The Holiday Gift Guide is up now on the TenderCargo.com front page. We found so many fun gifts this year – naturally, most of them are in our growing toy section for babies and toddlers.

Many customers opened wishlists and registries at our store this year – and we’re seeing a lot of people who have started their shopping already. At least at the moment, our store is still well-stocked for the busy weeks to come!

As always, orders ship same-day or next-day with the shipping carrier of your choice. Happy Shopping!

Check out the store Pikkolo page, we have 8 hot new colors in stock! 6 cool prints plus two nice new solids.  Sand is pictured here, the khaki tan with brown piping, where the toddler is showing off some sleeping hood action. There is also a dark brown solid, Cafe au Lait.

Compared to last year’s Pikkolos, these have a softer brushed canvas, which is especially apreciated on the head covering, which you see here has nice gathered edges and attached to slips on the shoulder straps. It is very useful for cuddling a child’s head if they fall asleep on the go, and also for sheilding them from exposure to sun, wind, or light rain. Of course, it is totally detachable, so if you don’t want to use it, you can just leave it home.

The new Pikkolo prints are Cloud, Jewel, Mocca Rouge, Pardise, Orbit. And then the solids, Sand and Cafe au Lait.  Also in stock are some of the summer colors, Flame, Jet, stone, and solid black, and these do have the new softer brushed canvas.  The Spa print is sold out but we’re leaving it visible because it has some detailed customer reviews and we don’t want those to disappear!

The Butterfly 2.0 is here on our Berkeley shelves!

Shown above in their redesigned packaging: Jacob, River, Mia, Ethan, Sara, Ava, Trinity, Carnival.  Of course, we also have the solids, Olivia, Avery, and Emma.

Lots of Emma in the batch of photos I’ll blog next.

Edit Oct 5 – Arriving on Tuesday Oct 7 are more Avery and River, which had been sold out, and a new color, Anaya, which is now showing on the store page.

Beco Butterfly 2 at Tender Cargo

En route today and just now opened up for orders, we have the re-designed Beco Butterfly Carrier in 10 prints and 2 solid colors, and 5 of those prints were custom made for our store! We chose the custom fabrics because they were favorites in older versions of Beco Carriers and we wanted to bring them on board for the version 2.0

The main new feature of this design is that the included infant insert is now totally removable!

Homemade photos of all colors will be blogged later this week

Edit: They’re here, see the colors on our shelf!

Edit: detailed photos of the whole carrier at the first Emma’s unboxing

A new view of the redesigned Pikkolo soft baby carrier packaging here on our shelves.

We have Spa blue circles and solid khaki color back in stock today, as well as a new choice, Flame red.

Another shipment is coming right away with more Somerset, Jet, and solid black.

Also, they come in improved new packaging.

We are excited to have outgrown our stockroom and are presently moving to a larger shipping location.

A few Beco Butterflies in each color are still at our usual stockroom and available for immediate shipment. But, all the rest of our stock was delivered Saturday to the new space and needs some time to be organized on the shelves before it will be ready for shipping to customers. Please expect that any orders placed on this 3-day weekend will require an extra couple of days to ship out, and then we will be back to our next-day-or-faster shipping standards. Thank you!

Sakura Bloom baby slings were on ET last week! They showed celebrities who use the essential collection double-layer Belgian silk slings.

For the rest of us, Tender Cargo just added a new line of Sakura Bloom linen slings. They are the Hana and Pure collections, priced $80-$120. We have solid pink, blue, green, and black, and also there is solid brown with pink or blue silk accents. They are very soft and supportive and easy to adjust, so they make a wonderful first sling or gift to somebody who already uses other fabrics from another brand.

All the new Butterfly colors are here! Mia, Ethan, Ava, blue Addison, Pony Express, and pink Sophia.

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The next shipment will be March 25. As usual policy, there are no pre-orders but you can ask to be added to an “interested” email list so you can be alerted as soon as the next ones come in.

It’s always nice when big boxes come and we can restock the popular colors we’ve run out of.

Today the good news comes from our BabyLegs and Moby Wrap sections