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Yes, to get where we are today has been a long journey, and one that we are still on. Our formulation is something that we’re always looking to improve. We have just completed a PhD on our Bubbles, and currently have a Chemistry intern working on some new surfactants. Image credit: Ellie Walker I am guessing your company is named after your son? What caused you to think of Dr Zigs in particular? I am SO looking forward to meeting up with ALL of you wonderful friends and toy industry peeps over the next couple of weeks! And more than anything I'm looking forward to awesome buyers coming to find us :D And for 2023, the year ahead we are planning big, and I can’t wait to share this new journey with you, and I’m excited for all of you to be a part of it too - but for now, a few beautiful Bubbly memories - the best of times, the best of 2022.
If YOU are a buyer - come find me and Dr Zigs at the Messe in Hall 3 B45 (or I'll be walking London) - my calendar is getting busy but I do have spaces so please get in touch. If you are not a buyer - but know of someone who you think should really really be working with us - please do send them our way. We may even put them (and you) IN a Bubble. A leading brand that has revolutionised the world of bubble-making with its exceptional products and innovative approach. Driven by a passion for bubbles and a commitment to quality, Dr. Zigs has created a range of bubble solutions and accessories that have captured the hearts of both children and adults. Their mixtures are carefully crafted to produce incredible bubbles of various sizes and shapes, providing a captivating and enchanting experience. I take time to look through pictures, 2022, suddenly very much 'the past', and those defining moments that marked our year. A year as ever full of challenges, but brimming with successes too. So come with me and let us delve a little deeper into this bubbly world, as you watch the Dr Zigs story unfold and get a feel for what they stand for and take a peek behind the scenes I hope you will find this as interesting and inspirational as I did. What we do at Dr Zigs essentially is all about love. Since the very beginning one of our taglines has been #ShareTheBubbleLove and it is sooo true, and true of our work every single day.Dr Zigs is about spreading love and laughter to as many people as we possibly can. It’s about having a toy that is made for sharing, and a product that is designed to make people smile. With winter on our doorstep, there’s plenty of fun to be had outdoors with Dr Zigs Bubbles and we’re going to equip you with all the stuff you need to turn your extraordinary bubble into a beautiful frozen orb! Wait for a COLD brrrrrr day! The temperature needs to be around freezing and you will need zero to minimal wind. Wrap up warm! ALSO with our awesome WiT - Women in Toys, Licensing & Entertainment Sustainable Learning Community we will be hosting meet ups - in London and in Nuremberg, let me know if you're interested in being part of this exciting and dynamic happening in our industry and I can send you an invite.
I will be doing a lot of outreach work about this over the next year, and joining the ship in March – April 2020 in the South Pacific. As part of this we have just launched our #Bubbles Not Balloons campaign against mass release helium balloons, which have been proved to be the biggest single killer of marine birds. And to those of you at the Toy Fair - see you in New York! We’re on the Spielwarenmesse World of Toys pavilion, Level 3 booth 1882 That we LOVE working with Babipur!! Being able to work with a local company that shares the same values and that is also striving, and being an agent of change is inspiring and totally fitting.AND being able to share our bubbles and story with amazing women and parents and kids. Together we can change the world 🙂 Thank you so much Paola for sharing your story and journey with us. We really appreciate it and consider it an honour to be part of the ongoing outreach through the amazing Dr Zigs bubbles. I have also had the HUGE honour of being selected for Expedition.A women only, round the world sailing voyage researching and studying ocean plastics. It’s incredibly exciting, as we will be looking in depth as what is happening with micro plastics across our oceans.It’s women only to celebrate women in STEM and women in exploration – and it’s incredibly appropriate as it’s becoming increasingly evident that micro plastics are particularly damaging to the endocrine system in and women’s hormones.
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Frozen bubbles are of course super fragile. It is the water content (in our bubble mix it is approx. 95% water) that is freezing. I’d like to share some of these moments with you. I have to choose only 12 of these images to use in our annual calendar that we will print and have in the office (and a few copies for any of you who would like one too). I’m finding it so hard to narrow them down and I would love your help. I’ll share a few here - but also a link to a bunch more as an album to facebook, and see which ones you all like the most. Or if you have your own personal favourites do add in the comments and share them with us too. Ziggy used to get those contagious giggling fits when he saw bubbles. You just want to hear more – just like you have to do ‘just one more’, bigger and better bubble 🙂 Without giving away your secret ingredients of course, can you explain what the process to create bigger better bubbles was like? Were there lots of attempts? Or you could simply try blowing bubbles from our normal giant wand, by holding your mouth really near the bubble film and giving it a blow! You can also hold the bubble film out, and just watch the ice crystals growing on that :)
Since I’ve written this the terrible earthquake in Turkey and Syria has hit. For years we have worked in the camps in Syria, and in Turkey we have wonderful colleagues. Our heart goes out to those affected in both countries. We will be reaching out and supporting as we can. Yes, absolutely. I used to make bubbles with my hands using soap in the sink, or at bath time. Hours of fun 😉 As you got older did you have any interest in science or in the creativity of anything in particular? Ziggy and I were on the streets last Friday with the General Climate Strike. Dr Zigs was closed for the day so that all our crew could have the opportunity to take part. We’ll be supporting the Extinction Rebellion action in London early next month too. We’re also working on getting the bubbles into some of the camps in the Yemen at the moment.Not an easy task. What is coming up with the Dr Zigs business? Over the years Bubbles Not Bombs has evolved – from helping orphans in. Kenya on the rubbish tips, or some of the poorest kids in Romania, we then moved on to focus on the growing humanitarian crisis that evolved from the war in Syria. Now we have expanded further. We support our local children’s hospices, our bubbles are used every day in our local kids ward in Ysbyty Gwynedd, we work with dementia patients, we work with kids with Acquired Brain Injury. Climate change is making its own refugees with sea levels rising, extreme weather events and economic meltdowns, and it’s important to me that we help where we can. One of our most popular hire kits in our In - A - Bubble kit which super excitingly has just had a makeover!!
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It’s about the so very many of our customers who buy our Bubbles to gift, to pass on, to share. Because every single one of our Bubbles is filled with love, and every single kit is filled with at least a thousand Bubbles, and for this year alone, for the number of bottles of Dr Zigs we sold, there were approximately 20 MILLION Bubbles in the world. And if each one of these Bubbles is soooo filled with love, that’s a mighty lot of love that is now in the air. We are seeking agents and distributors. Please pass it on and join this next stage of our grand adventure. WHY WE’RE THE BEST: Our multi award-winning kits and mixtures are all entirely UK made and unlike cheap imports our wands use no plastic – they’re made from sustainably sourced wood with 100% untreated, unbleached cotton ropes – no plasticized string for us. We’re much more eco-friendly than other makes as our non-toxic bubble mix is fully biodegradable and contains no phosphates so it’s better for the environment and for children! A lot of super exciting Research and development later and here it is!! Our brand new IN - A - BUBBLE MOATS!! Join our #BubblesNotBalloons pledge to help prevent plastic waste. Making loads of beautiful Bubbles is a safe and environmentally friendly way to celebrate events and remember your loved ones, without leaving a negative impact on the planet.
If you have followed our journey over the last 13 years - from my kitchen table and three kids in tow, to market stalls, to pop-ups, to garden shed, to large scale festivals, to retail, to factory, to eviction, to rehoming, to further growth, and finally to today, and to outsourcing, you will know what a ride it’s been. Yet, that exhaustion is tinged with nostalgia already, that feel, that subtle emotion. For sharing a space, such an intense experience, with industry friends, with people living the same passion creates a complicity hard to describe. From invaluable exchanges with peers to meetings with those leading the industry, inspirations and mentors, so kind and generous with advice, encouragement and words of wisdom. Simply priceless opportunities. We also now work specifically with the Youth Strikes for Climate Change and Extinction Rebellion, climate change is such a growing and urgent matter. Image credit: Hannah Allen Do you have a favourite special story involving a bubbles not bombs trip away? Fanciful, and it could simply be that a larger mountain range lies ahead. But knowing that I have done this, got this far, feels like winning a gold medal. And I want to take this moment to cherish this. And celebrate. In the best way I know how. With some HUGE giant Bubbles and a trip to the sea. Why not also try to put some bubble mix in a cup and use the straw (or our Foamer) to blow mountains of bubbles and watch what happens!
An invite to St James Palace (ooohhh) by the Department for International Trade (DIT), followed by the London The Toy Fair next week, then straight into the legendary Nuremberg Spielwarenmesse eG - so exciting and a LOT to do.
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