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Props

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:08:26 GMT

Teagan has been glued to Shrek the Halls over the last couple weeks. When we watched it, I turned to Matt and said, (as I'm sure many others have) someone should make an icon out of Puss In Boots mesmerized by the ball on his hat. And sure enough...

I have to give props to _lushkink for making this icon that I've adopted for the holidays.

My FORSALE post - don't mind me

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:08:09 GMT

WILD CHILD WOOLIE, SMALL, EMBROIDERED "CRABBY BUTT"

FUZZIBUNZ, SMALL PINK & PEACH

KUSHIES stuffable AIO, INFANT 10-22LBS
TOP: COTTON FLANNEL INNER & FLANNEL OUTER SHEEP& MICE
BOTTOM: COTTON FLANNEL INNER & WATERPROOF OUTER FROG & DOG
INSIDES WITHOUT STAINS, TEARS OR DEFECTS

PRORAP CLASSIC, SMALL 9-14LBS, WHITE

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My FOR SALE stash:
*ADORABLE* small WCW soaker -$30 DS never even wore it, we'd moved up to Mediums :( when it got here
SMALL Fuzzibunz (peach & pink) - $15 for both
INFANT Kushies (10-22lbs) stuffable AIO - $7 each or 4 for $26
SMALL Prorap covers - $6 each
Girls clothes (Carter/Gymboree) here with MUCH more to come: www.hyenacart.com/therapyforallseasons

Smoke-free, pet-friendly home. Accepting funded or CC Paypal with fees. Can ship tomorrow!
Shipping add $2 for first item and $0.50 for each additional item. :) Thanks other mama who suggested this!

For okp: Pics of small Fuzzibunz

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:29:29 GMT

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:43:03 GMT

Mini GenCon update with more cute kid photos!

www.mcfarlandclan.blogspot.com

Enjoy!

Don't mind me. More diaper pics SOLD!

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:31:03 GMT

Medium Celestial Happy Heiny with insert (terry/fleece), EEUC $11 + shipping.

Medium Fuzzibunz EUC/VVGUC: Periwinkle w/ aqua fleece, turquoise, white with inserts $10 each + shipping. ALL SOLD NOW! Thanks Mamas!

First class shipping $2.50, Priority $4.75. Will include delivery confirmation.

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:26:38 GMT

Ok, these are both turquoise and are in fact the same color and size
(difference in camera settings may show different..still toying with what settings work best for diaper pics)
The tag on the second one is a little unfixed, but otherwise the diaper is in excellent condition. The top diaper was
photographed with a microterry insert in it and the bottom with no insert. Hope this is helpful.

Large Fuzzibunz - turquoise x 2 SOLD

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:48:33 GMT

Large EUC Fuzzibunz (photo angle skewed) $10 each
~~Sage~~, ~~periwinkle~~, ~~turquoise x 2~~ . Inserts included on request.
Includes delivery confirmation. Buyer pays shipping.
Smoke-free, pet-friendly home.

Medium Fuzzibunz & Happy Heineys

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:41:06 GMT

Medium Fuzzibunz: EUC/VVGUC ~~orange (~~SOLD), ~~neon green~~ (SOLD), turquoise, ~~lt blue~~ (SOLD), ~~sage~~(SOLD), white
$9 each. Inserts provided on request. Buyer pays shipping. (FC $2.50 or priority mail $4.75). Includes delivery confirmation.
Smoke-free, pet-friendly home.

4 Medium Happy Heinys EEUC, worn maybe once - $11 each w/ inserts now.
Moons, ~~Periwinkle Loving Words (~~SOLD), Celestial, Dragonfly
Includes delivery confirmation. Buyer pays shipping.
Smoke-free, pet-friendly home.

Small Diapers for sale, lots of colors

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:03:15 GMT

Need a place to post these pictures for now. I'm going to make a Picasa or Flickr album, but need a shortcut place for now.

LEFT
Top: frog, ~~green~~, ~~white~~
Middle: frog, ~~sage~~, aqua
Bottom: ~~frog~~, ~~butter~~, ~~turquoise~~

RIGHT
Top: baby pink (light stain, $9), peach
Bottom: ~~lavender~~, ~~periwinkle~~
I think there is one more frog print not photographed.
Above are my small Fuzzibunz, all in excellent condition. The Picasa album will have pics of all the interiors one by one.
They are for sale for $10 each; ~~buy 5, get the 6th free* - while supplies last~~. Inserts included on request.
Buyer pays shipping. Price includes delivery confirmation. Diapers from smoke-free, pet-friendly home.

*6th is a small frog print w/ insert
~~diaper color~~ = sold

Small "Girly" Fuzzibunz

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:13:16 GMT

Until I figure out a better system of putting these on the Clothdiapering community....

I'm not even opposed to putting my little man in pink or purple. I just have a lot of Fuzzibunz and am on unpaid maternity leave so could use some income. I'll be posting cute Carter and Gymboree clothes soon and maybe some Happy Heinys.

Small Fuzzibunz (will include free inserts on request)
The upper left has very light staining (didn't even notice it at first) The outside, PUL and elastic
are all in excellent condition. I'm asking $9 and $10 respectively + S&H. It looks like flat rate priority
mail through USPS should be $4.80. Smoke-free, pet-friendly home.

Test Run

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:38:49 GMT

Matt bought me a paid LJ account. Thanks, sweetheart! I'm excited because although I don't post here much I'm pretty active on the clothdiapering community and will likely be selling my diapers and chidren's clothing there. However, this requires the ability to post pictures. So, without asking, Matt upgraded my account. :) He's so thoughtful sometimes.
The other minor issue I have right now is that Matt is watching his dad for a few days while his mom is out of town and has his laptop. I have the old one, but it's running on Windows98, I think and my camera software requires 2000 or better. Probably the Kodak software would bog it down anyway as it's capacity is pretty small. It's alright though, Matt will be home tomorrow night and sometime late August (I hope) I'll be getting a new laptop.

Anyway, this is titled test run because I want to see how it is that I post a picture behind a cut so when I get over to my CD community I'll be better prepared. :)

This design was created by Desiree Kern
Check out her work at http://canuckdesz.deviantart.com

Tattoo design

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:31:13 GMT

Calling all artists.....

Now that Cael has arrived I can finally get my long-awaited butterfly tattoo. I've been thinking about this since Teagan was born, you'd think I'd have a design ready. But I don't and I'm looking for anyone who's inspired to create a design with the following guidelines:

1. Needs to incorporate two butterflies
2. Needs to incorporate the element of air (Teagan is a Libra and Cael is a Gemini)
3. Needs to fit on the lower outer portion of my calf (I'm thinking probably around an inch per butterfly)

Feel free to incorporate celtic knotwork, a thistle or other natural elements. I was thinking something to mirror Matt's shark swimming through water, but with butterflies caught in an upward gust of wind, but I'll entertain any ideas you have.

I'd like to have it inked before mid-August. I'm willing to pay a small commission fee for the design I use and hope that having a permanent display of your art on my body is also in some way payment. I naturally will tell everyone who did the artwork. :)

Thanks in advance.

Bottled Water is Evil

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:14:23 GMT

Thanks to my sister-in-law for compiling this list for her blog. (www.jennifermcmillin.blogspot.com)

Buying bottled water in a country with safe drinking water like the US is pretty ridiculous. If you're traveling in India, okay fine. My solution has always been to carry a trusty and refillable (not to mention unbreakable) Nalgene bottle.

Bottled water is a symbol of wastefulness. To illustrate, here are ten interesting (and somewhat scary) facts about bottled water:

An estimated 25 percent or more of bottled water is really just tap water in a bottle - sometimes further treated, sometimes not. – Allaboutwater.org
Drinking bottled water is 1000 (one thousand!) times more expensive than drinking tap water.
In a study conducted by Showtime television, the hosts found that 75% of tested New York City residents actually preferred tap water over bottled water in a blind taste test. – Allaboutwater.org
Bottling and shipping water is the least efficient method of water delivery ever invented. The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes. – PBS.org
The Earth Policy Institute estimates that making the plastic for water bottles [consumed annually] burns up something like 1.5 million barrels of oil, enough to power 100,000 cars for a year. – SeattlePI.com
Nearly 90 percent of water bottles are not recycled. - SeattlePI.com
Bottled water is actually much less regulated than tap water. There are a number of studies which found arsenic, disinfection byproducts and bacteria in bottled water. – SeattlePI.com, quoting Gina Solomon.
30 million water bottles are thrown away every day, and each one of them takes 1000 years to biodegrade. – emagazine.com
In one case, bottled water labeled as "Alaska Premium Glacier Drinking Water: Pure Glacier Water from the Last Unpolluted Frontier" was actually drawn from Public Water System #111241 in Juneau. – emagazine.com
Buying one gallon's worth of bottled water is three times more expensive than buying one gallon of gasoline. – emagazine.com

Okay, so if all that wasn't enough to convince you not to buy bottled water, consider that the shipping of bottled water burns A LOT of fossil fuels and results in the release of thousands of tons of harmful emissions. Not to mention the energy used to filter, process, and refrigerate.

What to do? Some tips for alternatives to buying bottled water :

If your tap water isn't ideal, get a filter for your tap or a Brita filter for your fridge.
Refill glass or durable plastic containers with filtered water.
For parties or events, use pitchers or water dispensers that you can use over and over again. Provide reusable cups instead of disposables, and if you must use disposables, get the recyclable ones.

Breakthrough discoveries of 2007 (by others, not me)

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:06:14 GMT

I found this extremely fascinating. I hope you do too.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/12/YE_10_breakthroughs

My slogan

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:28:41 GMT

I seem to be lacking serious cut and paste skills. Here's what it said:

A Heather A Day Helps You Work, Rest and Play

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:58:24 GMT

3 new posts. See what I've been doing....

www.mcfarlandclan.blogspot.com

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:30:19 GMT

Back from Fiji.

See pics at www.mcfarlandclan.blogspot.com

And now for more sleep. :)

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:03:27 GMT

Return HAPPY BIRTHDAYs to chrisondra

Mon, 21 May 2007 01:56:25 GMT

3 new userpics. About time?

Hallmark holiday or not

Mon, 14 May 2007 00:49:20 GMT

Cheers to all you Mamas out there for all the things you do that go unnoticed to make the lives of your family run smoother. For all the little sacrifices and tough choices....

Matt said earlier "Every day is mother's day ..and father's day and so on..." and while I agree that I think it's important to always tell your friends and family that you love them and they are appreciated....it's still nice to set aside a day to say it again, to feel a little more appreciated than usual. :)

To you!

"Life isn't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride. "

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:17:46 GMT

Send a birthday card to Dr Seuss and Random House sends a book to FirstBook for underpriviledged children. Sounds good, yeah? Go do it! Plus you get to color your own card and play other games if you wish. And they are keeping track of the state rankings. Ohio is sadly 40th right now.

Check it out!

Love

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:08:16 GMT

I don't celebrate Valentine's Day, but as I'm sitting here "stuck" at my parents house with Teagan and both parents, I thought I'd send out a little love to all of my LJ friends.

I'm grateful to have made it safely to my parents' last night. I almost didn't make it out of the driveway (which Matt now reports, "We used to have a driveway, now we have white") but the roads yesterday afternoon were passable. The absolute scariest were the two roads into my folks neighborhood. They live near the Cuyahoga Valley Conservation area. You can imagine "valleys" are not the optimal place to be driving during a winter storm. The hill down was a little treacherous. I went slow and the antilock brakes were working overtime as I tried to stay on the road and pray no one would be coming the other direction, but there were cars at the bottom of the hill heading up. But that hill (if you've ever been to my parents know) is nothing compared to climb UP to my parents street. I could smell the rubber burning on my tires as I was almost at a standstill while trying to drive up the hill without heading off the road. Someone passed me on the way up the hill so I think it must be our tires combined with ice/snow/sludge built up in the tire wells from the rest of the drive. I made it. I thought I was going to have to put it in reverse or try to pull into someone's driveway. I'm glad I stayed. I'm glad I'm here. I wouldn't want to sit at home with Teagan over here. I love my parents. I trust them to the fullest extent, but I can't imagine being apart from her during this. Matt's home with the doggies so they are attended too. So all is as it should be and I was still able to have my internet date to play backgammon last night. :) Thanks Jeff for being patient through the hiccups.

Well, as I said. Sitting on computer thinking of all my lovelies all over the world and just wanted to send a little love your way!

Thank you for all you do in my life. I don't post often, but I read daily. Thank you for sharing your lives. I am grateful for all of you.

Guess I can't complain as I'll be 31 on my next birthday

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:41:09 GMT

You Are 28 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.

13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.

20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences.

30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!

40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

Gay Rights

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:12:11 GMT

"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?" - Ernest Gaines

We would like to know who really believes in gay rights on LiveJournal.There is no bribe of a miracle or anything like that. If you truly believe in gay rights, then repost this and title the post as "Gay Rights". If you don't believe in gay rights, then just ignore this. Thanks.

Don't know who the "we" is, but I thought the quote was worth posting. Personally I love seeing ANYONE holding hands.

Back

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:39:35 GMT

Just a quick note to let anyone who isn't in the know, Teagan and I have returned from a glorious vacation in Australia. Must return to work today after trying to adjust to the new time zone. Pictures to follow at some, hopefully not unreasonably delayed, time. :)