Tuesday Spotlight 01-05-12: Kids Koala Bags

Last week, in the Roundup we mentioned a selection of bags we've received from a group of nuns in Sri Lanka, well, here they are!

The children's bags we have available currently come in two styles 'Koala' and 'Turtle', the bags we've decided to spotlight today are of the Koala Variety, but you should definitely check out the Turtles too!

Now onto the bags! These bags are handmade in Sri Lanka from Pure cotton in support of the "Project of Single Mothers" and the Good Shepherd Convent in Maravila, Sri Lanka. They are ethically and fairly traded.

Because of the handmade nature of these bags, no two designs are ever the same. These really are great bags for kids and we're happy we managed to track them down! You can find the Koala bags here.

Well, that's all for the Spotlight for this week, we hope to see you soon! 

Because May is, traditionally, our busiest month we might deviate from our blog schedule as the Blog Team (i.e. Me) will be getting (temporarily) reassigned to packing and processing orders. 

Regular service will resume at the beginning of June! Until then we'll try to update as much as possible! See you Thursday for the Roundup! 

Sadly, our BUILDABOXEY code has ran out! So sorry if you missed it, hopefully it (or something like it) will be back soon! If you want free shipping, you'll have to be quick as the code FRIDAYFUN run out on the 4th of May.

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 hunting!

As always you can find our shop Here, also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

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!

As always you can find our shop Here, also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Tuesday Spotlight 17-04-12: Ecoist Coca Cola Clutch

Well hello there! Did you all have a fun weekend? Luckily you're here in time four our Tuesday Spotlight. What's the Tuesday Spotlight? Well, it's a small piece of the blog where we can pick out one of our products and lavish them with attention and praise before we make them fight to the death... no wait, thats The Hunger Games. We just do the lavishing bit. With the explanations out of the way, bring in the Tribut... Product.

This week, we're going to spend a little time to take a look at one of the first products we stocked, the recycled clutch bags from Ecoist:

The Coca Cola Clutch is our most well-received clutch bag (and it's easy to see why!), it's dimension are 8x3.5x2 (in) and is handmade from Coca Cola bottle wrappers.
It's fun, distinctive, and good for the environment, all in all it's everything you could want or need from a clutch bag made from Coke wrappers.



As well as the distinctive Coca Cola pattern, we also stock clutch bags made from Coke Zero, M&M's, Twix and many more! If it's a wrapper, and can be made into a bag, it probably already has been by the lovely people at Ecoist (who have been honoured as a hero of 2012 by Sustanatopia, so congratulations are in order).

Anyway, thats all from us this Spotlight, have a good week and we'll see you Thursday for the Roundup.

Remember! Until the 30th of April you can still get 15% off of all makedo items using the code BUILDABOXEY (restrictions apply) and, if that's not enough, you can get 12.5% off of all our products (forever!*) using the code IMFROMTHEBLOG (restrictions apply). I've also heard a rumour that if you know the right places to look, you can find other discount codes of ours...

As always you can find our shop Here, also follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

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