A happy customer

This should have been posted quite some time ago but my darling daughter decided to get a nasty virus and then share it with me so I haven't really been on top form brain wise!

Anyway, there's nothing I like better than a happy customer, well maybe a happy customer who brings me a newborn to play with, or a customer who sends me a ridiculously cute of picture of their child demonstrating their purchase! To illustratee the latter may I introduce Lorea:



I absolutely adore this picture, it really makes me smile every time I look at it! Lorea's mum bought a Storchenwiege Inka from me, pretty isn't it! She intended to dye it but last I heard Lorea said it should stay how it is! I hope you enjoy using Inka Lorea and mama Kangaroo is very chuffed to get a picture from you!

Christmas and t shirts!

Crikey what a Christmas, the wooden clip on toys made cracking presents for littleys so we had quite a rush on!

Our first printed advert is going out which is very exciting! It'll be in a magazine at the Baby Show in Excel London so fingers crossed it'll bring some customers and some more people into the lovely snuggly world of babywearing *crosses everything*

Munchkin is walking more and more and only being worn for long journeys, unfortunately that means when we arrive places I end up looking wuite red and sweaty so I have a top tip! I wear her over my coat so I get a lovely puddle of sweat on my back where she's been I took a nice clean t shirt with me so i could change when we got there! I hung my icky t shirt over the chair to dry and poped it on again to go home! taa daa! It worries me that i consider that to be a top tip ;-)

Speaking of t shirts I'm looking into getting bigger sizes, not least because the ones I have don't fit me! *sigh* The question is the skinny fit xl seems to comfortably fit around a 14 so the bigger sizes will have increasing numbers of x's at the front. To be honest that would put me off buying would it put you off buying? Should I name the sizes differently? If so what do you suggest?

Alternative uses for a sling: part 1!

This could be a looooong series, I have a lot of ideas and pictures of a goodly number of my ideas! At least it should keep me blogging, I can't pretend I can't think of anything!

The first entry is deftly nicked from a friend (who also bought her sling from me!)

Atlernative use number one: A blanket!

It can be chilly crab fishing at the harbour, but when you have a Storchenwiege Inka (or any other brand/pattern of wrap!) you can whip up a handy blanket for a cold youngling!

After being inspired by a genius on the Kangarinos facebook page I decided to add some Heimess wooden clip on toys to the Kangarinos family!

They arrived the other week and two year old Celia took rather a shine to them!


Demonstrating size, they're about two year old hand sizeish! Bigger than I expected them to be which is good really!




That would be an extreme close up of the frog!


I'll attempt to post some action shots once I've taken some!

Rose and Rebellion

Kangarinos has now started stocking Rose and Rebellion Buckle Carriers, they are so funky, absolutely perfect for dads! They also reverse to a plain black side so you can match each outfit (or just buy a pattern you like then make him wear the reverse!).

I find them much more structured than a Connecta so they have a little steeper learning curve (ime) but you're rewarded in your efforts with a very comfy carrier!

The grooviest thing is the already attached chest belt, they're such handy things and since it's fastened on (although it is removeable) it's much harder to lose the thing in the depths of your sling drawers (do you think I might be talking from bitter experience!)

Competition winner!

Poor Blog, how I have neglected you! I shall write several blog posts now in an attempt to make up for it! Hmm, perhaps I should have pretended that they were there all along!

The competition ended with looooads of entries which was very exciting! A winner was picked and she chose a Kozy mei tai in Tanglewood, a superb choice methinks!

Cleaning avoidance....

This blog post is mainly being written to avoid doing some cleaning! It's two weeks until Celia's Birthday (remember the competition I'm running to celebrate, have you entered?) and I foolishly invited people for a party. Now, given that the only thing that is even vaguely tidy is my stash of sling stock I really ought to be being productive! But hey, Himself is cleaning as I speak/type so maybe if I ramble enough he'll have finished it all for me!

I have to get organised as well and get Celia a doll sling for a her birthday, I have a few pictures of her wearing her dolly in an improvised sling made out of a muslin but I think she'd really like a 'proper' one! Have you got any pictures of your sproglings toywearing? If you've got any you're happy for me to include in a blog post email me on info@kangarinos.co.uk

Oh and if anyone wants to leave a comment on the blog I haven't had one yet so I'd be very excited! ;-)