Birth Fair 2011

Today we had our annual birth fair. This is the 4th year Fluffy Little Tushies has had a booth. It is always so stressful leading up to it but the day of is always so much fun.

I really enjoy helping parents learn about cloth. Over the past few years I have noticed alot more first time parents wanting to learn about cloth diapers. I think that is such a great thing!!

I have to admit that over the last few months I have been debating whether or not to keep this business going. However, it is days like today that reminds me why I am doing this.

Great Cloth Diaper Change Cancelled

Hi all,

Do to lack of pre-registers I am cancelling my event. There still are others in the surrounding Houston area. I have to say that I am disappointed but I am just a busy mom of 3 that works a part time job and tries to run this online/local business. There is just not enough time in the day for it all.

Ready for shipping

What a beautiful site! Fluffy mail on the way out.

All are gone

Well, the sell of our Arfe goodmama daiper did not go as expected. My website over sold the 20 diapers I had. I had to refund about 45 people last night. Very upsetting to say the least!

The hour is near

In one hour I will be adding the Arfe goodmama exclusive to our inventory. I am so happy there is so much interest in this beautiful cloth diaper!

Arfe! Is here

Yesterday afternoon I recieved my package of these awesome diapers. They are so cute in person. And I can't even say enough about how soft they are. I have 20 of them and am limiting one per order. I will add them to the inventory on wednesday around 1pm. This is when the little one will be napping. LOL

Our goodmama diaper

Goodmorning everyone,
I am so excited to have the preview of our (exclusive to Fluffy Little Tushies) goodmama diaper.

I will post an update as to when this will be stocked on our website!!

Bows

I have been playing around with making bows and clips for my girls hair and really enjoy doing it. I was thinking about making some for the site and selling them. I just don't really know what people are really looking for. I do see alot of those big giant flowers around but I was thinking about maybe some felt flowers or just those little bowtie looking clippies. Anyone have an opinion on this subject??

Our old diapers

So I haven't looked through our old diapers for atleast 5 months. Oh man, I really miss cloth diapering my little one.

A friend come over to get some things for her little man and I was thinking of a way to reach more people. I have the website (ofcourse) and this blog and the facebook page. But it just doesn't seem to be doing that.

My point, I was thinking about hosting a cloth diaper firesale. Everyone would come over with the diapers they want to sell and others would come over with the purpose to buy used diapers. We have local consignment shops that will sell you cloth but you only get a percentage and they get a percentage. This way you get all the money.

I don't know, I just all these diapers and no one to put them on ;-)

Still stripping

I was just thinking how funny it is that we have not been in diapers for a long while now (ok not that long, maybe 4 months) and I have to do some stripping.

We use cloth napkins and I noticed that they were repelling and not quite absorbing. So it looks like I get to do a stripping. I think I will start with the hot water strip just to see if that will work before I try any other method.

Do you have a favorite method for stripping your diapers/cloth?

Serger is fixed

I finally got the needle on the serger replaced just to have it break. So I put on another and then that one broke. Can you believe I went through 3 needles before I got the darn thing right. Atleast I learned that is a certain way that thing is suppose to be on there LOL

I was able to make us some more cloth napkins. It is so strange how they just disappear (like socks). But I have not yet gone back to the go potty bags.

burnt out

So I guess when you burn the candle at both ends you are bound to get burnt out. I have been going and going that now that I have caught a cold it really has knocked me on my tush.

It is really hard to try and keep the house, care for the kids, work at night and try to make this business a success (which is not going so well).

Broken Needle

I didn't know it was going to be so hard to find the right needle for my serger. I am so upset that I can not finish my cloth potty bag project. Atleast I learned a bit about needles in the process of finding the right one. Ofcourse the one that I do need I can't find anywhere locally so I am going to have to order it. Which just means more time off of my project. Boo

Cloth potty bags are done

Here is the cloth potty bag I have been working on. This potty calls for a platic bag with a soaking pad in it to aborb the pee. I was thinking that I don't want to have to buy and throw away bags. I wanted to make something that I could use simular to a cloth diaper that my little would pee in and then I could was and reuse them. I just love the way they came out!! I am working on getting a patent on the design. This is VERY exciting!!

potty training going well

I am in total shock that my 18 month old is almost done with potty training. She was waking up from her nap dry and we would go directly to the potty. We did that for a week or two. Then she really started showing an interest so I put her in panies and never looked back. We are using panties all day (even during nap) and only wearing a diaper over night. I just can't believe that is it. She doesn't even really talk but she can say poopoo and pat her tushie and that is how I know she needs to go.

I guess it is now time to sell off all my cloth. OMG that just makes me so sad. I am selling and not storing them because I don't think we are going to have anymore kids. My husband is set on not. I can always build a new stash if we do have another. I do have to say that I am holding on to a select few that I just can't get rid of. LOL

Ooga Booga is here!!

I am so excited that the Ooga Booga are here. I still need to add them to the site but you know you want any just let me know. I have 5 snap and 5 aplix in turquoise and 5 snap in butter. They are the Happy Heiny's *new and improved* One size diaper.

BIRTH Fair pictures

I have finally uploaded all the pictures from the Birth Fair. I am going to add just a few here but you can see them all on Facebook.

my home page

So I was adding a new product on my site right now and I just discovered that I have not updated my home page in forever. It actually says "It is summer". UUMMM... I think it is now fall.  I have doing all sorts of things to the site but never bothered to look at the home page :\

New print

I am so excited that we are about to receive this very cute print from Happy Heiny's one size diaper. I will getting the turquious in a snap and aplix and a butter in snap only.

Boxes done

I finally got all the boxes reorganized after having a fun time at the BIRTH fair. We had alot of new moms interested in cloth diapers so that is good thing. We even had some new dads who were very excited about using cloth.
I would love to do more shows and fairs. I really think that the best way to do this is to focus on the local parents. I can get to know them better and what they are looking for. Not to say that I don't the out of staters LOL