Our Canadian Men are up 2-0 over Slovakia - I'm sitting here by myself though - unsure where my dh ran off and hid! Oh we got the boys their first pair of skates today (and helmets). Even the baby got skates :) Oh and the dh got skates - I get to teach all my boys how to skate (my dh use to know how but it's been quite a few years!)
I'm updating the site as I watch the game - with new pictures and new features added to products.
Oh and I have to share my favorite tv commercial:
Friday, February 26, 2010
Women's Hockey - Yeah Gold - & a non issue
So after much anticipation we (meaning Canada of course) play the USA in the gold medal round of Women's Hockey last night. It was an awesome game - I screamed and scared the kids when we scored and to shut out the USA it was just truly a Canadian Moment to cherish! 2-0 Sorry my American friends but we kicked your butt in hockey and this is our game - our ice - our country - we won!
Now onto the non issue - of course the Women's hockey team is going to celebrate - and rightly so! If this was the men's team NO ONE would have said anything about it - who cares if they are going to drink after winning the game! What do you think that the men will do if / when they win? Any country would have done the same thing - sure maybe you can say that they should have kept it confined to their dressing room but still they just won the GOLD medal for crying out loud give em a little slack!
That's my 2 Canadian penny's worth of input on that subject :)
Now onto diapers - Made up 6 Ooga Booga One Size Bamboo Organic Cotton French Terry (man that's a mouth full!) diapers yesterday - as soon as I get the pictures taken I'll post them onto the website - they are really awesome looking and at $23 are a great price!
Check them out!
Now onto the non issue - of course the Women's hockey team is going to celebrate - and rightly so! If this was the men's team NO ONE would have said anything about it - who cares if they are going to drink after winning the game! What do you think that the men will do if / when they win? Any country would have done the same thing - sure maybe you can say that they should have kept it confined to their dressing room but still they just won the GOLD medal for crying out loud give em a little slack!
That's my 2 Canadian penny's worth of input on that subject :)
Now onto diapers - Made up 6 Ooga Booga One Size Bamboo Organic Cotton French Terry (man that's a mouth full!) diapers yesterday - as soon as I get the pictures taken I'll post them onto the website - they are really awesome looking and at $23 are a great price!
Check them out!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
New Shipment of Fabric - well almost
So I ordered a new huge shipment of colored French Terry that I make these out of.
They are by becoming the most popular diaper and so it was time to reorder fabric. I called the company last friday and was told that they didn't take paypal :( (I've got funds in paypal I was trying to use and didn't want to have to wait for it to transfer to my bank account) - so I told them that I would have to wait until the funds transfered to be able to pay for my order - they said (SHOCK) No problem give me the order I'll get it together and then on Tuesday call in your payment - doing the happy dance! So all goes well paypal transfer my $ (after taking almost an additional 3% - robbers - thieves -grrrrrrr) and I call in the payment on Tuesday. Well then they tell me that they've already shipped it :) SHOCK :) without even being paid yet! So then yesterday I get a call saying it's in Toronto and can be cleared through customs - who are these people and what super powers do they have this is awesome! -
Thursday ...... I unload all of the car sets (except for Alex's) and we head into Toronto to clear customs and pick up the fabric. Everything runs smoothly until I call the warehouse and inform them that they should have their customs clearing docs at the fax machine - which they did - now all I need is the address to the warehouse so I can pick up the fabric - well here is the problem I have to take the skid and all of the fabric without removing anything from the skid - hun?? Ok so I get her to explain why (customs regulation for this particular warehouse) so to make a long story short I can't get the fabric until tomorrow (it was always going to be delivered tomorrow I'm just impatient and wanted it today).
So yeahhhhhhhh a huge shipment of fabric in less than a week :)
Now to get back to the cutting of the PUL - it's all laid out on the table I've just got to find time without the kids - oh and we've actually got SNOW! Not a lot and not even enough to cover the grass but it's actually stuck around for more than 24 hours!
They are by becoming the most popular diaper and so it was time to reorder fabric. I called the company last friday and was told that they didn't take paypal :( (I've got funds in paypal I was trying to use and didn't want to have to wait for it to transfer to my bank account) - so I told them that I would have to wait until the funds transfered to be able to pay for my order - they said (SHOCK) No problem give me the order I'll get it together and then on Tuesday call in your payment - doing the happy dance! So all goes well paypal transfer my $ (after taking almost an additional 3% - robbers - thieves -grrrrrrr) and I call in the payment on Tuesday. Well then they tell me that they've already shipped it :) SHOCK :) without even being paid yet! So then yesterday I get a call saying it's in Toronto and can be cleared through customs - who are these people and what super powers do they have this is awesome! -
Thursday ...... I unload all of the car sets (except for Alex's) and we head into Toronto to clear customs and pick up the fabric. Everything runs smoothly until I call the warehouse and inform them that they should have their customs clearing docs at the fax machine - which they did - now all I need is the address to the warehouse so I can pick up the fabric - well here is the problem I have to take the skid and all of the fabric without removing anything from the skid - hun?? Ok so I get her to explain why (customs regulation for this particular warehouse) so to make a long story short I can't get the fabric until tomorrow (it was always going to be delivered tomorrow I'm just impatient and wanted it today).
So yeahhhhhhhh a huge shipment of fabric in less than a week :)
Now to get back to the cutting of the PUL - it's all laid out on the table I've just got to find time without the kids - oh and we've actually got SNOW! Not a lot and not even enough to cover the grass but it's actually stuck around for more than 24 hours!
An Amazing Hockey Game
7-3 7-3 7-3
We Win We Win We Win!
Can you believe it we beat Russia for the first time in 50 years!!!
On a diaper related note - over 40 diapers were shipped out to day to customers.
It's always bitter sweet when I package up diapers to ship out. I love the fact that more people are starting to use cloth diapers but they are always so cute and I hate to see them leave :)
All of the diapers that shipped out today were zorbeez AIO's
Here is a picture of some of the diapers that left here and are on their way home:
TTYS and remember - if better is possible good is not enough!
We Win We Win We Win!
Can you believe it we beat Russia for the first time in 50 years!!!
On a diaper related note - over 40 diapers were shipped out to day to customers.
It's always bitter sweet when I package up diapers to ship out. I love the fact that more people are starting to use cloth diapers but they are always so cute and I hate to see them leave :)
All of the diapers that shipped out today were zorbeez AIO's
Here is a picture of some of the diapers that left here and are on their way home:
TTYS and remember - if better is possible good is not enough!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
My very first blog post
Ok so I've decided that as I want to blanket the GTA with cloth diapering parents one way to do that would be to blog about the ups, downs of cloth diapering from both the change table and from behind the scenes as a cloth diaper designer / manufacturer / retailer ...... I'm not sure where this will lead - mostly I'm starting today simply so that I can get use to the idea of writing something - just a little something each and every day - I'll eventually attach the blog to my website but for now it's just you and me :)
Today's cloth diapering experience ended up with wayyyyy too many poopy diapers - a 2 year old that I really should start potty training (if I wait long enough he'll tell me right - NOT!!) but as I've already been down this road twice before I know how much time it's going to take and really I don't like spending the majority of my day in the bathroom or cleaning up the carpet / tile / laminate - and so I'm procrastinating - I wonder if I can turn it into a positive procrastination somehow?? Hmmmmm not likely but it might be worth a try!
If you don't know what positive procrastination is it's like this - You know you have to do something, but you do something else (that also needs or should be done but is much more fun, or rewarding) first. This way at least something positive comes out of the situation and hopefully you are now at least slightly more inclined to do the thing that you weren't so keen on doing in the first place.
This gives me another idea here is my current procrastination list - (I'm hoping that if I air my "dirty laundry" - pun intended - to you then I might be less likely to procrastinate!)
Current Procrastinations:
Today's cloth diapering experience ended up with wayyyyy too many poopy diapers - a 2 year old that I really should start potty training (if I wait long enough he'll tell me right - NOT!!) but as I've already been down this road twice before I know how much time it's going to take and really I don't like spending the majority of my day in the bathroom or cleaning up the carpet / tile / laminate - and so I'm procrastinating - I wonder if I can turn it into a positive procrastination somehow?? Hmmmmm not likely but it might be worth a try!
If you don't know what positive procrastination is it's like this - You know you have to do something, but you do something else (that also needs or should be done but is much more fun, or rewarding) first. This way at least something positive comes out of the situation and hopefully you are now at least slightly more inclined to do the thing that you weren't so keen on doing in the first place.
This gives me another idea here is my current procrastination list - (I'm hoping that if I air my "dirty laundry" - pun intended - to you then I might be less likely to procrastinate!)
Current Procrastinations:
- Laundry - Diapers specifically - how ironic!
- Sending some information to China about my current FOE order
- Dishes (like this one will ever change!)
- My office desperately needs a good cleaning / organizing - I can barley see my desk!
- Homeschooling (my son is in his refusal to do schoolwork phase and it's frustrating).
- Big bin of cloth diapers in my office that just need to be snapped together and put into the "store".
- HUGE box of 2nds / discontinued items that need to be placed on the outlet
- Filing this weeks orders into my filing cabinet - this one I don't know why I don't do but the pile continues to grow and yet here I am typing instead of filing!
- THERE's lots more but that's enough embarrassment for today!
- I started my blog - hehe
- I tagged a new batch of breast pads for the "store"
- I fixed a lot of pictures on the website - probably about 75% fixed - did a lot of upgrades to the site this week!
Well that's enough for tonight - on an Olympic note - we (and by we I mean Canada) beat Germany in Men's Hockey tonight - EH OH CANADA GO! - Score was 8-2!! This was by far the best game that the men have played during these Olympics - I made a joke to my dh that the head coach of the Men's team must have had them play a scrimmage game against the women (which in my funny world they lost terribly!) and so the men decided tonight to play HOCKEY - shocking I know! They passed, they looked (they didn't managed to hurt any of their teammates!) they acted like a ................... a .......................... wait for it ..................... TEAM! Yeah - EH OH CANADA GO!
They have renewed my faith in the Men's Hockey Team - oh and did you know Sidney Crosby is from Nova Scotia - that's just a feather in my cap :)
Tomorrow we play Russia in the quarterfinals - see you after the game (or before if I get into my positive procrastination mood!)
They have renewed my faith in the Men's Hockey Team - oh and did you know Sidney Crosby is from Nova Scotia - that's just a feather in my cap :)
Tomorrow we play Russia in the quarterfinals - see you after the game (or before if I get into my positive procrastination mood!)
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