Adult Toys
Our collection of “360-spins” continues to grow! We started with many of our smaller toys, but now we’ve been moving on to the big stuff! Viewing all 360-degrees of a large block set like Little Amsterdam gives you a great opportunity to see everything that comes in the box! And if you like that, be sure to check out the Haba Ball Track Construction Set , and the Haba Ghost Tower and Knight’s Castle ! We’ve even begun capturing 360-spins of our games .
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Oompa From Every Angle!
1,002 It’s hard to believe – one thousand and two! Amazing! At least to us that’s amazing. Do we have you wondering as of yet what we’re referring to? If we do then we’ll just have to tell you what we’re referring to.
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It’s Hard To Believe – 1,002
Our wonderful friends at CitiBlocs have just released two new color schemes; Hot and Cool ! Made from strong New Zealand Pine, these blocks have always been fun, but until this point have come in a maximum of two colors per set. The new Hot and Cool colors sets change that, including: red, yellow, orange, pink, and natural as Hot Colors , and blue, turquoise, dark green, lime green, and natural as the Cool Colors . For those of you who haven’t checked out CitiBlocs yet, they’re a wonderful product
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New Hot and Cool Colors from CitiBlocs!
Another giveaway opportunity has arrived, this one from one of our blogging friends, Knitting with Ólöf ! As an avid knitter, Ólöf was kind enough to review one of the many Threading Toys here at Oompa , the Bajo Lacing Shoe . Here’s what she had to say: “Since I work a lot with yarn and needles my 2 and a half year old of course becomes very interested in what I am working on
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Knitting Toys with Ólöf and Giveaway!
For those of you who have known me for awhile now my next announcement will come as no surprise. In fact, you’ll probably say, “We knew “The Blogging Queen” would be doing another one.
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We’ve Got Wonderful News – Top Blogs By Crafters Toplist Has Its Own Blog Now!
For all the healthy babies of the world who prefer a homemade meal, Oompa introduces Baby Cubes , from Juvenile Solutions . The set includes eight independent 2-ounce cubes, each with its own attached lid for hassle-free travel from the freezer, to the microwave, to the dishwasher! The containers are stackable, airtight, and ideal for individual snacks, freezing homemade baby food, or even storing breast milk.
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Breakfast Made Easy with Baby Cubes!
A few years ago, when we first created the Made in the USA category , it was a relatively small endeavor. Manufacturers were mostly making their products out of the country, while parents and retailers like us were just beginning to look for products not only based on price and quality, but also where they were made
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Made in the USA!
Eco-Friendly Sand Play Set from Green Toys rating: Victoria from New Jersey writes: Not only is this sand & water set cute and durable, but it’s so lightweight making it great for travel. Ours has been serving us well for playing in the snow here in NJ and on in the sand on Caribbean beaches. Tons of great reviews and adorable photos this month everyone! As always, as a thank you, for every review you post, we give you 10 loyalty points
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June Review of the Month
Spring is a great time to get the kids out of the house, start taking trips and plan outings for the whole family. However, Travel + Kids introduces all sorts of new parenting challenges; perhaps you discover that your once angelic toddler turns into a “bolter” when you go to the grocery store, or that your sleek and stylish tote can no longer hold the steamer trunk of supplies necessary for a day at the zoo. As a parent, it can sometimes feel like life is a constant adjustment, a constant search for solutions to new problems that you never knew you had
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Travel Fever
We are always keeping an eye out and adding new products for babies, toddlers and preschoolers to the website. One company we’d like to highlight this week is Little Alouette. Little Alouette makes adorable wooden baby toys with a very smooth baby-safe finish, made from organic flaxseed oil
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The Oompa Minute v80: Little Alouette
We’re certainly off to a busy start this spring! We’re working hard filling appointment slots and getting ready for our Beautiful Baby Photo Fundraiser at the store later this month (May 20th-23rd). We’re really excited to be working with five wonderful local photographers, and we’re even more excited to be able to do this fundraiser in support of a charity that does really amazing work, Operation Smile.
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Why We Love Operation Smile
Back in November 2006 I wrote a post for my Linda’s Blog and Tips For Crafters On The Web blog entitled: I’ve Taken A BIG, BOLD & PROGRESSIVE Step! My post concerned my decision to eliminate my monthly newsletters in favor of my blogs.
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The Results Of My BIG, BOLD & PROGRESSIVE STEP!
I have to confess that for the first since I started my Twelve Months of Sewing Club back in May 2006 I’ve been remiss in not updating the club for the months of February, March, and April 2010. Sometimes life gets in the way of ones internet and blogging fun and when push comes to shove – well, life wins out. So, please forgive me.
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Twelve Months of Sewing Club Featured E-Patterns For May 2010
New Products! We’ve added four fantastic bags this week from a company called Skip Hop . These include the Zoo Pack, Bee which is a backpack shaped like a bumblebee and it is adorable! There is even a matching lunchbox . We have also added the Zoo Pack, Owl , which is a backpacked shaped like an owl, also incredibly adorable, and also a matching lunchbox
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The Oompa Minute v79: Skip Hop
We’ve mentioned before how excited we get about good-quality art supplies. But when they’re eco-friendly, come in gorgeous packaging and it just so happens to also be Earth Day—well, it just seems right. Eco Kids was founded by a former nanny, who saw the need for more natural and safe art supplies when she came to have her own children.
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The Oompa Minute v78: Celebrating Earth Day with Eco Kids
Busy February. Proud to represent Scotland in the Teddy Olympics . Managed to collect bronze in Peek-A-Boo, silver in Dabbling and Eye To Eye, and – extremely proud of this – gold in the Balltastic event ..
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What happened to February?
Updates from BNN and The Bongolesian Observer (aka “The Old B.O.”) Bongolesian News Update State Funeral for goes off without a hitch! (Sudekia) In a right nice send off the late Bogoo Moboo, Spokesman for The National Interior Ministry was laid to rest in the soil here in Sudekia today.
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Bongolesian News Update!
Recently, we began carrying the Q Collection Junior , a line of children’s furniture that is all made right here in the United States. Here at Oompa, we’re always excited when we can find toys , gear or furniture that is made in the United States , and even more excited when it is locally sourced (a vague term, but it usually means that the materials come from within 100 miles of the production facility).
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FSC: Why it Matters
Twitter is a free social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers
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Day 146: Twitter
Ian’s back to talk about puzzle maker Mudpuppy . Click below to view video! Mudpuppy’s parent company, Galison, was founded in 1979, and primarily worked with museums to reproduce well known art images on stationary, books, calendars and other paper products.
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Oompa Minute v69: Mudpuppy, the Art of the Puzzle
So I work from home and maybe it does look like I’m just lounging about in bed all day, staring in to space and doing nowt. I’ll have you know that the life of a small bear is full of trauma and angst. I have to protect the pyjamas from pyjama thieves and something horrible could happen to those pillows if I wasn’t here to keep them in their place.
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No new ears
It’s hard to believe that Sesame Street turned 40 this past year, but it’s true. For forty years, kids across the country have been learning how to count, spell, and remember what they were supposed to buy at the grocery store. (A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter
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Sesame Street still going strong, going green!
Everything old is new again, and the Care Bears are no exception. Yes, I remember them from my childhood—back in the Paleolithic Era, natch—and recently they’ve made a huge comeback. And why not?
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It’s a very Care Bears time of the year
Swing Out Sister “Live” in Singapore (December 16th @ East Coast Park, by the beach)! Concert-snaps on my Facebook-album 
I know this is not toy-related in any way, but Swing Out Sister has been a huge influence in my youth til my current “advanced age” (*cough*) and has kept me company on many a nights of blogging, so why not share with you folks my joy?
If you’re as old as I am (very, very old—just ask my kids), then you, too, remember when Strawberry Shortcake first arrived on the scene in the early 1980s. By that time I was really too old to play with dolls (see, I told you I was old), but that didn’t stop me from becoming totally enamored of the little scented dolls some of the little girls I babysat for had. What wasn’t to like
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She’s come a berry long way, baby!
During the past few years people have asked for organic cleaning solutions for babies. I never seriously considered adding cleaners to Oompa – we’re a baby toy , gear and furniture store after all. I narrowly concluded that most people could simply order organic cleaning supplies online, drop by their local Whole Foods or Trader Joe. My thinking was set straight after seeing the steadily increasing number of requests from our online and retail customers. We did some research, tested several products and found wonderful, natural cleaning solutions we’re happy to stand behind. We welcome Fields Organics to Oompa and hope you enjoy these natural cleaners as much as we do
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Organic Cleaners for Hands, Toys & Nursery
I was in Japan a few weeks ago, chuckling at their charmingly rampant use of cute icons for everything. Ramen packing? Check! Subway informational poster? Check! Taxi Cab literature? Check! All had Sanrio-esque icons to make even the most boring, staid message cute and 2D huggable. While Skip Hop is not based in Japan, and I’m pretty sure they don’t have any designers who hail from Tokyo, they have managed to unleash The.Cutest.Backpacks.EVER. Thank you Skip Hop for channeling every Sanrio-loving girls inner designer into backpack form. Zoo Pack, Dog from Skip Hop , $19.99 Zoo Pack, Penguin from Skip Hop , $19.99 Arigato, Skip Hop! – Milanie Share This
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The Cutest Toddler Backpacks EVER
Last June I wrote a post on my Tips For Crafters On The Web blog entitled “Mozilla – Firefox Versus Internet Explorer” How Does Your Website Fare? My post concerned using Microsoft “Publisher” to create my websites. At that time I was using Internet Explorer and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to update my websites
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The Browser Distortion – How Does Your Website And/Or Blog Fare?