Greetings from Nest European Toys + Home!
Nest is an online webstore, with a curated selection of 'Made in Europe & North America' housewares & furniture, children's toys & baby products, arts & crafts, and textiles. Our focus in sourcing is on sustainability - almost all of the products for sale on our site are completely biodegradable, and from companies manufacturing in a sustainable manner. We aim to offer a selection of products that are practical, aesthetically appealing, and of enduring value, such that people may delight in shopping from our selection of over 5000 products, knowing that environmental sustainability and safety are both just a given.
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SouleMama: Since the last time you were featured on SouleMama, in what ways has your business grown or changed?
Nest: Our biggest change is the constant change of our kids growing, and how that affects how we view our products and the shop, and what we can offer to best support families. Our kid's are turning 2 and 4 in a couple of months.
We brought in new items from Germany just before Christmas. Opening every box, JP and I were oohing and aahing, especially when we opened
this one. For Christmas, we gave our kids the
playkitchen. We are still big fans of the
Simple Hearth from Camden Rose, but this playkitchen is a perfect size for our kids at the ages they are now. Both of them play at it, and we have one of these
cube chairs, being used as a little table right next to it. Sometimes, the table serves as food prep or it's in chair position with a piece of cardboard across the top and acts as the fridge, or most times we set the table together and the kids serve us a little pretend meal. These cube chairs and the bench that goes with them are used by us every day. We usually have the bench set up separately as a snack table, but it often does double or triple duty when we have visitors: as another children's dinner table or a second craft table. The chairs are great, as very young ones can sit so safely in them, but even my tall almost 4 year old still sits comfortably (they can be flipped over so that there are two options for the seat height). Also, of all the little stools and seating cushions in our house, flipping this one over as a table makes for my favourite stool for me to sit on. I know it's also soon going to make a great little nightstand in my son's room. Other favourite new items are this
dollhouse and
fairy tale cottage.
We have a lot of other new products, but last one to mention. As it's February in Ottawa, we're getting out in the sunshine and snow as much as we can. The daily challenge to stay on schedule and have early bedtimes helps us to get outside prepared for snow play the next morning. We put on our Ruskovilla woolly layers and snowpants, and this past week, we've been into making snow sculptures, like a snow ghost and kind of sea snake rising up out of the ground in our front driveway (at my son's request, inspired by
this awesome book), and at dusk we put little tealights in spaces for the eyes. We think we've found a new family tradition with this! Magical winter-warming. Today, I'm completing the 'snow campfire', a large circular built up fire pit, at table height in the middle, about a metre diameter, with a circular path around it for walking, and then circular built in snow benches concentrically around it. And we're going to
use this fire bowl in the middle for our hot dog and marshmallow roast with friends.
Other big changes: The American/ Canadian currency exchange has changed a lot in the last few months. So, American customers should know that shopping Canadian now is equivalent to a 25% discount on your credit card bill. And Canadian customers, save by shopping Canadian. :)
We're working on our new website which will feature pricing and checkout in Canadian or American dollars, with option to have your credit card charged in actual American dollars, as well. The new site should be ready in a few weeks, and it'll be smoother overall. It's Ottawa-based software, compared to the Montreal-based software we've been using.
This weekend, Nest European Toys + Home is generously offering the following gift to THREE lucky SouleMama readers:
"It's February" package: a board game of people's choice, box of pure beeswax tealights, and paintset.
In addition, Nest European Toys + Home is pleased to offer all SouleMama readers 10% discount on all orders, except for sale items or the learning tower, from now until February 18th. Enter promo code SouleMamaNest at checkout.
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To enter today's giveaway, leave a comment below (one entry per person, please). Comments will close by 9am EST on Monday. Winners will be chosen by Random Number Generator and announced in this post shortly after. Comments closed! The winners are...
Beautiful gift! It would fit perfectly in our home.
Posted by: Kelly Strine
Nice!
Posted by: allison
Great idea for February!
Posted by: Elizabeth
