A Little Bit of Love for the Union Jack

Whether you are out travelling with your children or at home feeling patriotic, sometimes it is nice to share through

your clothes where you’re from.

 

The Union Jack is one of the most recognized flags in the world, so why not celebrate it with some cute clothes for

your little one?

 

 Ralph Lauren: Thicket Jacket With Union Jack Print, £142.50

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John Galliano: Union Jack Sweatshirt, £35.00

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John Galliano: Blue Shirt with Union Jack Print, £46.00

 

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Ralph Lauren: Navy ‘England’ Baseball Cap, £19.00

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Valentine’s Craft

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These cute little hearts are a great alternative for valentines and your kids can make it themselves!

 

What You Need:

Scissors

Craft foam

Permanent markers

Pipe cleaner

Pencil

 

What To Do:

  1. Cut a small heart from craft foam.
  2. With a permanent marker, print a short message on the front and the name of the giver on back.
  3. Poke an inch of the pipe cleaner through the bottom of the heart, bend it down, and twist it back around the remaining length of pipe cleaner.
  4. Coil the pipe cleaner tightly around the pencil.
  5. Gently pull up on the heart so that part of the coil bobs freely above the pencil, with several loops anchored around the eraser

Banners Restaurant

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Banners Restaurant is a family favourite for those living in or around Crouch End, family friendly restaurant by day

and relaxing and unpretentious by night, Children of all ages are welcome.

 

Their children’s menu offers fresh, unprocessed food including classics like fish fingers and pasta to grown up

mini meals like grilled black tiger prawns and haloumi salad.

 

To keep your little ones busy, Banners provides crayons and paper, books and even a few toys.

 

You can find Banners Restaurant at 21 Park Road, Crouch End, London, N8 8TE, 0208 348 2930 or

online at http://www.bannersrestaurant.com

Rock Out in Style: Musical Instruments with a Twist

Some toys are quiet and some toys are loud, and some toys you buy to better your child’s musical abilities, but every

day when they practice, you wonder why.

 

However; if you are going to give your child a Musical instruments, you may as well get them stylish ones…

 

 

Wooden Toy Guitars, £25.00

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Flower percussion set, £23.99

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Plan Toys Wooden Musical Band Drum Set, $49.95

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Red hot electric guitar, £90.00

 

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Schoenhut Fancy Baby Grand Piano in Pink – 3005P, $70.00

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Go Green With Wool

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Though Princess Diana was the only member of the Royal Family to make a name for herself in the Fashion World

thus far, it seems Prince Charles may be about to drop himself smack dab in the middle of it all.

 

The Prince of Wales is looking to create a new green label for wool products, part of the initiative would include Wool

Week, which would take place before London’s Fashion Week in September, 2010, and would promote wool as a

fashionable options for winter wardrobes, sponsored of course, by Marks and Spencer.

 

Though lifelong wool wearers do exist, wool  has fallen out of mainstream fashion, mostly because of its bad reputation

of being bulky, itchy, shrink-y and so on, a ‘bad rep’ that has caused the demand for wool to fall.

 

But the truth is, that the ‘bad reputation’ of wool as the material for a garment, is unjust.  Modern day wool is sleeker and

softer than the stuff our Parent shoved us into, so much so, most of us may not even notice when we are wearing it (other

than the feeling of cosy warmth).

 

The most important thing to know about wool, it that like food, it is something we can produce here in Britain, and the lack

of demand affects farmers, which in turn affects our economy. The same goes for other wool producing countries like

Australia, New Zealand and China.

 

With all of us trying to go green, wearing wool or purchasing wool house wears seems to be the easiest commitment

to make, especially in this cold weather as nothing will keep us warmer.

 

A recent environmental Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) report found that the impact of British wool on the environment

is measurablyless than either nylon or polypropylene fibres and concludes that the sustainability of scoured

British wool production is much better than that of polypropylene and nylon fibre productions.

 

You can start your kids young on this easy ‘going green/grown locally’ initiative with Woolly items made right here in

Europe by our own fancy farmers, all sold at www.alexandalexa.com:

 

 

Simonetta: Pink Wool Cardigan, £43.00 – 100% Wool1600-0

 

 

D&G Junior: Grey And Navy Scarf, £31.00 – 100% Wool

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D&G Junior: Black Knitted Wool Special Occasion Dress, £141.00 – Outer Material: 100% Wool3454-0

 

 

John Galliano: Red Cashmere Pea Coat, £129.00 – 80% Wool2944-0

 

 

Ralph Lauren: Navy Merino Wool Hunter Vest, £36.00 – 100% Wool2820-0

 

 

Simonetta: Grey And Multi-Colour Square Jumper, £54.00 - 100% Wool

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Finger In The Nose: Stripes Crew Pullover, £43.00 – 100% Wool3025-0

 

 

Roberto Cavalli: Cream V Neck Cricket Jumper, £75.00 -100% Wool

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Caramel Baby & Child: Dark Green Nell Bobble Hat, £27.00 – 100% Wool

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