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Ore Originals – SugarBooger™

Oct 162009

Looking for fun and practical baby gifts, the SugarBoogerâ„¢ line by Ore is what you are looking for.Â The SugarBoogerâ„¢ line offers a wide range of baby products from diaper bags, storage and organization items, fun photo frames, as well as tabletop and bath items. Ore Originals started out about 20 years ago as a bold line of innovative bulletin boards using recycled rubber. This first item quickly grew into the basic collection of Ore Originals, call Living Goodsâ„¢, offering creative solutions to enhance everyday living.Â After that came OrÃ© Petâ„¢ and SugarBoogerâ„¢, which started in 2003, when the founder and President became a mother herself with her first child. SugarBoogerâ„¢ is a great gift line for moms on-the-go who want and need to be fashionably organized and have products not only fun, but functional as well.

Here are a few of the products offered by SugarBoogerâ„¢ which would make great baby shower or gifts for the busy mom:

Peeka Boo Brush and Comb Set

This two piece set is ready for gift giving!

The brush and comb set include a natural boar-bristle and wood-handle brush with the matching comb in a natural maple finish.

Comes with the linen mesh bag. Brush measures 5 x 2.5 inches and comb 5 x 1 inches.

Price: $18

Peeka Boo Dish Set
This boxed 5 piece melamine set includes a 8.5 inch diameter plate, 4.5 inch diameter bowl that holds 20 oz.,Â 6 oz. capacity Sippy cup,and matching fork and spoon.

Dishwasher safe, do not microwave, hand wash for best results. The melamine in this set is lead-free and non-toxic.

Price: $20.

Available in Green, Pink, and Blue

Diaper Bag Organizer Pouches

The Diaper Bag Organizer Pouches will help keep a busy mom organize. The set comes with four cotton pouches with zipper closures and mesh backings for ventilation. Each pouched is labeled and with an icon so that you can properly store dirty clothes, clean clothes, goodies to eat and miscellaneous extras.

Dirty & Clean pouches measure 14 x 11 inches, Goodies 10 x 6 inches, and Extras 7 x 7 inches. Machine wash cold, line dry.

Price: $22

To see the full line of Ore Originals products and find a retail location near you, check out OreOriginals.com.

How to Make a Bird Baby Mobile

Sep 142009

photo courtesy of Alison Storm

Looking for a creative, low-cost baby gift that would work in a boy’s or girl’s nursery? Try making a bird baby mobile. You can adjust the colors to fit any style or scheme. I found the idea on a great blog called Spool. Using a little help from them and some supplies I had around the house I was able to create this cute gift for my neighbor’s new arrival.
Step One: Download the Pattern

Spool created this amazing free pattern to help you sew the birds for your baby mobile. Simply print it out and cut out the two pieces that make up the pattern.

Step Two: Choose Your Fabric

Think about the colors of the nursery and coordinate fabric to match. Choose solids and prints. Since the pattern does not require the pieces to be very big you may have suitable fabric already. You can also check out remnant sales at fabric stores to pick up small amounts of discounted fabric.

Step Three: Sew Your Birds

Pin the two sections of the bird together, right sides on the inside. You can use a machine to sew your birds, or do it by hand. Choose coordinating thread and leave the tail open so you can fill it with stuffing.

Step Four: Stuff Your Birds

This sounds like an activity for Thanksgiving, but it’s not. Carefully fill your birds with stuffing to give them a plump shape.

The branches for your mobile can likely be found in your own backyard. Choose a couple that are relatively straight. You can either sand them slightly and leave them natural, or for a more polished look spray paint your sticks.

photo courtesy of Alison Storm

Using fishing line and some wire, attach your birds to the sticks. Be creative with your positioning. You can have several birds grouped together, facing different ways or even suspend a bird from one of the sticks so it looks like it’s in mid-air.

Step Seven: Hang Your Mobile

The mobile can be easily hung using additional fishing line and some hooks screwed into the ceiling. Another option is hanging it from a curtain rod like the one you see pictured. Just make sure you hang it high enough so it is well out of baby’s reach.

Step Eight: Enjoy!

Your baby will enjoy watching the colorful birds flying or perched above and you’ll enjoy your lovely handmade creation.

Make your own Coffee Table Book!

Jul 192009

There is nothing more personal then your family photos and memories captured.Â Why not make them into a special gift for the whole family to enjoy and remember those special moments?Â You can by creating a coffee table or photo book with your own photos!Â By going to Picaboo you can create any photo book using your own digital photos.Â This makes great gifts for recent Grads, family vacations, and newborns. No need for scissors & glue, and stop spending hours uploading your photos to an online photofinishing site.Â This is the new way of album making.

Push the button

Simply click the “Create Book” button, and then choose from over 15 stunning themes or start from scratch.

If you select Auto-Create, Picaboo will automatically populate your book in seconds with the photos you choose.

StoryFlow

StoryFlow is a whole new way to create photo books, making it easier, faster, and more fun. With StoryFlow, you group your photos onto pages before your book is created and then StoryFlow auto-creates a perfectly conceived book based on the theme you’ve selected.

Simply drag-and-drop your photos until they are grouped onto the pages in the order you want them. Once your book has been created, you have complete control to edit your book as you wish.

Custom covers

Customize the front, back, and spine of your book’s cover. Simply drag-and-drop your photos, add a title and you’re done.

Fully customizable with any Picaboo page background and layout, custom covers are case-bound on striking glossy laminate board.

What’s your background?

You can customize each page of your book with unique backgrounds. Select from hundreds of pre-loaded designs, choose from thousands of images from a free Background Community, or simply drag-and-drop any photo onto your page.

Layouts galore

With a wide variety of over 240 layouts, making each page of your book truly unique is as easy as a single click.

Whether you’re creating a baby album, travel journal, portfolio, or even a family cookbook, you’ll find the layout that works just right.

Fabulous fonts and corners

Say it like you mean it with over 40 unique fonts. Whether you’re adding a caption, telling a story, or journaling your memories, you’ll find the font that fits.

Frame your photos with a selection of over 50 corners and add the perfect finishing touch to your pages.

Photo tools

With Picaboo, it’s slider simple to crop, rotate, adjust brightness & contrast, remove red eye, and add/remove white borders and shadows.

Best of all, see the changes to your photos in real-time right on the page of your book.

Check it out!

Check out Picaboo for inspiring ideas, samples, tips, and more.