Crafty Mom Blog: October 2012

Thursday, October 18, 2012

BlossomBatik Sun Dress Review and Giveaway

I feel so fortunate to have received this beautiful Purple Hand Painted Tie Dye Batik Tropical Floral Sundress from BlossomBatiks.

It is beyond comfortable. I love wearing it. I only wish it was still summer so I could wear it more often. I have received so many compliments on how pretty it is.

One of the best parts?

It fits all body types! After 5 pregnancies, my body is not in as good shape as it used to be. I don't normally wear a dress because I feel so self conscious in one. Not in this. It really molded to me nicely and it has adjustable straps so I can get a great fit.

I love that BlossomBatik's dresses are hand painted tie dye. This is a description of the process of making one of their dresses:

Malaysia is well-known with many heritages. One of it is a Hand-drawn batik. A design, usually floral was drawn on a white fabric with hot melted wax. Once the wax cools, it hardens and penetrates into the fabric. The colorful dyes were applied into the design and background. Next, the fabric is boiled to remove the wax. This Hand-drawn batik is really unique and truly authentic as there is no repeated design!

There are so many beautiful dresses to choose from. Here is a sampling of the dresses on their site.

Are those not gorgeous? I love them all!

BlossomBatik has also agreed to giveaway a tie dye dress in the color of the winners choice! You are so lucky!

Links You Need To Enter

BlossomBatik's Shop
Crafty Mom's Facebook
Crafty Mom's Twitter

Thank you so much to BlossomBatik for this opportunity!

Please note that the product in this review was provided to me free of charge for the purpose of this review. All of the opinions expressed in this review are my own and are not influenced by any compensation..monetary or otherwise.

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Monday, October 15, 2012

National Infant & Pregnancy Loss Remembrance Day

My candles are lit in Rememberance of all the babies who have gone too soon. It was amazing to see how much support was shown on Facebook today, even by women who have never experienced a loss themselves. This day is especially dear to my heart as I am remembering my 3 tonight. <3 <3 <3

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Diaper Raffle

$1 Diaper Raffle! What really? Yep!

If you want to win this Diaper, just leave me a comment with your Paypal address and how many entries you would like. Maximum entries is 5. Each entry is $1. I will send you an invoice and when I receive payment, I will send you an email with your raffle number(s). I will use random.org to select a winner.

So you have a chance to win a brand new diaper for anywhere between $1-$5. Shipping is of course free! How awesome is that? If this goes well, I may do it once a week! :)

This is being hosted by The Little Green Bird.

http://www.facebook.com/thelittlegreenbird.com

Monday, October 1, 2012

Heavy Doody Review and Giveaway

I am so excited to share this shop with you!

I have the pleasure of reviewing a wet bag from Heavy Doody. The bag that I was sent is this gorgeous gray bag with a lovely pink cherry blossom print.

The wet bags have a great handle that fastens with a snap. It's been great attaching it to my stroller so when I am out and changing a diaper, it's one less thing to fiddle with while changing a squirmy toddler.

These are not just for cloth diaperers. (Is that a word?) I recently just experienced my first motion sickness accident with Camille. Totally came out of the blue. I had no plastic bags in my car! None! Thankfully, I had this bag in my diaper bag and was able to throw all the dirty clothes in there. Nothing leaked and it was a messy clean up! Even better was that when we got home, I just dumped all the contents of the bag into the washer (bag included!). I had no plastic bag stinking up my trash can. It was pretty cool. Well you know...as cool as that situation can be. ;)

So far, I have stuffed 7 diapers and inserts in the wet bag and there seems to be room for maybe 1 or 2 more. I can definitely rely on this bag for an all day trip!

Heavy Doody bags come in a variety of sizes as well:

Large bag 16x21

Medium bag 12x16

Kitchen bag 12x13

Small 12x13

Mini 7x6

I'm really loving the kitchen bags. Look at this. It just hangs on your oven door! Genius. I have a few wet facecloths on my sink and I think this will keep me more organized. BTW- how cute is this print?

She makes so many cute bags!

Here is a sampling of bags from Heavy Doody's Facebook page:

Who wants to see the giveaway bag????

Really??

Are you sure???

The winner of the giveaway will win this bag! It is a size Medium and it will be made soon so the pattern placement may vary a bit from what you see here. Isn't it great?