February 1, 2012

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Meet Marley, the rasta wrap brought to you by Girasol, to wear and enjoy every day…

lalalaaaaa

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“I wanna love you and treat you right
I wanna love you every day and every night”

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lalaaaaaa

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Introducing Girasol woven wrap, Marley, in both the standard yellow weft as well as the new black weft!!!!  Make sure to choose which weft you’d prefer!  Pre orders for Marley are open until February 8 at which time Marley will go into production at Girasol headquarters and become a reality in April!  Half now, half later makes Marley easy to add to your growing collection of Girasol woven wraps!!!

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Designed by a fellow native Californian, Marley was brought to life by Maya, a self proclaimed Bob Marley fan who gathered inspiration from a few places….  “I was just getting into skinny stripes as well as rainbows and wanted to see what I could do with tthem! Before it was Marley, it was a bunch of different “rasta rainbows” until I settled on what I thought was the perfect one!  I also used my (now ex) husband as inspiration. I wanted something that was unisex/daddy friendly but not a normal daddy carrier. When I think of daddy carriers, I think of dark solid colors, or stripes/color blocking, but not bright and fun.“   And so, Marley was born, giving a new rocking spin on babywearing!

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*happy babywearing*
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October 19, 2011

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Sometimes, all that is needed is 1 single picture.

And that 1 picture will tell the WHOLE story.

By itself.

On its own.

Baby.

Carrier.

Bonding.

Love.

Everlasting.

Moment.

Forever.

My heart on my sleeve.

On my baby carrier.

In my carrier.

All in 1 moment.

In 1 picture.

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Babywearing Bliss.

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*happy babywearing*

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October 5, 2011

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*happy babywearing* from Alena, mommy to 5 from Southern California

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September 21, 2011

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2 years today, the PAXbaby family packed our belongings into 11 suitcases, duffelbags, and backpacks, and set off on a 5 month adventure!!!  We took 5 children under 7 millions of miles away to explore New Zealand and Australia, and returned back home to Southern California filled with memories & promises!  We promise we will go back again, we promise we will never forget the gorgeous scenery, the lovely people, the warm welcome we received everywhere we went!  Traveling was fun, exciting, and downright crazy with this many little ones, however we both owe babywearing a HUGE thank you for making traveling as easy as possible with a baby and a busy toddler!  Both the PAXdaddy and I wore our baby carriers pretty much all day every day when we were exploring, whether hiking through rain forests avoiding huge man sized spiderwebs, visiting museums and monuments in major cities, or walking on white sand beaches watching dolphins in the surf!  2 years later, the memories are still vivid: the way the air smelled clean and fresh even in metropolises, the surprise we got when we realized the constellations in the night sky were all different, the unusual habit of everyone – even grown people – to walk barefoot everywhere!  I’ll be posting regularly babywearing pictures from our Down Under experience so we can relive the fun together!

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*happy babywearing*

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September 7, 2011

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Happy Wearing Wednesday!!!!

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My sweet lil Baby #6 fell asleep in my Beco Butterfly II, but it was so hot (100+) that I took the BBII off once he fell asleep!  Love that the Butterfly has the internal Y panel and makes transferring (to another babywearer or to bed!) just so easy!!!

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*happy babywearing*

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September 1, 2011

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Oh, what would I give to have a pouch built right into my body!  I love that the Kangaroo has a natural baby carrier to protect, bond, and nourish her little one!  Kangaroos are mammals, meaning that they breastfeed their young within their pouch – sound familiar???  You know what they say, 9 in 9 out, and that’s not JUST for baby animals!

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Did your little ones ask to see this video of the Tree Kangaroo baby over and over like mine did?

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*happy babywearing*

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July 27, 2011

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PAXbaby’s Wearing Wednesday blog post brings you the background story of Nelly, the AngelPack mama!  She is such a sweet person; when she shared her story with me, I just knew you’d love to read all about it too!!!

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“In November 2003 I had my new baby girl, there I was, a new mother, one little piece of me who meant the world to me. I wanted to protect her, love her and give her all of my best. I wanted to be home with her, despite my plans to run to college and work at the same time.  So I stayed home and thought of ways to help sustain our little family, we lived in Miami with a big mortgage, car payments and one income. Through that daddy worked very hard putting in two jobs and sometimes three to support us.

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At that time I decided to make cloth diapers and maybe sell them on eBay. I had sewn before so maybe this was a good fit, I try making our diapers and that wasn’t pretty, but I did make our slings and a mei tai that cough the attention of my friends and the shop keeper at my favorite fabric shop. She was the one to point out to me that I should make that thing to sell, she was in owe. And so I did, I made some for my neighbors who would walk with us (My baby and I) at the park while we were all trying to lose the baby weight. I had my baby strapped on me all the time.

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At our dining room I started to sew, I bought about $20 of twill fabric and made my first mei tai, it sold on ebay for $40 and I still had fabric for more. Every single mei tai I listed sold and within a couple of months I was making tens of mei tais a week from our dining room table. I usually had my girl strapped to my back while we made them, daddy would often help ironing the straps when he came home from work. We were very blessed indeed.

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At the end of 2004 when our daughter was one, we decided to move out of crazy busy Miami, we sold our house in Miami and move to Lakeland, we picked Lakeland because it’s close to Orlando and Tampa and my husband thought it would be good when looking for work. We have been living here for the past 6 years. At this house I had a room with my sewing machines and cutting table, it was my little studio, but after my baby boy was born I quickly found myself with too much work and not so much of the quality time I wanted to give my children, at times I had to close down my web store to make sure I wouldn’t be too busy. I stayed up late at night (mornings) so that I could finish orders in time. Then I decided it was time to hire someone to do this work for us, so I tried and tried many places locally and couldn’t find a place with the quality I was giving my customers.

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At the beginning of 2007 we decided to try to set up a shop in the Dominican Republic, that summer I traveled alone with my two children, Angie was 3, Gabriel was 1. I stayed at my mom’s place and it was such a blessing to have her support. This summer I realize how little I know about the crisis in my country, I was counting on finding a few seamstresses and I did, but once again, but none knew how to operate an industrial sewing machine or keep a straight line. Not the quality we were accustomed to.

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This went on for a good portion of this summer when finally the person who sold me the sewing machines informed me that he could do the job for me, it was a big weight lifted off my shoulders, I had orders waiting to be shipped for nearly two months. When he first saw me make one, he got it right away and made just perfect, better than me.  I was glad to hand over my job. He set up a small shop specifically to work with our AngelPacks at home.

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I made it back home, FINALLY!  This was a beautiful chapter and for the next three years we were able to get AngelPacks made right there from my home town, my mom worked with us inspecting and doing shipping, my uncle drove the packages from our tiny town to the big city to a UPS office.

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In 2010 we decided to set up our own shop when we were informed that our seamstress was moving to N.Y. and so we did, this summer we set up our own shop, with a large sewing room, a large cutting table and a beautiful (to me) stock room. This time my husband was with us which was such a blessing, now I had 3 children and a big pregnant belly, so his help was greatly needed, we stayed there over three months (again) but when we left we left everything in place.  The main person working for us now is the same seamstress that used to work at the old shop, now we have more help too and UPS picks up packages at our own door! Yep they take the drive to little town for us.

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It hasn’t been easy, some times more tiring than others, but it has been a blessing to have this opportunity to go around the world with our product and to help parents around bond with their little ones, to make their days easier because they can put a baby on their backs (or front) and keep going with their day without missing out on that time of closeness with baby.

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We feel very blessed with our family, now a not so little one, and with our job, this year my husband has joint front with me and is staying home with us, we home school our children and with four little ones is a great thing to have the help.  Our family thrives on AngelPack and the blessing of the Lord who has guided us until this day. We believe our children are a blessing and are so glad to be able to spend our days learning with them and guiding them.

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What will our next chapter be?

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Nelly Diaz” from AngelPack

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*happy babywearing*

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July 13, 2011

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Today’s Wearing Wednesday photo demonstrates a PERFECT newborn position in the Manduca!!   Sarah has her baby’s legs folded in the natural “M” shape within the carrier!  Ergonomic & comfortable for both mama & baby, this position is best until baby is around 3 months, 14 pounds, or when you are naturally holding baby against your body with baby’s legs wrapping around you!  A great interim position is to froggy just 1 leg with the other coming out maintaining the “knees higher than bum” stature!!!

Thank you so much to Sarah and her little one for this amazingly gorgeous (& helpful!!) babywearing picture!!!

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*happy babywearing*

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July 6, 2011

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Welcome to Wearing Wednesday where we showcase an extra special babywearer each week at PAXbaby.com!  This week’s picture was sent in by Monique and features a very special, one of a kind, customized Scootababy!!!!  This Duke Scootababy was made by PAXbaby’s Pimp my Carrier and is so adorable!  Thanks, Monique, for the happy babywearing picture!!!

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*happy babywearing*

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