Check out our Dharma Glass Straws.  I love my Decorative Dots straw and LOVE using it (on a daily basis).

These have a lifetime guarantee, and are hand glass blown in the USA.  Super hard and sturdy Borosilicate Glass.

Just beautiful, and drinking from them just seems to make life a lot more… stylish.  There’s nothing like a cheap plastic straw to take away from the whole drinking experience – you won’t know what I mean until you’ve tried your own glass straw.

It’s a state of mind baby!

Of course, not to mention you’re not using up yet another bit of plastic (used for 5 minutes, hanging around our planet for hundreds of years).

Grand Prize Winner for my personal favorite photo goes to Dzurriaty for this fabulous entry :

I love it the composition of the photo – such an attractive family! And notice her mother’s also wearing some color coordinating reusable bags! Doesn’t that look so much more stylish than the throwaway disposable bags?

Congratulations Dzurriaty! Please email me – instead of giving you goods, we’ll be giving you a RM500 Credit to buy whatever you want at our store.

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There are 3 prize winners for the set of 3 bags ( 1 x Onya Weigh, 1 x string bag, 1 x Regular RuMe) :

1. Aliana – with 10 commentors

2. Yvonne Siew with 10 commentors

3. Pauline Siew - with 13 commentors

please contact us for your winnings!

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Last but not least, there were 147 comments left on entries, 2 randomly chosen commentors have also won 1 each of the set of 3 bags :

1. Putri Hazirah

2. Brenda Yong

Please contact us for your winnings!

Tiny Tapir will be at the British Womens Association Xmas Fair this

Sunday 1st Nov 2009 from 11am to 3pm

at Nikko Hotel

- RM10 entry fee (proceeds to charity)

Lucky draw will be held as well!

The Natural Baby Co’s Tiny Bubbles detergent has hit Asian shores.

Finally a detergent that’s specifically made specifically for cloth diapering.

So safe and gentle for baby – no dye, fragrances, optical brighteners, phosphates or fillers. Gentle for sensitive skin, low residue formula. Completely Biodegradeable!

Friendly to the environment and your baby.

If you’re using a front loading machine, it comes out the RM1 per wash (there are 60 scoops in each box).

Tiny Tapir will be at the Mums and Bumps event at Fit for 2 in Bangsar Village II this Friday 23rd October 2009

Mums and Bumps is a monthly event at Fit for 2, where parents can come for a lovely sit down at the Fit for 2 premises and enjoy some free ginger teas and snacks.  Local retailers / brand owners are invited to introduce their new parenting products to the mums there.

Tiny Tapir will be going this round with the lovely Joanne of Littlepods fame to do a quick run down on baby wearing and cloth diapering.

Would love to see you there!

Starts at 11.30am and ends at 12.30 noon (just in time for you to have a lovely lunch at Fit for 2- LOVE the food there, leaves you feeling healthy and your tastebuds more than satisfied).

You know about your Bag Giveaway ending 31st October 2009 right?

Here’s an entry from Joyce over at Giddy Tigers

She was shopping and bought a 10kg bag of rice. As can happen (more often than not I find!) the bag split open after check out. Luckily she had her RuMe on hand – not only did it contain the escaping rice, but it made it easier to carry too.

I’d like to see a disposable plastic bag do that

At Tiny Tapir we love Fair Trade, and we love local sports, so Fair Play for Fair Trade, where “a fun sport like futsal as a platform to bring people together and to spread awareness about fair trade. The event is also organised to raise funds for our craftmakers on www.elevyn.com! “

Anyone can join in the fun – just grab 5 people and sign up to play Futsal on Sun 29th Nov 2009 in the Challenger Sports Center in Petaling Jaya.

In the organizer’s words :

“Registration fee for teams is RM500 (up to a max of 10 players). Our Early Birds promo is RM350 per team (register before 1 November 2009!).

Help spread the word and join us in raising funds to even out the playing field for the less fortunate on Elevyn.com”

I’d be there if I actually knew how to play futsal…

Grobaby Biosoakers are finally now here in Asia.

The addition of Biosoakers means you are buying a hybrid system with your grobaby diaper, making it even better value for money. You can use cloth when you feel like it and the disposable insert when you’re travelling or going out for a long period of time.

One advantage of the biosoaker + grobaby cover over normal disposable diapers is that you will have the convenience of disposables without the inconvenience of poopy blow-outs. All said and done, a cloth diaper cover is always going to be better at containing messes than a disposable diaper due to there just being more and stronger elastic for better containment with cloth diaper covers than with flimsy disposables.

The biosoaker is not a straight rectangle like most disposable inserts are. Again you’re getting the best quality product with the Natural Baby Co. It’s a contoured insert that fits exactly where it’s needed, with additional leg elastic.

Here’s the full features :

Lining : – Certified natural, 100% Ingeo Spunbound non-woven fabric

Core :- Biodegradable wood pulp fibers, with only 3g of SAP gel (v.s. 10 – 20g in other disposable diapers)

How do Biosoakers stand out from other disposable options ?

Biosoakers have a proprietary biofilm backing that is both waterproof and breathable.
Meets all ASTM 6400 (USA), EU13432 (EU), and BPI standards for biodegradability and commercial compostability.
Biofilm is 100% Natural
Biosoakers have super soft NON latex, elastic leg gussets. Guaranteed to keep messes in their place.
Two biodegradable adhesive areas that allow you to STICK your pad in your Shell. This keeps your soaker pads from shifting and letting the mess get on your Shell.
Plastic FREE, fragrance FREE, dye FREE, chlorine FREE.

Biosoakers hit that perfect spot between convenience of use while still minimizing the impact on the environment far more than any other disposable option.

Check out this great video review of the Grobaby system with the biosoakers on the  Dirty Diaper Laundry blog.

Click here to purchase Grobaby Biosoakers

Tiny Tapir will be at the Creative Flea Market being held this weekend 3rd and 4th October 2009, 11am to 9pm at the Curve.

The Creative Flea Market is organized by Joujou & Shugi, and will be at the Ground Floor, the Curve near McDonalds.

Tiny Tapir will be selling :

Reusable Bags: Rume, Onya, Rooshoppers
Organic Tshirts
Liquitainer Water bottles
Dirt Candles
Zoobies

Check out the photo contest on every day environmental issues here in Malaysia at the Midvalley Gardens this Sunday 27th Sept 2009.

We love that there is more and more focus on environmental issues these days – awareness is key right?

Click to go to the Be The Change blog.