Greetings!

As Louis Armstrong once said, ‘What a wonderful world’! We live in a great place but the earth is in trouble and we all need to do our part to help. I know, it’s easier said than done, especially with Christmas coming and bringing with it a wealth of shiny new unrecycleable plastic toys. Well never fear, Prezzybox have announced a new range of Eco-Friendly Sprig toys! You could win one too!

All of the Sprig toys are made from Sprigwood. Sprigwood is a durable, child-safe, bio-composite material made from bits of reclaimed wood and recycled plastic. Sprigwood is a highly versatile, green building material with a strong future in toy and furniture manufacturing.

No decorative paint is needed on the assembly line because we dye Sprigwood during the production process. Sprig Toys uses safe pigments, keeping our toys free of soluble heavy metals, phthalates or endocrine disruptors.

There are 3 new Sprig playsets on the Prezzybox site;

The Dolphin Set features a big, blue boat, little, blue dingy, 2 dolphins and an explorer.

The Dino Set contains a rugged exploration vehicle, an explorer and 2 grinning dinosaurs.

The Sand Truck set features a Truck, a Rake, a Shovel, a Bucket, a Dune Bug Character and a packet of Wildflower seeds to plant in your own garden!

All of these play sets are durable, safe and great fun. They promote creative play as well as teaching children about recycling and nature.

We’re giving away one of the Dino sets and one of the Dolphin sets in our Facebook competition this month.

To be in with a chance to win, simply draw a picture of a Dinosaur or a Dolphin. It can be done on the computer, or drawn on a piece of paper, it doesn’t matter how how or where you draw. To enter, either upload your picture to our facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/prezzybox) or send it to us on Twitter!

We’ll be picking the lucky winners at the end of the month, so get entering!

Bee Happy, Bee Green!

Brian x

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Hi There Prezzybox Fans!

Christmas is quickly approaching!, in fact there are only 6 more shopping weeks to go before the big day!

It’s a good thing there are so many brilliant Christmas Presents at Prezzybox! One of the newest and most interesting Christmas ideas is the Treemendous Card.

These fantastic little cards don’t just carry your messages of Christmas joy, they also come with a live sapling!

Inside the card is a Norway Spruce, Picea abies. The Norway Spruce is best known in Britain as the Christmas tree and can grow in excess of 36m! Wood from the Norway Spruce is known as deal and has many uses including roofing, house interiors and paper pulp. The leaves are needle-like, hard and prickly. The new spring growth produces foliage of a much brighter green. The cones ripen in autumn and are decorative.

Treemendous cards’ trees are grown from seed taken from sustainable sources with Forestry Commission approval. They are all grown in the UK to help avoid unnecessary shipping and indeed further environmental damage, the current crop is being grown in Scotland in preparation for the 2009 Christmas season. All of the card packaging is fully recycled and the inks used are vegetable based.

If we all sent a tree, the World would be a better place. By sending a Treemendous Card you could -

* Help the fight against global warming
* Provide natural habitat for wildlife
* Enrich our own lives as well as those of our children

Once you have received your tree, it should be removed from the card, taken from its drawstring cotton pouch and the root wrapping removed. Moisten the root ball well and re-pot it in a small container about 15cm diameter with good compost, ensuring the roots are at least 1.5 cm below the surface and the soil is well compacted. The tree should be protected from frost initially, but if afterwards you decide to let your tree fully mature, it can be planted outside either in a large pot as a deck plant or in the ground to enable full maturity.

These little cards are available in 7 adorable Christmas designs and are the perfect eco friendly Christmas gift. They’re also fantastic Secret Santa ideas coming in at under £10!

The Treemendous cards are available in a range of designs now from Prezzybox for just £7.95.

Bee Festive!

Brian x

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Hello!

I hope you’re all well and enjoying the sunshine!

Here are PB HQ we are launching the Pink Sun Jar!

The Sun Jar has been a consistent best seller at Prezzybox for about 3 years now. It’s won the Gift of the Year award and has become a firm favourite for those looking for an unusual, eco-friendly gift. Now, Prezzybox are proud to announce the addition of a new colour to the Sun Jar collection.

And now the Sun Jar is back, this time with a wickedly glamorous twist. The glass jar has been given a Hot-Pink makeover making this new addition to the Sun Jar family a must-have for glamorous girls! If the yellow Sun Jar stores sunlight, and the blue Sun Jar stores moonlight, the new Pink Sun Jar must store happiness and optimism. At times like these we could all use a bit of optimism in our lives and since the Sun Jar doesn’t need batteries, this little ray of hope comes with a clean conscience.

I hope you like it!

Bee safe!

Brian xoxo

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