UK SMOG Wannabes - March

[Lavenderlime]

God I feel nervous only my family have read it so far and my friends will get it as they know me but i'm curious to see how it comes across to someone who know's a little about me but doesn't actually know me........

[auroara78]

Lavender, the website and blog are delightful...I love bumble blue!!! gorgeous colors, i love deep and rich too, I also hate pastel baby blue! Bleh! Gorgeous, can't wait to see more...your sons are heartbreakingly cute and I love all the vivid, rich pictures! Thank you for sharing with us.

[zanacal]

Lavender - loved reading your blog, it's wonderful (as is your house and garden from what I can see!). Really beautiful photos too I wish you well with your new business

[Lavenderlime]

Thank you auroara, so glad you like it. I wasn't sure about starting a blog. But it's made me take more pictures of the boys and it's like a little dairy that I can look back on so glad I made the leap. Also i'm hoping it will be a good tool to launch new products down the line already getting ahead of myself. Plus DP thinks I do NOTHING every day all day! So Now I have proof that that is far from the case!

Plus I like the idea of my brand being personal and 'homemade' i'm making all the labels myself for clothes and want it to be something that you look forward to receving. So if people can see that I really do do it all myself it helps I think?

[Lavenderlime]

Thanks Zanacal! Our house was tip when we first got it it's taken nearly two years to get to where we are now and the garden's getting there. But i'm a novice so it's all bit have a go and see at the moment!

So what do you guys think of the pricing? £4 for a baby vest? I don't make that much on them as the dye's are the expensive part of the process. Plus the cost of running the machine 3 times per dye load!

Do you think it's more of a gift item or do you think mum's would buy them for their own babies?

This whole process of having a break from swaying and starting this has made me feel so much better about being an all boy mum, and if my thirds a boy, when I eventually fall pregnant i'm just going to dress him in red, purple and plum!

[indigoviolet]

Wow, lavender, the blog is brilliant! I love the photos, they seem professional! the colours are beautiful, I feel inspired to dress my new little one in more exciting colours, the bumble blue and plum are so lovely, they would look super cute on a little boy. I'll def order some for ds3 if I may? I need a bit of retail therapy I think lol.
Oh your boys are beautiful by the way.

maybe- would be lovely to see you, we rush off after school tomorrow to swimming so prob won't bump into you. I'll look out though as I can't wait to see little Dave! (sorry can't get his 'old' name out of my mind!) we could meet at a park or something with the boys during easter? we are around the first week.

[Lavenderlime]

Thank you Indigo.

That's lovely to hear about the photos i'm far from a professional photographer and up until recently had got a little slack on taking pictures of the boys. But I find doing this it's more taking pictures of what they're doing rather than saying cheese and getting them to smile. Plus now I always carry my camera with me which helps! lol
I'd love it if you'd buy something from me! I'm just waiting on the size labels and postage bags. Plus I still have a few more colours to do. Inculding two different greens if you like bright colours? Brown, grey and navy if you prefer darker shades.

I've just read through again and can spot some typos and missing words but bloggers crashed (the editing bit) and I can't correct them. I have to read something about six times to spot a mistake as my brain just fills in missing words or corrects spelling mistakes... grrr.

Thank you ladies you have put my nerves at ease.....

I Just watched OBEM sometimes it makes me really broody and other times it just scares me! tonight was just a little scary the ladies sounded like they were in loads of pain. Another time was the twin mum who had to have one of the twins turned internally. Forever traumatised by that! She was a trooper though.

[maybebabythree]

Lavender - on my iPhone so I need to get on the pc as I can't see your products but your boys are very cute! Love your blog, I love being nosey as to what other people are up to. Well done you! With regards to labour pain - the key there is to think about that after you get pg - i.e when it's too late lol! If I recorded any of my births and could bottle that feeling, I would only have one child ;-)

Indigo a park with the boys would be great. There is a good forest to walk round too but not sure if your up to that as I always seem to attract dogs and my son got stuck 20 foot up a climbing tower - not sure I can Handel that with a newborn. Will pm you tomorrow

[maybebabythree]

Lavender - what about Muslins? I dyed mine navy they look great and the rainbow ones in Jo Jo mama aren't cheap

[Lavenderlime]

Lavender - what about Muslins? I dyed mine navy they look great and the rainbow ones in Jo Jo mama aren't cheap

I thought this too but it got a little complicated as you don't add or pay tax on baby/childrens clothing including bibs.
But muslins don't fall under the catergory of baby clothes so thought I'd leave it until I was a little more organised. I don't think I will earn enough to qualify to pay tax full stop as it is but just want to keep things simple to start off with. I think it's something I will definitely add in the future though as ds1 was such a sicky baby and we had piles of them. They are also useful as sunshades to drape over the pushchairs.