My new dresses collection

In the past, girls used to look like girls, with a lot of pretty and colourful dresses..

Recently, sines I'm a mom to a little girl I just fell in love again in all those beautiful dresses my mom used to sew to me - and my daughter is now wearing. The amount of love she gave to each dress combined with a lot of creativity and good test made them timeless... you can't even tell they are almost 30 yrs old...

each dress is one-of-a-kind and a real piece of art.

Now days I bring her art back to life with my apparel collection, sweet dresses for true girly girls but with a modern twist...

check out my dresses on my etsy shop, they are updated all the time!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=21148624

My sweet & cozy baby crib sets

well, let's start at the beginning...

when I was pregnant with my younger daughter - Naomi, I couldn't find any crib set that I liked for her. All the Set's I saw were ether in pale\pastel colors which I disgusted from, or looks like have been taken from a Disney movie (no offence).

On that time I decided, with a basic sewing knowledge at the time, to make her a crib set myself...

while creating her my baby dream room, the ideas started floating me. Warm responses from the near by surroundings pushed me to do it and to create a unique baby crib sets collection.

My sets are no ready from the box sets, they are made each part individually and can combined together.

A set can be made from a blanket + crib bumper, or maybe a pillow instead, or even a storage basket with a blanket.

my winter blankets are made from designer's cotton fabric on one side and extremely soft plush cotton flanel on the other so our babies will be warm but not sweaty...

The crib bumper made also from designer cotton fabric and have a pocket sewed on it, with a little teddy bear hand sewed doll on it. the idea behind it, beyond the decorative look is to develop our baby's eye-hand connection. at first, He'll just look at the doll. later he'll rich out for her, pull it out of the pocket. and eventually, learn to push it back to the pocket...

all of my items are hand and machine sewed. fabrics are pre-washed before sewed to minimize shrinking after washing.

Why did I did it to my self?

Every ones in a while I find my self a bit frustrated about running my own business all alone, in addition to my full time job as a mom...
I think to my self how much easier it is to wake up in the morning take the kids to the kinder-garden and than to start a whole new day at the office, not worry about incomes, promotion and try to find time to work. and most important, to be able to come home and leave the work at work...
Then, when I have those thoughts, I look at my older son Omri, and all of them go away...
Let me start at the beginning...
3 years ago, I've worked as a costumer service manger in a very big communication company. had a very nice salary, spend a lot of time at work and felt very satisfied with myself... It all changed when my son's teacher called and told me we need to talk asap.
apparently my son is attacking the other kids and recently even bite some girl's finger so hard he almost took it of...
I was horrified! my sweet smart kid has become a cisco at 3 yrs old?!
she told us (me and my husband) that we need to be with him some more and that the whole arrangement of nursery school till 5pm and than a nanny 'till 20-22 pm is just not working for him, instead it only do him harm...
It shook my life! here I am, so busy earning money for us as family that the most important element of my life - my boy is completely forgotten in the equation!
In that moment I promised my self to put him back were he belong - at the top of our priority!
a few month after this meeting, we took him to a developmental consultant. his diagnosis was unequivocal - Omri is having Sensory Processing Disorder which make him to feel every thing around him in a much esteemed level than any normal kid. His instincts are very strong, and they control his reaction most of the time instead of a intellectual processes that should be before of any reaction... let's just say that if he was living in a jungle he would have become Tarzan...
those kids need a lot of attention, worm and stable endearment and most important a consistent routine..
Me and my husband did our best trying to juggle between a full time job and giving Omri the routine and attention that he need... that was less than a drop in the water...
but it's funny how the world works, later this year I've become pregnant with my daughter -Naomi. very early in this pregnancy I had some medical issues that because of them I had to stay at home 'till the end of the pregnancy.
At this time I saw Omri prospering. He become a happy, calm kid again like he used to be.
he still had his problems, but it was much easier to help him overcome them...
after Naomi was born, and my maternity leave was about to come to an end I saw Omri starts to shut him self down again.
At this point I had no doubt about what I'm going to do... I resigned my job and decided to start a business from home - with my kids who need their mom mote than anything!

whoo!

According to today's most excellent release from the Consumer Products Safety Commission, the CPSC has done the only common sense thing it could have done, and granted a one year stay of testing and certification requirements until February 10, 2010. Which means...
whoo!
All of us, babies hand made products creators, can start breathing again and keep on our great work! at least for another year...