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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Are you a mum who is starting a new business? I need a reviewer for some business plan software. To give this software a good try, please make sure you have a few hours to spend on creating your business plan before volunteering!
Email antonia @ themumpreneurguide.co.uk and tell me about your business and the stage you are at if you’d like to try it out.
Thanks
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Mum’s Home Office: Bribery to Brush
Sunday, July 25th, 2010
Do your kids like brushing their teeth? DS2, at just 1, is very enthusiastic about chewing the toothbrush, but DS1 who is 4 is less keen to stay still. We were sent a couple of samples from Firefly’s range of toothbrushes which have distinctive light up technology to create a fantastic mechanism for getting children to brush their teeth for the recommended time.
All a child needs to do is press the bottom of the brush and as it lights up, start brushing. The flashing light lasts for one minute, giving the child the right amount of time to brush either their upper or lower teeth. Then, they simply move the brush and press the light again, to complete their brushing routine.
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Mum’s Home Office: Now That’s More Like It
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Last week I was reviewing cleaning products, this week its chocolate which is much more like it!
Holly, creator of Chocoholly, got in touch to offer some of her products to taste. I have been impressed right from the first moment they arrived. Chocoholly bars and chocolate fish come in fabulously original flavours like cranberry and cinnamon, chilli and strawberry, cardamon milk or geranium rich milk. I tasted the chilli dark chocolate fish and (more…)
Tags: blog reviews, chocoholly, chocolate, ethical, mums
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Mum’s Home Office: Clean and Green … again
Saturday, July 10th, 2010
In the Mum’s Home Office slot I review anything likely to be useful for mums and dads working from home. This covers things to help your office, products to motivate and help you, plus items for the home. There are up points and down points to doing product reviews: the Cakeballs were a highlight, but quite often I get asked to review cleaning products – and this week we’re looking at some products from Alma Win. (more…)
Tags: alma win, blog reviews, ecofriendly
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Mum’s Home Office: Powered by CakeBalls
Friday, May 14th, 2010
What keeps you going through the day? If you’re like me there’s nothing like a cup of tea to beat the 4 pm slump and get you through to that peaceful moment when the kids are in bed. 
And I’ve just found the perfect treat to accompany an afternoon cuppa or to sit down with at the end of the day. Cakeballs are, “delicious bites of moist, flavoured cake and buttercream” and the next big thing after cupcakes and whoopies pies! (more…)
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Mum’s Home Office: New Online Comparison Site
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
If you need to buy online, Wikio Shopping is a new site that allows you to compare prices and more.
What's good:
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as well as prices you can find information on delivery costs and availability
- you can see lists of hot products, new products and most popular products for each category
- there are loads of categories, from baby and maternity wear to home goods to books to CDs to hotels
- you can consult reviews, user opinions, forums, photos and videos, and post your own too.
What's not:
- the site works better for some products than others: for example I searched in business books and found it hard to track down particular books. It would be fine if you were looking for ideas of books to buy, however, and this was less of a problem in other categories.
I searched by category and chose the small business and entrepreneurship section. I found the top book in that section was the The "Financial Times" Guide to Business Start Up 2010. I got 20+ prices and could see at a glance the ratings people had given it. There were also suggestions for 'similar products' as there are on Amazon.
It is easy to see at a glance all the different products: see below for a screenshot of the new Wikio shopping site.
As price comparison sites go, it's good.I did get distracted by the top ranked news and blog sites, so there's lots more to explore on there too.
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Award Winning Amanda Moves into New Home Office
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Amanda Farren of Ella Announcements has just moved into a garden office which is part of her prize in the 2009 Remote Worker Awards. The office, sponsored by garden building specialist Vivid Green Ltd, has given 22 year old Amanda much needed additional space as she juggles caring for her three young children and building her business. (more…)
Tags: awards, Home Office, prize, remote worker, winner, working from home
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Mum’s Home Office: Feeling the Chill?
Monday, February 1st, 2010
I’ve just been sent some interesting ideas on how to cut the chill factor in your home or office. I’ve just been and bought something similar to the Ecoflap (£19.99) which, stop winds whistling through your letter box. I have yet to install mine, so it’s not helping much yet – but at least I’m thinking about it.
Chimney pillow
What I need next is a Chimney Pillow (£18.99) a hardwearing and tear resistant inflatable bag that you place up the chimney to stop cold draughts. We opened up our chimney which the previous occupiers had behind their cooker, but I suspect alot of our heat is disappearing up the gap that’s there until we find a woodburing stove.
The final idea is a Radiator Booster (£19.99)– as seen on Dragons Den – which sits on top of radiators, and uses a small fan to capture the heat that comes out the back of your radiator, circulating it better into your room. It heats the room faster, retrieves lost energy, and reduce your heating bills. It could save an average household between £70 and £140 per year.
Have you got any heat saving tips to help mums working from home stay warm?
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Mum’s Home Office: Staying on Top of the Recycling
Monday, December 28th, 2009
I have a friend who says she seems to spend far too much of her life in the kitchen sorting out the recycling. Admittedly she has five children but I think we can all find that piles of paper and bags of bottles can begin to take over. I’ve recently tried out a handy storage bin to make things easier. (more…)
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Mum’s Home Eco-Office:10 More Ways to Green Your Home Office
Monday, December 14th, 2009
I subscribe to Freelance Folder which has regular articles and tips for anyone working for themselves. I particularly liked this recent post on 10 Ways to Green Your Home Office:
If you’re a freelancer who works at home full time or most of the time, give yourself a pat on the back. You’re doing the planet a great service. By working at home you’re reducing the use of fuels and limiting the amount of pollution generated by modern means of transportation. (more…)
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Mum’s Home Office: Getting There
Monday, November 16th, 2009
How do you transport the kids to and from all their activities? Until we moved to Sussex I stuck firmly to walking and public transport: where we lived in London a car was more of a liability than an asset. In a complete turnaround, I have driven four different cars in the last year and now need to use a car daily.
Because of this, I was glad to trial the new Skoda Yeti. They’ve been targetting bloggers to write about the launch of the new car and wanted to get some views from mums.
The Yeti worked well as a family car. It coped with J’s 4th birthday party when we had to fit all the food in the car on the way to the hall AND all the gifts on the way back. It was spacious enough for car seats in most combinations and had a handy and highly visible button to turn the front passenger airbag off so you could fit a read facing car seat in the front. I found it very easy to get K in and out because the car is high off the ground and has pplenty of head space.
Although high, the Yeti is not over-wide. I couldn’t persuade D to see if we could get 3 car seats across the back as she really only wanted to ride oin the front on the way home from school. It looked as if it would be possible if not comfortable. And, surprisingly, the boot only just fitted the buggies – I tried it with a MacLaren Volo as well as the big Phil and Teds. There seems to be more boot space in our Renault Grand Scenic, which dh usually drives. My Renault Megane boot is of a similar width, but of course is not as high. Earlier this year I also used a Matiz for a couple of weeks: now that has a tiny boot.
The version I was trialling had all the gadgets including a built in sat-nav which was nice. To be honest, it would have taken longer than the week’s trial for any busy mum to find all the features and work out how to use them. I loved driving it: it is smoother and more responsive than either of our usual cars. It costs around £13-22k and I’d certainly consider it as a main family car for driving in town and in the countryside.
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Mum’s Home Office: Cleaning Up
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Do you spend much time wiping up? I always seem to be wiping up the kitchen and the children. I try to find more eco-friendly ways to do this so I’m not always throwing away kitchen paper. I’ve been sent some new eco designer cleaning cloths from www.jangneus-design.com to try out. The cloths claim to combine design with environmental responsibility. They are made of cellulose (a by-product from paper making) and recycled cotton. They are 100% biodegradable and are printed with eco-friendly ink, which all seems good and green.
Design-wise, the three cloths I was sent were lovely. There are much more attractive than what you normally get from the supermarket. The cloths come in six different colours – blue, green, purple, black, yellow and red – and ten different designs: a heart; flowers; leaves; flower doodle; stars, stripes, spots, fish and a bird. You can choose your own combination of designs: prices range from £1.75 – £2.50 depending on the number of cloths ordered: 1-3 cloths – £2.50 each 4-9 cloths – £2.00 each 10 cloths or over – £1.75 each.
I’ve been using the cloths to clean K, 8m. He’s at a messy stage and the nice things about the different designs is that it is easy to see which cloths you’ve used for wiping the baby and which for cleaning the kitchen. The press release suggests that you, “colour code your cleaning routines … for example blue for bathroom, red for kitchen, green for general cleaning and black for the cat”. I’m not that organised but the cloths work well whether I’m wiping K, or his high chair. I’ve put the cloths through the washing machine several times and they seem to be holding up as well as regular j-cloths. Because of their all natural composition, when they’ve finally worn out, you can just put them on your compost heap or in your compost bin.
If you like the sound of them you can order them from www.jangneus-design.com
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