A Day at Warburton

Sometimes you need to just go past our hills and venture on further. My favourite place to visit and we are spoilt as it is only 30mins from home is Warburton. We had tried to organise a big picnic with lots of friends but everyone was busy doing home improvements. Well not us, we set out and had a lovely day in the sunshine of Warburton. The hills were glorious, the food was great and the kids totally enjoyed paddling in the river - though it would have been swimming if we had let them. Thank you to the lovely Indian family who arrived and took our children out to the middle of the river to sit on the large rocks - sometimes strangers can be so lovely. If you have the chance, Warburton is worth the drive. Wonderful scenery, beautiful river, great cafes and fantastic shops to tinker through. Would have loved more time to be able to do this, but the children were a bit restless with the shops. There is a great bric a brac shop in a two storey red brick building, worth finding and taking the time to search through her items. A lovely tea shop is on the main street, with all different tea pots and teas to try, there are wonders to be found in this town. Then came back to reality tonight and worked hard to put all our new items on the website. If you love playing board games with your children, then look at our site www.sassypopkids.com.au and check under puzzles and games. We have a lovely new range of Orchard Toy Games in particular I am looking forward to trying the Post the Most game. Think it will be lots of fun.

A Year in Celebration

It is nearly a year that Sassypop Kids was created. Inspired after the February trade show in Melbourne, two creative and passionate mums developed a business to bring more creativity and imagination into the lives of children. We wanted to do this by finding products that had no batteries, were made of natural products eg wood, paper, cotton or wool. Products that inspired children to create and play. Within our first year we achieved these goals and then expanded our range to provide a wide range of bags for young children, backpacks, travel bags and tote bags. Jess and I are proud of what we have achieved to date and we look forward to increasing our range and bring more products to our store. Currently we have beautiful art folios from the Stephen Joesph range and Sassypop Kids is the only retailer stocking these in Australia. We still dream of opening a bricks and mortar shop, but advisors around us say it is not the way to go and to focus on the internet - where the future lies. However I watch with interest women who are doing the retail shop and who are so successful in this area, for example Alison from Lark Made. Her products are beautiful and the pictures of her shop on her website speak for themselves. I look at her journey and live in hope.