To coincide with the kids going back to school we’ve just launched another Facebook Giveaway. This time we have a lovely little Blafre Lunchbox and drinks bottle up for grabs.
As always, entry is FREE, just click on the Sweepstakes link on our Facebook page.
Good Luck Everyone
To enter simply visit:
Our Ferm Living Bedding Giveaway closed this week and we’ve just completed the draw using the fantastic Random Picker Website.
Thank you to everyone who entered. We had an amazing response, and we’ve contacted two winners, but the winner of the Robot Bedding Draw hasn’t been in touch with us yet. Are you our silent winner? Watch the video of the draw here and get in touch if you’re the winner. NB we have ways of verifying the winner 
As per the rules if we can’t verify the winner within 21 days, then we will make another draw – watch this space, the clock is ticking…
Footnotes
Both draws were independently verified on Random Picker:
Our big Ferm Living Bedding Giveaway closes on Monday, so make sure you enter before it’s too late.
Entry is free, just visit our sweepstakes page on Facebook.
In case you’ve missed it, we have two Ferm Living Kids Bed Sets up for grabs – one with a fab robot print and the other with a cute bird print. Just let us know which one you want to win when you enter.
Click below to enter (but do it before Monday 22nd August!)
http://www.facebook.com/kidsen.co.uk?sk=app_165675160160302
Good Luck!!
Doing a good window display is one of the trickier parts of retail. You obviously want to let people know what goodies you have inside, but you also have to do it in a way that is fun, interesting and will make people stop and look.
We thought this Barbie Window display was absolutely genius. We particularly like the cat fight below. Sums up sale time!!
Speaking of Windows – we’ve been working on our own Window display this week as well. All our lovely Autumn Winter / Back to School stock is starting to arrive so we’ve been busy restocking the shelves and changing things around….
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It’s not as good as the Barbie display, but it did at least get a couple of people to stop….
Pop in for all your back to school essentials. New stock arriving pretty much daily at the moment!
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So a few weeks ago we heard Vinny Lee (Interiors Editor of The Times Magazine) was coming to our house to do a profile on us and KIDSEN. We were nervous beyond belief but also really excited about getting such an incredible opportunity. It’s funny, I used to interview people for a living, and I thought that was daunting, but when the tables are turned it’s somehow much, much worse!
Anyway, we spent the next couple of weeks in a cleaning frenzy watching nearly every episode of “How Clean is Your Home” and “Changing Rooms” for inspiration.
The big day came around quick and Vinny arrived with Jake Fitzjones and all his incredibly professional looking camera kit. Gulp!
But actually, they were two of the nicest people you’ll ever meet. And we’re not just saying that so they’ll feature us again! Honestly, they put the whole family at ease and as you’ll see below, we ended up with some really lovely pictures and some great memories.
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If you get a chance, have a look at The Times today (6/8/11). Or hop on over to Jake’s Website and Vinny’s blog to find out more about their work. Don’t be shy, they won’t bite!
With special thanks to Vinny Lee & Jake Fitzjones
Footnotes
Girls Bedroom contains:
Our Facebook giveaways are in full swing now and this month we’re giving two lovely people the chance to win their choice of Ferm Living Bedding.
We have both the beautiful Robot and Pipper Single bedding sets up for grabs which make a great little gift for both boys and girls.
When you enter make sure you specify which bedding set you want to win as there will be two draws made.
Good luck in the draw everyone – enter now:
So, the big debate – do you buy a phone for your kid? And if so at what age? Before you decide it might be worth taking five to read this quick summary of some recent research that was conducted in Denmark, Sweden, Norway & Switzerland.
In a nutshell, researchers looked at 352 kids aged between 7-19 with cell phones or mobiles – & the study concluded that those kids who used mobiles were no more likely to be diagnosed with a brain tumour than those who didn’t use them, but there were a couple of worrying things that came out too.
One of the problems was that the study pooled together all types of mobile phone use amongst the respondents and the researchers defined regular users as “someone who had an average of at least one call a week for at least 6 months” – which most people would agree is really quite low and not very typical mobile usage.
When the research was analysed amongst kids who had phones for longer than 2.8 years, they found a greater risk of brain tumours.
What’s worse was when they married up the information about phone usage that they got from the phone companies that these kids belonged to, they found a statistically significant increased risk with the increasing time since they took out their mobile contracts….
Importantly, there’s a new long term study underway – the biggest of it’s kind that will track European mobile phone users for 20 years, but the findings of this Scandinavian study may perhaps just offer some of us a bit of food for thought…