Madeline and her romper

This.is.everything

Purchased from Instagram: @in_the_skye_

Maddi and Addi Bowtique Brand Enthusiast Siblings Cadyn and Dylan

When you find customers who truly love your products, are loyal and repeat buyers, then post the most fabulous photos of their babies in the headbands you've made, what do you do? Offer to make their babies brand enthusiasts! 

Brand enthusiasts get a special and awesome discount, forever, and extra goodies with every order in exchange for fabulous photos & rights to post them to help the shop. They are different from brand reps, but it's the along the same concept (brand reps get the coupon but they also get packages without purchases but they have a higher responsibility with social media, their package is like payment). 

But first, I wanted to create a special blog just for the shop, but I think right now that's too much of a commitment. For now, I'll post things on here!

Meet Cadyn & Dylan, the new & first sibling brand enthusiasts! I'll be introducing all the babies after I have chosen them, received confirmation & waivers for posting. Cadyn has to have some snacks to pose for her pretty pictures and Dylan is all smiles!!

These girls are absolutely adorable and I am so happy their mom found my shop, made that purchase and posted beautiful photos that made me want to cry a little! Ha! Here are some photos of the girls in their Maddi & Addi bows!

These girls & their mom can be found on Instagram at: @cadyn_and_dylan

Also, soon on etsy in these listings!

Maddiandaddibowtique.etsy.com

We're Not Perfect

Does anyone else out there get tired of hearing about how perfect we are and how we automatically deserve everything? Like we don't need to earn what we have, we shouldn't know what it takes to put in a long day and treasure the outcomes? No. We're not perfect. 

We should be confident, we should strive every.single.day to achieve our goals, to humble ourselves and try to look at situations from other perspectives.

We should have small goals and larger goals and ultimate goals. We should be kind and not lash out, no matter how upset we are. We can control how we react!

Even on those days/weeks 👆🏻👆🏻 where we haven't had time to take a shower for a couple of days, where we are fed up to here with our struggles (teaching my kids these same goals), having severe allergic reactions to cats, and just had to get out for 10 minutes to get a diet coke from the corner store, because 10 minutes are all you have.

Life is not perfect, and a lot of times it is just not fair. We are responsible for this part of life! We can make things happen and cause things to stop! 

So, here's to understanding we aren't perfect, we will never be! Here's to making commitments and sticking to them,  following rules and making new ones. Continually striving to better ourselves in every aspect and respecting ourselves for that! Here's to all that and more! 👊🏻

P.S. Don't mind that little chin hair glinting in the sunlight. I hear it happens when you're nearing 30! ➰😁

Sleeping On The Job

If there's ever a question about why I don't get things done in a good time sometimes, here's your answer.

Yes... I'm blaming it on the baby. 

Thrift Store Finds

Tim texted me before he left work and asked if I would like to go to the thrift store. No. I am not a thrift store kinda girl. BUT!!! If the hubs wants to go, then by golly, I'll go. 

I'm so happy I did too, and here's why: 

Yes. Oversized sweaters and a fuzzy pillow it smells a little like dog but I can fix that (with my finger on my chin).

I like to look at the picture frames and fabric scraps. Buddy oh boy, do you remember that horrible experience I had with purchasing my first homemade cloth diaper? The mermaid diaper that made my heart stop and my eyes turn into hearts. That diaper! And when it got to me it looked like crAp? How she bubbled out the liner and made the snap on tail too little?!?! MY EYE CAUGHT THE SAME TAIL FABRIC. I die. But it was in a huge bundle of fabric (in a taped up ghetto ice bag where you can't see much) and costed $14.99 boo! But I bought that stuff anyway because I couldn't live with myself if I didn't. You know they put weird fabric in there too, in order to sell it! But oh my, the best fabrics were in there! Pretty daisy laces, regular lace, primitive fabrics, girly fabrics, shiny tulle!!!! What a good find!

Ugh!

Here's the diaper I ordered and the one I received, that tail is the fabric I found!:

Anyway, I'm excited! 

Yellow Springs

We spent two hours in Yellow Springs this past weekend. It's very similar to my college town; Berea College in KY. And it's maybe 5 minutes down the road.

We had to get Carson a new shirt because we dressed him warmly. Tie dye to blend in with the crowd.

I'd love to embrace my inner hippie and move to Yellow Springs, have some chickens and grow a garden. 

Let Her Not Go

"Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life" {proverbs 4:13} 

A parenting verse that I haven't studied yet but I couldn't help think of it while I've been laying on the couch, failing at everything today.

This baby sure knows when her momma needs some lovin. I'm 80% sure that I have an ear infection, just have been wondering around in a daze because I can't hear out of one ear. And the result of that being the other ear is extremely sensitive to sound, more than usual (which is already bad). And am most eagerly awaiting to be finished with orders from my small shop, along with my models' packages, and other various duties required of me today.

I Love Myself

Christian, Wife, Momma, Hard Worker, Friend, Crazy, Aggressive, "Sweet", Bipolar, Happy. Just a few words to describe who I am, but not enough to even begin to know what makes me... Me. 

I demand honesty and loyalty, hold grudges then let them go. I stay up late to get stuff done and wake up early to start new things.

I stink at social media, answering texts & messages, updating pages, etc. 

I believe in sticking to what you've started, change, and always furthering your mind by learning. I don't believe in luck or any superstitious stuff, including karma.

I truly love myself, and that's ok.