Introducing dringdring hand-painted bicycle bells! dringdring sells the most beautiful, creative, bright, artistic, colourful and unique bicycle bells I have ever seen. I don’t know who was more excited when the company agreed to send us one to try out, me or my son (I think it was me, actually). Each original metal bicycle bell is hand-painted in the company’s Montreal, Quebec-based studio, and I promise you that you will have a hard time choosing just one. The bells are painted using Eco-friendly paints without solvents or toxic fumes, and they are first painted and then baked, making them resistant to all types of weather. I love that the company has a local organization that provides employment to young people from a diversity of backgrounds to apply their base coat. [...]
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When Canadian company Silkberry Baby told me they would send me one of their gorgeous Toddler Comforters with removable filling in Pink Sheep to review, I was delighted. I insist on having quality, luxurious sheets on my bed, and my curiosity was piqued about Silkberry Baby’s quality, all-natural Eco-bedding for children. [...] GIVEAWAY! I love finding natural products for my children, and so I was really excited to discover Canadian company Coco & Tini’s natural bath products for children. Coco & Tini makes ‘naturally pure hair and bath care’ products for little ones. Not only do their products contain only 100% naturally-sourced ingredients, but Coco & Tini does and ‘will not use sodium lauryl sulfate or sodium laureth sulfate, parabens, propylene glycol, artificial preservatives or artificial fragrances’ in any of their products. None of their bath products are tested on animals, and I love that Coco & Tini is committed to using recyclable materials in their packaging and printed material. [...] GIVEAWAY! Have you ever thought about pulling your hair out and poking yourself in the eye at the same time as you wait and wonder how much longer you’re going to have to be in line at the border, or for the plane to start boarding, or in line at the grocery store? And all of these thoughts were there because you have a child, or even worse, children who do not like to be still, and so you’re trying in vain to think of things to keep their brain, and them, occupied. Not to worry, hope has arrived in the form of Spark Story Starters (available as an App or playing cards)! [...] Quinoa is extremely versatile, yet I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it – that is, until I came across the website, and later the cookbook, Quinoa 365 (by Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming, Canadians no less!). This cookbook has recipes for using quinoa for breakfast foods to desserts – who knew? [...] For those of us who get a head-start on gift-giving for the holidays because we celebrate Channukah, it can be a bit harder to find that perfect gift for kids that doesn’t scream holiday kitsch. Luckily there is a time-tested classic that entertained ME as a kid that will hopefully entertain yours – a little CD called Latkes and Hamentashen by the talented and Canadian Fran Avni. [...]
Prince Hayden MacCheeky is a real little prince, who also happens to be a royal little pest, as well as the star of the MacCheeky series of books for kids. There are currently two books in the series: A Royal Little Pest and A Royal Little Pest: Mine!. The stories follow Prince Hayden MacCheeky as [...] I stumbled across Canadian company BabyBoo’s unique bamboo baby hats at a local boutique a few months ago, and Olga, the company’s founder, was lovely enough to send me one for Charlotte to try out (it arrived in a beautiful envelope adorned with ribbon and the company’s tag). Here’s the deal, though – BabyBoo’s hats are no ordinary hats. [...] If you’ve read my past reviews, you’ve probably noticed a common theme with me: a desire to find cool clothing for boys! Not to disappoint, Fig Kids is a Canadian clothing line based in Vancouver made from 95% super soft organic cotton blended with 5% lycra. They have both a boys and girls clothing line, and their products go up to size 8! [...] It can be very tricky finding the right clothes to wear once baby is born; you’re not feeling your most beautiful and you also require functionality and privacy for the times you are nursing in the company of others. Finally I was lucky enough to receive a nursing top from Momzelle – and how I wished I had this top from the beginning! [...] I recently lost ran out of Maisie’s name labels before I had a chance to finish labelling everything so when Emily Press labels offered to send me their limited edition First Class School Label Pack I was stoked! The First Class School Label Pack (you’ll find them under Kids Play in the School Labels section) contains labels for all those back-to-school essentials – 10 shoe labels, 35 slim labels (for anything and everything) and 48-Tag-a-Tag clothing labels. Maisie’s labels have the cupcake motif and are in the tea party colour scheme – they are super cute! You have your choice of blue jean, cherry, flamingo or colour combinations chocoblue (brown and blues), citrus (bright green, orange and pink) and Maisie’s tea party (bright pink, soft pink and lilac) plus over 16 different icons. [...] Since we are fully engulfed in the heat of the summer, I feel obligated to tell you about the amazing sun hat my son was recently given. It is called a Grow-with-me Sun Hat designed by the local Vancouver company, Twinklebelle. My friend was so impressed with the hat that, when she was in the market for the next size for her son, she bought one for mine too. I didn’t realize how wonderful a product it was, until we tried it for ourselves. She was right and we LOVE it! [...] Let me preface this by stating that I hate sunscreen. I hate needing to remember to put it on, and now I also have to remember to put it on my son. I hate the chemical-ness and questionable ingredients of most sunscreens. I hate having to smear the cream in hard-to-reach places like my back. But – I have managed to find a sunscreen that I don’t mind – correction, that I almost look forward to – smearing on myself and my son: Matter Company’s Natural Sun Care Creme! [...] 
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