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Nursery Makeover Giveaway Day 5
Nursery Makeover Day 5
Baby’s Wardrobe – Believekloset
Every day this week we will have a different boutique featured and ways for you to enter to win a $300 Shopping Spree to do a room makeover of your own!! All entries will be tallied at the end and a winner drawn….have fun!!
Its been 13 years since we’ve had a baby boy in the house, and the hand-me-down bin is full of 5 sister’s pink and ruffles and hair bows. Naturally, it was time to update baby “E”s closet and we knew just the boutique to do it for us!……
Believekloset is a new up-and-coming brand that is inspired by precious baby “Believe” who is on the cutting edge of the toddler fashion industry here in our city. With a celebrity father and a fashionista mother, of course this little girl is making headlines and worming her way into hearts and wardrobes of her fans and friends!
Believekloset boasts a large assortment of gender-neutral softest-knit cotton sets that are as cute as they are comfortable! The simple patterns and understated charm makes these perfect for almost any outing or occasion.
Im not one to fall in love with over-the-top character themed clothing and “loud” patterns and prints, so Believekloset is precisely what we love seeing filling baby brothers wardrobe! Accessories such a reversible bibs and fabric crowns complete the look for your toddler.
And our baby’s gonna be packing a camera too….that is IF he can steal it away from big sister Gigi who thinks she’s mommy’s little apprentice photographer!!
Believekloset is ever extending their variety of styles and accessories with trendy pacifier clips such as these and new clothing designs being released very soon with their new lines!
You have multiple ways to enter the giveaway each day. Entries will be tallied at the end and a winner will be drawn early next week.
For 1 entry:
“Like” Believekloset AND Fabulous Friday Freebies and comment below that you are a fan of both.
For additional entries:
You can leave a SEPARATE comment below for EVERY PERSON you share this giveaway with on their timeline on facebook! Each comment counts as an entry for you!
For bonus entries:
Make a purchase from Believekloset. You can leave a comment below for every dollar that you spend.
Stitched with Love – Memory Quilts
What to do with those snuggly worn baby clothes, and the loveys your child has carted here-there-and-everywhere? If your the sentimental sort like me, you know the threadbare outfit your toddler scuffed the knees out of are not “hand-me-downs” that your BFF is really going to want to dress her new little tyke in. And yet, it pains you to think of parting with them!! The mounting pile in the attic of the outfit you brought “junior” home from the hospital in, and baby’s first Christmas pajamas remains a cluttered cove of memories collecting dust. And worse, if you’re a southern momma, everything has a monogram on it anyway, so your options for who to pass things on to is limited.
My ever so talented friend Kathleen of Creative Stitches has a beautiful solution to collectively immortalize those precious tangible memories. Hand made quilts that piece together the scraps and sentiment of your little ones childhood wardrobe.
I recently had quilts made for Izzy and Evie from bags of dresses and blankets and adornments that Ive been saving for years, unable to part with.
There are countless memories attached to these textiles. Of course I could never part with the shirt that Evie wore to announce that she was going to be a “Big sister”….Or the Make A Wish T’shirt that represents her once-in-a-lifetime Disney Cruise….or that first birthday outfit from when we seriously wondered if it would be her last birthday….or the Warrior Princess shirt that she and her best-heart-buddy Maggie wore to match for pictures.
And sweet Izzy’s quilt comprised of green square polka-dot patches from the birthday dress that Abi sewed for her one year….and her sweet smocked sundresses with her initials that she modeled for Dayspring….Cupcake appliqués for our “cupcake girl” and festive 4th of July flair that she and cousins wore for the fireworks show.
The girls LOVED opening their quilts on Christmas morning and “ooh-ing” and “aah-ing” (just like their momma) over each square and recollecting the time I wore “such-and-such” for a date with daddy or “remember how we sisters all had this dress to match with our own initial on it?”….They hold the memories dearly too and Im so thrilled they have this treasure to carry from their childhood and one day, display in their nursery of their little ones with stories to tell and memories to share!!
Kathleen also made a Christmas themed quilt at my request. My kids have long outgrown their “Cousin Christmas” T-shirts from when all 17 cousins spent time at my parents over the holidays together (epic fun for our kids), and yet I couldn’t see passing on the shirts to Goodwill. And there is that pinafore dress that my mother smocked little gingerbread men on that each of my girls have worn. Gigi snagged a tear in the back of it last year, but the smocking plate perfectly fit on a quilt square to savor the handiwork of my mother. The kids Christmas pajamas from over the years have lovingly been stitched into this quilt which now will be a snuggly throw for the holidays in years to come.
I shared Kathleens work a few years ago when she made a quilt for Gigi and had several people respond inquiring about her making quits for them as well (apparently I am NOT the only crazy melancholy momma who cant part with this stuff). She additionally has made beautiful Memory Quilts for precious friends whose children have not been long for this world. What a beautiful way to treasure the tiny clothes which maybe have never been worn, but that still have been carried in the hearts of their grieving mommas!!
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You can contact her at: kaitshel@aol.com
A Different December
Our Christmas holiday has been a bit nomadic and untraditional. I spent the first half of December in China with my best friend helping to support her in adopting their precious baby from China. Such a special thing to be apart of and beautiful reminder of God adopting us as sons and daughters and His unconditional love for us!! So blessed to get some heart-momma/soul-sister time as well with this gem!
Fortunately, I got the tree up before I left, but we had to forgo a lot of our advent traditions and I feel Ive been playing “catch up” ever since arriving home to kids getting off school and 4 clients I was on-call for over the holidays. Thanking God that no one went into labor ON Christmas…..and for a fake tree which I intend to leave up until mid-January because it isn’t shedding needles and I haven’t gotten my fill of it yet! We savored a few uneventful days as a family between Christmas and New Years before welcoming a stream of houseguests which we’ll have with us for the next 2 weeks.
For someone who comes from a long line of “Tradition” (picture Fiddler on the Roof devotion to the concept here!) Ive had to go back to my post from last year as a reminder to myself. We didnt get the candy cane cookies baked this year and we used a kit gingerbread house instead of creating a customized Whoville gingerbread village. We’ve taken shortcuts and streamlined a lot this year….and Im learning to be “ok” with that.
After the Christmas-Eve tradition of all the children building a tent in one room and camping together, the kids were allowed to come into wake mom & dad up and watch The Grinch in our room early on Christmas morning (because we are lame and this was the only way to stall them and get a cup of coffee and wake up slowly before the Christmas morning craziness) 🙂
C’s sister was visiting from Shanghai and his parents joined us for the day. So grateful to have family around this year when we’re so far from home! Stockings, brunch and a morning in pj’s reading the Christmas story and opening gifts…..and the obligatory Christmas morning picture with puffy morning eyes and no one wanting to smile!!
Tristan begged for a puppy for Christmas!!
We got him a gerbil which we said he could name “puppy” 🙂
Sorry buddy, but this definitely isn’t the year to add a canine to our tribe!! But, this cool kid is pretty easily pacified with anything living and loves his new charges! (his second choice to a dog would’ve been a python…..which will probably happen sometime……
….when he’s grown and out of the house!!)
Tristan and Evie are the proud new owners of “Snowball” and “Oreo” which we sincerely hope are the same gender and that we are not going to be breeding dozens of baby rats!! In the event that we do have a surplus of gerbils, I have a plan. Anyone remember the birthday when we passed out goldfish to guests? Kids loved me….moms, not so much!!
So…..who wants to come to Evie’s January birthday? Ive got a great favor idea!
May the awe and wonder of the season be not lost on the fleeting joys of this world. Because of Him, we celebrate and anticipate!! With love this Christmas from our family to yours!
~ The Smith’s
