October 21, 2008
· Filed under Baby, Body Products, Etsy, Etsy Shops, Everyday Stuff
Let’s face it you use a lot of boo boo remedies. I found one recently that is natural and vegan! She uses essential oils and butters (as in Shea, not baking) to create a very smooth rich cream. The cream works AMAZINGLY well! The day it arrived a neighbor came to visit and said a bug had bitten her on the way over. After watching her scratch I told her to try it. After just a few minutes the itch was gone and she was
amazed!
The stuff is really amazing. Unlike a lot of creams that contain butter this ones stays creamy in the jar, where many others get thick and melt with your body temperature. This causes a cream that is easier to use. When it comes to how well it works I was REALLY impressed. Rashes, bug bites, cuts, scrapes, it worked wonderfully on them all.
There is one downside. Sometimes natural scents, well they just don’t smell very good. This cream is full of strong scents like Tea Tree and Neem, which work amazingly, but smell kinda yucky. You will notice the scent. The good news is that after you apply it the scents doesn’t seem to linger, so you don’t walk around smelling stinky. It works so well it’s worth the initial odor though! One benefit to this is that unlike the good smelling creams kids don’t want to waste it just to smell good. My son applies creams and lotions ALL the time just because they smell pretty, but this one is reserved for real boo boos.
You can grab yours in three different sizes from Terra Scents . The price varies, obviously, by the size you choose and may seem expensive when compared to mass produced tubes of goo. They are reasonable for a natural product though, and work better than that tube of goo could even dream.
October 21, 2008
· Filed under Baby, Clothes, Everyday Stuff, Great Gifts
If you’re looking for cute, but hip, kids clothes there is one internet stop you just HAVE to make. ZozoBugBaby, where you can get hip handmade kids clothes for cheaper then some mass produced prices! Made using trendy designer fabrics these clothes are cooler that anything I’m found for sale elsewhere. The quality is really good. Some handmade items LOOK handmade but not these guys. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find them in a very high scale boutique. I got a bib and the fabric, color combo, layout of 
various fabrics, and everything was simply wonderful. Unlike many items that are simply one fabric she utilizes a variety of fabrics into one fun and funky design. The great thing is how they look overly cool, not over done. When you visualize multiple funky fabrics together it is easy to visual a 70’s kitchen and give yourself a headache, but these combos are fantastic!
They don’t just offer clothes either. Bibs, burp clothes, and even special awesome washclothes are all there! They thought of everything, and made it in their wonderful style!
The prices are fabulous also! They are higher then a discount mass merchandiser, BUT way cheaper then the trendy boutiques or even high scale stores. I just can’t say enough about how wonderful the entire store is. When you order you package arrives beautifully wrapped and well packaged. I was just 99.9% pleased. Where is my .1 percent? Like always they just don’t have enough boy clothes! Some, but not enough. Check them out, and I think you’ll love them too!
October 8, 2008
· Filed under Etsy, Etsy Shops, Everyday Stuff, For Mom, Great Gifts
Sorry I couldn’t resist that phrase when talking about PurrPrints, an Etsy shop that focuses on our furry mini masters. I received some prints and they were fab! Cute, and just the right touch for a little nook or blank wall space. The service was good, and the owner is super nice. Since then though I have fallen head over heels with her jewelry! She has several great prints, note cards, and even a purse in her shop, but you just can’t overlook 
the pendants.
Her images range from simple cat doodles, like the Floppy Cat aceo, to complex cats filled with designs, like her Ocean Cat, and even to colorful prints, like one of my personal favorites Genie Cat. For the jewelry, usually she shrinks down one of her great prints and applies it to a pendant, but she recently added these amazing cut glass cats too!
One thing I did notice is that some of her prints, the ones with more muted colors, tend to look a bit dull. But I think the glass of a nice frame would remedy that. I think all the prints are purrfect for a small nook, sit one on a shelf, or fill that one empty piece of wall. I decided to hang one somewhere unexpected, a small corner in my hallway. The price have a good range, about $10 or more for a print, and $15 or more for jewelry. She also has ACEOS for $4.50. Just remember ACEOS are tiny! Just the size of a baseball card, but for 25 cents she’ll make it a magnet!
One super cool thing too is that she is environmentally friendly and ships using recycled materials. Your package will arrive unbent, and well packaged, but the reused materials may not be as pretty as the wasteful stuff some companies use.
Be sure to check her out, the items are great if you are a cat lover, but Christmas is around the corner (eek!) and they make great gifts too!
UPDATE- In the comments the store owner has said that she changed her printing process on some prints so that the color pop more then the one I received. So while the muted color wasn’t a bad thing it is gone now!
October 4, 2008
· Filed under Uncategorized
A few posts ago I talked about The Old School House Magazine, now I wanted to share with you their new fall promotion. If you zip over to the site, you can subscribe for one year of the magazine and get 6 free gifts (not downloads people REAL gifts!) If you hurry you have a chance of getting their “Homeschooling with Heart” totebag as an extra free gift. (Available to the first 1000, the information about the bag will disappear when they are all claimed.) So if you didn’t subscribe already now is a great time to shimmy over there and check it out. $39 buys you the magazines and free gifts!
amazed!
