Craftiness

Ok so I have been reading all the different blogs of the families who participated in the week long Flats and Hand Washing challenge. I really wish that I would have heard about it so that I could participate too! However I'm so excited because when we go camping or up to our family cabin, I can do cloth and wash them w/out a washer!! Something else is I'm so impressed with all the different ideas everyone has come up with to use for diapers and covers! I've come up with some of my own ideas for the diapers I made or things I'm using as flat folds!
Now I have read about someone who came up with their own idea for a wrap for easy babywearing! So instead of paying an insane amount of money, I could make one for free with 3 tshirts and a piece of yarn!!
I love being able to create/sew things for my family/friends! Home made means so much more and its so great to see poeple using things I've created!  I've recently started sewing burp cloths/wash cloths/nursing covers/boppy covers/wraps that I've been going to craft shows selling and having homemade baby things for my friends and their babies! And its even better to upcycle things and find new uses for things!!

My new obsession!

Ok so I have been cloth diapering our youngest for about 3m now and am still enjoying it!! No more having to buy diapers at $40/box. I wanted to use cloth with my middle child, but just couldn't get over the amount of up front money to buy what I needed. However a friend mentioned that she was making diapers and I thought, "I can do that!" so here we are and things are going great! The longer I use them, the more obsessed I become!! haha I am finding all types of blogs to read and websites to go to. Finding out that my idea to use hooded towels and recieving blankets is something common to other cding Mommas! So far, I've used old flannel my mom had from making dad a new shirt for xmas every year since they got married (30+) and old tshirts and made myself a bunch of prefolds. The only money I've spent is to buy 4 size M Motherease covers and 2 size 1 thristies duo wraps to start with and now I've purchased 6 more thirsties duo wraps size 2 and I love them! I would have only purchased the thristies had I known how much better I would like them! Now I'm getting creative about other things to use. All extra recieving blankets have gone into the diaper stash along with extra hooded towels and a few extra burp cloths to use as doublers for nites. I'm trying to decide what to do about the wool soakers. I would really like to find a good pattern to upcycle one I think, I just need to ask family/friends if anyone has an old wool sweater. I've also recently been turned onto the idea of fleece from one of the blogs I'm following and I know I've got old fleece pj's that could be upcycled! 
So I'm very happy with my switch to cloth and wish I would have done it sooner! And I can't wait to get my clothes line up so I can hang all the cute diapers/covers in the summer sun!!!

Summer might finally be arriving!

So this is the first wk of summer vacation for the kids and yesterday was another nasty rainy day and I found myself wondering when summer would end and school would begin again!!  However today is just beautiful outside and looks like it will be for awhile, so now maybe we can get on with enjoying summer time!! 
Next wk is our county fair, which we will be at helping my Mom show her goats. I used to show and was in 4-H and so far it looks like my oldest is going to follow in my footsteps. He loves the animals and enjoys helping with chores, so as he gets older we shall see. So this wk is busy gettting ready, we have to clip the goats (and since we've had so much cold and rain make sure we have blankets for everyone), organize the show box and things we will take with us and make sure all the decorations are ready to go! Every year, my Mom likes to make decorations for each pen and our heard sign that match the fair theme. This year its "A slice of Heaven in 2011".  So I'm crossing my fingers the good weather holds out for next wk!

June and RAIN?

So here we are in June and its raining outside with thunder storms this afternoon, again! Wait, I thought we lived where it was suppposed to be 110 by now? I think I will just be glad that the lakes are getting full and my plants are getting watered for free!
So why is it that freshly washed windows attract children and just seem to yell "put your grubby lil fingers all over me", "blow raspberries on me"! I guess there are more important things to worry about than clean windows! haha Good thing people who come over here know that we live here and the house has the lived in feeling! Nobody would mistake our house for a museam! haha