We’ve been really busy doing shoe fittings in our Kensal Rise Store this week. It seems everyone wants to get their kids into some more comfortable footwear now that the sun’s out.
We’re not complaining, we love those scrummy toes!
For those of you that can’t make it to our store, you may want to check out the shoes that we’ve just added to the website. They include a few of our best sellers…
Our friends at Scandinavian Kitchen told us a sad story about a little boy called Ollie who was born with a rare disorder called Aplastic Anemia which is fatal if untreated, but can be cured by finding matching bone marrow. So we want to try and help spread the message to the Scandinavian community. A simple bone marrow transplant could save his life if his parents find the right match.
There is nothing more precious than a child’s life and well being. As parents we can all relate to the desperation of Baby Ollie’s parents, so we’re putting this message on our little blog just in the hope that you can help to find a match.
Please try and help them by either spreading this message or becoming a bone marrow donor yourself. Even if you are not Scandinavian you could still help someone else.
For more information please visit:
It’s competition time on the main KIDSEN Website and we’re giving one lucky person the chance to win a gorgeous Brio Bed with our brand new Photo Competition.
For full details visit KIDSEN now.
As any follower of KIDSEN probably knows by now, we love to road test items ourselves. This month, we headed off to Greece on holiday and we brought some of our favourite Katvig Summer Stock to see how it fared.
The girls loved it and it got top marks for being light, comfortable and easy to play in. And of course it broke the cute-ometer!
People have been telling us for ages that we must take the kids to the Diana Memorial Playground in Hyde Park because it’s such a fun day out. Two things finally swung it for us:
1) It’s Free
2) The Centrepiece of the Playground is a real pirate ship, not dis-similar to the Hoppetossa which the girls love from all their Pippi Longstocking stories.
Sure enough, we had a great time and the kids loved it too! Highly, highly recommended.
Click Here For details of the Diana Memorial Playground
You can buy the Hoppetossa Pirate Ship Toy at Kidsen. Click Here for Details
Lights, camera, action. BBC 3 popped in last week to film a new episode for their hit series ‘Mad About The House’ – a show about revamping your home.
We enjoyed playing host to the crew and the show’s star – baby Storm, who is hoping for a brand new nursery when the show is finished . See if you can spot your favourite Scandi Store when the show airs in May. You may spot her wearing the Pink Peltors she picked up whilst visiting KIDSEN.
One of our friends has just put us on to an idea for a cheap holiday – a home swap! Now, we know home swapping has been around for donkeys years, and we love our house, so it’s not normally something we’d consider, but when we saw this website everything changed!
This is all about luxury home swapping. You either have a nice place, or a place in a nice location and it’s designed for people who care about their homes, so you’re pretty much going to get a decent “home from home”
You can zero in on a specific location that you want to visit and see all the properties available. Like the 5 Bedroom Architect Designed Home near Stockholm (Above) with stunning views of the archipelago (below).
It’s too tempting and as much as London can be bitter sweet, we know there’s always going to be people wanting to come here, so we’re thinking seriously of handing over our keys!!
For details visit Luxe Home Swap:
http://www.luxehomeswap.com/
Sweden at Christmas is brilliant. If you walk into virtually any shop and pick a present, they hand wrap it for you. Beautifully. For Free! When you’ve got a ton of presents to buy, you really appreciate this. You just hand over a beautifully wrapped present and take the credit.
We like this idea, so we’re now offering free gift wrapping on most of the products on our website. The only exception being big items like prams, and cots etc.
You can also add a message which we’ll hand write on a nice card for free. Don’t worry, we’ve got good handwriting too!
To take us up on this, just add an item to your basket and choose the gift wrapping option.
http://www.kidsen.co.uk
We’ve got stacks of new spring summer stock in store at the moment and we’re beavering away adding it to our website as we speak. Here’s just a couple of our favourites that are now online so click on any to go to our website:
These are just a few of the items which we love this spring. There’s a much wider selection of new stock available on our website at: