Laura Blythman kids' backpacks, duffles and caps for Little Renegade Company

If you love Laura Blythman's whimsical collage-style artwork, you'll be just as thrilled as I was to discover Laura's collaboration with the Little Renegade Company. What results are super-cool caps, duffle bags and backpacks for kids in the Moonscape and Sugar Mountains prints.

Stylish Kids: Alfie Apparel - huge sale 50-80% off

When it comes to great design that kids can wear every day, one of my very favourite Australian clothing brands is Alfie Apparel; my eldest daughter is so obsessed with her Alfie Apparel pretzel shirt that when it had a laundry incident, we purchased another straight away, and just bought a third in the next size up! We've found this brand to be exceptional quality and as every piece is 100% soft jersey cotton, your kids will never want to take them off.

My girls are almost-seven and nine years old, and these are the pieces that they have chosen from the current 50-80% off sale to go under the Christmas tree. These prices are incredible for the quality and cool design:

New eeni meeni miini moh and e3-M Spring Summer 2015 is here

Twice a year I excitedly receive the new lookbooks early from Bondville sponsor eeni meeni miini moh and e3-M to share with you here. And this Spring Summer 2015 collection is a doozy!

Udder effortlessly cool children's clothes - huge sale

I've been following Fliss from Udder's journey for years along the south-east coast of QLD creating beautiful handmade toys and effortlessly cool kids' clothes, and now to Bali where she and her family are continuing their creative endeavours. Sadly for us, Fliss is discontinuing her children's clothes line to focus on her new ceramics line (exciting!), but the good news for us is that her gorgeous clothes have been heavily reduced (up to 70% off!).

New Oobi SS14 girls clothes and now for tweens!

Oobi is one of those children's clothing brands that has a true cult following. Oobi Mamas love Oobi with a passion and really connect with the labels fresh, fun, 'let them be little' ethos and mix-and-match prints. My girls have worn and loved so many Oobi pieces and still live in their Oobi hats, which is why we are excited to see this classic Australian brand expand up to size 11 for tweens!

Lucky Door Prize: Crispin Scales and the Golden Pearl

I adore tales of fairies, gnomes, elves, dragons, princesses, fantasy lands and everything in-between. Crispin Scales is the clumsiest dragon in the Realm, and the star of a brand new book for children 8 to 12 years old by Australian author Ruby Blessing.

Ruby has so kindly offered to give three Bondville monthly newsletter or daily email subscribers a copy of Crispin Scales and the Golden Pearl (the first book in the fantasy series) for the monthly Lucky Door Prize. All you have to do is comment below if you are interested in going onto our giveaway list, and make sure you have subscribed. {And please review the book on Amazon or your preferred online space}.

Look out for the winners in the monthly newsletter, coming your way in the next few days. Thanks Ruby!

Terms and Conditions:
1. Lucky door prize will be allocated to three Bondville monthly newsletter or daily email subscribers that have commented on this post or on the Bondville Facebook page.
2. Entry requirements: comment on this post or the Bondville Facebook page and be an existing or new subscriber to the Bondville monthly newsletter or daily email.
3. This Lucky Door Prize giveaway is open to all Bondville subscribers in Australia or internationally.
5. This Lucky Door Prize giveaway is hosted by Steph Bond-Hutkin via the Bondville blog at blog.stephbond.com.
4. Three prizes consist of (1) x Crispin Scales and the Golden Pearl books, RRP $21.99 each, plus postage within Australia or internationally from Ruby Blessing.
5. Lucky Door Prize winner will be notified in the Bondville monthly newsletter, sent to subscribers the week commencing 7th December 2012.

Images: Crispin Scales and the Golden Pearl

Stylish Kids: Little Mouse Brown

We live near an all-girls high school and on "mufty day" I cringe as a sea of teeny weeny denim cut-off shorts stream across the crosswalk from the train. Tweens and teenagers want to be cool, of course, but there are not many authentic options for their size.

I get excited when I find stylish labels for kids that target that tricky 8-14 years bracket. Australian kids fashion label Little Mouse Brown has done an incredible job of pulling together a chic collection for boys and girls that mixes and matches well with the teen staples (jeans, converse sneakers), and keeps it cool (with nary a short short to be seen).

There are so many items in this collection that I would love for myself. That bat-wing t-shirt dress with cord belt is killer, the carefully placed ruffles, and that great modern check pattern. Love it all.

You can find Little Mouse Brown in the online store and at stockists around Australia and the USA.

Images: Little Mouse Brown