Parents.com

Yeah! My diaper cover can be found on Parents.com in their holiday collection of "Our Favorite Etsy Gifts for Baby" Below is the link to get to the items that are featured. Mine is number #15 in a list of 24 items.

http://www.parents.com/fun/toys/baby-toys/our-favorite-etsy-gifts-for-baby/?page=23

Master Recycler

I am proud to announce that I am now a certified Master Recycler. I recently graduated with the first class in the Columbia Gorge in the Master Recycler program. We are a group of 13 who are passionate about recycling and who will do our best to educate the community and make healthy changes in our communities. We are each required to give back 30 hours in our community and I am hoping to spend much of my time in my daughter's school, helping it become an Oregon Green School.

As you may have been able to tell, I am also passionate about diverting waste and finding a new purpose for materials that may otherwise be at the end of it's life. I love using recycled sweaters to make new items and an currently working on a hat pattern that will hopefully soon be perfected.

With my craft business, I am also doing my best to be a no-waste business. I make my diaper covers with new materials, but use every bit of those materials so that none of it is thrown away. The scraps from the PUL (poly urethane laminate), used as the waterproof layer of the diaper covers, is used to make reusable sandwich bags. I also use scrap fabric along with fabric from my extensive stash in the reusable sandwich bags. The cotton scraps from the diaper covers are used to make a variety of crafts; headbands, stuffed animals, a quilt... whatever I can make! The small scraps from all of my projects are given to a friend who uses them as stuffing for pillows.

My wonderful family surprised me with this great sign of congratulations made from what they could find in our home recycling bin. Aren't they creative!

Holiday Sales

Come see me in Oregon for a number of holiday sales:

November 14th, Saturday
Oregon City High School Bazaar
Oregon City, OR

November 21st, Saturday
St. Peter's Altar Society Bazaar
St. Mary's Academy
The Dalles, Oregon

November 29th, Sunday
Handmade NW Portland Arts Bazaar
Pioneer Courthouse Square
701 SW 6th Avenue
Portland, OR 97205
11-6pm

December 4th, Thursday
3 Rivers Holiday Sale
Hood River, Oregon

December 6th, Sunday
Handmade NW Formal Holiday Sale
Chelsea Ballroom
1510 SE 9th (SE Hawthorne at 9th)
Portland, Oregon
11-6pm

December 12th, Saturday
Hip Happening Holiday Sale
Sellwood Masonic Lodge
Portland, Oregon
11-6pm

Blogs

I have fortunate to be included in many blog featuring my cloth diaper covers or as a give away for the cloth diaper covers. Check out some of these great blogs.

Carlson News:
My blue and green dots diaper cover is modeled by her daughter Leah.
http://cavanjenleah.blogspot.com/2009/10/prefolds.html

Confessions of a First Time Mom:
In December she is going to host a Ditching Disposable Diaper Event and one of my covers will be included in the giveaway.
http://myconfessionsasafirsttimemom.blogspot.com/

Sweet CuddleCakes:
Check out her "un-be-LEAVE-ably cute" entry to find my organic cotton/bamboo diaper cover.
http://www.sweetcuddlecakes.blogspot.com

The Penny Pinching Mama
My diaper cover will be featured as a giveaway in the near future. Keep checking back. She hosts great give-aways often.
http://thepennypinchingmama.blogspot.com/

SproutStyle
Check out the blog entry from April 13, 2009 for cute pictures and a review of the diaper cover.
http://www.sproutstyleblog.com

Our Life Upstate
There is a review on ther April 2, 2009 post with a picture of the Lemons diaper cover and a reusable snack/sandwich bag.
http://ourlifeupstate.com

Oregon Pillow

First of all, I LOVE Oregon. I was born and raised here, minus the 4 years in Idaho for college, and would not trade Oregon for anything! I am a proud Oregonian and love to let everyone know it!
My new found love for hand embroidering and my love for Oregon were combined to make this throw pillow. I have a scrap box filled with scraps from diaper covers as well as other projects so I used them to make the Oregon applique. I used one of my favorite shades of green embroider Oregon's motto "She flies with her own wings". This is now my favorite pillow to cuddle up to when I am watching a late night movie with my husband or reading a bedtime story to my kids.

New Fabrics

I just took a trip to Fabric Depot, one of the biggest and best fabric stores in Portland, Oregon. I was only looking for a yard of two specific fabrics and came home with over 20 yards of 10 new fabrics to make into diaper covers! I just can't help it when I am surrounded by such beautiful fabrics that offer endless opportunities. Here are the diaper covers I have recently debuted as my new line of diaper covers in my Etsy shop www.rethinkcrafts.etsy.com.

September's First Thursday Art Walk

Come see in at Portland's First Thursday Art walk.
September 3, 2009
Chow Cafe
505 NW 14th Ave
5-10 pm