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Friday, November 13, 2009
I need help coming up with a cute name for these clips...Get a free clip if I use your name!
These are some of my new favorite hair clips. I think that I am going thru a creative dryspell. I have the clips designed but I can't figure out what to name them. Apple of my eye just doesn't seem to cut it. So I am asking for help. I would love to sell a bunch of these on Etsy and need a catchy cute name to help me. I will send you your own custom made apple clip if I chose your name! Thank you so much for your help in advance! Get your friends and family to help! Big Hugs to all!
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Designing Eco Friendly Baby Accesories: Making Gifts on a budget
Since becoming a stay at home mom and having out income cut in half we have had to become very creative with our budget. 
I have a daughter who was born with a full head of hair. I of course am one of those ridiculous mothers that couldn't wait to dress her up in all sorts of cute outfits and do her hair. I already envisioned all of the oohs and ahhs she would get when we would go out. I couldn't wait to go shopping for her. What I didn't expect was how expensive it would be to get the looks liked. I didn't understand how a shirt 1/4th the size of mine could cost just as much if not more than a shirt for me. I am lucky however. My mother went crazy with buying her outfits. She just couldn't stop herself and a lot of our family and friends also sent us quite a bit of supplies to last us the first year. Something I was missing though were hair accessories. Granted, I could, and did, buy the 6 pack of hair bows from places like Wal-Mart for $3.00 but they just didn't seem very special. Plus they usually came in pretty standard colors that wouldn't match most of her things and would easily fall out. As I do for most things, I told myself, "hey! I can make it myself!" I was off to the craft store. There, I found an amazing material called EcoFi Felt. EcoFi Felt is made from post consumer plastic bottles in a full range of colors. This was great to me since I have been working with felt (mostly wool) since I was a child and the green lifestyle has been ingrained in me all of my life. This was perfect the potential of this material seemed endless. My daughter had this cute dress with watermelons on it so I made a watermelon hair clip for her. 
People went nuts over it wondering if the clip came with the dress. I then decided to play around with other shapes and fruits, even veggies! The more she wore them out and about the more compliments I would get. This of course lit a light bulb in my head. Being part of such a large family and having so many events it is inevitable that we need gifts from time to time. Especially now with so many of our friends and family having children we wanted to come up with something that still made everyone say "AWW" but without having to forgo buying milk for the week! I started handing them out to family members and friends as gifts for each event. People started to ask if they could purchase more and now here I am starting a little store. I am so pleased. Who knew that a hobby that I enjoy to relax would help me accessorize my daughter, be great gifts for friends and family, and help contribute to the bills! I have been getting new ideas for new designs which has been so much fun to figure out and put together. If you have any ideas I would love to hear it. I want to have a store opening on Etsy in the next week or so. So any ideas would be great! http://www.ThePoshEvent.Etsy.com
I have a daughter who was born with a full head of hair. I of course am one of those ridiculous mothers that couldn't wait to dress her up in all sorts of cute outfits and do her hair. I already envisioned all of the oohs and ahhs she would get when we would go out. I couldn't wait to go shopping for her. What I didn't expect was how expensive it would be to get the looks liked. I didn't understand how a shirt 1/4th the size of mine could cost just as much if not more than a shirt for me. I am lucky however. My mother went crazy with buying her outfits. She just couldn't stop herself and a lot of our family and friends also sent us quite a bit of supplies to last us the first year. Something I was missing though were hair accessories. Granted, I could, and did, buy the 6 pack of hair bows from places like Wal-Mart for $3.00 but they just didn't seem very special. Plus they usually came in pretty standard colors that wouldn't match most of her things and would easily fall out. As I do for most things, I told myself, "hey! I can make it myself!" I was off to the craft store. There, I found an amazing material called EcoFi Felt. EcoFi Felt is made from post consumer plastic bottles in a full range of colors. This was great to me since I have been working with felt (mostly wool) since I was a child and the green lifestyle has been ingrained in me all of my life. This was perfect the potential of this material seemed endless. My daughter had this cute dress with watermelons on it so I made a watermelon hair clip for her. 
People went nuts over it wondering if the clip came with the dress. I then decided to play around with other shapes and fruits, even veggies! The more she wore them out and about the more compliments I would get. This of course lit a light bulb in my head. Being part of such a large family and having so many events it is inevitable that we need gifts from time to time. Especially now with so many of our friends and family having children we wanted to come up with something that still made everyone say "AWW" but without having to forgo buying milk for the week! I started handing them out to family members and friends as gifts for each event. People started to ask if they could purchase more and now here I am starting a little store. I am so pleased. Who knew that a hobby that I enjoy to relax would help me accessorize my daughter, be great gifts for friends and family, and help contribute to the bills! I have been getting new ideas for new designs which has been so much fun to figure out and put together. If you have any ideas I would love to hear it. I want to have a store opening on Etsy in the next week or so. So any ideas would be great! http://www.ThePoshEvent.Etsy.com
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Ticked off Toddlers, Brisket, and a Pig Bite...
Ohio is absolutely beautiful in the fall. The bright fall colors painting the hillsides with quaint farms scattered in-between. There are a lot of places that cater to families like ours during this time. New road side farmer markets pop up, hay rides, pumpkin picking, the whole nine yards. We decided to aim east of us where the land starts getting very hilly. We ended up in Holmes county http://www.visitamishcountry.com/ since our dear daughter wasn't going to be her charming self much longer if we didn't stop for a break. Any time I am in this area I immediately think about the cheese, particularly Guggisberg cheese. Go to any store offering this cheese and they charge at least $10 a pound. This isn't something that fits into our budget, when you go directly to Guggisberg cheese chalet and factory you can get it for 2.99 a pound! Plus, they have an excellent selection of other wonderful cheeses for similar prices. In the past 5 years since I knew of it's existence it has really become popular. Maybe too popular. We never used to have to fight to get parking or cram ourselves into the store and fight off people to pick up a chunk of cheese. They even gave my daughter a cardboard cheese hat! This was quite hilarious since she was more interested to see this hat on us that keeping it on herself. So, here I am fighting to get cheese, with a cardboard cheese on my head, while making sure I keep my daughter clear of the dozen sniffles and sneezes I heard surrounding us. Not quite the quaint experience I was after, but I still got my cheese! I can't help to think when I see places like this start printing logo hats, have fancy bags, and now a full website http://www.guggisberg.com/, that I am paying for it somewhere. So the magic gets lost for me. But, I would still tell everyone to check it out, at least for getting some cheese samples! After this, about 5 mins down the road towards 39 we stopped at Hershberger farms. They have a petting zoo, wagon rides, pony rides, farmers market, and a bakery. I go here each year to pick up a huge thing of Ohio grown Candy Onions. Seriously some of the best onions ever! This year was extra special since our daughter actually noticed the animals and was so happy to see them. We took her around to look at the baby goats, cows, birds of all kinds, and baby pigs. Oh, the pigs were so cute! 
Our daughter couldn't get enough of them. Neither could I. I just had to pet one. They kept running away from people but for some reason a number of them came up to me and let me pet them. I felt like I was an animal whisperer or something. Next thing I know the pudgy one bit me! Granted they had signs all over warning that something like this could happen, but really? Me, I get bitten by a pig. My husband was heartbroken over it...if heartbroken means that he laughed his head off. Due to this my daughter started laughing as well. She started saying "Ow!" and then laugh "Ow" and then laugh. She was so proud of herself. Despite the pig bite, we had a great time. For dinner we drove to 39 and CR201 Berlin Hickory Smokehouse. We each got the brisket platter which was AMAZING! This place recently opened after Troyers Amish Restaurant went out of business. The serving I had could have easily fed a family of 4 on it's own. The meat was perfectly prepared. Most of the food is supposedly from around Amish country. We were very satisfied especially since we spent $25.oo for the three of us. The children's menu left more to be desired and really didn't taste very good when we had it. We should have just had her eat off of our plates instead. Plus the service was pretty terrible. This is a new place, so I can let that slip for that reason and the fact that the food was so good. This place was so good that I decided that when my father came out to drag him and my sister over there (an hour drive from where we live) to have the brisket. So, unfortunately this time around the only consistent experience was the terrible service. There were half the amount of people there than the last time we were there the day before. The brisket was horribly dried out and with about a quarter of the portion we had the day before. My father got a combination plate for 17.oo of ham and brisket, the plate came out with even less than the rest of us. The ham was dried out, it was pathetic looking. One would swear that we were in a different restaurant! I asked the server about it telling her that I had brought my father and sister here boasting about how great the place is and what a great value for the price. Her explanation was that on busy days they don't tend to measure portions so you may get larger portions and less cooked food than the days they are less busy. What?! I asked, that was the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I was so dissapointed and felt horrible for dragging my family out there. http://theberlinhickorysmokehouse.com/index.html You can check this place out. I can't guarentee if this place will be the best or the worst place ever. I still don't know. I have not been back since.
Our daughter couldn't get enough of them. Neither could I. I just had to pet one. They kept running away from people but for some reason a number of them came up to me and let me pet them. I felt like I was an animal whisperer or something. Next thing I know the pudgy one bit me! Granted they had signs all over warning that something like this could happen, but really? Me, I get bitten by a pig. My husband was heartbroken over it...if heartbroken means that he laughed his head off. Due to this my daughter started laughing as well. She started saying "Ow!" and then laugh "Ow" and then laugh. She was so proud of herself. Despite the pig bite, we had a great time. For dinner we drove to 39 and CR201 Berlin Hickory Smokehouse. We each got the brisket platter which was AMAZING! This place recently opened after Troyers Amish Restaurant went out of business. The serving I had could have easily fed a family of 4 on it's own. The meat was perfectly prepared. Most of the food is supposedly from around Amish country. We were very satisfied especially since we spent $25.oo for the three of us. The children's menu left more to be desired and really didn't taste very good when we had it. We should have just had her eat off of our plates instead. Plus the service was pretty terrible. This is a new place, so I can let that slip for that reason and the fact that the food was so good. This place was so good that I decided that when my father came out to drag him and my sister over there (an hour drive from where we live) to have the brisket. So, unfortunately this time around the only consistent experience was the terrible service. There were half the amount of people there than the last time we were there the day before. The brisket was horribly dried out and with about a quarter of the portion we had the day before. My father got a combination plate for 17.oo of ham and brisket, the plate came out with even less than the rest of us. The ham was dried out, it was pathetic looking. One would swear that we were in a different restaurant! I asked the server about it telling her that I had brought my father and sister here boasting about how great the place is and what a great value for the price. Her explanation was that on busy days they don't tend to measure portions so you may get larger portions and less cooked food than the days they are less busy. What?! I asked, that was the dumbest thing I have ever heard. I was so dissapointed and felt horrible for dragging my family out there. http://theberlinhickorysmokehouse.com/index.html You can check this place out. I can't guarentee if this place will be the best or the worst place ever. I still don't know. I have not been back since.
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