Business?

Ok, so I am trying to get some supplemental income going on, just because it is always nice to have some extra in the bank. Since I am doing cloth diapers for the girl I had made some wool diaper covers for her, as you probably saw in previous posts. Then I got a bit crazy on the purchasing of wool sweaters to make more. Currently I have more wool sweaters waiting for the new lives the Carter has liverpills, as my grandma used to say.


So I am going to post some pictures of a few more that I have made because I had to use up these sweaters since I had no place else to put them. Now I need to get rid of the finished product. These can be used as diaper covers or just as shorts or pants if that is what you need.


If you know of anyone or if you yourself are doing cloth diapers and are interested, I am thinking of trying to sell these. I have seen very plain, offwhite, boring covers like this on some sites for as high as $80. My thought is more like $10. I am offering to the first 5 who comment from the US or Canada the chance to be my guinea pigs, for free, as to how I did on sizing and also what you think about the style. All I ask in return is that you give me feedback on what you think about them. Just leave a comment with your email and I will contact you for your mailing info.


So here are just a few pictures, not sure how many I can fit here since I got this fancy new camera from Catherine and I can't figure out how to downsize the pictures. So I may have to post another one with just pictures.


Thanks.



Blue ones: short legs, thicker, smallest pair I am able to make, probably fit baby up to 14 pounds, depending on waist and thigh size, I need to get those measurements for all of these.
Pink: Extra long legs, this pair is probably one of the biggest sizes I have in stock. Easily fits Marjorie and she is 27 pounds and 35 inches tall.

Purple: Slightly smaller then the pink, I could get these on Marjorie but they would be tight so probably babies from 15 to 25 pounds, unless they are long and thin.

Enlarge the picture for the cool detail on the waist. This was a gorgeous sweater in a previous lifetime and was one of the first ones I did that day so was able to think better and use the detail from the sweater to make the pants look cuter. This pair has a bit shorter legs, kind of capri style, fit babies from 10 -20 pounds, again depending on waist and thigh size.

I will put up another post with just pictures and descriptions of the other ones I have completed. So don't think you are limited in your selections. I have orange, light blue, medium blue, merino wool, cashmere and regular wool. I have tried to only get sweaters that feel soft, since I wouldn't want to wear a scratchy old wool sweater so for sure would not put one on my baby's delicate skin.

Watch for more pictures coming. My coworker just showed me how to make the picture files smaller so hopefully that means I can put more then 4 on a post.

Thanks for looking and do let me know if you want to give them a try.

It Started With a Plea for a Serger

Yes, finally posting my Ohio adventure or at least as much of it as I can remember since it was a whole month ago.

Catherine put up a plea for a serger. I happened to have one collecting dust in my closet and have wanted to meet this amazing woman for many years now, so I proposed a meet and switch. When I mentioned that on my way to invade her personal space I would have to stop in Sandusky for a photo op due to loving the movie "Tommy Boy", she said that she would be in Sandusky that very weekend. This was on Monday. So the planning began.

I briefly ran the idea past the husband, who showed little to no interest in going. Next step was the Boy, as the plan was to go to the big Cedar Point amusement park and Catherine's husband needed someone to go on the big scarey rides with him. The Boy was not interested but since he is still a minor and subject to the rule of the Queen, Me, he was rousted out of bed at the God aweful hour, for him, of 7:00am on a Friday and off we went.

I even remembered to pack the serger, all the various extra parts and the instruction book. I know, I hardly believe it myself.

Off we went after hitting the gas station, ATM and checking the map. Getting around the construction and crap that is lovely Chicago and onto I80 thru Indiana and then Ohio was fairly easy. I just want to say the Indiana and Ohio have a great system for their toll road, get your ticket when you get on and just freaking go, then pay when you get off. None of that stopping every freaking mile or two like Illinois has. Plus no having to still drive through major cities. Loved it. May take another trip to Ohio just to enjoy a sensible interstate system. ;)

So we made it through 4 states in a little over 6 hours and found out hotel no problem. The Boy was not thrilled about having to wake up and I know this was so mean of me, but I made him read the directions off of my mapquest print out. Can you believe how incredibly cruel I am?

So we checked in, called Catherine who volunteered to come pick us up to go find something to eat. She arrived and how best to describe her? She is just a nice and sweet, funny, smart, interesting and gorgeous as she seems from her blog. We chatted as if we had known each other forever and not just via email and blogs for the past 4 1/2 years. When the Boy started groaning we decided to stop the chatting and get looking for some food. So off we went over to the hotel she was staying at. We wandered around there for a while and then found out there was too long of a wait for dinner at that place so off we went to find a different food source.

We happened upon the Thirsty Pony and pulled in. Good food, nice wait staff and beer. ;) More chatting of course and the Boy even chimed in a bit once he had some food in him, which always make for a happier Boy.

Then we go back to our hotel. I think she would have been ready to tear up the town but I was way too tired, sorry Catherine to be a party pooper. Plus we had a big day of amusement park adventuring for the next day and if I don't get sleep, you really don't want to be around me.

Saturday I am up at the God aweful hour of 6:00am, Ohio time so really 5:00am Wisconsin time. Even without the girl to wake me I still wake up. Damn internal clock. So I showered, went and got coffee and noticed that there was a rummage sale going on just down the block from the hotel. Well, I love me a good rummage and could not pass up the opportunity of being able to say I at least went to a rummage sale in Ohio. So I wander on down and oh the treasure I found, I should have driven my car.

I will have to take pictures of some of my treasures. I ended up with two white Pyrex dishes, one even had the cover for it. Two turquoise faux leather wallets, with the original purchase receipts from 1974 in the one. I have been using them ever since. I got a Coleman aluminum water cooler, super cool and only $2.00. Plus a bag of books for mom and dad. The best purchase, which I almost passed on, was an old Better Homes and Garden cookbook. But I figured for .25 I would just get it.

A little back story on the cookbook, when I went off to college mom sent along her BH&G cookbook. This had her famous popcorn ball recipe in it. I proceeded to leave that cookbook in the kitchen of the first house I lived in at college and have been tormented about the fact that I lost the damn popcorn ball recipe.

So back to this cookbook, I just tossed it in the bag with the other books and didn't think anything more about it. Well, it has the POPCORN BALL RECIPE!!!!!! I have redeemed myself.

Ok, back to the adventures with Catherine and company. Saturday after she was done with her conference she called and the whole family came to get up. Her husband is so nice and sweet, don't let her fool you with what she posts about him on her blog. ;) Sam is a doll and Myles, oh my best friend Myles. Too cute for words.

So we load up with the Boy and her husband stuffed in the back end of the van and away we go. After some remembering at the last minute that there were no diapers for Myles in the stroller. (this is so what makes me love her more then I ever did before, I am not the only one who does shit like this) We enter the park. The big boys couldn't leave us fast enough to begin going on the scarey rides even though my Boy was kind of quiet. So Catherine and I wander with the little boys and Sam does some rides and lots of pictures are taken, hopefully someday they will be retrieved from the bad computer.

After several hours the little boys are hungry so a stop is made at the hotdog stand. Sam get his and puts a ton of ketchup on his dog. Husband says there is too much, wipes most off the hotdog. Sam starts crying. Catherine do you know what comes next?

Catherine apparently has had it with the fussing by this time,




"Just eat the damn hotdog!" was then uttered. I couldn't help but laugh because, again, something I totally would do, only much early in the day the cussing would have started.

YES! I knew I loved this woman even before I met her in real life. ;) Sorry Catherine I had to put that in here.

Other fun things, I was almost hit by a flying cellphone that fell out of someone's pocket when they were on the "tower of death" ride, that is not it's real name but that is exactly what it looked like when I was standing under the darn thing. We didn't depart the park until almost 10:00pm, way past my bedtime.

They all were staying at the same hotel as us that night and turned out they were in the room right across the hall. So they had to put up with me bugging them that night and then getting them all up at the butt crack of dawn on Sunday.

My drive back home was good until I got to Illinois, took the wrong turn and ended up going through downtown Chicago on a Sunday afternoon with Taste of Chicago, the Gay Pride parade and a White Sox game all going on plus add in the boatload of construction. Yeah, took me almost 3 hours just to get to the northside of Chicago. Then another hour from there to home. That sucked. But we made it and didn't run out of gas though my bell kept going off before we hit the Wisconsin border that I was going to run out at any minute.

So there, that is what I remember about my trip to Ohio. Catherine posted much closer to the date of the adventure with additional details.

Thanks for a great weekend Catherine and you know anytime you want to come to Boringtown, WI you are all welcome. So great to know you all can handle the animals as well. Did you see, I didn't share that tidbit with blogland. ;)