Twisting my arm

Nov 29,2009 / By Maria / No Comment

>Just got an email that Kelly’s Closet will offer free shipping on any size order tomorrow for Cyber Monday. As of today the deal is free shipping with a $40 purchase and code 5FORBLOG.

If the Rumparooz Lil Monster Print and Happy Heiny’s Peace Bears Print are still on sale and still available, it’s a sign and I’m buying them!

I haven’t tried the rumparooz, but they (like the HH) have an extra-small setting, making them more useful for an ickle little tiny newborn. I’m still assuming I can get my hubby to catch the baby fever in two years or so.

Their prints are adorable too! They’re both one size pocket diapers.

Edit Sunday night: Boo-hoo! They aren’t on sale anymore! Guess I wasn’t meant to have them. 🙁

Images used with permission from Happy Heiny’s and Rumparooz

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All In One Diapers Cloth Diapers

Black Friday Sale at Kelly’s Closet!

Nov 26,2009 / By Maria / No Comment

>Kelly’s Closet has some excellent deals, starting today!

Can I tell you how much I wish I had some money to spend! I want the Happy Heiny’s Applix Peace Bears Diaper, maybe another Fuzzi Bunz one size (butter perhaps?) and I really want to try some other Blueberry diapers (one size deluxe, lemon lime applix and blue on chocolate snap). The email says they are 20% off but I don’t see the price drop right now.

I’d also love to try one of the sized Fuzzi Bunz (medium) diapers in the cute new prints (blue & brown dots, I love blue and brown, what can I say!)

Here some of the info!

First 10 orders of the day receive a FuzziBunz One Size Cloth Diaper with inserts -a $18.9 5 retail value
Orders 11-75 of the day receive a FREE mini-kit from Running Press (for example: Scrapbooking Kit, Serenity Kit,Bath Gourmet Kit,Passionate Pregnancy Kit {let us know if you are pregnant in the comments section}) $8.95 retail value
Orders 76-88 Receive a FREE pair of BabyLegs Super Soft – $21.95 retail value
Orders 89-100 Receive a FREE Gro Baby One Size Shell Set -$24.95 retail value
At 6pm est the first 10 orders receive an Econobum One Size Diaper (cover & prefold!) $9.95 retail value

*Limit 1 free gift per household.

Save 10-35% off selected items.

Prices as marked. No coupon code necessary. Visit our Black Friday-Cyber Monday Specials page.

35% off:

Gro Baby Original Production Shell Sets
Thirsties Pocket All in One Diapers

20% off:

Econobum Individual and Paks
Flip Stay-Dry Individual and Paks
Flip Disposable Inserts
bumGenius detergent
bumGenius Size All-in-Ones Diapers
bumGenius bamboo fitted Diapers
Kissaluvs One Size Marvel Fitted Diapers
Kissaluvs Diaper Lotion Potion
Kissaluvs Hybrid Contour Diapers
Blueberry Minky One Size Diapers
Blueberry Deluxe One Size Diapers
Blueberry Daytime Trainers
Bummis Swimmis

15% off:

FuzziBunz-entire brand!
Happy Heiny One Size Diapers (individually and in packages)
Thirsties Fab Fitted Diapers

10% off:

(these items are only on sale Black Friday):

Bummis Super Brite Covers
Bummis Super Whisper Wrap in Prints
Baby Beehinds One Size Fitted Diapers
Baby Beehinds Wool Covers
Thirsties Covers
Thirsties NEW! Duo Diapers

Visit our sister sites FuzziBunzOnline.com and HappyHeinysOnline.com for 15% off storewide thru Dec.1st. Use discount code GOBBLE

EVERY order placed at www.KellysCloset.com on Buzzzzz Day will be automatically entered to win 1 of 35 wonderful prizes.*

1 AppleCheeks Mini Test $42.75
2 Baby Beehinds Kit: 2-Hemp os fitteds,2-Bamboo os fitteds,1-Minky AIO,1-Wool Cover,1-PUL Cover, 1 Wetbag$165.50
3 BabyKicks Organic Pak: 2-Organic Fitted Diapers,1-Premium Washie,5-Regular Washies $50.00
41-Blueberry Bamboo Minky One Size Diaper in new print$32.97
5 Bummis Starter Kit: 1-Bummis Med Cover, 6-Prefolds,1-Medium Wetbag,1-Fleece Liners Pk, 1-Flushable Liners roll $58.25
61-Charlies Soap Laundry Powder Combo Kit $52.50
7-261-Gro Baby Intro Package $34.95 each
($699 total value)
27-29Knickernappies Starter Kit: 1-Pocket Diaper, 1-Loopy-Do Insert,1-Changing Pad $33.43 each
301-Knickernappies Diaper Sprayer $38.99
311-Moby Wrap $44.99
322 bags of Rockin’Green Cloth Diaper Detergent $29.98
331-Thirties Duo Diaper $18.50
341-Northern Essence Diaper Care Kit: 1-Diaper Rash Salve Stick,1-Body Butter Stick,1-2 oz.wipe solution $19.95
35 Moby Swaddle Blanket $29.95

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Grandma El’s + Happy Heiny’s=Happy Heiny

Nov 18,2009 / By Maria / 1 Comment

>My kiddo usually ends up in sposies in the evenings & overnight, but I had a clean one at bedtime last night & put him in it.

Before I did, I used a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of the cloth safe diaper cream I’d bought. It had a very mild but pleasant scent that reminded me of something I couldn’t put my finger on. It warmed up and spread very easily and didn’t leave a disgusting, gloppy mess on my hands. In fact, my hands felt soft after.

Usually my son is very red in the morning. This morning was the first time in a long time I have seen him look completely normal. Not a trace of redness. I am sure part of that was from being in a cloth diaper all night, but that cream is a miracle! Huge, huge difference. I’m planning to keep it right by the diapers & just put a tiny bit on at each change.

His second diaper of the day was the Happy Heiny’s. I did look on their site and the 4th snap is a newborn/extra small setting. However, the medium setting seemed much larger than the medium setting on the bumgenius. Even my daughter commented that the diaper looked big. Not a problem, it still fit him great. I imagine that it would fit him longer than the BGs if it is a bit bigger.

The diaper is soft, flexible and really easy to put on. It has large, overlapping velcro tabs. The insert was really easy to put in, though I had to be sure not to put it too close to the front or back of the diaper so it wouldn’t wick onto his clothing.

Overall it is trimmer than the BG. The print is flipping adorable!

When it was time to change it, we had no poop blowout and no leaks. Usually after a poopy diaper, even if I change it within seconds of the poop actually occurring, he has redness where it touched his skin. The breathable barrier of the diaper cream certainly works because there was no redness at all.

Edit August 2010: We still love Grandma El’s but I’m just not able to get a good fit with my Happy Heiny’s. They always end up leaking, so they’ve been relegated to the “laundry day” drawer. I’m hoping they might work in the future when my son is older.

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Fluff Mail!

Nov 18,2009 / By Maria / No Comment

>I was very excited to get my package today (yesterday by the time I got around to finishing & publishing this). The colors are lighter than I’d expected, which is the opposite of what I’d experienced with the bumgenius.

The monkey print I chose for the Happy Heiny’s diaper is adorable!! It confuses me a bit though because it has 4 rows of snaps. Most one size diapers have 3 rows. All open for large, 1st to second for medium and third for small. I’m guessing it must be an extra small setting?

The Blueberry Minky diaper is super soft and very cute.

My initial instinct is that the Bumgenius are nicer than all of these others.

The BG pockets are kind of hidden, rather than just open at the top of the diaper, and it has additional waterproof material at the front and back to prevent wicking onto baby’s clothing if the insert were near the front or back.

The BG inserts also seem much larger, which makes me think they would be more absorbent & would be more likely to work with the single insert alone on the larger settings, rather than having to use the doublers.

Lastly, as much as I’ve heard people say the BG laundry tabs stop working over time, these other diapers’ laundry tabs seem useless already. I had a heck of a time getting them to stick when getting them ready to wash the first time. After I’ve washed the BGs, I actually struggle to get the velcro OFF the laundry tabs!

I had a bit of a diaper chain when I got them out of the wash. They are hanging to dry and I am starting the process of washing the blueberry diaper’s insert multiple times. It is made of hemp and it comes with natural oils on it that need to be washed off. It has to be washed separately to avoid causing absorbency issues on other items, and it will not reach it’s maximum absorbency until after 6-10 washes.

I will with hold judgment until I have seen them in action, but if I had to pick RIGHT NOW which diapers I would prefer more of based on just this initial assessment (and price aside) I would choose more BG 3.0s.

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I bleed for you

Nov 18,2009 / By Maria / No Comment

>I think I mentioned before that we planned to use hubby’s plasma donation $ to build up a cloth stash. He was showing me his latest boo-boo from said donation and told our son that he is bleeding for his red little hiney!

I found a site that had great prices and sold most of the brands I was looking for. Dipes are expensive to begin with, but their cost can easily increase by 50% or more if you have to pay shipping on each item.

I chose 4 brands/styles I wanted to try based on reviews online & from other mamas in the CD groups. Happy Heiny’s one size pocket diapers with aplix, Blueberry Minky one size diaper, Fuzzibunz one size diaper with hip snap and a clearance diaper, Haute one-size traditional pocket diaper. Between the blood $ and a check I had from selling Mary Kay, I had about $100 to spend. There was a $5/$50 coupon as well as free shipping with a $99 purchase.

I threw in some Grandma El’s Diaper Rash Cream (post on diaper rash and CD safe creams to come!) and a planet wise small wet bag. I had been using gallon size ziplocs for clean/dirties when we went out up to this point.

A mom in the CD group on cafemom makes cooshie tooshies diapers. I was able to get a screaming deal on a pocket diaper and an AIO. They are mediums, whereas all the other diapers I have purchased were one size. However, the price was great and definitely worth it.

Now the worst part, waiting for the packages to arrive!

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