If you are a cloth diapering mom, you need to be using Rockin’ Green Cloth Diaper and Laundry Detergent. This stuff truly does rock and you can use it on all of your laundry! It is also great for sensitive skin – you can opt for the “soft rock” version for extremely sensitive skin. You can also choose from a variety of different scents including lavender vanilla, monkey snacks, mango sorbet, and vanilla buttercream. I’ll let you know what monkey snacks smell like in a few days when I get my next batch delivered. Your laundry has never smelled so good and it sure does get your cloth diapers clean!! I will never buy another detergent again.
Rockin’ Green is:
Dye free
Comes in several yummy scents (& an unscented version)
No fillers
No enzymes or optical brighteners
100% Phosphate free
Vegan
Great for sensitive skin
Easy rinsing formula
Approved for military use
Works wonders on microfiber stink!
Perfect for cloth diapers
HE compatible
Reusable packaging
Great for all water types
Economical at .13 cents a load!
I have a favorite Etsy store for fleece longies, soakers and hats (wool available also)! Jen at WinkyDinks has the absolute best prices, fastest shipping, and highest quality handmade products. She is such a pleasure to do business with. I’m very happy to have found her shop! Winky Dinks is at the top of my favorite sellers list on Etsy.
I found a place called Fragrancenet.com a few years ago and shop there every year at Christmas time! Fragrancenet has the absolute lowest prices on perfume and cologne that I have ever found. You can get an additional 10% off these already super low prices just by joining the mailing list. A pop up window appears as soon as you go to the site. Just put in your email address and they will email you a 10% coupon to use online immediately! You can also enter the sweepstakes to win a $250.00 shopping spree.
I just ordered a bottle of Bvlgari Black (I get my oldest son a bottle every year) for $35.00 that would cost $85 anywhere else! They also have the cutest line of kids fragrances such as Batman, Backyardigans, and Barbie. If you’re planning to get someone special a nice fragrance this season, Fragrancenet.com is the place to get it! I have saved so much money over the last few years by shopping at Fragrancenet.com.
Moviestorm is enabling a new generation of amateur film-makers to realize their visions.It offers easy, affordable animation tools that can produce sophisticated high-quality films on practically no budget. After several years in development, Moviestorm has demonstrated that home movie-making needn’t be limited to cheap hand-held cameras and clips of the kids goofing around. Its virtual movie studio allows users to break free of the limitations of the real world, and allows them to direct, film, edit and distribute 3D animated movies without any knowledge of animation techniques or 3D modelling. And best of all, it’s free, and comes without any copyright restrictions.
Iain Friar, known as IceAxe, is one of Moviestorm’s many successful film-makers.His short film, Clockwork, a dystopian vision of a totalitarian Britain after a Soviet invasion in the 1980s, is winning accolades and awards around the world, most recently the audience prize at the Atopic Festival in France and the Grand Prize at the Machinima Expo.Clearly influenced by both 1984 and A Clockwork Orange, with a visual style that evokes both Communist era propaganda posters and more recent animated movies such as A Scanner Darkly, it is a stark, powerful film that belies its modest origins.
Iain, who’s 42, works in marketing, and started making movies just 18 months ago. “I’ve always been a hands-on person, in music, sport, and everything else,” he says. “I thought it would be fun to shoot a music video, but I’m not the most technical of people, and it seemed extraordinarily hard. I remember when computer games started using in-game animation to tell the story instead of video clips, and this interested me, especially now that game technology has become so sophisticated. So I bought a book, Machinima for Dummies, which had Moviestorm on the CD, and I was hooked. I liked Moviestorm because it did what I was looking for, even though I didn’t really know what I was looking for at the time, and the Moviestorm community was very supportive. I initially made comedies, but I could see that the movies people respected were more dramatic, so it seemed that was the direction to go in.”
He spent four months working on Clockwork, and then the same again on his next short, Cloud Angel, a steampunk thriller set on board an airship.Apart from the voice acting, he made the entire film himself at his home in Basingstoke, England.“I’m lucky that my friends are so willing to step up to the mike and read my silly scripts!” he laughs. His next film is Gridlock, a science fiction comedy which he is co-producing with another successful Moviestorm director, James Thorpe.For this, they’ve stepped up the production costs a notch: they hired a recording studio and got the local amateur dramatic group to do the voice acting.
Iain is realistic about his future, though.“Am I ambitious? Yes. Do I want to keep it as just a hobby? Well, probably yes, because I imagine that if it became a full time activity, the fun might go out of it. I make movies as escapism. That said, I think that this industry would be really interesting to work in, because it’s embryonic; I’m not sure what direction it will go in. It’s exciting!”
Moviestorm’s CEO, Jeff Zie, is hugely enthusiastic and supportive.“Iain and the many other Moviestorm users are an inspiration to us all,” he says. “We’re really proud that we’re giving talented people like this the tools they need to unleash the creative potential they never knew they had, and to produce these wonderful films.”
Try it and see!
You can download Moviestorm for free: Windows and Mac versions are available. If you want, you can expand your virtual film studio and buy extra costumes, sets, props, and sounds in their marketplace. If you’ve ever wondered whether you might be the next Tarantino, Ang Lee, or J J Abrams, now’s the time to find out!
Elizabeth had her first “meal” today. I nursed her at lunch, then gave her some sweet potatoes and she loved them! No horrible face like with the applesauce attempt. Gabby’s first favorite was sweet potatoes too. So, at just shy of 9 months old, Elizabeth is officially starting solids. Obviously, breast milk will remain primary for many months to come, but she will be able to enjoy some yummy veggies and fruits now too.
She had her checkup today too. She weighs 15 lbs 9 ounces and is 27 1/4 inches long.
Evan, my eleven year old son, is in Middle School (Jr High) this year. I was worried about it because it’s a major change of pace – changing classes and such – for a child with ADHD. Well, he just brought his first report card home today and he got all A’s! We are so proud of him! He will definitely be getting a reward for this!
Family Activity Calendar: Use this handy wipe-off perpetual wall calendar to keep track of your family’s busy days. Just choose the month, write in the dates, and mark special events with the reusable stickers. It includes: 12 pre-printed months, more than 100 reusable stickers, a wipe-off pen, 4 magnet strips for hanging, and a wipe-off to-do list! Include your kids in your daily plans. Let them assist you by putting stickers on the correct dates!
I have two of these Family Activity Calendars to give away so I will be choosing two winners this time! All you have to do is leave me a comment. For additional entries you can tweet (daily, if you wish) about this giveaway and/or join me on Google friends – widget is on my sidebar, and grab my linking button and put it on your site. Winner will be chosen on December 1st using random.org. Good luck!
I haven’t done so well on the Great Cloth Diaper Hunt this time. I haven’t really had much time to hunt. The point of the GCDH is to meet and get familiar with WAHM shoppes though and that I have done. I have found so many lovely sites that I will be ordering from.
I just got done browsing 90210 Organics and I am in love with the products they offer! Everything organic that you can imagine!
I also like Bullfrogs and Butterflies Boutique for all things personalized. I might have to get my girls some personalized books. I remember how great the feeling was when I had books with my name in them as a child.
I was looking at Green Baby Bargains and saw this Eco-kit that I want! What an awesome kit and at a great price too! Only $17.50.
By the way.. how many stores do you know that sell you a gift certificate for less than face value? None before now. Green Baby Bargains is offering a $20 gift certificate for $15!! What a great way to save money while getting me a gift certificate for Christmas! lol.
My favorite cloth diapers are Thirsties Fab Fitted. I have been so happy cloth diapering! The diapers are cute and absorbent, I don’t have to worry about constantly buying packages of diapers, and I am doing something to save the planet. I used to think that cloth diapering was something I could never get into, but now I can’t believe I didn’t start sooner with my older children!
Look at how cute these diapers are!
They are so soft and fuzzy. I can’t imagine using a disposable diaper again!
I don’t buy disposable baby wipes any longer either. I use washable, organic cloths to clean my baby’s bottom. Kissaluvs Organic Wipes are soft, absorbent and hand sewn of a dye free mix of Certfied Organic Cotton and natural Hemp material.
