Natural Child Healthcare - 9th July 2008 July 4, 2008

CHILDS HEALTHCARE WITH AYURVEDA

DATE : Wednesday 9th July 2008 , 9.30 am to 12.30 Noon

VENUE:         9 Lorong Damai, off Jalan Damai, 55000 Kuala Lumpur

Participation fee: RM40 NETT

Ayurveda is the world’s oldest comprehensive healthcare system having originated some 5000 years ago in India, This scientifically proven alternative of medicine is recognized by the WHO and by the Malaysian Ministry of Health and asserts that a person’s health depends on his body, mind and spirit being in harmony with nature and that disease results when there is an imbalance.

Ayurveda offers wonderful answers to child’s healthcare. It helps promoting healthy food habits, treating common ailments naturally and strengthening immunity in early childhood in order to set the foundation for optimal growth and development.

Teeny Tiny Tapir has the pleasure to host a ‘Ayurvedic Conference Morning’ to raise parents’ awareness on their children’s complete healthcare with Ayurveda.

Our speaker, Dr Vats (Ayurveda practitioner, General Physician and Nutritionist) will explain the principles, benefits and treatments of Ayurveda and will focus on child’s healthcare.

He will share with us simple household remedies, herbal remedies and health/nutritional tips that are easy to use at home and that will make a difference in your children’s overall health.

He will focus on how to relieve common ailments like cough, colds, fever, stomach ache, headache etc.. as well as how to increase your children’s focus, memory and grasping power…all with natural remedies!

Program:

9.30 am: Welcome & mingle around (individual constitution analysis)

10.00 am: Conference by Dr Vats and open discussion

11.30am: Healthy Refreshments

12.00pm: Lucky draw & prizes

12.30 pm: End

Please call: Cressa 013-2668060 or Julie 012-9341690

Envirosax Back in Stock July 3, 2008

You know how it is you have  a total of  37 different designs for envirosax, and pretty much all are in stock, but the ones everyone is clamoring for are the ones that are out of stock ?!

Mikado - Black Flowers (it’s really more of a steel grey color) is one of those.

It is very pretty though, so I can see why!

Then there’s these two from the kids series :

Rusty (the dog with 3 days stubble growth, teehee)

Jessie and Lulu (the bemused dinosaurs)

Finally we have these popular patterns back in stock.  We’ve been at fairs and events where we had some serious pressure to sell them the samples we had on display!

Now we just hope everyone remembers to bring these cute Envirosax around with them so they get used to save us all from drowning in evil single use plastic bags

Happy shopping everyone

Berry Plush Minky All In Two Cloth Diapers - New to Tiny Tapir July 1, 2008

These gorgeous Minky Cloth Diapers by JamTots are sure to be a favorite with your baby, who won’t be able to stop patting their nice squishy diaper!

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Diaper Pin Reviews rate these diapers at a 4.7 out of 5 with 23 ratings!

Goodness! Baby Kangas jumped out of our store within 48 hours! July 1, 2008

Well, that’s it for the Baby Kangas - although we did take in a very small stocking this round as an Introduction (10 pieces) - all except 2 have been sold !

Funnily enough we have a cute Black and White pair left (Orca and Daisy). >> Update - All sold out now!

We’ll be getting more of these pretty colors in soon..

Spare the Shark’s fin, save the planet June 30, 2008

My brother watched Sharkwater and it was the impetus for him to go back to being vegetarian (all of us in the family were at one point fully vegetarian for a few years, but most of us kids have dropped out of full time vegetarianism - except my younger sister who became and is still a raw vegan!).

I watched Sharkwater too, and now I really don’t feel like eating any seafood at all…

I think I have to keep watching documentaries like Sharkwater and Joaquim Phoenix’s Earthlings and maybe it will help keep me on the straight and narrow vegetarian path… the problem is life is so stressful and out of control that I turn to comfort eating - which means lots of Meat Is Murder….Tasty Tasty Murder….

Not good.

Anyway, his blog is here : Confessions of an Ex-Meat/Sharksfin Eater

Genting Resort in Singapore has also decided not to serve Sharksfin in its upcoming resort.  That’s a HUGE thing.  If only more hotels and restaurants took a stand not to serve Sharksfin and had a reason why, I think it would make a big difference in attitudes.

I can’t believe that people in this day and age still have sharksfin on their wedding banquet menus.  OK one might say that the sharksfin is probably ‘fake’ as the real stuff is too expensive anyway - but why even perpetuate the myth that having sharksfin at your dinner is a status symbol?

It’s not even healthy - shark’s fin is merely cartilage, which is like eating soft bone. There’s no nutritional value there.  Neither is there any taste to shark’s fin - it tastes like nothing.  What sharksfin soup tastes like is basically the chicken or seafood they use to make the broth.  And lastly it’s actually quite toxic.  As sharks are at the top of their food chain , the concentration of toxins in the sea in their body is very high - tests have found that sharks fin have high levels of mercury - which is found to cause male infertility.

How ironic.  Asian men eating sharksfin and then countering the effects of the toxins in sharksfin with Tiger penis .

Why is this post called ‘Spare the Sharksfin Save the Planet’?  Sharks are top Predators and therefore they are designed by nature to breed slowly (otherwise, with too large a top predator population, the marine ecosystem would be unbalanced).  With finning, shark populations are decreasing drastically.  Without a healthy top predator population, marine animal populations which the sharks feed on will explode in numbers causing a shift in the underwater ecosystem - what effect will this have on the planet in general?

No one knows for sure, but I don’t think I want to find out.

Baby Kangas - New in Store! June 29, 2008

Baby Kangas by Jamtots are a One Size Diaper good from 10 - 35 lbs, that’s pretty much from 1 month old to Potty Learning!

Why are they called Baby Kangas? Because, unlike most pocket diapers, the opening for the insert is at the front of the diaper - just like the pocket for a mama Kangaroo!

And unlike other pocket diapers, Baby Kangas have an innovative zip and wide opening design so that you never have to soil your hands with escaping inserts.

Baby Kangas come in a pretty colorful waterproof outer and with a thin, squishy microfleece inner to keep baby dry.

The wide opening means no more having to stick your hand in somewhere ‘icky’ to pull out an insert. Simply unzip the wide mouth and shake out the inner over your diaper pail or washing machine. The insert will just fall right out!

Urbanscapes 28th June 2008 at KL Pac June 27, 2008

Tiny Tapir is ecstatic to be invited to the Urbanscapes Festival tomorrow at KLPAC.

OK we probably should have written about it before but the Tapirs have been running wild this past couple of weeks.  Seriously.

The festival runs from 12 Noon To 12 Midnight (we are going to be some seriously tired tapirs on Sunday I bet), and we’ll be bringing a whole bunch o’ stuff to stock the stall.

Look out for Penny of ClosetCrafty too, she’s going to be offering up her hand made, re purposed products. And they look plenty cute and usable!

Here’s our interview over at Tongue In Chic

We’re doing some SERIOUS giveaways, so make sure to show up for your chance at grabbing some great freebies!

New! Greengrocer Envirosax Bags Now in Stock! June 23, 2008

Tiny Tapir has added a new line of Envirosax Bags to the Malaysian Market.

Greengrocer Envirosax Bags are the same great size as Regular Envirosax Bags, only with slightly longer carrying handles, specially suited for men and longer armed individuals.

Introducing 6 great colors :

Clockwise from the top left hand : Oyster (dark brown), Liquorice (black), Avocado (dark green), Blueberry (royal blue), Duck Egg (Sky Blue) and Summer Pea (Pastel Green)

These bags are as strong as regular envirosax bags and are great work horses for carting things home from the grocery store.

Tiny Tapir bets these Greengrocers will be a big hit with Malaysian men!

Go Shopping

Purrrrr Design & tips in hiring a designer June 21, 2008

When I first started selling Mooncups and Cloth pads back in 2004, my primary concern was to keep it cheap. I wanted an avenue that would cost me the least money, be (fairly) easy to update and let me open up an online store instantly.

That’s why Fem Choices was opened on V Store. Yes, it is really basic, can be slow to load and the backend of loading up products was a pain in the behind.

Finally, after 2+ years I’d had enough! Time to upgrade to a better site and one that’s says more about what the shop is all about.

Fem Choices was all about providing an eco-friendly choice for women - well, there’s so many ways that we ALL, female / male, can be eco-friendly, and hence Tiny Tapir was born.

I needed to find someone who ‘got’ that and someone with mad design skills who could come up with a store that would have me excited about spreading the word (rather than with the Fem Choices vstore which is kinda embarrassing to tell people about!).

Platypus Bottles Re-stocked June 20, 2008

Finally!  Platypus Bottles are now fully re-stocked, with a few new interesting accessories.  Platypus bottles are taking Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia by storm - everyone wants one.

Now with the increased cost of living, doesn’t it make sense to carry around your own drinking water? Is anything more expensive (to your pocket and to the environment) than bottled drinking water?

With a water filter at home and a platypus in any pocket or bag (the flexible lightweight design makes it so easy to carry around), you can have clean water wherever you go - for free!  Not to mention of course they are easy to hold and drink from with the choice of 3 types of caps available now.

These bottles are BPA safe, won’t leach and water won’t smell or taste bad after sitting in the bottle for a day - in fact, I’ve left my filled platypus in my hot car for days - and the water is still as taste and smell free as the day I filled it into the platypus.  Try doing that with a Metal Bottle or a normal plastic bottle. blecch.