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Small Wetbags and a Testimonial

First, a testimonial:

Once upon a time there was a girl who loved goodmama diapers. She also loved diaper bags, but her diaper bag was always a mess.

She was forever shoving those velvety soft little marshmallow diapers into diaper bags and forgetting them there.

Some would stay there dirty for days . . . other times, she brought a medium sized wetbag, put 5 or 6 diapers in it, and then tried to scrunch an oddly-shaped wetbag stuffed with diapers into her diaper bag.

It wasn't pretty. Those little diapers deserved better.

And then, being the fabric-phile she is, she bought small goodmama wetbags--and she lived happily ever after. How did she do it?

Here's what she has to say:

Look at all the pre-wrapped goodmamas, all in their little wetbags.

Each has a wipe in the pocket on the front of the bag.

When I need a diaper, I pull it out of the wetbag, put the dirty one inside it with the wipe, and then tuck it back into my diaper bag.

When I get home, I pull out the wetbags that are missing the wipe.

Those are the dirty ones. They go right into my hanging pail.

The rest of the "gift wrapped" goodmama goodness stays in the diaper bag, ready to go for next time.

Seriously, do you know how much time this saves me? There are always diapers wrapped in the diaper bag and ready to go!

And, let's face it, what girl doesn't want her diapers to look like this? 

Small wetbags, stocking today in the goodmama store.

All regular fitteds: $33!

We have tightened our belt, and been able to drop the regular price of our regular fitted diapers from $35 to $33 each.

goodmama is committed to making one-size cloth diapering possible with sustainable, organic, US made materials, sewn by fairly-paid women in the United States -- now for a little less!

(No price adjustments on previous orders.)

Desktop!

Here's mine right now:

You can get the image to make this your desktop here.

Thanks for the idea {lauren}!

Have a goodmama inspired/related desktop? I'd love to see it!

Better Together

I was taking photos of diapers and I realized. Sakura Tea and Cake Shop were meant to be together.

See what I mean?

Goodmamas have good ideas

These are just some of the girly diapers we have gotten in lately. Some of these shipped with the Another Bundles, others stocked in the store.

We are finally an instock store! I hope it lasts. When you convert a friend to cloth diapering, the inevitable next step is she loves your goodmamas and wants to know where she can buy them.

Now, instead of freezing like a deer in headlights and trying to explain how they aren't actually possible to get, you can give her the website and she can get her own fluff! I'm very happy about this.

An even better thing from this is we have lots of new goodmamas. Welcome them in, remember when you were new, answer their questions, be the nicest mamas you can!

This reminds me. Please, please join the yahoo email list. We get so many questions that are already answered in this email list. You will be in the know, and isn't knowledge power?

Speaking of knowledge, look at this clever idea one of our good mamas had!

Instead of using clothespins, she snapped the wings to the sockets where the soaker goes in. Clever, right? This is one of those things that makes you go, Hey, why didn't I think of that?

This photo is of Jacob, age 1, taken by Tina. He's a lucky guy with so many beautiful diapers. There are lots of other great photos up in the store right now. As usual, there were too many to choose from, and many wonderful photos didn't make it to the site. You can join the Flickr goodmamas group to see all of the previous week's submissions.

ice cream truck swirl box diapers

We shipped all these yesterday. They are frosty-licious!

Hyena Cart

So much is going on at goodmama right now! We've done some amazing collaborations that we have been listing at Hyena Cart. These are so fun. Would it be bad to admit that the main reason I love to do collabs is that I get to pet all the pretty fluff? I get to admire it, photograph it, maybe squeeze it (only a little!) and then finally send it out the door to its new home where I know it is wanted and loved. What could be better?

Speaking of Hyena Cart, I have found someone I want to call The Best New HC Designer You're Not Shopping: Jenny Wren Kids!  I bought an outfit from her cart for Hazel (so hard to find cute 3T things on HC!) and it came impeccably wrapped and beautifully made. I caved and just bought this gorgeous dress. My little princess is going to love it!

These are not sweatshop prices, and these are not sweatshop products. Admire! Shop! Spend! Support Talent!

Woolie Nursies

I weaned Hazel about a month ago, and she is doing okay, except that she is attached to my breasts like they are her personal loveys. That is okay to some extent but sometimes it just gets out of hand, or sometimes I just don't feel like having my 3-year-old rubbing her cheeks on my nipples nonstop. I don't know if that makes me a badmama or what but sometimes I just get so touched out and need a little space.

I told some friends I needed to find her a fake one that she could hug and take to bed as her lovey and they said, Hey, have Julie of The Cushie Tushie make you one!  Apparently I am not the first person to think of this!

These made me laugh out loud, (a garden of boobies!) but I showed them to Hazel and she wants some! I asked her if she would love some to take to bed and hug and she said, "Yes, those are my present nursies!"  (I showed them to DH and he said, "Can I have two?" LOL)

Julie will make them for $10 each which I think is a deal for knitting! She fills them with lentils but I'm going to have her use rice or flax so I can heat them up in the microwave and be warm.

She usually supplies the yarn, but I'm picking out my own, and sending her two skeins of Cascade Cloud 9 in oats and princess. Too much information? I don't know. I have been wanting to use Cloud 9 for something for a long time. It's just soooo soft. 

I think they are a riot and if they help my daughter transition from nursing, they are definitely a good thing.

You can get your own woolie nursies by emailing Julie at julie@thecushietushie.com.

YARN!!!!!

Look what just came in the mail! I have been uninspired to knit lately, with Hazel being out of cloth diapers and refusing to wear wool pants, and just...eh. 

However, I made a new friend, Diane of Sweet Knitted Bottoms. We did a collaboration a few weeks ago, she knitted a skirtie to match one of my diapers. It turned out so unbelievably cute. She is amazing. I would highly recommend you get yourself on her customs list if you can.

I was drooling at her gallery and asked her if I sent her some superwash worsted, could she dye it up for me? I want to make a hooded tunic for my almost 12-year-old. She agreed to do it and HERE IT IS!!! The pictures do not do it justice. I have had a crash day, you know, the kind where you don't want to go anywhere or do anything, but now I am inspired to load the kids in the car and go to the yarn store so I can get the pattern I need.

I'm going to beg her to dye some more for sweaters for my other kids too. I am so excited! I have found a way to indulge in my love of hand-dyed yarn but make it tough and superwash for my busy kids! I can't wait to get started!

More goodmama + sweetiebums breathlessness

After I egged her on, Amanda of Sweetiebums dyed some more of her goodmamas. I had to share the gorgeousness. This first one is inspired by spring lilacs. The second is a neopolitan inspired confection with vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.

Here they are with their sibling from yesterday.