Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Organic Baby

Another wonderful online presence for all things baby and organic. Organic Baby web directory and complete guide to natural parenting. A huge amount of information on one website! They have a New Zealand Website and a USA Website, just click on the country and you will find information relevant to the country of your choice.

You can also join their organic baby club for amazing benefits like a fabulous organic joining gift and monthly discounts.

They have a webstore with great baby products including Natural Star Merino Baby Handknits. You will also find their retail store Organic Baby (Green Living) at 115 Jackson Street Petone, Wellington, where they stock an amazing range of baby items.

There you will find the Beanies with flowers, booties and headbands. And, I am about to put another order of headbands in the post to them.

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Babybites Emag

Natural Star beanies and booties have been featured in an online emag. Babybites is an online
website "little tastes of the yummiest buys for bubs". Their website is full for the most gorgeous products for baby, lots of great information. A must see. http://www.babybites.co.nz/
Their winter 09 emag has done a wonderful and comprehensive feature on the benefits of merino.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

www.naturalstar.co.nz



The first edition of the website is up! I say first edition as this one does not have a shopping cart on it, due to the website having to go live quickly. The full website complete with it's own shopping cart and all the added extra's is being worked on, but as most will know it is time consuming.


The fact that winter is closing in in New Zealand means I have even less time to work on the website. Orders are coming in fast and I have also picked up two more wholesale accounts in the past month. One here in New Zealand and the other in Australia.


The reason for the website being done in speedy time is that a lot of my products are being featured in an emag merino feature which goes live on the 1st of June. (I will post a link when it is live).


Time for this Blog to get some attention

The last couple of months have been pretty hectic to say the least, but in a good way.
The Natural Star business is going ahead in leaps and bounds and exceeding all expectations.
I will blog more on this over the next coming weeks.

We have three major birthdays in the family coming up this year. My son will have his 10th birthday soon, then we have our daughter's 5th birthday and starting school and near the end of the year MY 40TH!

I am looking forward to the next six months of busy times. What I want to know is where did the first 5 months of the year go!!!

Monday, February 2, 2009

Wow!!! has it really been over two months since my last post!!

I guess so! I put it down to that time of the year, christmas, holidays and general laziness on my part :)


We had a month long family holiday - away from home and away from family!!! (Apart from just the four of us). We visited so many farms, butterfly houses - my kids are so townie, the pic below is one of their highlights - they loved feeding the lambs, and also helped to hand milk a cow!


This year brings many changes to my life...I volunteer and run (with 3 other wonderful ladies) a community cafe, I have done this for the last 4 years and have decided that this year it will need to be one of the things that I drop, for various reasons really, one being that the business is moving so quickly and I really want to capitalise on that now and to do that I need time!!! The other, my son, as most of you know has high functioning autism, plus a generalised anxiety disorder (my household is never quiet, chaos rules!) We have done occupational therapy for the last two years, he is on a gluten, dairy, artifical sugar, msg all free diet. Thank goodness I know how to bake! This year we have a new therapist working within the family (a bit like the nanny programs - but she solely works with my son and teaches us the resources and skills to deal with things that crop up).


Like most on the Autistic Spectrum, he has trouble with expressing emotions, feelings and gets incredibly frustrated and the therapist will be helping him to work through and deal with these as they come up. Another area that she will be focusing on is social skills, trying to form a bond with his sister, and less of the concrete thinking (a little flexibility in the household would be like a miracle at the moment). For this to work successfully, it involves more of my time in the household working alongside my son supporting him and teaching him skills where needed with the resources given to us. Plus enjoying this time together.

I am so proud of him, he has come so far and conquered so many hurdles! It is a joy and a blessing watching him grow in this journey of ours, and as a family we are strengthened in our love and support of each other.


Wow! making up with a long post this time. :)


I managed to get a few new products off the needles over the christmas break, and have listed them in my shop on Etsy. Below is a sneak preview




I have lots planned for the blog this year, I loved doing the giveaway and plan to do a few more, plus share some great sites and links with you.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Giveaway!!!


I am doing a giveaway!!! Check out the blog Sara from Woolies has posted. Follow the contest rules, mention it on your blog, or on a friends blog, post it anywhere and receive more entries into winning a custom made merino baby/toddler beanie from New Zealand...perfect for the coming winter!

Friday, October 31, 2008

Natural Kids Store


Natural Kids Store has now been launched....check it out!


A group of Esty Natural Kids Team members have got together for some cooperative advertising...Natural Kids Store is the outcome.