Dear Santa,

Dec 4,2009 / By Maria / 2 Comments

>Dear Santa,

I’ve been a very good girl this year. I won’t elaborate since you see me when I’m not sleeping and you know when I’m awake rocking someone or tucking someone else in! As such, I am going to go crazy with my wish list. Hee hee.

First and foremost, I would like more diapers, so I don’t have to wash twice per day anymore!

I have one Blueberry Minky one size diaper in blue latte, but there are so many other styles and patterns I’d like to try! The Blueberry One-Size Minky Bamboo Velour has a bamboo/organic cotton inner instead of microfleece. Then there’s the Blueberry One Size Bamboo Velour Diaper. Lastly, there’s the Blueberry Deluxe One Size Diaper in snaps and hook & loop. Microfleece wicks moisture away from baby’s skin, but it is man made, and some babies can be sensitive to it.

Some come in snaps only and others come in snaps or hook and loop (velcro applix). Generally speaking, I prefer velcro for ease of diapering and adjustability, but Blueberry’s velcro is apparently super strength! I have such a hard time getting the tabs off of the laundry tabs, I think the laundry tabs may just rip right off. However, I would not complain if Santa brought velcro!

The prints I love are:

Blue on Chocolate

Blue/Yellow Dots

Lemon Lime

Blue Pop

Sage on Chocolate

Mint Patties

Winter Sage

My favorites are Sage on Chocolate and Lemon Lime. I try to choose gender neutral prints but I gravitate towards cute boy stuff! I don’t think any of these are too boyish for a girl, but I’m sure if we ever cloth diaper a girl, I will want to buy all the cute, pink & ruffly cloth diapers too. Eek now I’m feeling kind of guilty for not CDing my daughter.

I love the monkey print velcro diaper I have. I would love to try one with snaps, as well as other prints in the velcro.

The monkey print on the left is what I have and love. My daughter loves it too, she doesn’t want me to change her brother when he’s wearing it! The peace bears print on the right is the one I’d most love to have!

I think the blue hibscus is adorable and would be great for a boy or a girl.

Of course, I’m a sucker for a cute print, so I like them all!

I am really anxious to try Rumparooz. My favorites are the Lil Monster and kangaroos, but all of the colors and prints are cute!

There are also several accessories I’d love to have

I am definitely wishing for a BumGenius Diaper Sprayer. We’ve just started solids and I’m scared. Heh. I was scared of some of my daughter’s solid food eating dipes, and she wore sposies!

I have a single, small Planet Wise wet bag, but I am coveting several more types.

Why Planet Wise? First off, they are PVC free and lead free. Did you know most zippers are painted with lead containing paint? Scary! 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, as I also do with my PUL diapers. You can even use the wet/dry bags or large wet bags as a hanging diaper pail.

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. I’m guilty of using plastic bags for all of these things!

The wet/dry bag would be excellent for storing multiple diapers when we are going to be away from home for more than a few hours.

I like the Geometric Studio

Black Curly Q

and aqua swirl.

I’d also like some medium wet bags for the diaper bag, and a couple of large wet bags to use for after rinsing dirty diapers. The small bag fits two dirty one-size pockets, but it’s a little snug. The mediums would be a little easier for more than 1 I think.

I like the blue vista

Black Curly Q

and aqua swirl

I’d also love to have the cloth wipes/pouch and a small squirt bottle for wipes solution in the diaper bag. I love that you can actually pre-moisten the wipes to take with you, and the bag won’t leak or wick!

This is a little off topic but they have this little mini wet dry bag. How awesome is that. Very discreet for using mama cloth when out and about. I’ve heard ladies say they use small wet bags in their bathrooms as well.

I haven’t decided if I want to use a diaper pail or not, but I wouldn’t mind a large liner to try out. I’m interested in one with a drawstring so I can see if it would work in the Diaper Dekor pails I have.

I would like some Thayer’s Alcohol Free Rose Petal Witch Hazel to use in my wipes solution. It is extra soothing to little bums, and can help preserve wipes solution as well.

I’d also like another tube of Grandma El’s diaper rash remedy to keep upstairs.

We don’t have a chimney, and Santa probably doesn’t like Almond Milk, so I’ll hang onto this wish list just in case I win the lottery. 😀 You know, so I don’t have to waste any time deciding what to spend the money on. Hee hee.

All images used with permission.

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Whine whine whine

Dec 2,2009 / By Maria / No Comment

>I’m still disappointed that I didn’t win any of the FFS drawings on hyenacart AND I missed the sale on the two diapers I wanted! Boooooo!!

The Eli Monster giveaway is still going on. I’m drooling over the diapers!

I reaaaalllyyyy want to win, but I guess it would be OK if someone who reads my blog won. *sigh* If you win, you owe me one. Hee hee. So head on over and enter!!

On the up side, I was running some numbers the other day, as I always do. Using my “stock up prices” for disposable diapers and wipes, the diapers I have purchased have more than half paid for themselves. The wipe making accessories have MORE than paid for themselves in their entirety, even though I have only actually used 3 cubes!

Photo copyright The Eli Monster

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Cloth Wipes

Nov 18,2009 / By Maria / No Comment

>So, I keep catching myself wrapping the diapers around the disosable wipe, and it’s only a matter of time before I wash one & have a big mess on my hand. I also learned that the “sensitive, alcohol free” wipes I was using weren’t so much.

I’d read about homemade disposable wipes on frugal living blogs. I didn’t want disposable and I was concerned about all the ingredients in the “recipes” because of cloth diaper safety, bum sensitivity and so forth.

I researched and found that the stars and cubes of wipe solution concentrate that WAHMs make would work best for me.

I had trouble finding affordable spray bottles, but my hubby ended up finding some for .97 at my most favoritest place ever (not), Wal-Mart. I picked up some distilled water, and ordered a sample pack of cubes.

I researched cloth wipes and even though I’d only have to use each wipe maybe 40 times for it to pay for itself, I again couldn’t bring myself to spend the money.

Instead, I grabbed some soft burp cloths that were a little too thin for my heavy spitter. I cut them in half, folded them in half, then zigzagged the edges to form two fray-free, double thickness cloths, each 1/4 the size of the original cloth. They fit perfectly in a wipes container, but I did choose to use a squirt bottle instead of pre-moistening them.

The solution smelled great, was easy to mix up and cleaned my baby’s bottom without irritating it. 1 cube made 8 oz of solution, and I am sure you could stretch it much further. 8 oz lasted about a week, putting the price per hiney wipe at rock bottom (pun intended).

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