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Ruby and Ginger Compact Changing Bag – Review

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You may have seen Ruby and GINGER featured on Dragons Den sometime ago or their products being used by celebs such as Danni Minogue and Zoe Ball.

Ruby and GINGER was created by two mums to help make life a little easier for busy parents everywhere. In their collection you will find a great range of baby accessories including the Original Nappy Purse which turns any bag into your changing bag; the simple yet practical Toy Tie and the Original Cosy Car Seat Cover designed with safety and comfort in mind.

When the very lovely Liz from R&G offered to send me a sample of their original nappy purse for use with my toddler I was thrilled. I expected to use it at festivals/holidays/quick trips to the shop but I didn’t expect for it to become my every day changing bag. Well it has. We use it all the time. It slots into all my bags or I throw it under the pram or in Izzys rucksack. It holds three nappies, a reusable box for wet wipes, a changing mat and I squeeze in a few nappy sacks and some cream too. There aren’t many occasions when we need to take more than 3 nappies out with us at any one time right now so it’s ideal. My full size changing bag was never ready to go when I needed it, I was always hurriedly packing it just before we left the house but maybe it’s the compact size or the fact that I can’t take additional bits but I always have it ready stocked and I just grab it.

It was most useful to us when on holiday at Camp Bestival. The site is huge and you really don’t want to be taking huge changing bags around with you everywhere so being able to just pop this in my bag made life easier.

The changing mat is completely machine washable and it washes well without losing any of the colour or shape, the tub for the wipes holds plenty and the bag itself is really pretty.

I chose this design:

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But there are two other designs to choose from also.

I can’t really pick any faults with this product and for £14 its a proper bargain. Looking forward to using it for baby 2! I’m very tempted to buy a matching car seat cover 🙂

If you would like to buy a changing bag and save a whopping 20% off the retail price you can do so by visiting the site here and using the code FESTIVAL.

* I was sent this product for free to review and give my opinion on it.

The School Holiday Juggle – A Guest Post

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This guest post is by Liz , Mum of 2 girls aged 5 and 3 who is trying to make it work with her business www.rubyandginger.co.uk . You can chat to her on twitter @rubyandginger or over on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/RubyandGINGER

So here I am the middle of school holidays doing ‘the big juggle’, you know the spreadsheet with the colour codes telling you where your children should be and where you need to collect them from and who in fact is responsible on the days when everyone thinks it is you except for you.
When you look at the Tetris like print out it looks not so much of a holiday but a military timetable
So as someone experiencing this in full force for the first time this summer -I’ve always had a childminder in previous years but she has gone term time only! (how dare she!)
So here a few things I have learnt along the way trying balance work and having fun:

1) People volunteer to have a 5 year old much more readily than a ‘lively’ 3 year old J no idea why!
2) Good old fashioned bartering is the way forward “you have my 2 children for 3 hours and I will have your 1 for 6” is how I’m working today
3) Accept every offer of help you can, it’s like the days of a newborn you think you can manage and will be fine but then wish you had accepted that offer of a friend taking them off for tea when trying to finish a report in time to meet a deadline
4) 6 weeks seems like forever but actually the days fill up really quickly and now I haven’t got enough days to see everyone
5) Last but by no means least make sure the children get some downtime and have a break too, after learning the hard way last week that filling every day with stuff to do come the end of the week all they want to do is nothing so from now on we have at least one day a week where we are staying at home just mooching and relaxing.

Hope you muddle through the juggle , see you on the other side!