Planet Wise Wet Bag Giveaway Sponsored by me! CLOSED

May 20,2010 / By Maria / 481 Comments

> If you’ve been around a while, you know I love my Planet Wise wet bags.

From the tiny wipes wet bag…

To the large wet bags…

and the medium sized wet/dry bag.

I love ’em. So much that I’ve actually never tried another brand’s wet bag.

Why? First off, they are PVC free and lead free. The bags come in awesome prints and are incredibly functional. They have a locking zipper and hidden/sealed seams for no wicking. They can be washed & dried with your diapers, though I hang mine dry.

Planet Wise is family owned and has very family friendly employee practices. Not only do their products replace their disposable counterparts, their packaging is recycled/recycleable, and uses soy based ink. When your children are no longer in diapers, you can use the bags to transport wet bathing suits, dirty laundry, even use them to separate shoes or toiletries from the rest of your suitcase when traveling.

Now, if it were up to me, I’d run this blog Oprah style, and you’d all have a bag of SWAG under your seat with one each of my favorite things.

Unfortunately, I’m not independently wealthy. I have, however, received some great things lately as a result of this blog, so I want to pay it forward. This is a little different since I’m sponsoring this giveaway.

One winner will get their pick of a Planet Wise wet bag. I’ll be purchasing it myself from Abby’s Lane and having it shipped directly to you. Please note: This giveaway is sponsored by me. It is not sponsored, endorsed approved by nor affiliated with Abby’s Lane or Planet Wise. Open to residents of the U.S. Only and can only be shipped to a U.S. address.

You can view all in-stock Planet Wise items here.

Here’s how to enter:

1. Leave me a comment. What’s on your mind? What’s at the top of your wish list? Anything you want to tell me is great.

2. Follow my blog publicly, leave me a comment saying you follow to get your entry.

3. “Like” me on Facebook, leave me a comment here saying you do to get your entry.

4. Follow me on Twitter, leave me a comment here saying you do to get your entry.

5. Tweet about this giveaway. Please be sure to include a link to this post. Comment to get your entry. One tweet per day please! You may use this tweet if you like: @chgdiapers has a #giveaway for a Planet Wise wet bag for your #clothdiapers ending 6/3 http://bit.ly/9Ql4dp

6. Blog about my blog and/or this giveaway and be sure to link back here. Leave me a comment with a link to your post to get your entry.

I’ll accept entries until Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 at 9:00 PM, EST. The winner will be chosen with random.org’s true random number generator.

I will send the winner an email and s/he will need to choose an in stock bag and color or print, plus a backup in case the first choice goes out of stock.

Please make sure you leave your email address in a comment if it isn’t in your profile. If I can’t contact you, I’ll choose another winner!

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Kissaluvs Marvels AIO Diaper Winner!

May 20,2010 / By Maria / 2 Comments

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We have a winner!

I wish I could give all of you one of these, it rocks!

Alas, there’s only one winner…Kay!

Congrats Kay, I’ve emailed you!

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Two Little Piggies Tester Diaper

May 13,2010 / By Maria / 1 Comment

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I got to test a one size fitted for Two Little Piggies Diapers.

The fabric is super soft.

The snaps were evenly applied.

It has the same fold down rise with extra snaps that many one size fitteds have.

What made it unique was the snaps on the front that allowed you to snap the rise in place after folding.

This would eliminate one step in diapering a smaller baby (folding the rise and then holding it in place while you snap.) There are also plenty of overlap snaps for itty babies!

The soaker is petal style for more thorough washing and faster drying.

If you needed to, you could stuff more material inside the petals for extra absorbency.

In this picture, you get a good view of the extra snaps where you could secure the fold down rise if needed. I got a good fit on the larger setting.

It was a bit smaller than some other one-size fitteds I have. It fit about the same as some larger ones do on the smaller setting.

Normally, I wouldn’t put a brand new diaper to the test for something like sleeping, car rides and so forth until it had gotten several daytime uses.

I topped the diaper with a wool cover and shortly after that, the child who does not nap, took a nap. A long one. I was getting nervous! I was expecting soaked clothes and soaked sheets but nope! Not a single leak! The diaper was saturated but his clothes and his sheets were dry! Not too shabby! It’s been in our regular rotation since we got it, and it even contained a very messy poop yesterday, without getting any on the cover!

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EcoMom Review, Giveaway and discount/coupon code CLOSED

May 10,2010 / By Maria / 156 Comments

I was given the opportunity to try some yummy, organic snacks from EcoMom. They’re also sponsoring a giveaway and offering a 15% discount on my readers first purchase. Enter code SBBL287 at checkout to get 15% off your first order. (valid through 5/31/10)

Formerly Sprout baby, they’re now Eco-Friendly Baby Products – Eco Mom.

Eco-Mom sent me Revolution Foods Jammy Sammies in blueberry flavor and Plum Tots fiddlesticks in apple carrot flavor.

Someone wise recently told me that a company’s true customer service is measured by how they handle problems. EcoMom and I got off to a rocky start when I was sent the wrong blogger’s package and caught them in the middle of their website redesign. Jody at EcoMom responded to me immediately and was very apologetic for the mix-up. I received my replacement package in the mail just a few days later. (EcoMom sent me the blueberry flavor, the others pictured are flavors I purchased myself.)

The Jammy Sammies come in lots of different flavors. We had actually just discovered them a few weeks earlier at our local organic market.

My daughter loves them and I think they’re pretty tasty too, I ate an Apple Sammy as I was typing this!

I had never had anything from Plum Organics, the Fiddlesticks were the first.

They look like little breadsticks, but they are softer. I tried one and they weren’t bad.

They make great Cheerio picker-uppers.

My son really enjoyed it. 🙂

My son is 11 months old, but I don’t think he’s quite ready for these yet. He likes to shovel things in his mouth, and he was breaking pieces off that were a bit big for him to handle. My daughter ended up eating the whole rest of the box the same day!

EcoMom sells tons of other organic baby food and snacks, but they sell a whole lot more too. They have a few cloth diapers, they have bath & body products, toys and books, even green cleaning products.

One thing that makes EcoMom unique is their EcoPass. A one-year membership costs $99 and gets you 15% off everything they sell and free shipping on every order. That includes expensive and oversized items like the Boon Flair Pedestal High Chair and organic crib sets.

The 15% off would pay for the membership if you spent $660 over the course of your 1-year membership. That’s $55 per month, which is not hard to spend!

It’s definitely a good idea to check their prices on any items you may be interested in. Their price on the Sammies is higher than my local store, but I’m blessed to have a store with such low prices. However, my store only has three flavors while EcoMom has a lot more.

I didn’t price compare anything else, since I’m not really in the market for anything right now. As a savvy shopper though, I’d always recommend doing that, since $100 less a 15% discount one place is the same $85 elsewhere. Just make sure you are including shipping charges and sales tax when you do so!

EcoMom is offering a 15% discount to my readers. It’s good through May 31st, 2010 and is good only on your first order. Just enter code SBBL287 at checkout.

You can also sign up for EcoMom’s Newsletter if you want to know about new products and events.

EcoMom is also giving one lucky winner $20 worth of Plum and / or Revolution Foods!

Here’s how to enter (you may so as many or as few as you like, each counts as one entry):

1. Visit Eco-Mom, browse and tell me what you’d buy (if money were no object!)

2. Follow my blog publicly, comment saying you follow to get your entry.

3. “Like” me on Facebook. Comment here saying so to get your entry.

4. “Like” EcoMom on Facebook. You know the drill, comment here to get your entry.

5. Follow me on Twitter. Comment saying you follow to get your entry.

6. Follow EcoMom on Twitter. Comment saying you follow to get your entry.

7. Tweet about this giveaway. Please link to the post and be sure to @ecomomceo and @chgdiapers. One tweet per day please! You may use this tweet if you like “@chgdiapers has a #giveaway for #organic food from @ecomomceo until 5/17 http://bit.ly/cyot7U“

8. Blog about this review/giveaway, this blog or EcoMom. Be sure to link to EcoMom and me (use the new address, https://change-diapers.com/) Comment with a link to your blog post to get your entry!

Open to residents of the U.S. only.

I’ll accept entries until Monday, May 17th, 2010 at 9 P.M. EST. I’ll select a winner using random.org’s random number generator, then email the winner. Be sure to leave your email address in your comment if it isn’t in your profile!

Thank you to EcoMom for providing the Jammy Sammies and Fiddlesticks to me at no charge to review, and for sponsoring the giveaway. All opinions are my own and weren’t affected by the freebies!

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Apparel & Accessories Review WAHM made

Nikki’s Little House Custom Embroidered Ooga Shirt!!

May 8,2010 / By Maria / 3 Comments

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I bought a special shirt for my son’s first birthday, but after washing it looked like it wasn’t going to fit on his big day. So when I found out that Nikki’s Little House had Ooga Monster embroidery, I was all over it!

I just told her what color shirt I wanted and which monster I wanted and I am SO happy with how it turned out! The shirt itself is very nice also, not cheap or thin.

I guess a lot of people who have been cloth diapering for a while are “over” the ooga prints. I don’t have any ooga, though I really liked the brown color they ended up not printing, and I like the brand new turquoise. I’m not wild about the other colors they have in the ooga fabric. The monsters are just so darn cute though!!

I wish I had asked her to make be a custom birthday bib too, and now I want some embroidered pants too!

We use our sleepy wrap most of the time, but we use a stroller when we go for walks. I want this stroller blanket she has so bad! I wish I’d had something like that for my daughter, I had never even heard of such a thing. NLH has lots of other stuff, but the other thing I’ve been spotting for a while is the custom boppy cover. Super soft minky, personalized for you, and way cheaper than mass produced.

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