The Bedbug

On the last Shopping Day of Christmas...

2009-12-20T04:05:00.000-08:00

Well, we made it.

For our final day Hot Wheels is burning rubber with up to 65% off RRP!

Don't forget we have specials on all of the past 12 days feature products, including Barbie at 20% off RRP!

Get your orders in by 3pm Monday 21/12 for pre-Xmas shipping. Any orders received after this time will still be shipped next business day but we cannot guarantee their arrival before Christmas.

On the 2nd Shopping Day of Christmas...

2009-12-19T03:16:00.001-08:00

2 days to go!!!

Our Sunday matinee features all things Barbie on sale for up to 60% off RRP! Fantastic choice for big girls and little girls, some items star Barbie herself, others are a vision in pink.

Crusty Demons still star with 20% off RRP from now until 21/12. Use coupon code CRUSTY at checkout.

Checking my list, nearly done... how about you?

On the 3rd Shopping Day of Christmas...

2009-12-18T04:50:00.000-08:00

We're fresh out of French Hens, but Crusty Demons at 55% off RRP should keep your true love happy this Christmas! On sale for 1 day only, Saturday 19/12.

Spiderman on sale for 20% off RRP for 3 more days. Use coupon code SPIDERMAN at checkout.

Enjoy your weekend,

Tania

On the 4th Shopping Day of Christmas...

2009-12-17T03:07:00.000-08:00

Friday 18/12 sees every boy's favourite web-slinger, Spiderman on sale at 50% off RRP!

In the spirit of giving, we'd like to give you 15% off all Thomas products until 21/12. Use coupon code THOMAS at checkout.

Don't forget our Xmas sale ends on Monday 21/12, our final shipping day before Christmas.

On the 5th Shoppng Day of Christmas...

2009-12-16T03:00:00.000-08:00

Save a massive $40.00 off Thomas & Friends Single Bed Quilt Cover Set! One day only, stock is limited, so drop by and grab a bargain on Thursday 17/12.

Get 15% off Winnie the Pooh until 3pm 21/12, using coupon code POOHBEAR at checkout.

Counting down the sleeps!

Tania

On the 6th Shopping day of Christmas...

2009-12-15T03:38:00.000-08:00

We're halfway there! Only 6 shopping days left in The Bedbug's Christmas sale.

An old favourite, Winnie the Pooh is on sale for up to 60% off RRP on Wednesday 16/12.

Transformers fans take 15% off remaining Transformers stock until 21/12. Use coupon code TRANSFORM at checkout.

Night night, sleep tight...

Tania

On the 7th Shopping Day of Christmas...

2009-12-14T02:37:00.000-08:00

Day 7 of The Bedbug's Xmas sale sees one of this year's biggest movie stars take centre stage once again. On Tuesday 15/12, for one day only, Transformers are reduced by up to a massive 66% off RRP!

Grab a 15% discount on Hi 5 until 21/12, using coupon code HI5 at checkout.

See you tomorrow for another sneak peek!

Tania

On the 8th Shopping Day of Christmas...

2009-12-13T14:02:00.001-08:00

We're counting down... only 8 shopping days left on www.thebedbug.com.au!

For today's offer, we have that other toddler supergroup, Hi 5 on sale of over 40% off RRP! Limited stocks available, so don't miss out!

The Wiggles will be available at a 15% discount until 21/12, using coupon code WIGGLES at checkout.

If you haven't made your last minute lists and checked them twice, now is the time to do so!

Happy shopping!

Tania

On the 9th shopping day of Christmas...

2009-12-12T02:34:00.000-08:00

Day 9 of the 12 shopping days of Christmas sees The Wiggles headline at over 40% off RRP! Check them out at www.thebedbug.com.au.

If you missed Ben 10 on sale today, take 15% off our low prices at checkout using coupon code BEN10.

Enjoy your weekend,

Tania

On the 10th Shopping Day of Christmas...

2009-12-11T04:22:00.000-08:00

Tinkerbell was a popular little fairy today, with 50% off RRP. There are still a few Disney Fairies items left in stock, so if you have a fairy fan on your hands, brighten their day and ours with 20% off our usual low prices. Use coupon code FAIRY at checkout to receive your discount.

Saturday 12/12/09, our 10th shopping day of Christmas, sees the coolest kid in school Ben 10 on sale at over 40% off RRP! Snap him up and see your cool kid light up this Christmas. On sale until 11pm 12/12/09.

Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite...

On the 11th day...

2009-12-10T04:33:00.000-08:00

Our 12 Shopping Days of Christmas went off with a bang today, starring Disney's most famous character, Mickey Mouse at 50% off RRP!

If you missed out today, use coupon code MICKEY at checkout to get 20% off the already low price of all Mickey products until 21/12/09.

Tomorrow for the 11th shopping day of Christmas, we're sticking with the Disney theme, but this time it's fairies! Tinkerbell will be at least 50% off until 11pm Friday 11/12/09.

Happy shopping!

Bah Humbug?

2009-12-09T02:23:00.000-08:00

Is it just me or do I only seem to blog at Christmas?

After all of last year's ra-ra, and the wonder of Christmas the year before that, this year I have been well and truly caught up in the whirlwind that is Christmas 2009.

Gone are the hopes for a peaceful, enjoyable lead up to Christmas, with shopping done, cards mailed, santa visited and time for cooking and crafts with the kids... Instead, it's a rush of last minute shopping, one Christmas event piled on top of another (with a few birthdays and sporting team breakups thrown in for good measure!), no Christmas photo, poor old Santa has been sadly neglected and oh, does playdough count as craft?

Sound familiar?

For those of you who, like me, still have little bugs on your list to buy for, we would like to make the whirlwind just a little easier to manage with a 10% discount across the whole store. Just think of it as a gift from one frazzled, busy parent to another. And if you're not a frazzled, busy parent at this time of year then kudos to you and have 10% off for your organisational skills!

10% OFF STOREWIDE - use coupon code XMAS09 at the checkout (valid until 3pm 21/12/2008, excludes postage)

Stick around for our 12 shopping days of Christmas promotion (had to sneak a carol in there somewhere!). We will be featuring a different character/product each day at a massively reduced price, starting with Mickey Mouse on Thursday 10 December. Please note each daily offer is only available while stocks last.

Christmas Delivery - Orders taken until 3pm on Monday 21/12/2009 for Christmas delivery by Express Post (please check you are in Express Post Next Day Delivery network to avoid disappointment - see Australia Post for details).

Til tomorrow, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite !

Tania

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..."

2008-12-03T01:47:00.000-08:00

Well, the madness has officially begun. The carols are on high rotation in the stores, the lay-by's are piling up, the car parks are full and Santa's roaming the shopping centres, leaving a trail of tears and giddy destruction in his wake...

Welcome to Christmas 2008.

Have you made your list? And checked it twice?

Take the stress out of Christmas shopping this year and avoid the chaos at the shops by cruising and perusing The Bedbug online manchester store for all of your children's manchester gift ideas.

We have a selection of gifts for all ages, from stocking stuffers, to coveted character and designer bedroom features.

"Joy to the world"

In the spirit of Christmas, we would like to give you a present!

10% OFF STOREWIDE - just use coupon code XMAS08 at the checkout (valid until 22/12/2008, excludes postage)

FREE GIFT WITH EVERY ORDER

Christmas Delivery - Orders taken until 4pm on Monday 22/12/2008 for Christmas delivery by Express Post (please check you are in Express Post Next Day Delivery network to avoid disappointment - see Australia Post for details)

"Do you hear what I hear?"

The word on the street is that we are stacked with new summer stock, just in time for Christmas!

Check out new designs in Spiderman, Crusty Demons, Hot Wheels, Barbie, Go Diego Go, Bob the Builder, Cars and Disney Princess.

Looking for some hot weather gear? Look no further than our fantastic range of beach and hooded towels, great for the beach, bath or pool this summer!

We also have stock of the following gorgeous Treehouse designs: Princess Tiara, Pretty Petal, Jolly Lorry, Rumble Tumble and So Long Sailor.

Thank you to all for your support this year, it has been a busy one! We're looking forward to a wonderful year in 2009 and wish you and your families a wonderful Christmas and holiday period, and a safe and Happy New Year!

Tania & Cylie

P.S. Oh, and for those of you already planning your New Year's resolutions, here's mine - just one this year in the hope of actually keeping it . . . I resolve to blog more often (than twice in a year!).

Leap of faith!

2008-06-10T17:12:00.000-07:00

Ebay Shop closure

Some of you may have heard of the happenings over at ebay at the moment, with fee increases and restricted payment methods being the order of the day. The end result for you as a customer is increased prices, less bargains to be found and less options for payment; namely PayPal or cash on pickup.

At The Bedbug, our promise to you is to offer genuine first quality children's manchester at discounted prices in a flexible shopping environment. In order to continue to deliver on this promise, we have made the decision to close our ebay store and trade solely from our online store www.thebedbug.com.au.

We are in the process of setting up a clearance section on the site where you can grab overstocked or discontinued items at bargain basement prices. We will also hold intermittent clearance sales on ebay - sign up to our mailing list to be advised of where and when!

Until next time, sweet dreams!

Tania

Happy New Year!

2008-01-26T14:09:00.000-08:00

I know, I know, it's all a bit late, but, well, life went and got busy on me.

Christmas came and went, Santa came and went, the tree actually came down before the end of January (one New Year's Resolution has been kept at least!)... unlike last year when my big bug kept begging me to take it down before his birthday - in April...

We scooted off to a gorgeous little fishing village for a relaxing family holiday with friends, one of whom managed to drag me off to every fabric related store within an hour's proximity! Needless to say I have renewed my acquaintance with my sewing machine, have a stash of gorgeous fabrics, and a list of over 20 projects on my wishlist!

Speaking of fabrics, my esteemed Bedbug partner Cylie (not content with renewing my personal fabric addiction!) has stepped out and set up an offshoot of The Bedbug, The Fabricbug! Featuring all of your favourite licensed characters, The Fabricbug offers 100% cottons, polycottons, thermal lined fabric, remnant packs, ready-to-quilt packs and Softies for Sanctuary - gorgeous handcrafted softies with profit donated to Adra - Women's Refuges. Check out The Fabricbug here.

With all of that, it has been a busy January so far for The Bedbug crew. Finally school holidays are nearly through and I for one am looking forward to everything returning to normal. Kind of.

We as a family are looking at a different kind of normal this year, with our big bug off to school for the first time! I don't think the little bug and I quite know what we are in for... apart from having to be terribly organised (I don't think I appreciated how easy I had it with kinder!), I am hoping for some more solid blocks of time to work on the bedbug and the aforementioned sewing projects, without all of the usual running around. Only time will tell.

With the onset of school, the big bug has upgraded his room, with the addition of bunks and of course, big bug bedding... The choice was a Transformers design, with the little bug selecting Spiderman as his hero of choice for the transition from cot to big bed later this year (yes, I am still in denial...).

Quick Treehouse update: we have new stock arriving in the next week, so if you are looking to upgrade your little bug's bedroom with some gorgeous designs, stay tuned...

In the meantime, enjoy these last few days of holidays and to all of those bugs (and parents) making the step to "big school" this year, good luck, Ill be thinking of you!

Tania

www.thebedbug.com.au

Santa Claus is coming, Santa Claus is coming...

2007-12-02T21:33:00.000-08:00

"Santa Claus is coming,

Santa Claus is coming,

He's not very far away,

Time to hang your stockings up,

Tomorrow's Christmas Day!"
Hi-5

Now, we don't even do Hi-5 in this house, being that there are 2 boys who are not even remotely interested in the singing, dancing phenomenon, but when I heard this song played at kinder today I was so excited! Despite not being a Hi-5 household, I love this song! This song is the only reason I watch Carols By Candlelight at the Myer Music Bowl on Christmas Eve, long after the kids have gone to bed; it gets me through numerous Ray Martin sightings and at least one Dennis Walter song; and yes, I stand up alone in the lounge room and do the actions, don't you?

Hearing it today made it real that Christmas is just around the corner and not in a stressful "better get the shopping done!" kind of way, but in a joyous, "yay, Christmas is here, let's decorate the tree, bake goodies for the neighbours, catch up with friends over juice and bubbles and let's really enjoy it, let's look at it through the eyes of the children in our lives and see the magic and wonder of Christmas again" kind of way. Suffice to say I could go on and on (more than I already have), but I should probably stop, right about...here.

So, for our festive friends of The Bedbug, we have decided to bestow some Christmas cheer on you all and offer a 10% discount on our already low, low prices!

Enter the coupon code XMAS07 when purchasing to receive 10% off at the checkout (excluding shipping charges).

Offer ends 19 December 2007.

We also have some fab character facewashers to give away as a Christmas gift from The Bedbug for the first 30 orders. Use together with the gift or as a stocking stuffer, you can't go wrong!

So spread some Christmas cheer of your own this year, see a child's face light up when they see their favourite character appear as a regular friend in their room and save yourself some Christmas cash at the same time. Oh, and don't forget to sign up to the mailing list for more gems like this one!

Until next time, enjoy the festive season and may your Christmas be full of love and child like wonder...

Tania

www.thebedbug.com.au

New Stock!

2007-11-26T21:17:00.000-08:00

Another Bedbug blurb to let the manchester fans among us know we have received new stock in this week.

WE HAVE DORA!!! She's hard to get and even harder to keep, so get in quickly to make sure you get your Dora fix for Christmas!

New favourites joining us this week are:

Spiderman, Shrek, Harry Potter, Mickey Mouse

and others with new stock:

Disney Princesses, Cars, Transformers, Barbie.

We have also brought in a range of fantastic Disney plain curtains for those of you who don't want your whole house taken over by the kids' favourite characters! In red, pink, purple and green, these blockout/thermal lined curtains match a variety of our Disney quilt covers.

Lastly, we have signed on to stock the gorgeous Treehouse Kids range and should be receiving our first shipment later this week. Be sure to check back for some great specials!

Check out our new additions at www.thebedbug.com.au

The Bed Bug story...

2007-11-17T21:05:00.000-08:00

Once upon a time there was a mum from the burbs whose little boy was mad about Thomas the Tank Engine. After decking out his bedroom in all things Thomas and seeing the joy it brought him, she thought she might spread the joy and try selling character quilt covers on ebay.

She started off small and made a little extra cash to support her shoe shopping and handbag habit. As word spread of her great prices and fantastic customer service, she introduced more characters and a greater range of products. Before she knew it she had a fully fledged business on her hands! Oh the shoes! Oh the handbags!

The next logical step was to set up her own manchester store. The Bedbug online store was born, offering customers a fun, easy and affordable shopping experience. With an accessible and easy to navigate site and customer service just a quick email away, you have time to browse at your leisure, without interruption. And low overheads mean we can keep the prices down, even lower than ebay! Hurray!

So the shop was launched, the kingdom was saved, the princess found matching shoes and handbag to wear to the ball and everyone lived happily ever after...

In the words of a young man I know “blah blah blah, the end.”

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