Indie Kidz T-Shirts Blog - The Indie Kidz Lounge http://indiekidz.com/blog a blog about t-shirts, music and cool socially relevant stuff for parents and kids. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:31:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Indie Kidz Lounge - Happy Birthday Canada! http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=30 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=30#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:40:06 +0000 IndieKidz http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=30

Happy Canada Day!
To be true, a long weekend would have been better, but you gotta love a day off in the middle of the week - especially when it’s hot and sunny. Yes, Canada the beautiful is 147 years old. To celebrate, we are heading out to Mt. Wells to do some climbing, followed by a salmon bbq and a few Canadian brews, no doubt. So to everyone that gets a chance to go outside and play tomorrow, have fun and Happy Canada Day!

So fun! Our newest design, Indie Angels, has hit the shop!
Mario, our roaming Indie Kidz correspondent, caught this photo up in Nanaimo this weekend - a surprise birthday kidnapping by the Awesome Babe Club decked out in their Indie Angels shirts (the birthday girl is wearing the fruit salad). Thanks for the photo! You’re gorgeous, yes you are!

And sadly, we lost a few great entertainers last week. Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett - wherever you are, thanks for everything you gave us. You will be missed.

Cheers!
Lara

]]> http://indiekidz.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=30 Indie Kidz Lounge - Happy Birthday Mom! http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=29 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=29#comments Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:35:56 +0000 IndieKidz http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=29

The whole family spent the weekend on gorgeous Salt Spring Island at my folks place to celebrate my amazing mom’s 60th birthday. We had a full day of music, food, dancing and playing hacky sack (mom is on the far left with the hacky sack). Everyone got in on the action. I say this all the time and I’ll say it again, I LOVE my family! Happy Birthday Mom!

Super coolness! Today, Indie Kidz got reviewed on Matthews Puzzle an amazing blog and resource designed around biomedical interventions for autism. I send out a warm welcome to the Matthews Puzzle community!

AND…Indie Kidz will have a new design this week. I’m calling it Indie Angels - details and pics should be up sometime Monday.

Cheers,
Lara

]]> http://indiekidz.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=29 Indie Kidz Lounge - Sooke Potholes http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=28 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=28#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:06:18 +0000 IndieKidz http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=28 Lara at Sooke potholes

Check this place out! The Sooke Potholes are usually fairly packed with tubers, swimmers and sunbathers, but I guess everyone was off doing something else. We swam, enjoyed the sun and explored the awesome sculpted monolithic rock blobs without seeing more than 10 or 12 teenagers all day. The water was chilly but not freezing and boy did it feel good to kick off the month with a dip in a pristine setting. I love this island more and more all the time.
For the weekend, a trip up island to do some camping with the new gear. Mama indie’s birthday is next week and the whole family is planning a massive party to celebrate. I’ll post some pic’s when I have them.
Cheers Everyone, enjoy the sun!
Lara

]]> http://indiekidz.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=28 Indie Kidz Lounge May 22 - Climb On! http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=27 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=27#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 15:47:07 +0000 IndieKidz http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=27 Climbing at Skaha

What an amazing long weekend! Four of us from the women’s Monday night climbing team headed to the Skaha Bluffs near Penticton and did an amazing outdoor climbing course - including setting up anchors, lead sport climbing and placing traditional protection. All I can say is AWESOME! Our guide and instructor, Roger, was about the best teacher we could have hoped for. The weather was perfect and the climbing was sensational. Can’t wait to head back and practice my new mad skills!
I have been promising a cool Indie Kidz climbing t-shirt and I think I have some ideas, so stay tuned.
But first, the Indie Kidz Canada Day t-shirt is imminent. This will be one for the history books! It’s gonna be sweet.
Cheers,
Lara

]]> http://indiekidz.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=27 Indie Kidz Lounge - May 4th, 2009 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=26 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=26#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 21:56:47 +0000 IndieKidz http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=26 Hi there!
I came accross a really neat website today called Artificial Owl - The most fascinating abandoned man-made creations + Their story & location. I love Fridgehenge, a scrap metal replica of Stongehenge made of old refridgerators that sat somewhere near Sante Fe, though apparently it has recently been dismantled. Check it out here.
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]]> http://indiekidz.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=26 Indie Kidz Lounge - Spring, yeah! http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=25 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=25#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:13:30 +0000 IndieKidz http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=25 Hello All! So, the Indie Kidz site has a new and somewhat more traditional layout. While I have moved the blog off the front page, I will still be updating it regularily with cool links, videos and music for your entertainment so check back often or simply hook up to us via an rss feed (check out the bottom of the page for the link).

So, I was checking out the TED website (in case you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s filled with very cool and thought provoking mini lectures on a variety of topics by expert speakers). Here is an interesting and inspiring speech from Jose Antonio Abreu, the founder of El Sistema, the youth orchestra program that has transformed thousands of kids lives in Venezuela. Check it out here. »
Cheers,
Lara

]]> http://indiekidz.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=25 Indie Kidz - Eco Friendly Baby Gifts & Organic Toddler and Kids T-Shirts for Hip Kids http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=24 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=24#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:35:43 +0000 IndieKidz http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=24 Looking for eco friendly baby gifts? Indie Kidz has some uber funky t-shirt designs for the hip baby. Check out the Indie Kidz Shop for organic toddler and kids t-shirts and oh-so-soft bamboo/cotton t-shirt blends for adults. Shipping is free within BC!!

]]> http://indiekidz.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=24 Indie Kidz Lounge - Youth and Adult size t-shirts are in! http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=23 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=23#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:40:12 +0000 IndieKidz http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=23 The Indie Kidz Shop now has youth and adult sizes available in our super soft and eco friendly bamboo and cotton blend in selected designs. Sweet perfection! Have a look, tell your friends or better yet, tell them with a gift. Stayed tuned for some brand new t-shirt designs.
Cheers, Lara

 

]]> http://indiekidz.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=23 Indie Kidz Lounge - November 24 ‘08 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=22 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=22#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:46:15 +0000 IndieKidz http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=22 Indie Kidz - Psychedelic and Funkified, eh?Alo-Ha, one and all!
I trust everybody had an awesome weekend. I spent several hours outside, enjoying the fresh air and sunshine. Downtown Victoria is already turning into Christmas shopping mayhem, so I felt rather fortunate that I didn’t have to do any.
We in the Indie Kidz family like to do Christmas a little differently. Most years we draw a name from a hat and stick to an agreed upon spending limit. Though in recent years, this spending limit was not so strictly adhered to and things got a bit out of hand. So we opted to change it up a bit this year.
Sister Indie suggested we make something instead. Grandma Indie pulled some matriarchal rank and ammended that with an “unless your miserably untalented - then you can spend $25 and no more”..thusly, a new tradition was forged.
I shall be this years Christmas host for the first time ever. We will play the usual games, like toss-the-red-wine-on-the-white-shag-rug and who hid the brussel sprouts again? We will crack the Christmas crackers and wear the funny paper hats until the day after boxing day. We will pass the hours doing interpretive dance and collage. The usual.
American Thanksgiving is this week, so to all my American friends known and unknown, have a happy one! It’s Monday, time to climb walls..hee hee.
Cheers, Lara

]]> http://indiekidz.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=22 Indie Kidz Lounge - Nov. 20 ‘08 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=21 http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=21#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:08:22 +0000 IndieKidz http://indiekidz.com/blog/?p=21 Indie Kidz - Cool Organic T-Shirts for KidsSalutations!
I’ve been having one of those last couple of days. I’m not going to complain (much) since life is pretty much excellent all the time in my world, BUT…as the person who wears the web designer hat around here, I have some words (for those of you that have seen me rant, you probably know what those words are). Anyhow, some of you, depending on what browser you use, may have witnessed some layout issues with the site. The main culprit has been Internet Explorer, which is a known kafuffler of all things good in the universe, including my site. I could throw my shoe! I think I have taken care of it now but if any of you see anything wierd, please let me know.
So things are rolling along nicely here at Indie Kidz HQ! Many of you fine folks have begun your holiday shopping early and have chosen to deck out your kids or friends kids in our t-shirts, I thank you for that. Spread the Indie Kidz love to your friends, family and neighbors and the world will be a much cooler place in no time! I will be adding youth and adult sizes very, very soon, for those of you that have been asking.
So my nephew has been begging me for a monster truck t-shirt, like, every day. I’m trying to figure out how to do an earth friendly monster truck design - like a SMART car with huge treads or something like that. If y’all have any ideas pass ‘em on, cuz monster trucks are really not my bag, baby.
Cheers, Lara

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