricket bat and a ball and a racquet and tennis ball, which are made in the UK and printed on FSC approved paper. The cricket bat and ball pattern for Cricket was the very first design made by artist Catherine Cazalet for Bunny Turner and Emma Pocock, and was inspired by a trip to India where cricket is a national obsession. The Tennis wallpaper followed soon after and similarly combines an artistic design and a retro style with a great eye for vivid colour. The wallpapers work beautifully in both modern and traditional interiors and can be used in children’s playrooms, nurseries or bedrooms, or in adult spaces – their best-selling Zebra design was recently used in a private bar on the King’s Road!

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For quite some time there’s been a demand for a Pint and Half Pint T Shirt set that was a bit more fitted and suited for the ladies – yes, that’s right, a ladies’ pint – so the fantastic Suzi Warren has served it up! Available in an oh-so-now neon pink against a tasteful grey background, this Pint t shirt will make you the envy of all your fellow pub-goers. Single ladies might want to snap up the Ladies Pint on its own, for DINKYs you can just get the matching his and hers set (his comes in an equally fetching fluorescent yellow and grey) while the whole family can enjoy the full set with a co-ordinating baby Half Pint featuring orange lettering against a grey background. Family outings will never be the same again!

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Mimimyne is lucky enough to have added a new supplier just in time for Easter with some beautiful Easter bunny and Easter egg original, eco friendly art works to brighten up your little one’s nursery or playroom. These adorable, original images which are limited edition and very reasonably priced would be a perfect Easter gift for a new baby, grandchild, niece or nephew.

The little picture company offers a magical world of art for children filled with lasting treasures to inspire your child’s natural imagination. Their limited edition giclee prints are made using archival vegetable based inks and printed on a range of environmentally friendly papers, including sustainable bamboo. The prints are archival quality. They are printed on a range of environmental papers including 100% archival bamboo paper using the highest quality Epson ultrachrome archival inks, which do not discolour or fade over time. Each print is delivered numbered, signed, and cellophane or tissue wrapped, ready to insert into a frame of your choice. The Little Picture Company believe in respecting animals and the environment they inhabit. Their papers and inks are free from any animal derivatives and they use recycled and biodegradable packaging wherever possible.

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Mimimyne is very happy to announce we’ve added Rapanui Eco-Fashion to our eco boutique! Their designs have got a cool, laid back, breezy style but are classic enough to suit men and women of any age. We will be adding a lot of their designs to our website but right now just want to alert you to their fabulous Japan Relief Fundraiser t-shirt for women and Japan Relief Fundraiser t-shirt for men – 100% of profits will go towards helping the people of Japan. We’re very happy to be supporting them and to be supporting the people of Japan who have suffered so appallingly. The design takes its inspiration from Japan’s iconic National flag, and the Kanji reads tsunami, in memory of the thousands of people who lost their lives.

Rapanui is about making cool eco-fashion for young people; that means clothing that is eco-friendly, ethical and sustainable.

They make clothing from natural organic fabrics in a Fair Wear Foundation audited, wind powered factory, but really what they’re about is communication – It’s not that people don’t care about child labour, the environment, our climate, it’s just they don’t know. At Rapanui they make it easier for people to see where clothing comes from and how it is made so they can make informed choices. It’s called Traceability.

Rapanui was set up by brothers Mart and Rob Drake-Knight in early 2008 now aged 23 and 25 respectively. Through surfing they saw and experienced the changing environment and climate at their local beach and as inspired, unemployed graduates in a recession, they took a different path; if you can’t find a job, make one. The aim still is to inform through the brand and mix eco with trend – to make it fashionable for people to go green.

Degrees in Business Administration and Renewable Energy plus an obsession with excellent customer service helped the Drake-Knight brothers establish Rapanui amongst the Top 100 Startups of 2008.

Rapanui won the 2010 Sustainable Business Awards and now employs 12 full time staff in its office in Bembridge. This achievement is even more remarkable considering the brand was founded with only £200 of savings in University halls; recognised when Rapanui won a runners-up place at the 2010 Enterprising Young Brits Awards. Later in 2010, the Brothers’ ethos of ‘doing business the right way’ was recognised when the brand was Highly Commended by the RSPCA at the Good Business Awards.

The brand’s forte is its radical approach to Sustainability: Rapanui take a total life cycle approach to their product’s human, environmental and climatic impact, and address each aspect. This is not a clothing company ticking the green box. This is a company aiming to change the entire fashion industry. Rapanui uses Certified Organic fabrics, Fair-Trade labour and Renewable Energy.

Rapanui has held Seminars and Lectures at UK and EU universities and multinational companies such as Centrica PLC on Sustainable Business and sit on the Panel at Plymouth University’s All our Futures Conference. These events have helped Rapanui share their Eco-Labelling idea, a way of packaging textiles products to communicate the effects caused by their buying action, essentially a way of forcing and regulating transparent business ethics in textiles. Rapanui also hosts the national petition for Textiles Eco-Labelling at 10 Downing Street.

This year, the range of products and styles has expanded along with the business. With a more edgy, youthful twist on its own-label collection, and a range of bespoke and wholesale organic clothing to offer, Rapanui is a company that has found confidence in achievement.

Rob and Martin Drake-Knight are listed on the Future 100 List of Top young Ethical Entrepreneurs.

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Some exciting new designs have come to Mimimyne, courtesy of Oromono, the London-based soft furnishings designers! Kirsty Anne Powell is the Founder and Director of Oromono, she launched her own label in 2004 at the Maison et Objet Exhibition in Paris.

Her collection immediately sprung into the limelight when Oromono was awarded ‘Best Newcomer in Textiles’ and the company then went onto to win a competition from the European Union to exhibit at the Interiors Lifestyle Show in Tokyo.

Since then Oromono has had continued success within the industry, designing exclusive collections for world-renowned companies such as The Conran Shop, Liberty, Selfridges and Barneys.

Oromono is also proud to be stocked in selected design stores, fashion boutiques and interior design showrooms throughout Europe, the USA and the Middle East. Like us, Oromono is very proud to work with the environment in mind and has gained recognition for the use of eco-friendly fabrics. They believe it’s essential to ensure that every measure is taken to utilise the world’s natural resources, recycle, re-use and reduce their carbon footprint whenever possible.

The Nursery Collection is only available at a few select stockists in the UK and I’m proud to be one of the stores they’ve selected. What’s wonderful about the Nursery Collection, which is all hand-made in Britain, is that it offers a coordinating selection of cushions, play mats and large floor cushions, in a selection of sizes, so that you can create a theme for your child’s room or bedroom very quickly and easily based on their themes, Garden, Transport, Jungle or Farmyard. A boy might love the Transport collection, featuring a tractor, boat, car or plane while a girl might love the beautiful Garden Collection featuring creatures you would find in an English garden. Best of all, each collection has a matching set of children’s slippers, which you’ll find in our Toys and Gifts for Babies section! I especially recommend the immensely cute dog slippers for babies and toddlers.

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Mimimyne is happy to announce that we are now stocking the Secret Seed Society’s gorgeous, ethical vegetable-growing gift packs for kids! We are currently offering four seed packs featuring four of their cool vegetable characters, Carla Carrot, Rudi Radish, Chrissie Cress and Mingo Mung. The adorable little vegetable growing packs come with illustrated storybooks, seeds and other goodies to help kids learn to grow up green and grow their own tasty vegetables. The Secret Seed Society also runs a special online Seed Agent Club which children can join to become a Secret Seed Agent.

Secret Seed Society from Rosa van Wyk on Vimeo.

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I’m happy to say that Mimimyne’s entire range is now live on MyIce. They’ve got some fantastic shops and products online, including virtual farm shops and all kinds of sustainable goodies.

Ice is a new, flexible customer reward programme. They identify sustainable products and services, present them to you in a one-stop shop and reward you generously when you buy them via Ice. Their mission is to mitigate climate change via mass consumer purchase power. By changing small things we do and buy every day, together we can minimise harm to the environment, help mitigate climate change and preserve the ice caps. They appreciate budgets can be tight and firmly believe you deserve to be rewarded for making sustainable choices. They put ‘climate change cash’ in your pocket in the form of Ice credits, a generous, flexible reward that you can spend combined with cash to get a discount or used to pay in full when you buy sustainable and energy saving products and services.

Sounds good, doesn’t it? What it means is you can get up to £15 in credits for every £100 you spend on sustainable products – which could be a return ticket to Paris on the Eurostar, for example. There are some great gardening, home and interior, fashion and beauty products on the site as well as sustainable building supplies, hire cars from the Green Tomato Cars and so on. You have to fill out a registration form and then you can basically shop from the main site, collect Ice on each transaction and then either save it or spend it straight away, if you want! So if you’re interested in buying sustainable and ethical products, it’s a good way to save money on some shopping – definitely worth checking out I think!

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Pint and Half Pint T Shirts for Dad and baby are great eco friendly gifts for Father’s Day! Please don’t forget to get your orders in by Wednesday 16th June at the very latest for these extremely popular Father’s Day presents which are currently flying out the door here at Mimimyne.

You might want to take note of the fact that Twisted Twee’s perennially popular Pint and Half Pint T shirts are now available in Mint Choc Chip – yum! The Pint T shirt for Dad is in tasty chocolate with mint lettering and the Half Pint T shirt for Baby is in refreshing mint with chocolate lettering in 100% organic cotton, suitable for a boy or girl. These gorgeous T shirts are perfect for a trip to the pub, park or just hanging around at home for Dad and Baby and both are printed in organic inks in the UK (the Baby T shirt is also 100% organic cotton). Also a great gift for a new dad and baby!

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Stuck for something stylish yet football-themed for the footie-mad boys (and girls) in your life during this World Cup? Your search is over, as we have some gorgeous and 100% organic cotton designer t shirts to keep your kids looking fabulous and ethical while supporting our lads this year! Football t-shirts will be the garment of choice for child fans of the beautiful game, none more so than in 2010 as World Cup fever hots up! So get ready for Mimimyne’s great range of T shirts for toddlers and children who are crazy about football – and fashion.

The fabulous Green Eyed Monster have created this ‘Footie 10′ World Cup 2010 organic cotton child’s t shirt. This bright red t-shirt pays homage to our national team in support for them but is such a great design that it will be a firm favourite long after the World Cup final has been played. So strike to win with your child and make this t-shirt top choice to avoid being shown the red card! This organic cotton World Cup 2010 football T shirt is available in sizes up to 10 years.

Secondly, Twisted Twee have created a fabulous range of “Eng-er-land” themed Bear T Shirts which make perfect “Toddlerwear for the Terraces”. These funky World Cup 2010 Toddler T shirts in 100% organic cotton would make a great gift for any toddler football fans!

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Mimimyne is proud to announce that we are now the stockists of the gorgeous new Big Ben wall sticker and clock face from eco wallpaper design geniuses funky little darlings. This iconic UK landmark would be a striking focal point in any room just as a wall sticker, but with the working clock face incorporated it’s a winner. Designed and made with pride in the UK!

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