Tackling the craft room!

Since moving in with my in-laws things have been a bit crowded.  Well, not that we have so much stuff, mostly that the kids get into everything and they have lots of stuff.  Sadly, the mess you are about to see is not totally their fault.  They aren't supposed to play in this room, but they do when I am working in there.  Most of this is my fault, this is my crafting space and where I package cutting boards and our other kitchenware orders, since it is one of the few places that has a decent empty floor space that I can take over a few hours at a time, and it is also my workout space!

Now on to the tour of the disaster room! This is looking into the room from the door.  On the back wall are the sewing machines and a BIG monkey that needed his arm fixed. On the right is the design and cutting table.

 

 Here we have the design/cutting table and some fabric storage and lots of stuff on the floor.  Aaron made the rocking chair!  Super comfy, the bag is a goodwill/donation bag of stuff.

Now on to it cleaned up a bit, not perfect, but I don't have time to make every room perfect and I am sure this one will be a mess again.  I am hoping to keep up with it, but with two kids that like to get into everything...yeah right!

Same view from the doorway.  Big monkey has been fixed and put back in the kids room.  After we buy the house, I think I will work on putting shelving up so I can empty out my totes (it has my thread and elastic and other crafting stuff).

 

 This corner did pretty good!  That bag is now gone too, I dropped it off later that day :) 

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Great cloth diaper change

This past Saturday was the world's attempt at setting a new guiness book of world records for the most cloth diapers changed at the same time. Different from last year when it was simultaneously, which meant some people were getting up extra early to go change a diaper at a registered location.  This year at 11am local time, people all over the world gathered to change their baby into a cloth diaper!  This was my second year participating, and probably my last, as Bubby is 2 and potty learning now.  We had 18 babies changed at our event (there were 2 in the Indy area this year, last year we were all together).  The official numbers aren't in yet, but I will update when they do come in :)

I went to the GCDC-downtown Indianapolis again this year sponsored by Little Green Bean Boutique and Nurture.  Great companies ran by some nice ladies.  We even have some of our toys and now some nursing necklaces and baby spoons at Little Green Bean.  If you are around Indianapolis any time I recommend checking them both out.

Here are the nursing necklaces I made and the baby spoons Aaron made on the Little Green Bean Boutique table (I love thess wet bags by Lillies and Jasmine, the prints are so cute!)

 Bubby and I helped with set up :)

 

Bubby before the change, in his Lovely pocket diaper

 

 Part of the group (the picture with me in it).  I didn't take the pictures since I was participating, and don't want to post pictures of others without permission if I don't have to, but this one has me and Bubby in his Nykibaby diaper from Monkey Toe diapers (he is the only BIG kid in the back)

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Wordless Wednesday-Easter

 

Not very bright but the kids didn't want them to sit, so the coloring got wiped off early

 

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Visiting family out of state

Last week the kids and I took a 12 hour trip to Kansas to visit Yoyo and Yaya (grandpa and grandma) and my sister and her new twins.  I made some outfits for my new niece and nephew to take and even gave them some of the kids outgrown clothes.  So I got to visit family, clean out some clutter, and make cute outfits :)   So really this blog post is going to be a photo bomb of family fun in Kansas.

First here are the outfit I made for them:

Newsie hats made from THIS pattern on Ravelry

These hats were made with THIS pattern on Ravelry

I made up the pants patterns and the skirt on this outfit.

 

This is one of my favorites! It is made from a brown cordouroy type material that was a zip up sweater.  The pants were the sleeves, the vest the the front panels, and the skirt was the back.  I used a scrap piece for the center of the flower.  I found THIS tutorial for the vest over at B is for Boy (So cute and EASY to do!)

Now for a few family pictures!

These are my new niece and nephew in their hats I made them :)

 

Bubby loved holding his baby cousin.  He held and hugged her and she fell asleep on him!

Little Missy was a big helper in taking care of her too.

The family at Yoyo and Yaya's house (grandpa and grandmas house)

 

The gang visiting the zoo :)

 

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Bubby is growing up!

I can not believe that a Bubby turned 2 just over a week ago!  We had his party and he had a blast with the kids that came.  It is crazy thinking that next year, if he wants, he can go to pre-school!  We are still potty learning, overall he is doing very well.  Most days we just have a couple accidents, but he is in big boy undies or trainers almost full time now.  His biggest issue is waking up and needing to pee, most nights it seems he will wake up and start gettig out of bed and then end up peeing on the floor...I guess it is nice that I don't have to change his bedding most nights, but I have a nice nap pad that makes cleaning up his bed easy (you can read my review of it HERE). 

I received a swing that the seat could come off of and turning to an infant seat (with kickstand) then a toddler rocking chair as a baby gift when I was pregnant with Little Missy (who is 4.5 years old now).  It is probably the most used piece of baby gear that I have gotten.  Starting right after birth I took Bubby's picture every month/3months/6months/year (since as they age they don't grow/change quite as much) to see how much he has grown.  Looking back I am very glad I did this!  I remember my baby boy being little (though he was large, nearly 10 lbs at birth, so not tiny!), but my remembering is a bit skewed since I watch him grow and learn everyday.    So without further writing, here is Bubby growing up!

 

 

And some birthday party pictures:

Bubby's cake, not fancy but then it was going to be eaten by a 2 year old

Before his party, he wanted his birthday crown on upside down and backwards. Silly boy :)

Balloons with friends!

 

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Wordless wednesday-Snow!

Freezing rain outside...make rainbow angel food cake to brighten day :)

 What we woke up to this morning

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FluffyRumps Nap/lap pad review

FluffyRumps is a WAHM based business run by Rhonda.  I have purchased a couple fleece covers from her a little over a year ago and still use them on occasion.  You can read my review of them HERE.  Now that Bubby is potty learning I decided that I needed to get a nap pad or something similar to help keep the bed mattress safe and dry if/when he has accidents during the night (especially since many nights he spends a part of the night in bed with me).  Rhonda sent me one of her nap/lap pads to try out and review.   *These are not available in her shop/page yet as they are still being tested*

 

The pad itself is made of 3 layers: Top is a nice print cotton, middle is zorb, and bottom is PUL.  My pade measures 22.75"x19.5" after several washes.  I forgot to measure the initial size, but it only seems to have obviously shrunk in the width (or shortest dimension), but not a lot.

 

 

First received it

on the bed

I have used it constantly for a few months now.  It works so well that it actually took Bubby sleeping half on and half off the pade soaking through everything for me to notice how well it worked.  I went in when he woke up and the bed was soaked.  The nap pad was wet on a good portion, but I could barely tell (it was obvious because of the weight).  I then used it to help dry the bed.  There were several nights where Bubby was wet through his pajamas, but his nap pad still felt dry.  The zorb inner did a great job of absorbing the pee and keeping me from having to change his sheets.  I did take the pad out though, just because it didn't feel wet, doesn't mean he should still sleep on it!  That just seems gross to me.   

Since I don't know how much Bubby pees at night I did another test on the nap pad to see just how well it could hold up.  I took 2 cups warm water and dumped it on the nap pad.  (Rhonda uses hers as a dish drainer, I had thought about trying that as well, but I decided that I would rather keep it on the bed just in case Bubby got tired).



 As I poured the water I would occasionally check to see if any water was leaking out anywhere.  After 2 cups and me pressing and rubbing it around, it was still dry on the bottom.  You can see where most of the water is settling but how the PUL back is more stuck to the pad.  The pad is also hanging over the edge of the counter and not leaking onto the floor!

 Since I dumped 2 cups in I wanted to see how much I could squeeze out.  I know that my toddler is not going to pick up and squeeze out the pad if it gets wet, so I am confident that it would not leak out even with all the pressure of him laying on it.  So I picked it up and was able to squeeze out 1/4 cup of water (in a couple minutes of sqeezing and working the water out).  It was only after I did that water started wicking over the edge and on the back.

 

 

There are a couple things I noted as problems.  Since it is narrower than the width of the mattress, Bubby can scoot over to the edge of the bed and be off the pad.  It is also very smooth with the PUL back so Bubby is able to scoot it all over the place and out from under him fairly easily.  Bubby is a mover (I mean really he is ALL over the bed at night) so to fix his kicking the pad out from under him, I put a fleece blanket over it and tucked it around his mattress.  Other than these 2 fairly minor issues, this nap pad is great! 

 

*These are not available on her page yet, as they are still in the testing phase.*

 



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