Mel in a Nutshell

Monday, October 02, 2006

My Blog Roll

Ive put together a blogroll thats designed to help everyone increase their exposure on the web. The way it works is that you copy the code below somewhere onto your website, it doesnt have to be the main page but there does have to be a link from the main page to it (you cant just link to here the actual blogroll needs to be listed on your site). This way everyone is linking to all the blogs in the blogroll ie if there are 10 people showing the code there will be 10 people linking to you.

So if your interested just copy the below code & put it somewhere on your site then leave a message so i know to add you to the blogroll.

This is what it will look like on your site:

My Blogroll:

People that link to me:

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Where the addiction started

Well...I think my cloth journey began when I was somewhere around 14 weeks pregers with Jet - or poppy as we were calling him at the time (not a very masculine name I know but I was convinced he was a girl and that was only our in-utero name - because he started out the size of a poppy seed). Anyway, I convinced Rocky to go to the children’s & babies expo where I was completely overwhelmed with all of the baby stuff that one could acquire! The only stands that didn’t make me want to reach for a paper bag (for hyperventilation purposes) were the cloth nappy ones, I think there were about 3 there - pea pods among them.

I left that day with a bag full of brochures (I leave every expo with a bag full of brochures, which rocky cant stand & periodically makes me throw out), most of which I will never look at but some of them contained lots of useful info on cloth nappies. It wasn’t hard to sell Rocky on the idea, he is Dutch & sorry to any duchies out there, but as a generalisation - they are cheap! So he was all in for covering our babies bum in cloth, to save the environment - but also to save money (little did he know!!!)

A few months later I started re-searching. I chatted to some girls on an American forum throughout my pregnancy & discovered a natural section within the forum where cloth nappies were discussed, someone then gave me the link to nappycino....& then the confusion set in! There were sooooooo many different types of nappies available & my plan was to buy one system to use. The only person I knew at the time who used cloth was my cousins wife who lives in NZ. She (being a fellow cloth addict) luckily talked me out of buying one system to start of with & gave me lots of recommendations for starters through darlings down under. So, with her recommendations and some recommendations from the wonderful ladies on nappycino I built the following starting list (which I purchased one late night when rocky was 2 hrs late from coming home from the pub - somehow with my pregnancy hormones running rampant I managed to justify the purchase....well purchases!)

24 x CanningVale Flats
12 x Bamboo Flats
4 x Snappis
1 x Tots Fleece - Red Rap

1 x Bummis Polar Fleece Cover

6 x New Born Size Bummis Whisper Pants
3 x Baby E OneSize Organic Fitteds (one of them a night nappy)

1 x Natures Child Organic Cotton AIO

2 x Tots Bots Fluffles (the snappiable ones)

All I had to do now was wait for little Jet to arrive to try them all out!

Thursday, October 13, 2005

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

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