Sunday, April 18th, 2010
11am to 4pm
Croatian Cultural Center – 3250 Commercial Drive, Vancouver BC
Admission is by donation to Basics for Babies.
This is a great event for new, expectant and experienced moms. Pop by the “mommy” marketplace to see whats hip, happening and healthy for families trying to go “green”. See a variety of educational speakers, win great prizes and check out alot of neat vendors with kid-friendly products.
By Tara Albas, Natural Green Mama
I have just discovered a wonderful eco-conscious online shop~ and just in time for all of my holiday shopping! Every Little Bit is a great place to shop for all your green gifts this year. They have a pages and pages dedicated to Green Christmas ideas. They have clever green stocking stuffers, gorgeous Christmas ornaments, and lovely and unique toys for all ages. Every Little Bit also carries eco-conscious greeting cards and gift wrapping supplies. This shop really does have every little bit that you need to be green.
Besides a huge array of gift ideas and toys, Every Little Bit carries many wonderful eco-conscious and green living products. I especially love their litter-less lunch ideas, gorgeous organic clothing, diapers, skin and hair care products, personal care products, and green office supplies. They even have natural pet care products, which as an animal lover I know can be hard to find. Every Little Bit also has a great selection of natural cleaners from trusted brands. I honestly cant think of anything that they don’t have, Every Little Bit is a one stop shop for all your green needs. (more…)
Meaghan Relkie
Co-founder & Vice-President, Product Strategy, Every Little Bit Eco-Shop Ltd.
Growing up, I was never one of those girls who dreamed of getting married and having children; in fact it didn’t cross my mind much at all. Not that I didn’t think I would or wouldn’t, but rather I just didn’t really think about it at all. I had a vision that family was just something that happened naturally and I was more focused on my professional success; I think I was taking my family for granted even before I had one.
Although I enjoyed work immensely, and worked hard at university – completing two bachelors degrees in both English and Psychology – I felt a void in my life that didn’t seem to be filled by career or educational success.
Then I met Ray; we had a fast romance…from friendship to dating to marriage. We hadn’t really decided on children; we figured we might some day but we were busy working hard, travelling and just enjoying ourselves. He was
addicted to his job and I was done schooling and moved on to a variety of social activities. I began volunteering for an amazing organization (Soroptimist) jumping right in as Treasurer and then President for two years, I was training for and running in marathons every chance I got and I was becoming increasingly interested and active in environmental issues, all the while slowly changing the way my husband and I were treating the planet. (more…)
For Immediate Release
Vote Now for Every Little Bit to be Canada’s top Mom Entrepreneurs!
Every Little Bit is entered to win $15,500 and needs your votes to win.
Port Moody, BC, August 24, 2009 – Every Little Bit has put their name into the ring to win The SavvyMom Mom Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a readers’ choice contest designed to find Canada’s top Mom Entrepreneurs. The winners will be announced in the fall, and will be rewarded with a $15,500 prize designed to help take the business to the next level. To vote for Every Little Bit, click on this URL (http://momentrepreneuraward.ca/MomBio.aspx?momID=405).
Every Little Bit is an online store featuring everyday-use, eco-friendly products ranging from personal care items to organic cotton clothing to household necessities and toys. They carry a blend of sustainably made, yet stylish products. With detailed product descriptions, including a specific eco-rating for each product, Every Little Bit helps the more mainstream consumer start shopping “green”, without sacrificing style. The founders strongly believe that “every little bit” does indeed count.
Coquitlam Families Now
Local Moms Embrace Environmental Movement for At Home Enterprises
By Jennifer McFee (Coquitlam Now)
Alison Ferguson
Co-founder & President, Every Little Bit Eco-Shop Ltd.
My name is Alison Ferguson and I’m thrilled to be the “Mom of the Month”. Sometimes, however, it feels more like I’m “Mom of the Minute” – I think sustained excellence as a “mommy” is really hard work.
Don’t get me wrong; I love what I’m doing – I just thought it would come more “naturally” to me. When I first had Amy I found it difficult to not compare myself to those yummy mummies with perky pony tails, a Starbucks in one hand, their uber-stroller in the other hand and their lovely quiet babies gurgling back at them, with the manuscript of their almost-complete children’s novel peeking out of their Prada bag. My little “demon baby”, as we called Amy then – due to the colic our paediatrician said was the worst she had seen in her 15 years of practice – did not simply have “witching hours”, she had “witching weeks”; if she was awake, she was screaming – not gentle baby cries, but rather head popping off –window shattering wails of agony. Nope, nothing too “natural” about the baby gig for Paul & I.
Amy is 4 now. She is a lovely and still spirited little girl. And despite the clinical post partum depression that came with her birth, we crazily decided to do it again. Kieran is now 20 months, and like Amy, she too was quite the rager at the beginning. Paul & I frequently had to console ourselves with the paediatrician’s advice “well folks…all the studies indicate that colicky kids are extremely intelligent”. Alright! We have cranky mensa babies!
– Diane Strandberg
Business profile: Every Little bit in Port Moody
Green consumerism is the new ethic as homeowners look for ways to stretch a dollar without bringing harmful chemicals and wasteful products into their homes.
But consumers come in varying shades of green: There’s the lime green shopper who sees the trend but isn’t about to make over their entire lifestyle to save a tree and then there’s the forest green consumer who makes every purchase count toward a greener world.
Most people fit somewhere in the middle. They want to buy green products but don’t know where to look or they are so confused by competing claims they throw up their hands in frustration. “You go into a grocery store and you look at the wall of cleaners and there’s no discretion at all,” agrees Meaghan Relkie.
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