innocent mini movies competition

Get your creative skills at the ready because we've a great competition for you. You might have seen our tv ad by now? We had such fun making it that we thought we'd let you guys make the sequel. There's a €5,800 prize up for grabs (that's £5,000 going by today's conversion rate incase you're wondering about the funny number). The best videos will go to a public vote and the eventual winner will have their ad shown on tv.

We'd love to see what the best of Irish talent has to offer and we'll be giving away lots of smoothies and goodies to the best and funniest Irish entries, which we'll also post to our facebook page.

So, break out the silly props, practice your most dramatic accents, and have a go at making a video.

You can find out absolutely everything you need to know from our youtube channel. http://www.youtube.com/innocentdrinksltd

 

Friday visitors

Fridays are pretty great. In fruit towers, our Friday was made even better by a visit from Dave and Tom Houben.

Dave and Tom were visiting Dublin from The Netherlands and dropped in to say hello. We chatted about all things fruit, super heroes and how stripes are so hot right now (see below).

 
Helen, Dave & Tom, some super hero smoothies and a giant ball of wool

Thanks to the lovely Dave and Tom for dropping in to brighten up our day. Call back any time.

Back to school knitting

Text books out, turn to page 34, and complete exercises 1 to 12... sounds like a typical day at school. Not last Friday though, when we paid a visit to two schools and went all operation transformation and brought along bunting, deck chairs, bean bags, fake grass, lots of smoothies and a wonderful magician called Matt.

During last year's innocent Big Knit we received a whopping 15,000 hats from schools across the country. To thank some of the pupils involved for their effort and endless creativity we decided to pay two schools a visit to award their effort and innocentify their schools for the day.

First up, we dropped into St Josephs NS in New Ross to give a Best Group Knitters award to Sr Eucharia and her fifth class pupils who sent us an amazing 450 hats as part of the innocent Big Knit. Here's a photo of the school transformed for the day and with Matt the Magician entertaining pupils.

Sr Eucharia's class of 26 girls knit an incredible selection of hats from the very colourful, little girls with plaits, muticoloured ducks, and a mixture of hats in various shapes and colours. Matt the magician entertained the girls in between lots of singing, dancing and smoothies.

 


Next up was a visit to Loreto Secondary School in Kilkenny where we presented 2nd year pupil Lydia Cody with her Hat of the Year award for her black and pink feather hat. Here she is being presented with her prize along with teacher Miss Delaney (right), and Helen and Ali.

We'd like to give a special thanks to teachers Miss Delaney, Miss Hearne & Miss Murphy who got their students involved in the Big Knit and sent in over 100 hats. Without them and the staff at Loreto none of this would have been possible.

Lots of time for chilling out and taking a break from studying when we paid them a visit.

Here's a one last great big innocent thanks to all the teachers, school staff and pupils who got involved in the innocent Big Knit. Your effort and creativity really blew us away and we can't wait to get involved with more secondary and primary schools in the coming months.

Valentine's Day competition winner

Last Friday we asked you to tell us about how you're going to spend Valentine's Day and we offered the most creative answer some innocent smoothie goodies. Thanks to everyone who entered and congratulations to Irene D who came up with the best answer (and made us wish we were her Valentine).

Here's her answer.

My plan is: up in the morning, pretend I forgot all about the Valentine's Day. All as usual, breakfast with our favorite innocent smoothies and then I will casually suggest to my beloved to go for a drive and will take him to Athlone. There I will suggest stopping for coffee in this lovely hotel "before going back home to kids". But there will be a Hot Air Balloon waiting for us... Surprise!!! We will go up, will have some champagne while we are up in the sky. We will both love it; hopefully will not freeze to death,cuddling up to each other. And then he will discover that I have booked us for the night in the hotel and we will have a romantic dinner before retiring to our room for....why, more innocent smoothies of course... and what were you thinking about?!? Anyway, that's the plan more or less :)) (may be not the Hot Air Balloon and a night away this year, you know, times are hard...). But we will enjoy it regardless.

Valentine's Day competition

This competition is now closed. Click here to see the winner.

Tell us how you're going to spend Valentine's Day in the comments below and the most creative answer will win some innocent mangoes and passion fruits smoothie goodies.