WAHM Delights – 29 Jan 2012

Posted on January 23, 2012 by beansproutbubba

Remember this blog post that gave a sneak peek of a very special nappy? Here’s the final reveal!

Bean Sprout Bubba will be participating in the next WAHM Delights Online Market Night on Facebook on 29 January 2012 (Saturday) with three ecoBumba nappies.

These are my items for sale. You can click on the links to go straight to the ‘WAHM Delights’ Market Night Facebook page

1. ecoBumba Giraffe Twin set – 2 OSFM Minkee Pocket nappies, one full minky giraffe and one giraffe applique on brown minkee.

Nappy 1 of 2: Giraffe Applique minkee nappy

Nappy 2 of 2: ecoBumba BOUTIQUE - Minkee - Giraffe Print

2. ecoBumba Deluxe Blue Sunset Waves -

ecoBumba OSFM Blue Sunset Waves

Products will go “live” at 8.30pm EDST on 29th January 2012.

State Start Time List:
8.30pm VIC, NSW, TAS
8.00pm SA
7.30pm QLD
7.00 NT
5.30pm WA

How to Purchase – my WAHM Delights items

For Bean Sprout Bubba items, you need to write “SOLD” as a comment under the product photo. When you have been declared the winning buyer, please click through to the ‘Winning Buyer” link under the photo to check out your item. This helps speed up the payment and postage process as the shopping cart handles all transactions and collects your personal details.

How to Purchase – other WAHM Delights market items (as outlined by Vivi@Alexis Taylor)

To purchase a product you need to write “SOLD” as a comment underneath that product photo. To speed up the payment and postage of your items you may also like to leave your email address as a comment for the business owner to contact you. We do understand though that for privacy reasons purchasers may not feel comfortable doing this, in which case you will need to contact the business via the email they provide.

While you are welcome to purchase as many items as you like, please be aware that postage cannot be combined for products purchased from different WAHMs. This is because we come from all over Australia and will be organising postage separately.

Stay tuned for another market update for WAHM Market FB market night (31 Jan 2012)!

Dinosaurus!

Posted on January 13, 2012 by beansproutbubba

I had this super cute dinosaur fabric hoarded for about a year now, and finally whipped something up from it in early December. Paired with brown minky, the effect is too cute.

I’ve never done cotton panel nappies before. Using cotton on the outside of a brown minky nappy made me nervous (flashback to customers finding leaks when I did cotton outer nappies when I first started!), but the effect is cute enough that I would consider making more.

I find I need time and practice to get into the groove of making something new. I’m never comfortable with asking for money for a new technique I simply picked up in 1-2 hours, unless it turned out perfect!

As it were, I had some practice runs with another different nappy cut (to be revealed in due time), before making up this dino nappy. This nappy was almost perfect, but for the fact that the dinos were blind! Now I know what to do next time.

Back of Dino Cotton Panel ecoBumba nappy

See why I called this the 'Blind Dino' nappy?

Sorry about the camera angle, the panel looks like it’s sewn on crooked but I can assure you it was straight in real life!

After hanging on to it for a few weeks, debating whether to keep this one or make another for my Little C-boy, the nappy was claimed by its new owner in Perth.

Isn’t he a cutie?

Photos used with permission: livingserenely.blogspot.com

New fabrics and slings

Posted on September 22, 2009 by beansproutbubba

Yes, it’s been busy in the Bean Sprout Bubba house. I need to get some more pics up, but thought you’d like this news.

Size 2: The three-snap configuration allows the wings to be rotated upwards for increased leg room

Size 1 on the smallest setting with front flap folded down: to fit really young babies from 3kg onwards.

A shipment of hemp fleece and bamboo fleece has arrived, meaning I can start cutting and sewing up some of the sought after Bubba J fitteds. I loved how the size 1 fitted fit my daughter when she was a tiny baby, and I’m sure you may have heard some other recommendations from others as well. Now at almost 1 year old and 8kg, the same fitted nappy still fits her! I think this is what value for money is all about.

The fitteds come on two sizes, size 1 for the little bubbas (3-6kg), and size 2 for a bigger, older bubbas (6-12kg).

Both sizes contain at least 7 thirsty layers of either hemp or bamboo fleece, and close with snaps. Size 1 has a fold down flap to fit longer, and size 2 has a unique snapping configuration to allow you to rotate the snaps upwards to give more leg room.

Another package of printed PUL (polyurethrane laminate) fabric also landed on my doorstep. PUL is the high tech material I use in my pocket nappies to keep the wetness in, whilst allowing for breathability/evaporation of moisture to keep baby’s bottom cooler. The prints are cute and modern and are either cotton or polyester prints. I usually prefer polyester PUL fabric due to its resistance to wicking, but the cotton PUL fabrics were too funaky and modern to resist! There are pink circles, bright florals, muted pastel flowers & birds, frogs, flames and giraffes, when I put the pics up you’ll see what I mean.

Mamapatch Orange Ditte with Rimba Pocket

Mamapatch Designer Pocket RS - Orange Ditte / Rimba Pocket

Mamapatch Pastel Raw Silk RS - Spring Colourway

Mamapatch Pastel Raw Silk RS - Cool Winter Colourway

I’m also happy to bring to you Mamapatch luxury ringslings, first time in Australia! I had the first 5 slings wing their way from Malaysia (2 have already been claimed). Out of the 5, two are plain cotton slings with a print fabric pocket on the tail, and the other 3 are single layer raw silk slings. They look and feel gorgeous!

These baby carriers are made at home by an artisan in Malaysia. The quality of the stitching is professional, with unique stitching embellishments I haven’t seen before in other ring slings.

The cotton slings feature a padded shoulder, while the silk slings feature a pleated shoulder. I haven’t listed them in the shop yet as I am finalising prices.

What else have I got to share?

Ah yes, the event (or non-event) of last week: my domain beansproutbubba .com . au was offline for about 36 hours on weekdays from 16 September to 18 September due to server downtime.It was incredibly frustrating, I hope I did not lose any emails during that time.

Also, my domain does not show up in google searches for Bean Sprout Bubba anymore (why so? I have no idea!). So if anyone can give me some tips on these two issues I will be eternally grateful.

Last saturday, we were invited to two birthday milestone parties (a 1st and a 50th) and a wedding! We only managed to travel to the wedding though. Sunday was another busy day, with serving duties at church in the morning for both my husband and I, plus a leadership lunch meeting in the afternoon, and finishing off with home group in the evening. We had a blast and finished the weekend on a high. Guess I’m getting the hang of having people over instead of hiding behind my introverted self.

Other than having a pretty full on week last week, I’ll be plowing through the cutting and sewing for Bubba J in earnest this week.

Oh and if you haven’t noticed, Bean Sprout Bubba now has a group on facebook. You should be able to see the Facebook widget on the right hand sidebar of this page. If you join up as a fan, you will get up to date news and announcements from Bean Sprout Bubba.

All sling pics are owned by Mamapatch and used on this blog and the Bean Sprout Bubba shop with permission.

Bubba J current range – slideshow

Posted on September 15, 2009 by beansproutmumma

I made this slideshow in response to people wondering what Bubba J nappies are, how they look like and how they fit etc.

It’s not too long at 3 1/2 minutes, and it will show the current range of nappies as of early September 2009.
The video is hosted on Bean Sprout Bubba’s Facebook page, so do join up if you wish to get updated about the latest at BSB.

A few action shots of bubs in Bubba J pocket nappies, fitted nappies and cuddlefleece cover (over a fitted) are included.

Let me know what you think

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