Less than 7 weeks!

If you can believe it - there's less than 7 weeks until Christmas. I'm not sure what it is - but it seems the older you get, the quicker time flys!

Our Christmas Collection has been revealed and includes Personalised Blankys, Cushions, Santa Sacks and our very unique 'Blankyette'.

The Blankyette idea came about when I wanted to design something playful for Christmas with our 9 month old baby in mind. So this gorgeous product includes loads of colour, beautiful textured ribbons and a teething ring. This makes a great Baby's 1st Christmas gift!

I invite you to pop over to our website and take a look at our Christmas Collection 2010.

Oh and I should let you know - we have 30% off the entire Collection, for one week only!

New colours in store!

Chocolate, Aussie GOLD, Turquoise - these are the new Premium Polar Fleece colours we have in store. Just think of the colour combination opportunities....

Shopping4Baby magazine feature

We were very surprised recently when a customer let us know two of our blankys are featured in the 2010/11 edition of Shopping4Baby magazine. (page 46)

Always exciting to see our blankys in print!

My Child magazine feature!

Excitement is buzzing around Blanky4me.com HQ - one of our Baby Blankys is featured in the Spring issue of My Child magazine! (Page 98)

Like a $150 Gift Certificate?

We love a good giveaway! And we're excited to announce that we're having one.

What you could WIN: a Gift Certificate for $150 to spend in our online store, on whatever you like!!

How to enter: our giveaway is a secret sshhhh, so you need to subscribe to Mum's Xclusive's Sales Alert Newsletter (a fab e-newsletter that has BIG exclusive SALES from great brands!). In their latest issue is details on how to enter to WIN our $150 Gift Certificate!!

So subscribe today and then enter our giveaway - Good luck!!

Please note this giveaway is for Australia & New Zealand residents only - sorry our international followers, we'll have a giveaway for you in the future!

Things we love

1. Pink Satin Rosette with Netting & Feather Little Miss Facinated
2. Bubb-Boots $14.95 Sustainable Hemp Products
3. Customised Hand-made Bashful $70 Little Angels
4. Baby Shower/Welcome 'New Baby' Gift $34.95 Charli&jax
5. Blue Skull Bolero and Skirt Set $40 BeeandMe
6. White Candy Nursing Necklace $32 Mumma Rocks!!

Things we love

1. Jocasta Necklace $185.00 Annette Piper Dip. Gem. Handcrafted Jewellery
2. VIB Vinty Soft Dollys $13.50 each Vintage Is Beautiful
3. Little Molly doll. $30 Nattygai
4. Pink Musk Skirt $30 1 Puddle Lane
5. Candy Land on White Wrap $20 Charli Bee Designs
6. Felt Bloom Hair Pretties $4.50 Lulu froufrou

Mmmm Rocky Road

We *heart* Rocky Road! Especially Harry's Rocky Road.

Our friends over at Harry's Rocky Road have just launched their Blanky4me.com Gift Hamper - a fantastic gift to congratulate the new mum and dad or for the new mum and dad to celebrate the newest addition to their family!

The hampers are filled with three (very yummy) 250g Packs of Harry's Rocky Road plus a $30 Gift Certificate for Blanky4me.com.

It also makes a great Mother's Day gift!

To spoil someone you know, go over to Harry's Rocky Road now to purchase one of these fantastic hampers!

oooohhh now I feel like chocolate......HARRY!!!!

Things we love

1. Baby Moses Basket $129.00 Swish Lily
2. Personalised Children’s Door Sign $18 Funky Monkey Creations
3. Ballerina Fairy $4 Giggle & Co.
4. Scandinavian Beach/Nappy Bag $85.00 Anika
5. Retro Vinyl Lead Graphite Pencils US$11.35 Missisaau
6. Bilibo $44.95 The Toy Bug

Things we love

1. Chocolate Indulgence Body Scrub $19.95 Bodelicious
2. Croozin' for a Snoozin' - toddler T shirt $19.95 Lunalei
3. Tweet amigurumi little bird $17.00 USD By Connie
4. Fred Matryoshka M-Cups $19.95 Minifashionista
5. Chef Costume $39.50 Dress Ups
6. Butterfly Peel & Stick Mirrors (4 Pack) $43.95 Giggle Smile Designs

Mother's Day - not far away!

It's that one day of the year that we think about nothing else other than our Mum's (or if we're a Mum it's the one day a year when we get spoilt and everyone thinks about us!!). Mother's Day is full of flowers, chocolates, breakfast in bed, picnics in the park, dinner at a restaurant.....the list goes on and on.

This Mother's Day why not spoil your Mum with a personalised blanky and receive a FREE personalised cushion! Hurry! Ends April 20.

Happy Easter!

We'd like to wish everyone a Happy Easter! We hope you are enjoying this four day weekend with family/friends.

We have a new promotion starting next week - exciting stuff! Watch this space!

Baby Blankys & Ponchos featured

Our Baby Blankys & Ponchos are featured in Connect2Mums Autumn Winter Mini-Mag. The Mini-Mag is full of goodies to buy at this time of the year.

Things we love

1. Ballet Tutu - Lavender $31.95 Cheeky Chuckles
2. Hot Pink Rock Star Headband $14 A Little Bit of Cheek
3. Poncho $29.95 Blanky4me.com
4. Asthma Friendly Activity Rattle - Elephant $19.90 Trendy Kidz
5. Bobble Art Baboushka Doll Pencil Case $15.95 Moo Woo Handmade Cards and Gifts
6. "What I Wish I Knew Before I Became A Mother" $20 Blanky4me.com
7. Body Wash - Lavender $10.95 Pure Earth Noosa

Things we love

1. Bento/Lunch Box 2 decks - Little Red $32.95 Kawaii For You
2. Swarovski & Silver Toddler Name Bracelet $80 Piper + Lily
3. Little Blue Lamb Squeaky Shoes - Posie Red $32 Tippy Toe Milestones
4. Bunting - Patty Young Andalucia (pink) US$26 Giggleberry Creations
5. Harry's Cookies & Cream Easter Egg 130g $4.98 Harry’s Rocky Road
6. Recycled Jeans Tote - Cue Jeans $39.95 Your Cheeky Monkey

Did you wear a poncho when you were little?

I did, and just about everyone I know did. They keep you nice and warm, they're extremely comfortable to wear and so fashionable they go with anything, like jeans, dress, skirt, boots etc.

Following a suggestion from a customer, we went to work designing a poncho to compliment our beanies and scarves. And.........voila! Just in time for the Australian winter - ponchos! They're available in three sizes and five colours, and include a gorgeous embroidered German ribbon.

We have also designed mittens to match. They're all made at Blanky4me, with the usual love and care.

Don't want to use Paypal? No problem!

We've had quite a few requests from customers for another payment option besides Paypal on our website. So we have now added DIRECT DEPOSIT as a payment option. It's straight forward and easy to order and then pay using DIRECT DEPOSIT - you can either do EFT (internet banking) or go to a St George Bank branch near you to deposit the money. Just another way we're making things easier for our customers.

Also, today is the last day to recieve a $10 Gift Voucher from Harry's Rocky Road, when you order from our online store! Don't miss out! You don't have to order a blanky to receive the gift voucher - you can order a personalised cushion or scarf or beanie, anything!

More first year news!

In our last post here about our first year celebrations we listed our achievements in the first year of business, however there is one major achievement we forgot!

In 2009 we won the Connect2Mums ausMumpreneur 'For Baby & Kids' Award!

We also:

• Had new product releases and new designs.

• Served lots of awesome customers, in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North America, The Middle East and Asia.

• Enjoyed and been touched by all the positive feedback we've received from them.

• Thanks to our customers we've built an impressive gallery of happy smiling people with their blankys.

• We've been reviewed by some gorgeous people.

• We visited Sydney Children's Hospital and donated blankys to the ICU.

• Been thanked by some Aussie celebrities for their child's blanky *insert name dropping here* Hi to Catriona Rowntree, Dave Hughes and Billy Slater.

• We created our Facebook Fan page and now have well over 700 fans.

• We also started Blanky4me.com twitter and now have over 1300 followers.

• What a year, and to round it off we had our fourth child!

Now, that is the full year in review!

Just a reminder - to celebrate our 1st Birthday we're giving away a Harry's Rocky Road gift voucher with every order! Get in quick, as the offer ends 28 February.

We're turning 1 ~ Celebrate with us!

We're in party mode here as we celebrate one year of Blanky4me.com. One year, wow time has flown.

In one year we've had new product releases and new designs; we've served lots of awesome customers; and enjoyed and been touched by all the positive feedback we've received from them. Thanks to our customers we've built an impressive gallery of happy smiling people with their blankys. We've been reviewed by some gorgeous people and been thanked by some Aussie celebrities for their child's blanky *insert name dropping here* Hi to Catriona Rowntree, Dave Hughes and Billy Slater. And we visited Sydney Children's Hospital to donate blankys to the ICU.

What a year, and to round it off we had our fourth child!

Thank you to all our readers for reading our blog. Thanks to our fans for being a fan, thank you to the tweeple who tweet with us.

To celebrate our 1st Birthday we're giving away a Harry's Rocky Road gift voucher with every order! Have you tried Harry's Rocky Road? We have and let's just say it's addictive!!! They have so many different flavours to choose from, and their Easter Eggs were launched yesterday! They also have Easter hampers coming this week.

So, get in quick, as the offer ends 28 February.

We're looking forward to the next 12 months of business and bringing you more snuggles!

What we've been up to in January

Well, as predicted, the year is zooming by! February already! We'd love sometimes to push the 'slow down' button, if there was one.

In January we had our fourth baby - a beautiful little girl! We're all totally smitten with her and adore her like crazy - you can get high from just smelling a newborn. She has already placed her blanky order :)

We also have heaps of exciting promotions and launches planned for this year, so watch this space - big news coming soon!

New Year, New Tools

The first week of January 2010 is almost over! Time certainly is flying. We hope all our readers had a wonderful Christmas/New Year/Festive Season.

2010 is already looking to be a very busy and exciting year at Blanky4me.com. So we thought new year - some new tools!

Our new pair of Mundial super professional shears are amazing and we're enjoying the smoothness of cutting with them! We've also become parents of a new sewing box for all our ever-amounting cottons.

The pincushion I whipped up in a few minutes, as our old one was looking worse for wear. I took inspiration for the coloured appliques from jewels - a woman can never have enough jewels! Of course the pincushion doesn't look like the photo now - just add a zillion pins!

We wish all our readers a Very Happy and Successful New Year and may all your hopes and dreams for 2010 come true!