Tuesday Spotlight 24-04-12: Pocket Garden Tree in a Bag

Because it was Earth Day on sunday, we thought it would be nice for us to feature one of our more earth-y products: The Pocket Garden Tree in a Bag.

The tree that's in the bag is a Silver Birch and is, for all intents and purposes, a tree that you can grow on your windowsill. The Tree in a Bag work like one of those Eco Coffee refill packs you can get, but instead of being filled with delicious coffee, it's filled with tree! You tear the top off (or cut, if you're being sensible), sow the tree-seeds, water, and wait. Before too long you'll have your very own tree! I suggest you name it George.

Once it's too big for your windowsill, you take it outside and plant it in the ground (the bag is fully compostable). Don't worry if i moved too quickly there, all the instructions are on the pack. 

All in all, this is a great gift for people who are big fans for Silver Birches, or trees in general. It also makes a great way to reduce your carbon footprint, and more trees is certainly  good thing indeed.

You can find the Tree in a Bag here. We also stock a huge range of Canova's other products, the full Pocket Garden range here and the Grow My First range for kids, here. 

Because we've gone a bit discount code mad recently, we don't have a new code for this Spotlight. But fear not! Our previous codes are still active! So you've got these three to choose from:

For Free Shipping, use the code FRIDAYFUN - Valid until the 4th of May.

For 15% off all Makedo items, use the code BUILDABOXEY - Valid until the 30th April.

and, as always, for 12.5% off of all our items, use the blog code to the left.

We also have a discount code currently active on our FaceBook adverts, so get looking!

That's all for the spotlight and we'll see you Thursday for the Roundup!

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Friday Fun!: Button Bag Kitten Baskets (Part 1)

Hello! Welcome to the (later than normal) Friday Fun! We were going to update this on Friday, but there were a series of unforeseen events that distracted us (ok, there was Chinese Takeaway, but it was really delicious). But here we are now, so it's time for our Friday Saturday Sunday Fun!

This episode we are looking at the Kitten Basket from Button Bag (that we mentioned in our Thursday Roundup a couple of weeks ago). 

Before we continue, I must mention that I (Matt) haven't sewn anything in at least 12 years, and the last time I did it ended with someone being taken to hospital (needless to say, i'm rubbish at sewing but make a fantastic Jason Bourne). Kate, on the other hand, sews all the time - and is quite the perfectionist - our differing skill levels will undoubtably become apparent as we start work. 

Here's what we got in the box:

We got the pre-cut kittens, all the thread, needles, pins we could ever need (enough for both of us to make the kittens at the same time!), some stuffing and buttons and the instructions for how to make them.  

At this point, and after some office politic-ing (there were secret hand signals and codes and the like) we came to the decision that I get the Black kitten whilst Kate got the Orange one (that took us about a quarter of an hour - you can see why the blog is late!).

Anyway, here's us at the midway point:

Kate was trying to get it perfect whilst i was just trying not to stab myself.
Much like a normal workday really.

And after some sewing and some stuffing, we had two new employees at the ReRetail office, Bumble and Marmalade (they mostly do clerical work):

Bumble is on the left.

But that's not all! Next week we'll show off what we did with the rest of the kit! Until then, check them out for yourself here.

Because we liked these little kitties so much, and to beat the impending postal price-rise, we've decided to offer Free Shipping* to all our UK customers until the 4th of May! Just use the code FRIDAYFUN during the checkout.

Also, until the 30th of April you can still get 15% off of all makedo items using the code BUILDABOXEY* and, if that's not enough, you can get 12.5% off of all our products (forever!*) using the code IMFROMTHEBLOG*.

There's also 15% off everything using our FaceBook code (you'll have to find that one!).

Hope you had a great weekend (there's still a few hours left!) and we'll see you Tuesday for the Spotlight! Oh and, also, because this post is late it actually falls on Earth Day, so be sure check them out!

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*(restrictions apply)