Important information... How to fold a fitted sheet

Ok, despite sharing our “how to fold a fitted sheet” secrets with you in a past newsletter, we’re still getting emails of distress asking us for tips on how to fold a fitted sheet.

Now, pay attention, we’re guarding these words of wisdom like it’s the recipe for coca-cola and putting them straight back into the Bear & Duck safe.

Folding a fitted sheet so it sits nice and flat has the same degree of difficulty as nailing an inward one-and-a-half somersault with two twists off a three-metre springboard…

However, with our instructions there is no longer any excuse for your fitted sheets to be rolled up in a crumpled ball at the back of the linen closet. Follow these easy steps and you’ll be thoroughly qualified to work with the rest of the packers in the Bear & Duck sheet-folding room. These instructions are for right handers so do the opposite if you’re left handed.

1. Hold the sheet inside out by two adjacent corners of one end. Position your hands inside each of the corners.



2. Envelope your left hand corner with your right hand corner. With your right hand, pick up the corner that is hanging down in front and fold it over the two corners in your left hand.



3. Pick up the last corner and fold it over the three corners. The sheet will now be right side out.



4. Lay the folded sheet on a flat surface so you can straighten it and tuck in the elastic as you go



5. Fold the sheet into a rectangle and then fold it up until it is the size you require.



6. You now have a perfectly folded fitted sheet. Well done!

Extreme measures for extreme shoes...

Cities around the world are wrapping up their Fashion Week exhibitions so, being the fashionistas that we are, we’ve been reviewing some of the articles on fashion trends, forecasts and faux pas from the UK, NY and Melbourne.

On one morning’s figurative flick through the online pages of The Age, we couldn’t go past this fashion article: “Deadly snake protects killer heels.” Mmmm… Five words that don’t really seem they should be in the same sentence. The London department store Harrods took a unique approach to store security and hired a security snake – a deadly Egyptian Cobra to be exact to protect a luxury shoe collection.



The Cobra’s security guard debut was for the launch of an exclusive footwear range. You’d think these shoes were made of gold to require the presence of a deadly cobra to keep sticky fingers away! Well actually, they weren’t far off gold. The collection did feature a pair of ruby, sapphire and diamond encrusted Rene Caovila sandals with a $152,700 price tag.

The cobra’s stretch as a security guard only lasted one day and its efforts proved more effective as a photographic feature than a shoe protector, although we’d still keep our hands behind our backs… no matter how well those jewelled shoes would go with that little black number.

And here we’re thinking our shoe boxes provided some fierce protection for prised foot wear. Although I think an Egyptian cobra, (did I mention they are poisonous?) might be taking too much of an extreme measure to protect canvas covered rubber Dunlop Volleys.

However, seeing we do specialise in fine Egyptian cotton, maybe an Egyptian cobra lurking around the office isn’t that much of a silly idea. Maybe a new name change is in order (we’ve only done it three times) Bear & Cobra, Cobra and Duck??

To view the article click here.

Our shorts have been spotted again, this time in Men's Health magazine. Our short shorts are not just for the ladies it seems!

You’re only as old as you feel…

Gone are the days when the biggest decision you had to make was whether to eat the blue playdough or the red playdough, to spin around in circles for hours on end or to paint the walls with mums bright red lipstick or dads shaving cream.

Being an adult means a playdough snack is exchanged for lactose free yoghurt, spinning round in circles is replaced with a spinning class and it’s your own red lipstick or shaving cream that you’re cleaning off the walls. Despite this, we can still enjoy the frivolity of childhood through a new generation of music for kids and families.

Channel your inner 5-year old and move your body, your heart and your mind to the music of Cha Cha Sam She doesn’t have a big red car, a television in her stomach or live in a garbage can but she does have a collection of songs that bring children and their communities together. Through music and dance, Cha Cha Sam assists in developing a child’s emotional intelligence.

Cha Cha Sam is a Melbourne music collaboration that dedicates its talents to making music that encourages kids to play and communicate creatively in the early years of growth and discovery… like when they eventually discover dirt might look like chocolate but sure doesn’t taste like it.

The toe taping, head bopping tunes you hear on Cha Cha Sam were made in close association with specialists in children’s health, education and disability to be inclusive of special needs.

So who is Cha Cha Sam? Cha Cha Sam is a cheeky pooch who was claimed from the pound by a travelling band, she helps encourage the folk/pop songs that the little tackers go (mashed) banana’s for. It’s the perfect way to tucker them out to ensure they have a rejuvenating night’s sleep.

Cha Cha Sam just recently launched Up in the Sky, which has seven songs with lyrics and themes to help in teaching your children important skills. Hello, Hello is a track that encourages the social skills of welcoming people warmly.

At Bear & Duck we’re not just all about the hotel comforts but also the encouragement of exciting, educational and different ideas that are helping to culturally and socially shape our communities and the way we interact within them.

So, we decided to give a few Cha Cha Sam CD’S away. If you can successfully name the last track on the Cha Cha Sam CD we’ll send you a copy. Visit www.chachasam.com.au to find the answer, email it to: blog@bearandduck.com and we’ll send you a free copy. You must be a member to participate.