KidsHaus and MY WOODEN ROBOT are both Blogs, just like this one! They just so happened to sift through the millions of cool products and sites out there on the web and chose to write about us! It’s fun getting blogged about…you feel special and you want to pay back the favor by sending traffic back to their cool sites.

The KidsHaus motto is Blending kids + design. The goal of this blog is to “search for that unique find that has been undiscovered and bring it to the forefront so that it might inspire something for your home” in the realm of children’s decor. A quote from the post about us: “The idea is simple and the repercussions are great…I could feel Jodi Bloom’s excitement jumping off the page which is inevitable when you’re making a difference in a child’s life.”

MY WOODEN ROBOT is run by a blogger and crafter…who realized [her] love of design and began a line of paper goods products beginning with stationary and leading into clothing in Fall 2008. She also likes to feature special items and other creative minds on her blog and that’s how she came across us!

Feel free to share with us some of your favorite blogs or one that you write yourself. Better yet blog about us! If you let us know when a post is up, we just might blog about you in return!

We just this minute added a new package deal to our product line called THE COMBO which includes a specially hand-selected 1-of-a-kind gently used recycled Tee with a screen printed googly-eyed monster + a Plain Jane Journal + two unadorned composition books that will be donated. Whew! How cool is that? We will continue to go thrifting for adorable tees for both your child and yourself. So be sure to check the site for new additions that celebrate the recycling of formerly owned items in support of a great cause!

Check out more tees being sold on MyRight2Write.com!

Come and say hi to the MR2W crew at the 2008 Sowebo Festival on Sunday, May 25th in Baltimore, MD. We’ll have a booth at this year’s festival and we’re bringing all of our Monster friends with us. No worries, the Plain Janes will not be left behind! The Monsters have agreed to share half of the table with them for this festive day. So, come and check us out! We’d love to meet you!

Ok, so I’m the owner of MyRight2Write.com and my daughter, Molly, is a 5th grader finishing her last year at Piney Branch Elementary, our first donor school. All that means is that we are the guinea pigs for road-testing the journals, and seeing how they can make a difference in our lives!

One day, Molly was telling me that while creative writing came very easily to her, it was harder to write something on demand (in class, for example)… that was an immediate response to a question. It was hard, she said, to think of something on the spot.

I suggested we use a pair of MR2W journals and that we make daily entries together in our own books. Each evening after dinner, one of us would think of a question and we’d both write an answer. Then we’d trade books. It was Molly’s idea that we write little comments in each other’s journals about our entries. This would give us practice not just in writing our ideas and thoughts, but in reading and commenting on other’s.

Here is one of our first questions: Why was your day so hard? We had both come home feeling tired and moody and maybe a little bit cranky. You know how that is after a long day at school or work! An unexpected bonus to writing in our journals was that we felt so much better after putting our feelings down on paper and sharing with each other. We decided to go out for ice cream to make us feel even BETTER and below you can see Molly’s comment on my journal entry. Great idea!

We are thrilled to announce our first donor school–Piney Branch Elementary–located in Takoma Park, MD. You may have heard of “The People’s Republic” of Takoma Park; Utne Reader once dubbed it the leftiest ‘burb in America! Progressive, diverse, and home to designfarm, parent company for MR2W, we decided keepin’ it local was the write thing to do.

There are other reasons that PBES met our criteria.

With 500+ 3rd - 5th grade students, PBES is a highly diverse school. Approximately 72% of the population is minority, with approximately 66% being Hispanic and Black. Approximately 40% of PBES students are disadvantaged and eligible for free or reduced meals.

MR2W has close to 100 books to donate as of this writing. With the support of the PBES PTA, and some PR outreach into our community, we hope to at least TRIPLE that number by September 2008!