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Comment #22 Gwen!

Congratulations and I can’t wait to make you some new bibs!

So for those of you who have been living under a rock don’t know, I am the proud owner of Monkey See Monkey Do Children’s Boutique. And when I say proud I mean it. Because 1.5 years ago I couldn’t even sew a straight line people! Now I make adorable (okay so maybe I’m biased) kid stuff.

I experimented with a couple bib patterns and different materials before I thought of using pul and decided on the current pattern. I love these bibs! So far nothing I’ve given the little guy has soaked through. Plus they are way cuter and don’t crack like the plastic bibs from chain stores.

So why and I going on about my bibs? Because I’m going to give away 2! and the winner gets to pick the (in stock) fabric!

So here is how to enter:

1. Mandatory entry! Go to Monkey See Monkey Do and pick out your favorite item (past items that you’ve seen photos of qualifies too) and then come back here and tell me what it is!

2. Fan us on Facebook and then leave a comment about it!

3. Follow us on twitter and then leave a comment about it!

4. Tweet this giveaway up to 3x a day and then leave a comment about it! Must include the status link! (make sure to leave a separate comment for each tweet)

5. Subscribe to my blogs RSS feed and then leave a comment about it!

6. Comment on another post in the blog and then leave a comment about it on this post!

7. Add my blog link to your blog, website wherever and then leave the link in a comment so I can see it!

8. Blog this giveaway and leave the link in a comment.

9. Post this giveaway to your facebook and leave the link in a comment.

The giveaway ends Friday, November 13th at 1 pm est

**Make sure to leave a separate comment for each entry!

Oh and here is a comment from a lovely mommy:

I love your bibs. The PUL in the middle really helps keep their shirts clean and dry. Now if only you could come up with a PUL hat to keep R’s hair dry when she tries to “shampoo” with her yogurt!

I know I’ve been very bad at the blogging lately. But with the move and still no internet down there and well it’s hard to blog without internet you know? So here we are…

I held my second Cloth Diapers 101 class earlier this month. Sadly no one showed up. Not even the people who called. But that is okay it takes time for things like this to take off in places like this. Next class November 7th! I was told that a local daycare provider made copies of my flier in the local coffee shop so maybe we will have some people this next class.

It is October 23 and I have not finished Ari’s costume and I’ve not even started Caiden’s… Sometimes I’m a terrible procrastinator!

Today was dress as your favorite character day at school… She wanted to be a ballerina. Mrs. Jones seemed to know which book it was from but I didn’t. I think she just wanted to wear her ballet stuff to school.

And since I have 52 million things to get done before the youth group gets here for their sleepover I’m going to make this a short short post and leave you with a funny faced Caiden.

Thank you all for reading my little blog here!

Oh Oh I almost forgot. I’d like to do some instructional cloth diaper videos… so ask some questions that I can answer on the videos and post to the blog!!!

Some of you already know that this week I was told I get to move out of my parents home and back into my apartment (which was previously being rented). It’s been a little bit of work and we aren’t all moved in yet, but we are getting there. People… I now have calluses on my hands. That’s what painting for hours will do to you. You know what the sad part is? I only painted one room! but it took 3 coats of white and 2 of each of the colors. We also re-caulked all the base board and I patched 100+ holes in the walls. No I’m not exaggerating at all.

Okay so here are the promised photos:

Kid’s room before

The only room that had and color changes was the kid’s room:

I love it!

The room had been purple with Dora and Nemo everywhere… (Thanks Dad)

I may show some more when we are all situated… but don’t hold your breath…

Caiden spent 95% of his time the first day climbing the ladder.

In other news. My rough and tough little hunter is afraid of farm raised turkeys. How did we find this out? Well we went to the store to get some fried chicken for dinner and outside was a turkey. Yup a turkey. It was drinking water were the A/C unit drips… rather gross.

Anyway she was Terrified. I mean crazy scared. It was rather funny.

Meet the creepy turkey:

He followed us to the car and wouldn’t go away. She was crying and on top of her brother trying to stay away from the turkey. She was still scared after I shooed the thing away and shut my door. As you can see a closed door did not detour this rather persistent bird.

I asked her:

Me: How are you gonna hunt with Papa if you are afraid of that turkey? It’s just a pet.

Ari: They won’t be close and that one is weird looking.

I don’t know about you, but I think all turkeys are pretty weird/creepy looking. But I might just be that way from childhood trauma. We had a babysitter when I was a kid who had turkeys and when we went outback to swim the mail would chase me. It was not fun people I was terrified! The really weird thing about her having a turkey is that we lived in Boynton Beach Florida. Not really the kind of place you’d expect to come upon a turkey.

Okay so maybe it hasn’t really been that long, but it feels like forever!

It’s been pretty slow here. I’ve had some customs and made some birthday presents.

I met Emi from The Cloth Diaper Report on Saturday she was giving a cloth diaper class, hosted by Rebecca of Sprouting Up (which is located in Rolla Missouri). It went really well! They had lots of mama’s show up and there was lots of discussion. I’m excited for my next class! After Emi‘s class was a baby wearing workshop that I’m sad I missed, but we had a long drive home and the little guy needed to take a nap. He was asleep before we had gone 100 feet!

Other big news in my little world…

I’m getting my apartment back! For those of you who don’t know I’ve been living with my parents since my separation with Kyle (Caiden’s dad). There has been someone living in the apartment since I moved back and the latest renter has moved out and I get my own space again! It’s only like 50 feet away from the house, but still I need my own space again.

Want to see my latest creations? To bad you are going to anyway.

Caiden got 2 new diapers (more are in the works!)

I made some pumpkins for mom’s fireplace

This one is a custom sling for a little boy’s birthday

My first mei tai. Can’t wait to make another with some minor tweaking!

1 of 3 up-cycled men’s button-up shirts

We celebrated fall early this year with some candy apples

So I was in the mud room putting laundry in the dryer and I look over and this is what I see:

scary isn’t it?!

My little boy is getting too big! I can’t keep him off those stools now. Thankfully there won’t be any stools in the apartment!

The guy who was renting our apartment asked if he could hang some things up on the wall and mom said yes. What a mistake that was. Okay so maybe it only bothers me. But seriously who needs 75 nails 16 screws and 2 tacks in an apartment that is probably 900sq. ft or less. It’s utterly ridiculous. Okay so now I’m going to go tweet the # of nails, screws and tacks and also complain on twitter and then hopefully I’ll have it out of my system.

Have a lovely evening anyone who actually reads this!

Oh and did you know you can leave comments on the blog? They don’t need to be tweeted or posted on my facebook wall… It’d be awesome if it looked like people actually read all this stuff! kthx!