High heels and cloth diapers

Dress-up high heels with your cloth make a great fashion statement, as 2-year-old Claire demonstrates, striking a pose. (Never mind that you may have to grab onto the wall to keep from falling over.)

As she comes down the runway, "Claire is wearing the new P-Grabber fitted from Fishnoodles. A limited edition tester for the summer line in turned-and-topstiched baby pink velour."

"This super absorbant new diaper is also available with serged edges that dry even more quickly, shown here in lovely baby pink floral. Custom slots opening August 15 at Fishnoodles."

My gift to you...

Starting at my next stocking on July 15, I'm giving away custom tees with purchase of any three items. The cool thing is, it's not just any tee shirt. I'll select a blank shirt from my inventory and embellish it to match with at least one of the diapers in the order, so that it makes a set. Each one will be different. You get to choose the size and gender, and beyond that, it will be a surprise!

Surprise!

It's a sale! For three days only everything currently shown in my Hyena Cart is on sale. June 24-26 only. Hooray!

In case you were wondering...

What happened to Painted Patootie?

Painted Patootie is still a registered brand and part of the Fishnoodles store. I have grouped all the painted pockets and covers in one main category in the store. At this time I am not producing new painted work, as my youngest is needing more attention and I do not have the long uninterrupted work time needed to do the painting.

 

You see, the paint has to be applied all in one go, wet on wet, and you just can't stop and tend to a toddler midway through or it might not cure properly. So I'm putting aside the painting for now and focusing on working with all the wonderful print fabrics that are on the market today.

 

Like this cover I made yesterday. Pretty wild, no? Remember fruit stripe gum? Well, here's a fruit stripe cover!

 

 

 

Color color color!

It took me all day yesterday but I think it was worth it. I finally added all my PUL, microfleece, and suedecloth color choices to my store. I didn't entirely realize how much fabric I acually have until I started the project. I was going to scan in each fabric but that quickly became obvious that it would take me all week. So I used photoshop to select the closest match to each color. Now people can select from my full range of choices for their custom diapers and covers.

Don't Ever Change!

But I've got to...things are different now...I'm not the same as I once was. I want more variety. I want to try new things.

And so it goes. Painted Patootie has been swallowed up by the big ol' Fishnoodle. Yet she will live on, as a subset of the larger entity. In the belly of the whale, so to speak.

I'm adding all sorts of things to my Hyena Cart store: All-in-one diapers with quick dry soakers in side snap, aplix, and front snap options. More styles of my gusset covers - now front snap and aplix in addition to the popular side snap. New fabrics - I'm getting in shipments of bamboo, cotton and hemp velour in all sorts of lovely colors. And lots of PUL prints, too.

All this requires a reconfiguration of my Hyena Cart and a name change to signal where all this is going. Plus, I need something more simple and clear. So Painted Patootie, that then became Painted Patootie & Fishnoodles, will now be known simply as Fishnoodles.

Yes, I'll still be doing my Painted Patootie line of painted pocket diapers. And covers. And now AIOs too. And so much more!

The deal is, I'm closing down temporarily starting late June to go on a couple of little vacation jaunts with my family. Come mid-August I plan to have all this new goodness up and running. In the meantime I'll be prepping and doing all the behind-the-scenes work to make this possible.

Craziness, I know. Still, I gotta be free to evolve!

Ewwww...!

That's what she calls 'em. Ewwws. It did at long last stop raining and warm up enough to plant the tomatoes and peppers and cukes and zuchinni. My little garden helper followed along as I turned over the damp soil, looking for ewwws to examine. She studied each worm carefully, then said she'll "put it to night night" and tucked it carefully into the soil. I am happy to report that no worms were harmed in the making of our garden.