Things I am inspired by + excited about
1. 3191 : A Year of Mornings
2. Blankets & baby stuff (love the modern mobiles) from this etsy shop: Quiltbaby. Going for an orange, red, yellow, and cream theme in the baby room.
3. Cloth diapers : I did it with Simon for awhile when he was between one and two and am going to go for it with this baby from the beginning.
Cloth diapers have come a long way from those in the past. If you are
interested in reading more this is a good place to begin. This site also has a ton of photos for figuring out sizing and deciding which route you want to go. I am going with a combination of Kissaluvs (which are called "fitteds"), Chinese Prefolds, and Thirsties covers.
4. Fabric gift tags via an older post on The Purl Bee - Purl Soho's creative blog (thanks for the link Kristin). Lots of inspiring visuals on that site.
5. This project by Janet Hopkins.
I am going to use this inspiration (and her how-to) as the jumping off
point for my December Daily album this year. You can see last year's project here:
basically it's a daily record for the month of December. The key is
that you get it all ready BEFORE December so you can just be doing
small bits each day of the month. I love how she used the old book
cover and the binder mechanism. A similar project (her class project for Creative Escape) can be seen here.
Happy Monday! What's inspiring you lately?
My husband and i were just talking about cloth diapers and homemade baby food while we were cleaning up from dinner this evening. We laughed that somehow we were really those people. I used cloth with our now 4yr old and I would so do it again. I loved using them. I didn't mind washing them (that's wierd) and I adored hanging them on the clothesline in the sun. Our clothesline was on the roof and the bright white (yeah, they came that clean) against the blue sky- I could sit up there all day watching them dry. But we just used the cloth diapers from Gerber that you can buy at Target. Diaper pins I remember being hard to find though.
This would almost be enough to make me want to take the plunge and have another one:)
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I am excited to hear so many others have had success with cloth diapers. I meet SO MANY people who think I'm plain nuts for using them. Didn't see anyone mention "Snappies" the most AMAZING alternative to pins. These are cheap ($2 each or so) and work great with prefolds. My source for all my CD's was
http://www.babyworks.com/catalog/Default.asp
They are in Portland, and have the best return policy I'v ever seen--30 days money back EVEN IF THE DIAPERS HAVE BEEN USED AND WASHED!! So you can try a bunch of different kinds and pick your favorite. They have snappies, too. Anyway, that's my 2 cents. :)
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Ali - I was in your album track at CKU Anaheim last year (A Week in a Life) and I wanted to let you know that you are inspiring me... In August I started a project I am calling 52 - Our Life in Weeks. I am using an 8.5x11 binder and making one page a week as I go. I am documenting our everyday life, thoughts and 'stuff'. I tried talking others into joining me and they said they don't "do anything"... but to me that is not the point. The point is documenting the everyday life we all have, not just the big events. Thank you!
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Ali,
Just had to share ... I attended a lovely baby shower this weekend where the mama to be received a mobile from the etsy shop you mentioned (red, green, brown, & white). Completely adorable, so well-crafted, and just plain happy. I'm sure you will enjoy - plus, now I have some more gift ideas for that mama to be, thanks to you! Thanks for the inspiration, as always. :)
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what great colors for the babies room. Love the idea.
I used cloth diapers for my last 2 and it is easier to start and the beginning. I used a few kissaluvs. thought they were great. Then changed to regular diapers and covers. But they were definately easier with the newborn. Snaps are so much better at that age.
good luck.
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Just another plug for bumGenius!, this one from New Zealand. Tried cloth with my son who is same age as Simon and gave up. Have 10 week old now and tried lots of options before trying bumGenius! and I must say I'm impressed. I'm sure you're over all the recommendations but I couldn't resist.
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Hi Ali!
I did cloth diapers with my last two kiddos and loved the money saving, environment helping aspects. I use Bum Genius All In Ones and love them. Super cute colors and easy to use/wash.
Also, I'm attending the Seattle CKC and was wondering if you are teaching the Pieces of my Life class? I'm super excited to spend a whole day on one project (I've always taken short classes before). Looking forward to seeing you there!
Rachelle
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hi ali!
just wanted to wish you well on the cloth diapers! we didn't do them with baby girl (now 3.5) but wanted to try with this baby (now 6 mos) and we LOVE them.
we just use prefolds and thirsties covers (if that's the route you're going, it's cheapest, and thirsties covers are THE BEST). plus a hemp for nighttime cause we found that this baby boy was a super soaker! we got the hemp (and the thirsties covers) at www.babycottonbottoms.com - great help there, too.
good luck!
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haha. since the gift tags were right below the cloth diapers I thought, "wow those are pretty breast pads!" guess you can tell i'm in the throes of breastfeeding these days! love your baby room colors! also, have you checked out Fuzzi Bunz? There great...they are fleece so the moisture is wicked away like a disposable.
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Love cloth diapering! We use BumGenius and they are AMAZING! My husband calls them the 'bionic' diapers. Fewer leaks than we were having with disposables.
Yeah cloth diapering mama!
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I so second that of the cloth diapers Ali!!! I have a very dear friend who while preggo said " I think I'm going to give cloth diapers a go" and when we look them up, we found a new world of these soft and colorful cutie booties! I mean even the snaps are super cool. I was the host of her baby shower and we did the cloth diaper as a big o'l group gift.
This to me makes you one cool mom Ali!
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ali
i had to giggle as i scrolled down and under the cool cloth nappies (i use peapods) were the cool round cloth circles - so i just assumed that you must have found funky material breast pads for feeding ! so i giggled to myself as i read that they were gift tags, thanks for that, :)
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congrats on your decision to go for cloth with the new little one :) the only cloth diapers that i use are bumgenius pocket diapers!! i love them! we've NEVER once had leaks or blowouts...i cloth diapered my twins, and now my youngest one too. good luck with everything!
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Great to see somebody else excited by Prefold Cloth Diapers :-)
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