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[PamsPride]

I need to actually do a TON of cutting at this point. I should actually be doing that now!!! So, when DH gets home and gets the thread to work then I can just whip them thru the machine.

I am so excited....just pulled the mattress changing pad out of the dryer and dumped a glass of water on it and it did not soak thru at all!! It is going to work perfect for my homemade sanitary napkins!! The backing in made out of the same type of PUL fabric that I got in the mail today for the cloth diapers. The changing pad was $1.99 and the PUL fabric was $9.99 a yard!!! The changing pad was in mint condition too!! I am so excited to make them!! I am thinking I should get several of them out of this changing pad!! I will have to post pics to my blog of what the changing pad looked like before and when I get them all sewn up and done!

 

[lorihadams]

have you ever heard of a Diva cup? It's a cup that you insert like a tampon and every 8 hrs or so you pull it out, rinse and wash with soap and water and reinsert. It is made of surgical grade material and you are supposed to be able to use them for at least a yr or more. I've seen a link to a website with a coupon code and you can get them for like 15 or 20 dollars. not bad for once a yr. I was thinking of getting one and trying it cause tampons are really started to get irritating and I hate sanitary napkins. I loved it when I was breastfeeding...no periods!

 

[PamsPride]

have you ever heard of a Diva cup? It's a cup that you insert like a tampon and every 8 hrs or so you pull it out, rinse and wash with soap and water and reinsert. It is made of surgical grade material and you are supposed to be able to use them for at least a yr or more. I've seen a link to a website with a coupon code and you can get them for like 15 or 20 dollars. not bad for once a yr. I was thinking of getting one and trying it cause tampons are really started to get irritating and I hate sanitary napkins. I loved it when I was breastfeeding...no periods!

Yep! I have had one for over a year....well that was a year before I got pg 7 months ago!! I had DH pick me one up at the health food store!!! Love mine!! So easy to use!! But, I can not use it for postpartum. It should be good for several years!! There is a small learning curve with it but by the second month it was super easy to use.
This mattress pad is so big that I am going to try to get three cloth diapers out of it first and then make the sanitary napkins out of what is left.

 

[PamsPride]

I got the gold and burgandy top sheet cut up into napkin and tea towel sizes. I am going to end up with 16 tea or dish towel size at 12"x18". I am going to end up with a TON of napkins...have not counted yet but it has to be close to 40 or 50 that are 12"x 10" and that is just out of the top sheet!! I still have the whole fitted sheet left!! That is not bad for $6!!
I have a few of them sergered off...just 5 napkins and 3 tea towels....I have all the rest of them to sew yet!!

 

[MorelCabin]

Wow Pam you are busy! Let me know how the changing pad works out for you ... The next pads I make I think I will be using some of that too! I find sheet sets a really good buy to make so many things! I use them as the backing for my quilts often and then use the fitted sheet to go along as a set:>)

 

[PamsPride]

I am so excited to cut into this matress changing pad!! DH said he would even take me to the other two Good will stores to look for more if I wanted to go...but the one is pretty far distance out of the way. It is a really pretty peach color too so I think it will make super cute cloth diapers for my baby girl!
I told him if there was a sale going on then he would totally be taking me...and be taking me to the one even further away that is a HUGE Goodwill store....but, there is no sale until Sunday the cashier said and she did not even know what the sale was going to be. Maybe I will have him take me to the big one on Sunday after church!! I would probably be more likely to find some there because it is in a bigger city.
Just asked DH and he said he would take me on Sunday after church!! I hope I find a couple!! That will make my cloth diapers a super good price!!!! If I find green or blue ones then I am going to put super cute girly fabric on the outside and put the changing pad PUL on the inside and then serger around them. Oh, I am getting excited....I will be so disappointed if I do not find at least one or two on Sunday...but I am praying that I will find some!

 

[prairiegirl]

Pam, I sure with I had your motivation. You are sewing up a storm and saving a ton of money.

I like using sheets for things, too. I've picked up new sheets at Walmart for a dollar a piece. Can't beat that. Sometimes, the colors aren't the best, but I usually find a purpose for them.

I don't get a chance to visit Good Will often, but we did stop last Saturday looking for an old desk. Didn't find a desk, but I got a cookbook to add to my collection for 1/2 price.

 

[PamsPride]

Good morning!!
I actually slept pretty good last night....I had not slept for at least three days because of the steriod shot.
But, this morning I woke up with dloth diapers running through my head!! I am seriously hoping I can find some more changing pads tomorrow in as good of condition as the one I found yesterday.
I do feel much more SS this morning than yesterday morning!
With the yellow sheet I am figuring I should not have to use TP much and I think that is going to save at least 3 or more rolls a week out of the budget. Not buying anymore paper napkins...that is now out of my grocery budget! I feel like my cloth diapers are going to be the most stylish around and I will not have a ton of $$ in them!! Once I get the SN made that is no longer on my list of items to buy!! I really feel like the little bit of $$ I spent yesterday is going to really add up to a lot of savings this coming year!! I just keep thinking no disposable diapers or wipes in my monthly budget for the whole year also!! I usually always have to buy a stack or two of dish clothes every year because we use them so much...but with the 16 I am finishing sergering off today I should not have to buy any of those this year!! I can just invision it al in my head!! Now to actually get it ALL made!!!!!!!!

 

[PamsPride]

I just spent some $$$$$ and I did not even get off the couch!!!
I decided about a month ago that I wanted a rabbit hutch for keeping quail in...since I put quail eggs in the 'bator. I was really looking for someone that was giving one away.....but....
My Step sister told us she saw one down in town for sale so my mom stopped and looked at it. $110....says it is 12' long x 7' high x 3' deep!!! Holy smokes!! The guy said he has over $300 in just treated lumber in it. My mom says it is in excellent shape. I told my mom to offer him $75...he counter offered $80...I bit!! There is no way I can talk DH into building me something that big or nice. He is having a fit trying to figure out how to get it home. The owner said him and his dad had to use floor jacks just to get it set out by the road and they think it weighes around 800 pounds!!!
I figure even if I do not use it for quail I can use it for my peeps until they are big enough to go in with the other chickens so they are not pecked at. My mom said it can be divided into as many as 6 diferent sections.
My mom, dad, and brother are going to a gun show right now so as soon as they are done doing that I am sending DH and two of the boys to go get it!!

 

[PamsPride]

I got the changing pad all cut out. I was able to get 4 cloth diapers, 4 SNs, and 2 SN linings out of the one changing pad. I took pics of the cutting in progress so once I get them finished I will post them to my blog. I really thought I would have gotten a few more diapers out of it...I am a terrible judge of fabric width! But, if I get one and use it just for SNs then it should make quite a few.
The serger machine has been acting up ALL day!! I sew just a couple of sides of a few napkins and then the thread breaks. So, poor DH has not got anything else done today because every time he turns around I holler for him to come rethread it.