The Pitter Patter Boutique Sweepstakes

The Pitter Patter Boutique Sweepstakes

What better way to kick off the new site and the upcoming New Year then to offer a giveaway!

What's up for grabs???

A Nursing Cover from our store AND a set of Car Seat Strap Covers. Below are just examples of the prizes you could win! And the best part, you choose your favorite from over 160 different Fabric choices in our store. Read about our nursing covers for more information about this item. Would make a great gift for any new Mom or Mom-to-be.





The giveaway will run through December 31, 2007 and the winner will be announced sometime on January 1, 2008.

To Enter:

Email sweepstakes@thepitterpatterboutique.com and put Nursing Cover in the subject line. In your email, please include your favorite item from our store and how/where you heard about the giveaway. Also include a way that I can get in touch with you if you win. Only one entry per email address please.

One More Thing:

Please copy at least ONE of your friends or family members in your entry email, letting them know about the contest so they can enter as well.

**This contest is only open to residents of the Continental U.S.**

Good Luck!

Happy New Year!

Wishing you and your family a happy and safe New Year!

New Items on ThePitterPatterBoutique.com

As promised, I have added some new items to my website. They are the Baby Bling Binkie Clips and the No-Throw Sippy Cup Holder. I'll be adding additional choices soon but as always, you can choose another fabric from our Fabrics page at anytime.

Burp Cloths are Coming Soon!

Christmas with Us

Wordless Wednesday

In Flight

This is the best I could do. All my photo's are on my external hard drive and I don't take that with me when I travel. Christmas photo's will be up soon.

Our Giveaway in 5 Minutes Around The Blogosphere

We are delighted to inform you that we will be highlighted in the upcoming 5 Minutes for Mom's Weekly Column, "5 Minutes Around The Blogosphere." Click here to check it out.

5 Minutes for Mom is a fun and informative site ran by Susan and Janice, who are work-at-home mom's themselves. They also run two toy stores, Pedal Cars and Retro Collectibles and A Rocking Horse to Love.

If this will be your first time visiting 5 Minutes for Mom, I suggest you visit their Mom Sites to meet creative new people and see all the wonderful products these Mom's have to offer.

Wordless Wednesday

Me Love Cookiesssssssss

Advertising Swap

Now that I am all set up here and pretty close to having my website completely updated, I am looking for people who would like to swap buttons. No charge of course, just sort of a, you post mine and I'll post your's, kind of thing.

Email me if you're interested or leave a comment.

Tah!!! Dah!!!

So what do you think? Cute, Yes? :-)

Lots of thanks to Jen over at Blue Yonder Designs for helping me (actually, doing it for me) get my blog to tie in with my website. It's awesome and more importantly, she's a great person to work with and she got this up for me in no time.

If you want a chance to win a Platinum Package Design by Blue Yonder Designs, head on over to Bloggy Giveaway's , there's still time! Drawing ends tomorrow. I didn't have the patience to wait and see if I won.

Great Giveaways...

Head on over to Crunchy Domestic Goddess for your chance to win one of four awesome prizes.

Just rambling...

As I'm sure you can see, I have my header up that matches my website. Now, how do I get the rest of my blog to match my header? I have no idea. So...for a while, it's going to look like this. Hope you guys don't mind.

Last night I went out for a "girls night". With a 6 month old (TODAY! Yippee), I can't remember the last time I went out with my hubby alone, much less a bunch of my girlfriends. I have to say though, I was the party pooper of the group. I jetted off after dinner and drinks because I couldn't stop thinking about the next morning. "Do I really want to come in late to a sick, coughing, snout blowing, hubby? And then have to wake up at 6am (maybe 7am if I'm lucky) for J. Bean's first feeding?" H. E. double Hockey Sticks...NO! So instead, I get home around 8pm (geez, is that it), talk to the hubby, check some emails and I am in bed by 9:30pm. What a shame. Did I sleep good, nope! The Hub is sick, like I said earlier, and he was up every hour blowing his honker and coughing up God knows what. I know, I know, too much info. So anyway, my final wake up time was 6am, but I saw every hour that little hand hit on the alarm clock last night.

Right now it's 6:50am. I'm drinking my coffee, not feeling any effects from the 4 Margarita's I had last night, and J. Bean is just waking up but seems to be content for the moment with playing with her crib toy.

Thanks to the Girls who went out last night, I had a great time. And I hope all of ya'll are feeling as well as I am. (smile). Oh! And I need some details from someone about what happened after I left.

Finally, some honesty!

I asked my wonderful son, "Do you have ears?" He said, "Yes!" Then I asked, "Do you use them?" And he said, "No."

Wordless Wednesday

Win an Insignia® Shelf System

5 Minutes for Mom is giving everyone a chance to win this awesome Insignia Shelf System.

Here is a quick rundown of the product features of the Insignia® - 75W DVD/CD/HD Radio Compact Shelf System with USB Port

- CD/DVD playback compatible with DVD/DVD-RW/DVD+RW/CD/CD-R/MP3/MP4
- Digital AM/FM with 60 presets
- HD Radio receiver
- iPod device docking with charger and function control
- Front USB input
- Audio outputs: optical and coaxial
- Video outputs:componet and S-video

Head on over to 5 Minutes for Mom for your chance to win or visit Best Buy to purchase now at a discounted price. There's still time for GUARANTEED Christmas delivery! Check out Best Buy for details.

Now this is the life

On Sunday's the Hub and I usually do a little cleaning, wash some clothes and then dedicate the rest of our time to playing with the kids or watching a family movie. But today! we were not feeling the love. We woke up at 6am (thanks to J.Bean) and wanted to immediately crawl back into bed. But instead, we got going with our morning routine. Good ole' cinnamon rolls (and a Caramel Cafe Latte for me) for breakfast. Come midday, Sean and I were done! But we still had 2 loads of laundry to fold. So we thought, "This is a good time to introduce a new chore to our 6 year old's list of Things to do around the house. Son... we yelled. Get all the clothes out of the dryer and bring them into the living room. Ok, he said. Since you are growing up to be such a responsible young man, we thought you might enjoy helping Mommy and Daddy out a little more around the house." Hey now! Don't judge, this is one of those lies that is ok to tell your child. It really does benefit everyone. :-) To our surprise, our little man was more then enthusiastic to hear what he would be doing. "We need you to fold all these clothes and then put away all the ones that are yours. And when the next load is finished, we need you to do the same thing with that load as well. Ahh man....he whined. I don't wanna do it. Too bad! I said. You need to help out a little more around here and set a good example for your little sister. Ok...I'll do it, he said." And to my surprise, he not only did a great job but in the end he was happy he did it and said he wanted to fold all the clothes from now on. Fine by me, go for it.

Now you may be wondering what the Hubby and I were doing while he was finishing up the laundry. The answer is, not a darn thing. We sat on the sofa like two stumps in the forest and watched t.v.

So now I am offering my services. Wanna whip your kid into shape? Just kidding. Hope everyone had a great weekend.

Get out of here you GRINCH!!!!

This thing creeps me out. Sean has some secret obsession (not anymore) with the Grinch. He got it out of storage a few days ago and set it up in the living room by the back door. It's motion sensitive so when you walk by it, he'll scream at you and then start singing his little Grinch song. Surprisingly, J. Bean is entertained by the freakishly ugly thing. The morning after Sean put him out, he was up around 4am for work and informed me that he almost got into a rumble with the "intruder". Needless to say, the motion sensor setting was cut off in less then 12 hours.

Personalized Items for Children

Not too long ago I realized the dangers in having things personalized with your child's name. It hit me like a ton of bricks and made me sick to my stomach to think that I may make it easier for someone to kidnap my child. I am talking about our little one's, who are still learning about strangers and what to do if you're approached by someone you don't know.

Many children today have their names on the back of their jackets, their backpacks and even their lunch boxes. Anything that is out in the public eye and has a name that your child responds to, whether it be his/her nickname or first name, is a danger. Predators are using this as a way to communicate with your child. They're already ahead because your child is understandably stumped when the predator calls to him/her by name. "How does he/she know my name? He/She must know my Mom and Dad."

I know personalizing an item for your child is absolutely adorable and I have been tempted many times to do it myself. But if you do, personalize something that will stay in your home. Our kids rooms both have their names displayed across one of their walls and a friend of mine had an apron for her daughter personalized. Their are many other cute things that you can personalize for your child and keep it in the home. I just entered a contest at Bloggy Giveaways for a personalized tag that I would used around the house for the kids.

Do you have some neat ideas of things that can be personalized and used around the home?

Any tips on how to keep our children safe? Share with us.

Wordless Wednesday

Calling ALL Dog Lovers

Meet Otis...

Otis is the puppy of my Mother-in-law's Bulldog Dilly. He is an 11 month old Bulldog with juvenile general Demodicosis.

Before Demodicosis

With Demodicosis
Otis' Story
When Otis' family noticed something was going on with his skin, they took him to a veterinarian. They did a skin scraping to look for skin mites and they said the slide was clear. As they continued testing to figure out what was going on with him, his condition worsened. They brought him to see my Mother-in-law at her grooming shop, Puppy Pals, and then to another vet for a second opinion. Low and behold, when they did another skin scraping it was filled with mites! There was even talk of putting him to sleep because his condition was so bad and his immune system was too weak to fight it off the infection. His medications include Clavamox antibiotics, s-adenosyl-225, which is an immune system booster, s-adenosyl-100, which is canine asprin, also canine plus- vitamin + mineral suppliments, omega 3&6 gel caps and vitamin E. He needed 2 baths a day at first, then just one, with special virbac Pyoben shampoo and mite dips. The total cost for his up keep is estimated $700 a month and he needs at least 3 more month of treatment if he is to recover- that's at least $2100. This estimate does NOT include vet visit costs. He came to stay at Puppy Pals for 7 weeks while my Mother-in-law took care of him during the week. He went home on the weekends to spend time with his family. The poor little guy COULDN'T EVEN DRINK WATER. He would stand there in front of his bowl it seemed like forever. We put markers on his dish to see if the water level went down, but he wasn't getting anything. They started giving him his water with a syringe(no needles obviously) by holding his head up high and putting the water right in his mouth. He was a bit fussy about it at first, but he adjusted to it after awhile. All he wanted to do was sleep all the time. This can a regular thing for Bulldogs, but not for a 9 month old puppy. He is slowly improving is expected to make a full recovery, but the vet wants him to continue with his medication for the next 3 months to insure that he does. If he doesn't, then it could come back and they couldn't bare to see this poor little guy go through such a terrible spell again. They are doing everything they can to help him and his family through this rough time and are trying to raise a portion of his medical expenses in hopes that Otis' family receives the best christmas gift ever!!!!!! A happy, healthy Bully and a less stressful holiday season. Thank you all for your time and generosity!
Since they live in NY and I am here in Sweet Home Alabama, I figured the least I could do was post his story and a link to the auction on my post!

How to help...

An Ebay Auction to Help Otis...
HELP OTIS AND BID (CLICK HERE) ON THIS CUSTOM, MADE TO FIT, DOG COAT! EVERY PENNY GOES TOWARDS PAYING FOR HIS MEDICAL EXPENSES! HAVE A DIFFICULT TO FIT DOG? NO PROBLEM! COAT WILL BE MADE TO YOUR DOG'S SPECIFIC MEASUREMENTS!
AND DON'T FORGET THE FREE SHIPPING!!!!!! AUCTION ENDS DEC. 9TH SO HURRY UP AND PLACE YOUR BID TODAY!!!!

CHOICE OF RED OR TAN CHECKERED FABRIC

INSIDE OF COAT


If you would like more information about Otis, e-mail Brandi at pupgrmr@iwon.com or my Mother-in-law, Linda, at rompintoys@yahoo.com. Thank you for reading Otis' story and if you can help make this little darling healthy and beautiful once again-THANK YOU!

Where's My Website???

I know many people who are visiting my site are wondering...Where's her website? :-) It is currently under construction but will hopefully be up and running very soon (fingers crossed).

I do want to thank you for stopping by and let you know that some of my items are up for 'Buy it Now' on eBay. There's Nursing Covers, Binkie/Pacifier Clips, Car Seat Strap Covers and No-Sew Sling Instructions listed.

Feel free to browse around and if you have any questions you can email me at Sarah@thepitterpatterboutique.com