Competition! Win a Cutie Baby Beanie!

Would you like to win a free Cabbage Patch Baby Beanie for your baby, grandchild, niece, nephew or little child that you know? Well now is the chance! We are giving away ONE Cutie Baby Beanie and to enter all you have to do is this…

– LIKE this post on Facebook * AND *
– COMMENT on thie same post on Facebook in 15 words or less what your favourite toy was growing up and why

SHARING the post is not required but appreciated!

Winner will be selected by who has the most likes on their comment and contacted via PM as well as announced on the post, page and website!

Contact as many friends, family members and accounts you can muster to enter. The winner doesn’t need to be Australian, but the address the beanie is sent to must be. We will also accept entries outside Australia on behalf of someone within Australia.

Promotion is not sponsored by, endorsed, administrated by or associated with Facebook. We are just using their platform to spread the word about our cute baby hats! Competition ends on 1PM Sunday 10th August, 2014. Size of beanie is to fit approx 43cm circumference head (Newborn to approx 7+ months). Valued at $15.00 plus postage and handling.

Good luck!

Having recently watched Frozen, I’ve been thinking about doing a Frozen themed beanie. I think it would be really cute, I just don’t know which would be best to go with. Vote on the poll and let me know!

Frozen theme

Rapunzel Baby Beanies

Oh my gosh, I’m in love!!

I was playing around with some of the wool that wouldn’t have been enough to make a cabbage patch baby beanie and made this! Super excited to add another style of beanie to the shop!!!

If you’re interested in ordering one ($15.00) send an email to cutiebabybeanies@gmail.com with the details of your request, payment can be made through PayPal. Collection from Australian post code 2747 area or I can post to anywhere within the world for extra.

Its so cute how can you not want one?

Rapunzel Baby Beanie

More Cabbage Patch Baby Beanies!

I’m loving making these hats! I’m loving that other people are enjoying them! It’s awesome when I get a picture in my inbox / email of someone enjoying the hat. It’s a really amazing feeling!

I want to keep all of them and have to remind myself that my daughter has enough!

Hats in store!

Lots of fun making the Cabbage Patch Baby Beanies!

I’ve had so much fun making these little Cabbage Patch Baby Beanies! I’ve been selling them through various Facebook groups as well as the online store (see store link, of click here). While my daughter plays, sit on the floor or near by and crochet. They are so cute and I’m really happy that something I’m making is being so well received!

Collection of Cabbage Patch Baby Beanies

Foot prints in the sand

Since our daughter was born we’ve been wanting to get some foot and hand prints of her. Doing it professionally is expensive, doing it ourselves not only gives us the finished result but also gives us a precious memory.

The Paging Fun Mums blog has a great post on how to go about doing it yourselves. If you give it a try post your results in the comments!

An Everyday Story has great blog post about how to stop children from interrupting when you’re talking.

I was chatting with her one day when her (then 3-year-old) son wanted to say something. Instead of interrupting though, he simply placed his hand on her wrist and waited. My friend placed her hand over his to acknowledge him and we continued chatting.

After she had finished what she was saying, she turned to him. I was in awe! So simple. So gentle. So respectful of both the child and the adult.

I love reading about various techniques that can help with raising our daughter to be polite and well mannered. This is going to be something we will encourage.

If you have young children and have tried this or something similar, let us know in the comments!

Sell your homemade online – Here are some links!

If you’re handy with a crochet hook or love the duel wielding knitting sticks, you might like to sell your items online. I’ve found an app through Facebook that is allowing me to sell 10 items in store for free. Some other websites are linked below!

• Homemade HQ
• Handmade.com.au
• Made It

Do you know of other sites? Let us know in the comments below!

(Thanks to Lesley for the links!)

Help – It’s OK to accept it

Being a parent is hard work. Whether you’re going to work to support the family or staying home and looking after the kids, or both! Having a good support system around you is important. If you don’t have people around to help, try looking on Facebook for groups in your area that’ll be able to support you.

I’m lucky enough to be able to drop our gorgeous little girl off at my mothers place once / twice a week to get out of the house. She’s also been really helpful and buying us things that we haven’t thought to buy. She offers her advice without being over the top which is truly a blessing.

Accepting help isn’t saying that you’re not good enough. If someone offers help, take it. You need to look after yourself in order to look after your little one.

Money saving tip: Dish washing liquid in a dispenser

I never realised how much excess dish washing liquid I used until after the baby was born and we were watching our money more than ever before. I was being quite liberal with the suds. So when we finished with the soap dispenser in the bathroom, I removed the label and filled it up with dish washing liquid. A few squirts in the sink are more than enough to do the daily dishes.

Dish washing liquid in a soap dispenser