May time

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We as a library are really proud of what we’re accomplishing over at Bracknell Sling Meet & Library. Because we’re a community group, all the money we receive from hires goes back into buying more brilliant slings for everyone to try and enjoy. It means we can widen our range to even more popular carriers and also some of the less well known ones, but in addition we are now reaching a point where some of our carriers are so popular that we are buying two of them.

We now have two manduccas, two lilebabies, two baby size connectas, three size six wraps, two size 7 wraps and once we’re decided which Ergo- we’ll have a second one of those too!

What have we added to our library over the last month?

Scootababy (black)

Connecta Baby (Harris Tweed)

Connecta Toddler

Boba Air (black)

Beco Toddler

Firespiral Library exclusive Size 2

Lilebaby Carry On Toddler Airflow

Lenny Lamb Buckles (neutral sand)

 

This month we’ve added:

• Scootababy 
• Connecta baby in Harris Tweed
• Connecta Toddler in Indio Yukie
• Boba Air in black
• Beco Toddler in Nimbus
• Firespiral size 2 Sling Library exclusive
• Lilebaby Toddler Carry On Air

In addition to the Lenny Lamb buckles that we added the month before (bottom right image).

 

Sling meet was a ROARING success this week. News about all our new carriers has spread and so we managed a huge 19 hires, and 4 out of the 5 newest carriers went straight out. We’re looking forwards to seeing photos of happy babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers and happy mummies & daddies!

 

 

 

More slings!

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Happy International Babywearing Week 2015!

There’s a few additions to the library to celebrate as part of this week including TWO new Ergonomic Baby Bjorns (one black, one pale pink), a lovely new soft blue Kari-Me stretchy wrap, a blue stripey Amazonas ring sling AND an Oscha Library Exclusive– Zhulin Evening wrap in a size 4. I’ll be adding them to the library list page this week, once we have photographs of them all.

We are also encouraging lots of lovely babywearing photos via our facebook page to use in promotion of Bracknell Sling Library! Please share away here, on our page.

Sling meet!

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8!

Yes 8 hires this week!
And lots of help from lovely helpful people. Three new slings in the library due to kind donations

First was a Papatum “toddler” sized soft structured (full buckle) carrier. I’d honestly say it’s a baby or inbetween size rather than a toddler size- the panel is only about 14 inches wide which is pretty standard for a baby sized carrier. My leggy 19 month old just didn’t really fit when I tried it out this week. It says 8kg to 28kg (I believe) or up to 36 months. So it would be “safe” for his weight but we couldn’t get the pannel to fit very well. However a few mummies tried it today with small er babies and it looked great. It was really comfortable for me but I suspect not so comfy for him!

Papatum cuddles

Back carry papatum

The second (from the same kind person) was a Didymos Geckos size 6 wrap in “Mocca-Orange”. I also had the pleasure of trying it out this week and took it to the library and shops in a double hammock (saltwater finish). It’s really soft and grippy, and wraps beautifully. It’s not really my colours but I love the distinctive flip side and how well it wraps.

Batman in geckos

Pretty finish

Geckos was hired out today already!

Third wonderful donation was a well loved Ergo carrier- one of the noticeable gaps in our buckle carrier collection. The fact that it’s well pre-loved meant that it was wonderfully soft and it went straight out on hire today!

Thank you again to all our supporters who have hired, told their friends about sling meet or donated wrap!

IN OTHER NEWS
I brought along my new babywearing bag (by Bebe Sachi) to sling meet today and it was well admired- if you’d like to know more, please look at my review here: https://bumpytimes.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/review-bebe-sachi-hobo-bag/

Welcome

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Hi all,

Welcome to our first blogpost at Bracknell Sling meet.

Gemma and I (Clare) have recently taken over some of the admin of the Bracknell Sling Meet facebook group and have decided to branch out into a little more social media to ensure that everyone locally is aware of our group and any services we can offer, but also share the fun we have with our beautiful slings and carriers.

This blog will include all kinds of different things- photographs, tutorials,links to other blogs and sites,  information about meet ups, sling library help and much more. We hope you enjoy reading it and promise to try to keep it up to date!

 

Happy Babywearing!

Gemma

Clare