I found out from Bernard (once again, he connects everyone in the business), that you can now get our building blocks on airmiles. Weird that I never know about it, I wonder how the whole deal works (I’m pretty certain I know who they are getting them from… not from me though).

I find this very touching, what do you think about all this?

I found this video (Delivered in Beta from KS12) on Swiss-Miss this morning and I wanted to share it with you.

I oftentimes feel like I am under huge pressure that everything needs to perfect right now with Ukoonto. As an entrepreneur I feel that I’m exposing my imperfections to the world even more so. Everything that I do here is under an enlargement glass the moment that you start a project. Unfortunately, things only go ahead in many little baby steps (and fortunately they go ahead :-) ) and all the little imperfections that you see that are part of Ukoonto are going to be looked after at some point … only to reveal more down the road.

I’m grateful for the support that I get from all of you. Please stick in there with me :-)

Hans

I just found a blog post about “Toronto’s Best Baby Stores” on blog T.O. . The post is from summer 2009 (I guess better late than never :-) ). Many of the stores sell our wooden building blocks. It feels great to be part of it all.

This is a little blurb on the evening news in Hamilton. Lots of game action with Ukoonto blocks.

So if you guys ever want to go to a really fun store that has a lot of really nice toys in the Hamilton area, you should visit Citizen Kid.

Hi,

I’m trying out scribble live right now. I don’t quite understand it quite yet, but lets see how it works.

I visited the Socially Responsible Design Exhibit at the Toronto International Airport yesterday. It was great seeing what others are doing, some great ideas and some really neat other products that are manufactured in Canada.

A huge thank you to Lee, who is the curator for the art at the airport. She does a great job and is very passionate about representing Canada at the airport is great. “It is often the first and last impression of Canada for travellers.”

She also told me that Treehugger reported on the show and that our blocks are featured in their article. Thank You Treehugger.

(click on image to see the blog post at treehugger.com)

I just thought I would post a picture of the smart. I met Bernard Hellen from TheWorldsGreenestBusinessCard.com when I picked up our new business cards recently, and he mentioned that I didn’t mention it here anywhere. Well, here it is :-)

PS: I really want to make it look like a wooden toy car very soon…

I recently read this very interesting post on NatureMoms.com about local food. Great post, you should head over and read it. I left a comment (I’m not quite sure why I can’t see it). Here is what I wrote:

Great post. It’s so important that we see how twisted the lives are that we live. Recently I was actually wondering if there are any cookbooks that give you recipes by season. All summer long I’ve been curious about figuring out how people used to be able to survive the year without supermarkets. How did they preserve their food in the past? I didn’t go to our local market for two weeks and I had missed the lettuce season. Isnt’ that crazy?

I do preserve a lot of things, but clearly not enough to get all my vitamins for the year. So it would be great if there was a cookbook that shows you what you can cook at what time of the year, and what to preserve at what time so you can actually make it through the year and drastically reduce your trips to the supermarket.

Cheers, Hans

PS: I have not searched on google yet, I just didn’t have the time yet, but maybe such a book exists.

So now my question. Is there a cook book that works with what is seasonal? Maybe one that even shows what you can preserve in which season? I’d love to have that.
Just leave a comment to let me know.

Cheers, Hans

(photo credit: Natalie Maynor)

I don’t know what came into my mind. I wanted to add a few features to your website and just “quickly” update our website. That “quickly” turned out to be 21 hours long (to the minute right now). Right after the update to the new wordpress, I just got mumbo jumbo on ukoonto.com. And this is exactly how I looked :-)

Fortunately everything is back up and updated now. Lets get back to work. Peace out everyone.

PS: for the technically inclinded: make sure to inacitvate all your plugins in wordpress before you upgrade. I think that’s why my upgrade failed. Because there is no “back button” I had to go into the MySQL database and do a whole bunch of shifting files around on our servers. Also make a backup for your database in case something does go wrong. At least you don’t loose your blog or all the data.