Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Amping up the mei tai inventory

We got a boxer puppy recently. Jack, he's five months old now, and we took him to puppy kindergarten classes, but I'm wanting to get him "further education"! : ) So I'm going to start trying to sell mei tais more actively in the next couple months so that we can afford that! So yesterday I finished two more mei tais from some extra fabric I've been meaning to use. I hope to finish two more by Monday.

The one below does not have a pocket as I didn't have enough fabric to make one that would coodinate. So it will be sold for less.
For pictures of all the mei tais I have in inventory visit: http://coffmanfamily.weebly.com/milestone-mei-tai.html

Other things I've been sewing...

Skirts! Or trying to anyway. I have a nice freind that asked me to make her a long skirt a couple months ago. So I made two, because the first of my creations are always rough! These are pictures of the first one I made.

And then for Christmas I wanted to make the girls bubble skirts from some cute fabric I got at a good price. And i ended up making Cal a tie to match! : ) So fun! Not flawless, but still cute!

Happy Babies Part five

Here is sweet baby Chosen cuddled up to her mommy's back! Her daddy owns a barber shop and often cuts hair with Chosen on his back!! I'm still bugging them for a picture of that! : )
And here is Cal and I from yesterday. We took the kids bowling for lots of fun and a tired mommy and daddy! You can see the wet spot where Cal was chewing on the strap, lovely.


Saturday, November 7, 2009

The latest and other stuff...

This is my new sewing nuke in our new home in Georgia! It's in the playroom too, which is technically a formal dining room. But we decided that with young children a formal dining room that is carpeted is a joke! It's nice to have a good space for my sewing though. Usually the kids are playing behind me or napping when I'm sewing. I'm using a dining room chair for now, but we intend to buy me a sewing chair to keep at my desk eventually.
Here is my inventory as of November 6th. I have four and for the first time, most of them are girly colors!
This is one of the mei tai's I did this week. It's up for grabs.
And this is one that was ordered that I will be shipping soon. Everyone seems to love the poka dots!

Friday, November 6, 2009

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Why wear your baby??

Okay, so I wear my babies, and even my toddlers sometimes! But when they are little babies, it's a must for me. There is nothing I detest more then an infant carseat.

I developed this hatred when my second daughter, Bryse was a baby. Her feelings for the large plastic container were contagious evidently. Everytime I would put her in it to go somewhere she would lose it! I mean, horrible crying the entire trip. One of the biggest mistakes Robert and I have made in parenting was deciding to take a trip to Texas to see his family when Bryse was five weeks old, because none of them had seen her yet. It was a seven hour drive (that obviously took longer because we stopped so much to console her) and she spent an accumulative amount of 45 minutes NOT crying on the trip. It was horrible.

The last thing I would've ever done would've been to carry her around in the carseat. As soon as we got to our destination I yanked her out of the carseat as quickly as I could (I'm a huge rule girl, would never take my baby out of the carseat while driving down the road) and place her in the sling, mei tai, or just my arms. Where she would melt into me and stop crying. Even prior to my knowledge of "real" slings, I would use a snugli with my oldest (ACK! They are horrible!). She was more laid back, so I sometimes used the carseat as a carrier, but still didn't like doing it. It hurts! It's big and awkward! I can't wrap my mind around using it as often as some people use it! I've known some to carry their babies in carseats for as long as the first year!! My sweet babies are little for only so long! I want to snuggle them while they have that lovely baby smell!

Anyway, I thought I would share some pictures I found of people carrying carseats. Unfortunatly, the only ones I could find were of celebrities. Oh well, they still look awkward and uncomfortable carrying them.

This first picture is an advertisement for a strap you can use to attach the large awkward contraption to you!!! It has GOT to be a joke. My word.



And now, the alternative....baby wearing. Keeping your baby right up next to your body. Making life so much happier for baby and so much easier for you!!
This is my mom holding Bryse in one of the first mei tais I made. Bryse is asleep and Memaw is in heaven snuggling with her grandbaby! Now, if this was a carseat picture, the grandma would be sitting with a plastic container on the ground next to her. Baby out of her reach. : (

This here is Cal when he was a couple months old hanging out on me while I do stuff around the house.
There are so many great reasons to wear our babies! One of the main reasons for me, is that I don't want to lug around a huge carseat! Here is another list of reasons to wear your baby: http://www.twohipmoms.com/pages/wearing.php and http://continuum-family.com/index.php?main_page=babywearing
And one of my favorite sites to direct new moms to: http://www.peppermint.com/comparison.html It compares all the different types of slings so that you can choose which will work best for you!

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Our Family blog

http://coffmanfamily.weebly.com
On a personal note, I started a family blog for our loved ones to keep track of us! Enjoy!