Sale Items

I've decided to focus on making and selling diapers, but I have a few things sitting here that need a good home. I'll list them below, with links under them to the listings on etsy. (There are a few old-style diapers on here too.)

**I will remove the items as they sell.**

2T Over the shoulder pillowcase dress

Frosty The Snowman blanket

Wow Wow Wubbzy Blankie

Child's sun hat, tractors/gingham 2T

Size 4/5T sunhat.  Tweety, green/aqua stripes

Firetruck blanket, fleece backing

Small pocket cloth diaper, ultra soft!!!

So that's that.  You can click on the links for more information.  :)

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog.
Have a great day!!

~Katie.

I'm Shifting My Focus To Diapers

Since I started sewing, I've always made a ton of different things.  I can make pretty much anything.  I love sewing, and I'll always make things that aren't diapers, but from this point on, I'm not going to be selling my non-diaper items on etsy.
Here's a picture of some of the things I have made that are not diapers.

Mei Tai carrier for a friend's baby shower.  (Shown with cover.)

(without cover.  Sports mesh to keep Baby cool.)

A reversible hat for my nephew.

"Lego Ninjago"

Dresses for the girls...

And a few "Batman" capes.

That's just a few of them.  I also made my older daughter a princess dress for Christmas, and made myself a bunch of long "hippie" skirts that I'm not really sure how I managed to live without, before.  All my kids have hats I made them, and two of the kids have blankets.  I'm currently in the middle of figuring out how to make my older daughter a quilt (her choice for a blanket).  And I've dabbled in bonnets and family cloth, and all those types of things.  I like finding new things to create on Pinterest.  It's a little addicting...

That was all before I sat down and actually came up with a business plan.  I'm a by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of gal.  Always have been.  And to be honest, it's worked out pretty well.  LOL  But I want PeepOoie to be something more than a hobby.  I want it to be something that can help take some of the financial burden off my husband, while I'm doing something I love.  The cherry on top is that I can give people something that they're going to love as much as I do.  I consider that a win/win/win!!!  The only way I'm going to do that is to focus on one thing...the thing I love making the most.  My diapers are my obsession.  To be successful, I need to put all my energy into them.

So now that I have a plan in place, I'm moving toward making it happen.  That means that ALL the non-diaper items in my shop are on sale right now.  There are dresses, hats, blankets, and family cloth that I need gone.  Deciding that this is going to be a successful business, instead of just a hobby, means that I'm counting my pennies and all sales are even more appreciated now than ever!!

If you aren't interested in anything you see on sale in my shop, I'd super appreciate it if you could pass the link along to someone who might be.

You can find those sale items RIGHT HERE.

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog!!
I hope you have a wonderful day.  :)

~Katie.

Where This All Began

I guess before I get too far ahead of myself, I should start at the beginning and explain where all of this began.

Back in the day (when I was first pregnant with my twins), I bought two bags of cloth diapers from a mom-to-mom sale.  They had sewn-in inserts, and needed covers.  It seemed like a daunting task.  I wasn't sleeping more than 3 hours (that would be 3, 1-hour naps at night), and the idea of having more to do...having laundry that HAD to be done every day, no matter what, was just more than I could deal with.  It sounded like more trouble than it was worth.  I ended up selling them for next to nothing, and used disposables on them.  I never thought I'd used cloth.

Then, after I had our singleton, I saw something online about how to make a cloth diaper.  I did the math and realized how much we were spending on diapers that we used for a couple of hours, and threw away.  It BLEW MY MIND.  In the four months of her life we'd spent no less than $250 on diapers.  In a year we'd be spending more than $750., and that would be if we kept buying the cheap ones when they were on sale.  If she was potty trained by 3, it would work out to over $2200.  On diapers.  What the...?!  

(When I thought about the money we spent on diapering our twins, I felt sick.)  

We aren't rich, by any stretch of the word.  My husband supports our family of five on his one income.  With twin toddlers and a newborn, we just didn't have money to throw away like that...and using disposable diapers really was, literally, throwing money away.

So I sat down and drew out my own pattern.  I had to try.  Even if I only used cloth every now and then, it would help out by saving some money.

The first diaper I ever made.

I decided to make her a couple and see how it went.  I fell in love with cloth diapers, and ended up buying a ton of Alva diapers because they were inexpensive.  At the same time I kept making my own, and realized very quickly that the diapers I bought left a lot to be desired. Over time I went from using the thin velcro on my diapers, to thick velcro, and my pattern changed slightly, to "fix" the problems I had found with other diapers out there.  I was tired of "settling".

2nd Generation diaper with thick velcro.

I have made slight changes to my patterns three times to make them perfect.  That's where we are now...3rd generation.  Every change improved them, and eliminated the "issues" I had with other brands of cloth diapers.  At this point, I could not be more happy with the fit and comfort of these diapers.

3rd Generation diapers, KAM snaps

My own little bubs loves her cloth diapers, and we don't have to spend money on something she pees in once, and we throw away.  That's not even mentioning how much better cloth is for the environment.  It's funny to think that I was someone that said I would never use cloth because it was "too much work", and now I have a personal stash of about 20 diapers, and a pile of several prints yet to be sewn (also for my daughter).  I may have a problem.  LOL

My little Megan in her Cars diaper.

I hope that as time goes on that I can make this little business into one that can help my husband support our family.  He's still the only income for our family of 5, and as the kids are getting bigger, the cost of having them is increasing.  I would love to be able to take some of the burden off of him, while doing something I really love.

So, what started as a way to save money has turned into something of an obsession, and a business.  Now you know how this all began.  :)

So Now I Have A Blog For My Diapers.

As you can see, I have chosen the Batcave for my background on this blog. Why is that? Oh, well because the Batcave is awesome, that's why.
In reality, the only similarity my actual sewing room has to the Batcave is the underground location. I sew in my basement. :)

This is a shot of my sewing desk, and my little corner of the room I use for making diapers.  One day when my husband is kind enough to bring in my stand-up shelf from the garage, I'll get my fabric set up the way I would like it, and I'll take a picture of that too.  (Soon...I heard talk of it this morning...)

In the back you can see my storage for ready to ship diapers in one, and a smaller one that holds random things I have nowhere else to put.  The goal is to empty the diapers out of that storage tower, and only have to use it for a few minutes between listing them, and packaging them.  One day, maybe.

I'm going to use this blog as a way to show you what goes on here, and let you into my life a little bit.  I'm also going to use this as a place to post giveaways, and whatnot.  In the next blog post I'll tell you more about me, and why I started making cloth diapers.

I hope you stick around, and enjoy my blog.

Goodnight!!
~Katie.