New Bridal and Baby Gift Registry

We are so excited to announce that MyEmbroideredGifts.com now has a bridal and baby gift registry. It is very simple to use and you can send your friends and family to look at the items you have registered. You set a login name and password which allows you to add items to the registry. You just go to the page of the item you want and you click the "add to registry" button. Your family and friends can search on your name and see all the items you have chosen. When someone purchases an item on your list, your list registers the purchase so that you will not receive duplicates. If you are getting married or expecting, please stop by and start a registry!

We are also excited to be part of BuyMomMade.org. We have pledged to "buy products that are created and sold by moms and encourage others to do the same." Drop by the website and make the pledge.

We are also marking down some items to great prices so drop by the "On Sale" page for prices as much as 75% off.

On the home front, we have survived a round of the flu with our youngest son and he seems to be recovering. I hope all of you are having a wonderful fall and avoiding the illness that seem to be making their way around. I hope you all have many things to be thankful for as we approach Thanksgiving. I am thankful for my amazing family and the chance to do what I really love and sew! Have a blessed week!

Exciting New Products

We are so excited to have some amazing new products. Both items are designed by moms for moms to make life easier, better, and more manageable.
Our first item is the Nomie Car Seat Cover. This amazing car seat cover is the winner of the iparenting media award. I have never felt material as soft and cool as the material of this car seat. MyEmbroideredGifts.com is one of the few stores that will personalized your car seat cover at no additional charge. Have a name, monogram or just the last initial embroidered on the car seat for an extra special touch. How many times has your child suffered from carsickness, had a leaky messy diaper, spilled a drink or dropped crumbs in your
car seat? After a one of these mishaps, just slip off the car seat cover, throw it in the washing
machine and dryer, and you have just avoided hours of clean up time. One testimonial states "The material on the outside is soft and snuggly. The material in the middle wicks away wetness, and the material closest to the seat acts as a barrier to any liquids that dare try to soak into your backseat cushions. Instead of just being sandwiched together, all the layers are quilted to withstand washes." This is an amazing time saver. Keep your car seat looking like new!
The second new product is The Little Lasso. How many times has your child thrown their toy or cup down from their high chair or out of their stroller? This amazing product fits like an elastic "lasso" around most toys, cups, and bottles. It attaches with a C clip to the high chair or the stroller. Never play fetch again. There are some great fabric choices. This will be a great back saver. Don't order just one!
And don't forget our great personalized Christmas items!!

WubbaNubs Pacifiers

We are so excited to have added WubbaNub pacifiers to our store. My nephew Bennett is completely hooked on the green frog wubbanub. WubbaNubs were created by a mom just like you and me. After bringing home a new baby, mom and dad were getting no sleep. Pacifiers worked but wouldn't stay in the baby's mouth. Mom decided to sew a plush animal to baby's pacifier and WOW, more sleep! WubbaNubs have a Soothie™ medical grade, latex free pacifier that is BPA, PVC and Phthalate Free. The carefully weighted plush animal keeps the pacifier near baby's mouth. As baby grows, the bright colorful animals stimulate eye hand coordination and make it easy for baby to put the pacifier in their own mouth. Winners of many awards and receiving some great press, we are thrilled to be able to offer these wonderful products. Another one of Bennett's favorites is the Sleep Sheep. We hope these will be arriving any time now. The Sleep Sheep provides four great nature sounds to lull baby to sleep. We will be selling the regular size Sleep Sheep as well as the Sleep Sheep on the Go which is a smaller travel version. Also, coming is the Twilight Turtle. Don't tell Bennett but he will probably get one for Christmas. Twilight Turtle shows several choices of constellations with three color choices. This great nightlight makes the dark night much more comfortable for children. Drop by and check out these products. Thanks Bennett for being a great inspiration to your Aunt! I know these are great products because Bennett says so!
Well, school is just around the corner for us. We have about one week before we have to get back in a regular routine. Summer has been great, sleeping late, staying up late but we have to get back on a schedule. I also have to move my oldest son to college. Keep checking back to see the adventures of the store and also a mom sending her oldest of to college for the first time. It is an exciting and scary time. Thanks!

Is it HOT? or is it just me!

Summer seems to be officially here in Alabama. With temperatures hovering very near 100 degrees, it is really unbearable to be out in the middle of the day. I had the bright idea that I wanted to clean up some flower beds on Monday. It really didn't feel so bad outside at 9 in the morning. I trudged off to Lowes and purchased some new cedar mulch, marigolds, some verigated greenery that I don't even know the name of, lantana (my grandmother always had that), and some gerber daisies. Then I saw the peonies (my grandmother had those too), followed by a bush called rose of sharon althea and a dwarf crepe myrtle. Putting down the new mulch and weeding the beds went well. Planting the marigolds and lantana was easy. Then I looked around at the larger pots of peonies, althea and crepe myrtle. What was I thinking??? The soil in our yard is hard. I remember once my husband and father-in-law planting some trees. My husband gets the shovel and the axe out of the garage. My father-in-law wondered why the axe---he realized why when they tried to dig. Thankfully my plan for these larger bushes was to put them in place of some others that had died. I did manage to dig holes deep enough to put the bushes in. It was very hard and I was very thankful that I had only purchased four larger plants. I have watered every day because we have had no rain and the almost 100 degree heat is rough on my plants. AHHHH summer in Alabama. Actually I wouldn't trade it.
In the shop, we are happy to have some great new plates and wall tiles from Little Worm and Company. The age plates are so cute. You can actually have your child's current age put in the center of the plate. The wall tiles are a new addition and would look great in any child's room. Another new addition is the first birthday doll from Gund. She is so sweet and plays Happy Birthday. We embroider the birthday girl's first name on the bottom of the dress and it is so sweet. These dolls sell out quickly and are currently on back order but are so cute I just had to mention them. Off to work some now (and not outside). I think I have done all the planting for now. I have enough to water at this point. Hopefully all of you are experiencing a great summer as well. I love this time of year when I have some extra special time with both my boys at home relaxing (or being bribed into service in the shipping department). Have a great rest of June!

Graduation - What a Mix of Emotions

Okay, it is time to admit this to myself and everyone else....my oldest son graduated from high school. WOW! How hard that is to believe. Surely I am not old enough to have a child who is graduating. Surely it hasn't been 18 years since I gave birth to my 8 pound 15 ounce oldest child. What a joy the 18 years have been. What a handsome young man he has turned into. Graduation for me is such a mix of emotions. I am so proud of him!!! He has a scholarship to go to the University of Alabama. He is currently gone on a mission trip serving those who really need some help. He is a really awesome guitar player and could be famous someday! (He would love that sentence). I work at the school he attended. I had the joy of seeing him every day and even eating lunch with him and a group of friends from time to time. I had the awesome amazing joy of handing him his diploma. HOW VERY COOL IS THAT!! I also am realizing how quiet it can be around my house with just my 11 year old and myself. Well, congratulations to you young people who graduated this year. Just remember, your mom needs to hear from you from time to time. She loves you, is proud of you, is even thrilled to see you going on to college for an amazing life,....BUT she still needs to hear your voice every so often.
Things rock along at MyEmbroideredGifts.com. We are always on the lookout for amazing new gifts. At this time of year, I am especially looking at graduation gifts. Towel wraps continue to be a wonderful gift for girls. My son received money from many friends (which works well for someone always shopping for new guitar merchandise). Travel bags for girls or guys of all shapes and varieties come in handy also.
Such am amazing array of emotions, such amazing young people headed out to make the world a better place. Congratulations 2009 graduates of WCA!

Easter is coming faster than I realize

Well, I have been a terrible blogger. If anyone is still following my blog, thank you. School has been incredibly busy, life in general has been busy. Last week was spring break for our schools here. I went with 3 other adults and 10 students to Baldwin Louisiana and worked at UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief) packaging relief supplies. If you ever have a chance to do this, it is amazing. I worked a good bit of the time in the sewing room (where else would I be) serging book bags that they package school supplies in. It was such rewarding yet relaxing work. This was the fourth year that my son and I have done this and it always amazes me how much the youth enjoy this trip. They work so hard. In the past, we have gone as a part of their school year but I was really amazed that they were willing to go during their spring break this year. What an amazing blessing to help people. We always meet the neatest people from all over the United States while we are there. We always eat some great Cajun seafood. It was wonderful.
But, that week is over and it is time to get back to work. We have added a new feature to the website. We now have Flash Sequence Banners at the top of the page thanks to Solid Cactus. I think they look really cool. Let me know what you think. My 11 year old has spent time working to help me design some great banners for Easter. Yes, Easter is quickly approaching. Now is the time to get those Easter baskets and Easter bunnies. The basket this year from Gund is really cute but unfortunately cannot be personalized. Drop by and take a look at all the bunnies and baskets. We have some precious doll bunnies that can be personalized with a name on the front of their dresses.
Time to call it a night here and get ready for another. I really hope to update this blog more frequently. Check back and see if I can manage to do that.

Modern Mom Challenge Week 1

I have joined with lots of other moms out there to take on the Modern Mom Challenge. I really believe this can make 2009 a great year. I have a few goals for this time:
1. I didn't really gain any weight over Christmas (you ask how that could happen) because I was so sick but I do need to be more careful in what I eat. Cut down on fast food (I am always eating and working at lunch so I eat bad stuff) and eat healthier food. Take the time to fix a lunch that is healthy. Take time to eat lunch and savor it.
2. Exercise regularly (or at all). I need to find something to do here at home that I can do regularly and maybe enjoy. I enjoyed Pilates at the gym and I have some DVD's so maybe I should break open those wrappers and give it a try. I would also like to find a good Zumba workout.
3. MAKE TIME FOR ME!! After being sick for a week, I really think this is going to be important. I think my illness was made worse by being worn down and stressed out. I need to enjoy more movies with my kids, more reading, in general more relaxing time when I am not contemplating the next great things I am going to add to the website or how I am going to get everything in tomorrow's mail.
So, let's see how it goes. I hope to keep you posted each week as we progess through this journey. I look forward to taking this journey with lots of other cyber-friend moms and see what we all accomplish as we cheer each other on.