Cloth Diaper Excitement!

I am so excited that the Great Cloth Diaper Change is less than a month away! This will be Adeline's second year participating. This year I will also be set up as a vendor selling my wares from my shop - Crafty Weeks. I also volunteered this year to help out with the event. Since I'll be a vendor I can't help much the day of, but I am working on blog posts for the sponsors!

So check out the blog and all the wonderful sponsors that are donating items for the raffle and some will also be vendors at the event.

Right now the location is in limbo as we are busting at the seams at the current location. This is awesome! It means the word about Cloth Diapering is getting out there and more and more parents have decided to go with Cloth Diapers. Using cloth diapers are amazing for your child and your pocket book! More people are noticing this, yeah! Go Cloth!

After looking at the above picture of Adeline, I think I'm going to try to change her into the same diaper this year! Which was her Tots Bots Flower Power diaper, the Fuzzibunz Elite one was what she was wearing before I changed her (maybe keep that the same as well!). As long as I can remember that is.

If you look really hard you can see Adeline and I to the left of the picture (I'm in a blue shirt). Source

You can also follow the Great Cloth Diaper Change - Roanoke/Salem on Facebook. If you decide to come on out and join us you can let us know on the Event page and make sure you fill out the Registration Form by clicking on Buy Tickets (no purchase required, just a link to Google document)

Been awhile!

Life has been busy around our household lately. Here is a cute picture of Adeline to tide you over till I can catch the blog up!

Pasta face!

Thin Mint Cupcakes

I am part of a local MOPS group and we rotate each month who brings dinner/dessert. So this month was my turn, and I really dislike cooking. So I decided to bake cupcakes! I went to a baby shower last Saturday for a friend and one of the shower hosts made Thin Mint Cupcakes! YUM! So I decided to make them for the MOPS meeting. I made sure to make enough for Alan and I too!

I wanted an easy recipe for this batch - I usually make cupcake and icing from scratch...but wasn't in the mood! So I found the recipe I used on allParenting.com - super easy! I didn't have any girl scout cookies (eek, I haven't had any this year!) so I got some Keebler Grasshoppers, which taste pretty close to the Thin Mints.

Love my Kitchen Aid!

For the icing you can dye it green and put flavor (mint) in it. I've never done that so it was pretty neat. We just used 3 containers of White Whipped Icing for 48 cupcakes and added the green food coloring and Peppermint.

So pretty!!

Then topped with half a cookie!

They turned out pretty good! For some reason a couple of my cupcake pans didn't like the cookie in the bottom of the cupcake. The cookie adhered to the wrapper! So I'm guessing they cooked too long in those pans, but one pan did it perfectly and all were baked the same amount of time. Oh well. Now I know for next time!

upa-lala Review - Eco-bags, Wet Bags & Baby Carriers

Recently I won a giveaway from Mom-A-Logues for a $25 Gift Certificate to upa-lala! I needed a new wet bag or two so that is what I got. I'd fallen in love with the fabric pattern Optic Blossom so I had to order wet bags in that pattern! I choose to get 2 small wet bags (7"x7") which are great for small trips to the store for Adeline's diapers.

If you are in the market for a wet bag or baby carrier (only on her website) make sure you check out upa-lala! Make sure you tell Brittan that Alison @ Crafty Weeks sent you! You can use the code Crafty10 for 10% off your purchase!

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Disclosure: I was not paid for my review, I was sent the items due to winning a giveaway. All opinions are my own.

Personalized/Custom Shirts and Onesies

I love being creative and making things! When someone contacts me to do a custom item for them it's a challenge. Being a SAHM (WAHM), there aren't many things that get my brain in gear - so being able to figure out how to do XYZ really helps.

A friend of mine in our local Playgroup is pregnant with B/G Twins! So exciting. I found out the twins theme for their room was elephants so I decided to make them matching onesies with their names. They are B/G so no confusing the two like same gender twins - but still cute to have their names on their clothes!

Another friend in the playgroup decided she wanted to order matching shirts for her daughters for their upcoming photos. She provided a symbol that had meaning to her husband and I was able to upload it into my program and cut the symbol out. Then we surrounded the symbol with flowers to make it more girly! The shirts are light pink, with flocked green and purple heat transfer.

Frequently customers will contact me through ETSY wanting something I have posted, but in a different size or color. Recently a customer contacted me wanting THIS in a different size. Due to the seasons changing we also decided to make it a short sleeve shirt. Since I am just a small operation I'm limited on what colors/shirts I have access to. The above pink shirts were ordered online, but for this request I had to look local. I wasn't able to find a light gray shirt - only dark gray and black. We went with the dark gray which looks great with the green tractor!

Queen Bee Card Swap 2013 - Month 1

I am part of a group called the Queen Bee Croppers of NRV, we try to get together once a month and have a scrapbooking/crafting day (or weekend) somewhere local so we can get a bunch done! At the end of last year a few of the ladies decided to do a supply swap and each month we would make a card in a theme starting in February. I got my pack of supplies from Liz and I gave stuff to Vivi!


Here are the topics to choose from:

Topics:

1. Free month!
2. General cards
3. Birthday cards
4. Hi cards
5. Christmas tags
6. Paper crafting items
7. Thank you cards
8. Non-Christmas tags
9. Congratulation cards
10. Get well cards
11. Anniversary cards

Here is the loot I got from Liz! (Ignore my messy desk, I've got too many things going on at once!)

So for my first month I went with Free Month. Since Easter is coming up I decided to make an Easter Card! First I cut up the purple Mulberry Paper to fit the front of my cards then tore it around the edges.

I decided to adhere the paper to the card with Paper Mod Podge since the paper is so thin and see through. Next I cut the sticker ribbon to fit on the front of the cards. I wanted to stamp on the front of some shapes but I don't have stamps anymore! I never used them so got rid of all of them. Oh well. So I used my Silhouette and cut out letters for each card then use my Sticker Maker. It's hard to tell in the below picture but I also used Stickles to create some bling on shapes. Then added a flower on some of the cards. No two are alike! I wish I had used a different color on the wording in the middle cards, but it shows up better in person I think.

If you want, check out some of the other ladies' blogs and their creations:


Carol


Kristy


Caitlin


Ginger - no specific blog post about the swap,but she has posted lots of cards she has made.


Pretty cool that most of us in the swap blog!