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HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAY
Find 3 Halloween Cats on our website this weekend and receive a free bottle of Lunablend with your order! Offer Expires Sunday, October 9th at Midnight. Sign up for our Monthly Newsletter to find out about future Lunapads sales and giveaways.

All Hallow’s Eve is just around the corner so just for fun, we have created scavenger hunt style giveaway to those of you who place an order over the weekend.

Here’s how to play:

1.  Find 3 black cats on our website (see right). Hint: keep a close eye on our product photos.
2. Click + Halloween Giveaway in your shopping cart before proceeding through checkout.
3. Email info@lunapads.com the same day you order with the subject line “Meow!” and list the 3 locations where you spotted them.

You may be wondering: what do essential oils and cats have in common?  Both are a great help for menstrual cramping and all sorts of remedies.  Lunablend is a combination of orange, lavender and geranium essential oils and can be massaged directly onto your abdomen or you can use a few drops in the bathtub.  A hot water bottle used in combination with the oil can be quite delightful as well.  Even better?  Lunablend and a furry friend to purr on your belly.

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I had an awesome summer working at Lunapads as a Marketing and Info Tech Intern this summer. Last year I was very lucky to work for Lunapads on the “Ditch the Disposables” and “Pads4Girls” videos.  Getting to come back for a second summer was an unexpected treat that was made possible by Industry Canada’s Small Business Internship Program.  The program provides small business enterprises with grants to hire post-secondary students to assist them in adopting e-business strategies.

This summer has been very eventful at Lunapads. To start, I got to do a lot more than just making videos! Working in a smaller business allowed me to take on larger and more diverse projects than what a large corporation would have allowed. Rather than your stereotypical Intern tasks, I got to tap into many different parts of the business, from Customer Service to IT to Marketing.

I was able to really sharpen my Marketing and IT skills under the supervision of Lunapads Webmaster Lisa. Seeing how the company operates from its backend, using my skills in social media as well as creating a video marketing campaign has been such an invaluable learning experience.  Seeing the actual results of my efforts in the form of more YouTube Subscribers, more YouTube video views, blog responses and number of contest participants has also been very rewarding.

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This weekend marks a pretty special birthday for me. On Sunday, I turn 28 on the 28th! Making it my Golden or champagne birthday, which some people believe to be lucky. Double awesome is that 28 happens to be the number of days in a Moon cycle. Triple awesome is that Sunday is actually a New Moon. I definitely consider myself a Moonchild.

We here at the Lunapads office feel that such a cosmic coincidence should be celebrated by all so we are offering you free shipping on all US and Canadian orders placed by Midnight PST on August 31st. Enjoy!

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 I’ll just cut straight to the chase for those of you with short attention spans: I am nuts about gardening, and the next 500 words or so are basically going to be not much more than variations on that message.

I was prompted to write this post when a friend and business colleague tweeted about how well some plants from my garden were doing on his downtown roof, and further how his jeweler wife had made a casting of a crocosmia (aka Montbretia, Jupiter variety in case you are geeky that way) bud, one of my great favorites, inspired by it. There are so many layers to that: sharing, life, growth, beauty, art: time for a post to celebrate it all.

I am a bit of a messy, creative, “just go for it” type of person, and my garden is no different: I don’t worry too much about what “should” go where, and kind of revel in minor gardening “transgressions” like mixing flowers and vegetables together in the same bed and being perfectly happy with the neighbour’s climbing plants making themselves at home on our side of the fence as well.

It kind of feels like a very large, slightly out of control laboratory/playground, where my family and hundreds of small creatures like to hang out.

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For all those living in Vancouver, I’m sure you’ll agree with me when I say – this summer has been quite a disappointment. When June arrived, I had unpacked my short shorts, stringy tank tops, and polka dot bikini (I swear I have one) in anticipation of blue skies and hot weather. Unfortunately, my high spirits were trampled by grey skies and chilly weather. I tried a couple of times to step out in a cute summer dress, only to run back home freezing with my tail between my legs.

Regardless of this un-summer like weather, I have been determined to enjoy my summer! Between our busy schedules, my boyfriend and I have been visiting  water falls, having picnics, enjoying free concerts in Whistler, spending way to much money buying Gelatos on Granville Island and strolling around downtown on the weekends.

As much fun as these activities have been, none of them compare to my favorite summer event: The Richmond night market. 

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Who doesn’t love a good deal? While you are going to save money no matter what with Lunapads and the DivaCup in the long term, I thought that it might be fun to create a list of all the ways that you can save even more when you shop with us. Here we go!

1. Sign up for our monthly newsletter. It’s easy, and not only will you get a $5 off coupon sent immediately to your inbox, you will be officially in the loop about all our fantastic monthly specials, new products, contests, giveaways, calls for sample testers and (to use Lunagal Sara’s term) random awesomeness.

2. Join our Facebook Page, and follow us on Twitter.  Similar great offers to the newsletter, only you get to know even faster!

3. Talk to us on our blog. This is where we post most of our giveaways, and all you have to do for a chance to win is post a comment. Subscribe via RSS or you might miss out!

4. Read awesome magazines like BUST, Mothering and Bitch. Watch for exclusive discount promo codes in the Lunapads ads!

5. Buy 3 or more of your faves. Receive discounts of $1 each with pad + liner sets of Lunapads, and $2 each for Lunapanties when you buy 3 or more.

6. Consider purchasing a Lunapads or DivaCup Kit. Our unique customized Kits help take the guesswork out of buying, and also save you 5-15%!

7. Don’t stop there: get $3 off a Moon Pad Bag when you purchase any Kit (includes DivaCup Kits – woot!)

8. In a similar vein, save $1 off Divawash when you purchase a DivaCup or DivaCup Kit.

7. Start a Buying Club with your Lunagal-pals. Buying Clubs receive 20% off every order of $300 or more.

8. Skip the shipping: Vancouver types can choose the “local pickup” option (you get to visit us!), and don’t forget that shipping is free for North American orders over $75.

9. Get a period makeover in our blog! Tell us what you’re currently using and what your cycle and lifestyle are like, and the Lunagals will work their makeover magic. Chosen entries receive a $15 gift certificate.

10. Ask the Period Fairy (verrry nicely, she can be a bit testy sometimes) Seriously – make a wish for any product on our site valued at under $50, and tell her via Twitter (use hashtag #periodfairy) or on our Facebook fan page. Every now and again she just randomly shows up here at Lunapads and grabs a few things for her fans. Wait, is that a fluttering of (organic fleece) wings I hear?

Note: Special discounts and promotions are totaled up in your shopping cart. Click the “Show Discounts Applied” link at the top right once you get there to see how much you’re saving!

Happy shopping, Lunagals!

Time for our next Women’s Month giveaway – and the winner is… women who do not (yet) use Lunapads!

Concerned that washing your pads might be too much work, not as comfortable as everyone else who tries them seems to think, or just not… quite… there yet? No problem – here’s your chance to win some, on da house!

Comment on this post (or Facebook, as that also seems popular) telling us why you’re curious but what’s holding you back to enter to win one of 3 FREE Sampler Packs. Winners will be announced in our April newsletter. This is a great opportunity for you already-there Lunagals to get your fence-sitting pals OFF the fence and ON to someplace way more comfortable: Lunapads!

It’s no secret that we live in a society where the majority prefer it if women keep their menstrual cycles, well…..a secret. We say to heck with that! We think women should be open about their periods and free to discuss and share it in whatever way they see fit. That’s why we’re having a photo contest on facebook! We’re asking Lunapads users to take a photo of their pad stash and upload it to the “I Heart My Lunapads” Facebook group. If your photo receives the most “Likes” from the group members you’ll win one of three Travel Kits! All you have to do is take a photo of your Lunapads stash or you and your favourite Lunapad and upload it to the group photo album. The group members will then vote for the winning image by hitting the “Like” button below their fave photo. If your photo wins the contest here’s what you get:

• An awesome pStyle “stand to pee” device in the colour of your choice
• A Peri Bottle to rinse your pStyle with
• A pack of 12 Wysi Wipes
• All packed in a Lunapads Travel Pouch!

You have until August 28th to enter the contest and winners will be announced September 1st.

So far we have received some very creative entries and we can’t wait to see what is yet to come. For more information on the contest rules etc. and to see the photos that have been entered so far, visit the “I Heart My Lunapads” Facebook Group. Come Show us your stash!

This post is about a few random things, but is mostly just a bit of background on the funniest video we’ve made so far.  It’s probably best to just go ahead and watch it first, then come back to read the rest of the post to learn how it all happened.

Was that funny or what?  My favorite part is the soundtrack in the elevator.  Seriously, go there – the food is really good, too!

Some background: when I first started dating my husband, he was living in LA, so I often flew down for little visits with him. We headed to the Encounter restaurant in LAX for dinner one time after he picked me up and loved it.  Subsequent trips to LA have not allowed for repeat visits, but it always provokes fond memories and a laugh when we happen to be there.  Suzanne and I were recently passing through LAX and I told her the story about it, not realizing that we would be stuck waiting for 5 hours there 2 days later.  When that happened, I insisted that we head over for lunch. To our delight we discovered that the Encounter was still going strong, lava lamps, kooky elevator soundtrack and all!

Inspired by a magnificent red lava lamp, we decided to make a video with a new product that we had just discovered: Wysi Wipes.  In case you don’t have the patience for the video, Wysi Wipes are handy-dandy little personal wipes that require only a bit of water to work their magic, and are biodegradable to boot.

As DivaCup users and Moms, we immediately appreciated their potential usefulness. One of those situations where what looked bad a first actually turned into something pretty good.  Enjoy, and don’t forget that for April we are offering 2 free Wysi Wipes (packaged in a Pochette) with all orders over $50, plus Wysi Wipe 12 packs are intro-priced at $2.99!

We are pretty excited to be offering the pStyle as the latest addition to the Lunapads collection. The pStyle is an ingenius device which allows vagina owners to pee standing up. That’s right! Stand up and pee ladies, go ahead you know you’ve always wanted to. While you’re at it, here is a song for you to practice your “pStyle pose” to:

For more about the pStyle and why you should be excited about it see Sandra’s post here.