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It’s a new year and it’s time for some changes!  We are going to be changing our blog over the next few weeks so it's more interesting and useful  - if you have any suggestions on what you’d like to read, please comment below.

 

Competition! 

If you have seen any of our products in any magazines, newspapers or on TV, let us know by emailing info@ktwoproducts.com with the subject line “competition”.  Please put where you saw us in the body of the email.  So get looking through all your old and current magazines and look out for us on the TV to be in the chance to win a fabulous K TWO product!

 

Don't forget ... our sale is still on so grab yourself some bargains!

 

T&Cs: Competition closes at midnight on 31 January 2012.  Correct entries will be placed into a draw and a winner will be selected at random after the closing date.

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K TWO Christmas Do!

It’s that time of year again, when the K TWO team enjoy a fantastic night out to celebrate the festive season!

To start the night off, we drank some fizz in the K TWO office and did a "Guess the Baby" competition. We had great fun trying to guess who was who and there were a few suprises! Some of us used to be soooo cute! If only we had a K TWO Baby Journal for our our baby memories all those years ago...

We also exchanged our Secret Santa gifts that we have been looking forward to for weeks! Everybody was very happy with what they got, especially our Marketing guru Heather who got some retro Lucky Charms cereal – can you believe they aren’t made anymore?

However, most of us got our gifts from the beautiful shop Anthropologie – scented candles, gorgeous crockery and pretty household decorations. The packaging alone is just lovely!

After swapping presents, we went out for our Christmas meal on George Street in Edinburgh (see some pics of the K TWO team above)! Whilst eating, we enjoyed listening to some live music (accompanied by some of the K TWO team singing along) and drinking a little more fizz, before heading home with a bellyful of turkey and a bit of a fuzzy head! Do you have any funny stories from your work nights out? If so, let us know!

Not long now until Christmas...we hope you’ve all finished your gift buying!

The K TWO Team x

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Advent Calendar Time!

We all love a cup of tea with some chocolate in the K TWO office, so we love it when it comes around to advent calendar time, as we all get a daily dose of chocolate!

However, with the chocolate we also get a “joke” every day. We say “joke” because, well, they aren’t always funny! We’re posting the jokes every day on our Facebook page, so “like” us and you will also get the pleasure of hearing them! You can see the K TWO Facebook page here.

Whilst we’ve all been eating far too much chocolate, we have also being buying lots of Christmas gifts and have found lots of bargains!

Don’t forget you can grab yourselves a bargain by buying a K TWO Christmas gift set and also getting FREE DELIVERY! One of the most popular sets has been the Family Calendar and Diary which gives you a saving of £5...that’s one of the products at half price!

Have a great weekend!

The K TWO Team x

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The Countdown Has Begun!

We all know when the contestant numbers start to dwindle in the X Factor and Strictly that Christmas is just around the corner! That means we have to start deciding where we’re spending Christmas, what food do we need, but most of all, our gift buying now has to start!

Our biggest problem in the K TWO office is what gift to get for Dad? Having worked at K TWO for many years, we have already given him our fantastic (and very helpful) Vehicle Document File, so what else can we get them? I think socks and toiletries are the order of the day!

We have also just drawn our “Secret Santa” in the office, although some of us don’t like the “Secret” part! It’s always a challenge to find a lovely gift under £10, but we will be trying our utmost to get something fabulous! Unfortunately buying a K TWO gift is out of the question, but we will definitely be using our cute Christmas Labels when wrapping our gifts up! Do you do Secret Santa in your workplace? Have you ever had a really good or funny gift from a colleague?

We should also remember to say “Happy Thanksgiving” to all of our American customers. We hope you have a lovely weekend eating lots of lovely food and spending time with family! I think us Brits are truly missing out!

Happy Shopping everyone!

The K TWO Team x

PS. Remember we still have FREE DELIVERY to the UK on our website until the 30^th November 2011!

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How Organised is Your Family?

Being in the “organising” business, we all like to think that we are very organised in the K TWO office! We have different ways of staying organised: some of us like to write lists; some of us rely on our Birthday Card Book and some just have a sparkling memory...not many of us have the latter though unfortunately!

However, the one product that we probably couldn’t quite live without is our Family Calendar. Yes, even the staff at K TWO use the K TWO Family Calendar!

We stuff the handy storage pockets with our appointment cards and our party invites and write in all the dates that we never want to forget – nobody likes to miss their recycling uplifts do they? Or a children’s birthday party that your daughter has been looking forward to for weeks? The list is endless to the things we need reminded of!

Everyone uses their Family Calendar slightly differently, as you can see above! Vicki in our Marketing team has reminders for her monthly magazine subcriptions in there and Kerri our MD has noted one million and one plans for her two children!

What is your favourite element of the K TWO Family Calendar? Does it help you to stay super-organised? Let us know your thoughts and even send us a picture of your Family Calendar in action for our next blog entry! Just email info@ktwoproducts.com with subject line “My Family Calendar”.

Remember you can still buy your K TWO 2012 Family Calendar now with free delivery to UK Mainland until the end of November!

                                                               
                    
                      The K TWO Team x

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K TWO Bake Off!

It seems the whole country has got “Baking Fever” after watching the final of the Great British Bake Off last night. Our bellies have been rumbling just looking at the fantastic baking that was on show!

The eventual winner, Jo Wheatley, baked mini Victoria sponge sandwiches, white chocolate and raspberry pistachio meringues and mini banoffee pies. Delicious! We really need to get our hands on those recipes to store in our Baking File! In fact, perhaps we should send Jo one our fantastic Baking Files. She’ll need a safe place to keep all of her fantastic baking recipes!

The girls in the K TWO office are just waiting for Jo to bake a cake that is fat-free and calorie-free, but still tasty! Fingers crossed she finds it soon!

If you are getting into the baking spirit, remember we have lots of fab Baking/Cookery Products on the K TWO website! Our fab Baking File, Recipe File and Cooks Shopping Notes will keep you and your baking right on track!

Happy Baking!

The K TWO Team x

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Indian Summer!

Just when we had packed all of our Summer clothes away up into the attic, the weatherman comes on to say that we are going to have an Indian Summer! It was only last week that we were talking about Christmas gifts, but in this weather Christmas gift buying seems a long way away (it’s actually only 88 days until the big day!).

We’re not complaining though! I think most of us in the K TWO office will be nipping out on our lunch break to catch the rays and maybe even organising a BBQ when we get home. If only it was this nice all year round!

Don’t let the weather distract you from Christmas gift buying though! We have lots of lovely stocking filler special offers until Monday 3^rd October, so why not get your shopping done online? Then you can put your feet up in the back garden safe in the knowledge that your friends and family have some lovely K TWO gifts coming their way!

Enjoy the sunshine!

The K TWO Team x

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K TWO Fashion Week

Everyone in the K TWO office has been loving the images coming from London Fashion Week this week. The dresses, the shoes and the celebs that attend the shows make it all look so glamorous - even Pippa Middleton was there! It’s safe to say that we have seen plenty of gifts we would like for Christmas on the runway!

Whilst there have been lots of designer names there like Julien MacDonald, it seems that pop stars have been taking over the runway with Cheryl Cole and Beyonce debuting their fashion lines. We all love Cheryl’s new shoe range, so they are definitely on our Christmas gift wish list!

In fact, I think we may have to get our Christmas Card Book out and start using the extra little notebook to keep a note of our gift list for Christmas!

Have you started Christmas shopping yet? Hopefully our helpful email reminders have helped you to start getting organised!

The K TWO Team x

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TV Time!

It’s probably the same in every work place on a Monday morning, everyone asking each other how their weekend was and what they got up to, etc. Well, this weekend it seems that everyone at K TWO had a quiet one in front of the telly! But can you blame us?

We are all big fans of The X Factor, so there is reason number one for staying in on a Saturday night. This week we were all blown away by Jade from Fife...most of us joined Kelly Rowland and had a good old sob as we watched! She has to be our favourite so far, even more so because she doesn’t live too far from the K TWO office! Did you watch it?

We were also glued to the new game show Red or Black. We can’t believe it took so long for someone to come up with this simple concept! It got us thinking about what we would do if we won £1million...lovely holidays, new houses, amazing clothes and lots of gifts for family & friends. We wouldn’t give up our work though; we have too much fun working at K TWO!

What would you do with one million pounds (apart from buying all of your gifts from the K TWO website!)?

The K TWO Team x

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Bank Holiday Time!

Bank Holiday weekends are always lovely: BBQ’s, long lies and generally just relaxing...well, that’s what we all imagine the perfect Bank Holiday to be anyway! In reality, we spend most of our time on the motorway, eating Chinese takeaway because it is too cold and wet for a BBQ and painting the spare room! Or, you may be at work like some of the K TWO team are today...

There are a few people off for the Bank Holiday though – Matt our Sales Manager is off on a golfing trip down in Cheshire and Paul in the sales team is off to Portsmouth to visit his in-laws. I hope he took them some lovely K TWO gifts to keep in their good books! A Recipe File for mum and a Vehicle Document File for dad maybe?
Some of you may also be off to the Notting Hill Carnival today! It looks like a lot of fun, especially the dancing and the colourful outfits! Have any of you been before? We’d love to hear your stories!

Whatever your doing this Bank Holiday, we hope you have a lovely day!

The K TWO Team x

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Celebration time at K TWO!

We are very lucky here at the K TWO office, as whenever any of us have a birthday, we are all treated to some fizz and cake. However, on this occasion it was extra special, as our super talented designer Elise was celebrating her 30^th birthday!

From the moment she got to work she got the VIP treatment, as we had banners on K TWO’s main door and decorations on her desk too. We tried to organise her fizz and birthday cake in secret, but she knew exactly what we were up to when we all disappeared downstairs without her!

Elise will be going off to New York to celebrate the milestone, so everyone at K TWO clubbed together and got her some dollars to spend whilst she’s there. She’s can’t wait to hit the shops when she’s there, so hopefully she’ll be able to buy something extra special for herself! She will most definitely be visiting Bloomingdale’s...maybe she will buy a nice Mulberry handbag and let all the K TWO girls take turns in using it? Here’s hoping!

We also used K TWO's super cute Sticky Labels when we were writing and sealing her card. The first thing she said when she looked at the envelope was...”These pretty labels look VERY familiar!”

Are you celebrating any big birthdays soon? Or can you remember doing something great for your 30^th? Let us know!

Happy Birthday Elise!

The K TWO Team x

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K TWO Out at the Festival!

We are a lucky bunch here in the K TWO office, as our MD Kerri takes the team out to a show at the Edinburgh Festival every year! In the past, we have seen The Ladyboys of Bangkok, Kevin Bridges and Jason Byrne, so we always have lots of fun.

This year we are going to see a new Scottish comedian called Daniel Sloss. We have seen some fantastic reviews, so we are all really excited to see him. The show is being held at a venue called the Spiegeltent which has lots of outdoor areas to eat and drink, however as the heavens have well and truly opened up, I think we might just settle for a nice indoor bar somewhere!

Comedy isn’t all that you’ll find at the Fringe though, as there is theatre, poetry, dance...it is the biggest arts festival in the world after all! If you haven’t been before, we would thoroughly recommend it! You’ll get all the information that you need on the Edinburgh Fringe website.

Have you been to the Edinburgh Festival before? Tell us all about your experience!

We'll be sure to upload our own review of Daniel along with some photos soon!

The K TWO Team x

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Hats off to the Royals

Another Royal Wedding has been and gone, and wasn't it fabulous!  Zara looked understated but simply stunning. And yes, ok her hubby brushed up not too bad either.

It was a gloriously sunny day in Edinburgh and the streets were lined with wellwishers.

However, the big talking point in the K TWO office is the Hats!  There were a few 'nice ones' and a few 'not so nice ones'.  What did you think of them?  And do you have a favourite?  Our favourite of all the Royal Ladies would have to be Sophie.  And what about Beatrice - did she get it wrong again or was this one slightly more fitting than the last

And then of course the Queen herself - doesn't she always look so well.

 

 

 

Let us know what you think?

The K TWO Team x

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Another Royal Wedding

Edinburgh is getting ready for the latest Royal Wedding!  Ok, it won't be as grand as William and Kate, but we are excited all the same.

Saturday will be the turn of Zara Phillips and England Rugby star Mike Tindall.  They will be married at Canongate Kirk on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. 

A few of us at the K TWO office will be heading into town to try and sneak a peak and the happy couple, and will be looking out for William and Kate too.  There is a huge buzz around the city centre and also at Ocean Terminal where the Royal Yacht Britannia is hosting a drinks reception for a select few on Friday evening.

Although there won't be as much planning needed for this Royal Wedding, we are sure Zara would have had a little help along the way,,,,,,, perhaps she even had the help of our fabulous Wedding Planner!

Good luck to the Happy Couple!

The K TWO Team x

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It’s Holiday Time!

It seems that everyone is on holiday at the moment! The K TWO office in particular has been very quiet as nearly half of the team are on holiday – not all together though we don’t think?

Karen in Sales has been sunning herself in Portugal, Rosy in Finance has been visiting the gorgeous sights near Ullapool in the north of Scotland and our Marketing guru Mel has been visiting family in England!

As nice as all of these holidays sound, I don’t think that anyone can beat the holiday that Kerri, the MD of K TWO, is currently on. She is on a beach break on one a gorgeous Thai islands with her family for a very special occasion – her brother is getting married!


I’m sure the K TWO Wedding Planner that Kerri sent them kept them very organised!

As you’ll see above, it looks like she is having lots of fun. We weren’t jealous at all when we got this picture emailed through yesterday!

Are you going away anywhere nice this summer or have you just got back from a holiday? Let us know all about it in the comments section below!

Have a great weekend!

The K TWO Team x

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Baby Beckham is here!

We all hate the doom and gloom around in the press at the moment, so everyone at the K TWO office was thrilled to hear that Victoria Beckham gave birth to a little girl yesterday.

There’s been a lot written about the name, but we all think that Harper is beautiful. And as for the ‘Seven’, there could be so many reasons that they have chosen it. It is not only supposed to have a lot of spiritual meaning, but it was also David’s famous squad number and Harper was also born on the 7^th hour on the 7^th day of the week and on the 7^th month!

The one thing that melted our hearts more than anything was the thought of David having a bit of a cry at the birth (everybody say “aww”)! He announced the birth on Facebook with some wonderful words that nearly made us cry too:

“I am so proud and excited to announce the birth of our daughter Harper Seven Beckham. She weighed a healthy 7lbs 10oz and arrived at 7.55 this morning, here in LA. Victoria is doing really well and her brothers are delighted to have a baby sister xx"

So, congratulations to the Beckhams. A K TWO Baby Journal is on its way to you!

Why not tell us your thoughts on the new arrival on our Facebook or Twitter page? Or you can also comment here on our blog too!

The K TWO Team x

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It’s Baby Time!

We are all feeling quite broody in the K TWO office this week, as our Production Manager Gill is about to go on maternity leave. We had a lovely team lunch to wish her good luck and presented her with some really cute baby gifts that she will hopefully get lots of use out of. We also couldn’t miss the opportunity to give her a K TWO Baby Journal, Baby Album and Baby Notebook...I think they were her favourites!

Less importantly, Victoria Beckham is also expecting a little girl in the next few days. We all thought it was going to arrive on Independence Day, but it seems that Baby Beckham still isn’t here! Whenever her baby is born, it is sure to be one beautiful baby...with a dad like Becks, there is never any doubt!

So, massive good luck to Gill. We will all miss you in the office and are looking forward to our first visit from Baby Robertson already!

 

And whilst we’re saying good luck to Gill, I suppose we should also say good luck to Posh too. I’m not sure if she’ll bring Baby Beckham into the K TWO office, but we might just have to buy a copy of OK! Magazine and have a nosey there!

Are you expecting soon? Good luck if you are!

The K TWO Team x

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