PumpkinProjects

Research & Insight
Product Design
Sourcing and Production Specialist
Toys and Gifts industries

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Taking part in the Design for Sustainability course from @UAL has really broadened my knowledge of the many ways I can apply sustainability in my design practice. There is so much we can do to make a real change!!
🌍 it is not about doing less bad but about doing more good 🌍

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🎊Happy Lunar New Year to all my dear friends in China and Hong Kong! Wishing everyone happiness, good health and roar-ing success in the 🐅Year of the Tiger 🐅and I hope 2022 will finally bring us back together!!!

#chinesenewyear #yearofthetiger #lunarnewyear #cny2022

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Beyond excited about @toyfairuk finally happening this week! Can't wait to see so many of you in real life! If you would like to meet I have a couple of slots left on Wednesday - just DM me, I'd love to meet up... although we may have to leave the hugs until next year ;)

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🎄Wishing you all a very Merry Xmas and a New Year full of joy and I look forward to seeing many of you in person in 2022🤞🏻This year’s gingerbread house was decorated by the kids all by themselves - it was hard not to take over the creative direction so I had to leave the room 😅

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Excited about the @TheToyTrust walk around the world in 80 hours charity event starting tomorrow. I'll be walking around Epping Forest as my PA runs back and forward chasing squirrels! Have a great weekend everyone!☀️🐶🏃‍♀️#toyindustry #toylife #toytrust #toytrustaroundtheworld

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Enough of the ‘lost generation’. Instead, let’s reimagine school for our children | Peter Hyman https://t.co/OS8nJlcl9Q

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Add your name to the open letter demanding that the self-employed are allowed to use our 2019-2020 tax returns to get support. Join me now: https://t.co/Ro9WEGflwW

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🎉Setting up a new business is not for the faint hearted at the best of times - even without a global pandemic added to the mix! This 1st year has been challenging but the opportunities I had and the people I have been lucky to meet and work with made me love my job even more!

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'This is revolutionary’: new online bookshop unites indies to rival Amazon https://t.co/UU0o3eWKTZ

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Campaign seeks 1bn people to save climate – one small step at a time https://t.co/VSk2SpZSzi

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Coronavirus in the UK: A poor schools’ pandemic https://t.co/Z6nJ6RRBR7

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Delighted to have taken part in the discussion about Outdoor Learning and Play in this insightful feature by ToyNews. We talk about the countless benefits to child development and how the toy industry can facilitate #Outdoorplay with innovative products
https://t.co/JCWWcWjwPw

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Please take the survey titled "The Changing Nature of Play during Lockdown". Your feedback is important! https://t.co/fDMfB260Zu

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Great catching up with @ToyNewsOnline to discuss the longevity of the toy market and the topics I’m passioned about #freeplay #circulareconomy #outdoorlearning
https://t.co/vww6YKSQcb
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#sustainability #toydesign #creativity #toyindustry #ecodesign #productdevelopment

[eileen chengyin chow @chowleen]

First graders back to school in Hangzhou, with social distancing headgear

The long horizontal plumes on Song Dynasty toppers were supposedly to prevent officials from conspiring sotto voce with one another while at court—so social distancing was in fact their original function!

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Don't turn your home into school ... the Lego professor of play on lockdown learning https://t.co/uXNLHTOsbH

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“My Wife Hates it When I Work From Home” — Banksy Shares Rats Run Amok in his Bathroom from Quarantine https://t.co/gqbeYx22QU

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Sharing my insights into how this crisis can be turned into an opportunity to assess what is truly important, from both a family and toy design perspective. Read the full article I have written for @MojoNationUK
https://t.co/OQ9FPM4he4
#toys #toydesign #isolation #StayAtHome

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Trying to make @RobBiddulph's Gregosaurus walk.... lockdown extracurricular activities - old style animation technique!

#learning #animation #creativity #familyfun #kidsart #creativekids #homeschooling #DrawWithRob #isolationwithkids #activityideas #oursensorymaths #eyfsideas

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Self employed to access FULL PAY through HMRC through this crisis: SELF EMPLOYED TO ACCESS FULL PAY THROUGH HMRC EARNINGS THROUGH THIS CRISIS - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/q45RRAsYGW via @UKChange