The Busy Bee Store

Cute isn't it? Brings up an image of a cute, hardworking little bee buzzing around getting busy and doing nice things. I love that name. Its an online store of a friend, and I just love browsing her Stephen Joseph products just for fun. Actually have been eyeing her stuff since early this year, and my most yearned for item was her Stephen Joseph Gogo bags. Personalised with the child's name. But as Jovann's old kindy doesn't encourage bringing bags AT ALL, no point I get one for him then. So in July, I only got him a giraffe bottle buddy instead, to hold his own mothercare giraffe bottle! It has his name prettily embroidered on the strap, very nice!

But as of Oct 2009 when he changed to a school where you HAVE to bring your own school bag, can you imagine how excited I was????? So, I got him THIS! Has his name on it of course. :)

How cute is that?? I made my order to BusyBee before realising I should have let Jovann choose his first real school bag himself. So I showed him the 20over choices the next day and let him choose, and the first design he pointed to was the DINO one! Whew. I waited in eager anticipation for this and for busybee to send it in for personalisation, and on the day I presented the bag to Jovann after school, his eyes lighted up! the next morning, he ran like the wind to his teacher and said "Ms Diana! Ms DIANA! Look? My NEW dinosaur bag!".

Was contemplating whether to get for Jazreel too. Must be fair right? But at that time, none of the designs really caught my eye yet. Until in October a new ladybug design came out in pink (prefer this much more than the old orange one). So now Jaz has a bag too!!! This new design is so so sweet. Oh yah, btw, I also got her the matching lunch box to store her snacks, raisins etc heee.

Then for Christmas, I ordered quite a few personalised books for the 2 of them, plus some friends and cousins. Had a great time choosing the titles. Jovann and Jazreel now has Dinosaur Land (what else???), Mother Goose, When I Grow Up, Bye Bye Diapers (Elmo). The dino book features a boy called Jovann who rescued the endangered dinosaurs from an erupting volcano, and When I Grow Up is about a little girl (I got one for each of them) Jazreel who started thinking about what she wants to be when she grows up, and in the end realised that whats most important is not what job she holds, but that she has put in her best in everything she does.

Our friend Auntie June is running (or has it ended??) a raffle on her blog, where you could stand a chance to win a Santa Book if you follow her raffle instructions. I think I missed it as I didn't have time to blog that week.