For Stationery Sake Giveaway!

WINNER - LAURA!!! 

(Please email nextstopbabyblog@gmail to collect your prize)

I am thrilled that Kelly from For Stationery Sake is hosting a giveaway with NSB.  I featured her work a couple weeks ago in Summer Baby Shower, Bzzzz and was so excited when she generously offered to give away (yes, FREE) a set of her gorgeous hand-painted cards.  One lucky NSB reader will receive a 10-pack of the hand-painted cards that you see below ("you're sweet").  They were customized for NSB and hint at Wednesday's post...a baby shower theme...any guesses?!

Here is how to enter:

• Go to the For Stationery Sake Etsy page and check out all the great stuff.
• Leave a comment on this blog (below) about your favorite product.
• That's it. 

One entry per person.  Followers of this blog will automatically receive two entries.  Only comments made before 5 p.m. EST on Friday, June 24, 2011 will be entered.  The winner will be randomly chosen using www.randomdraw.org and posted so check back!

More awesome hand-painted cards by For Stationery Sake.  In addition to all the Etsy listings, she collaborates with buyers to design and make unique stationery, so just ask!

Caption Contest VI

WINNER is Anonymous (ha)

This photo is courtesy of Christina Mae Designs.

Some people wear their heart on their sleeve,
with this bra you can wear your baby on your chest.

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Stuff People Google 4

This week's edition of Stuff People Google made me happy.  My husband is not the only one who double fist pumps everytime he finds Point Break on tv. 

bohdi point break onesies

Things You Must Do With a Baby

I've categorized a few posts as Things You Can't Do With a Baby (i.e. sleep and get fall down drunk).  Living in the limbo of post wedding season and pre child birth, I can't help but consider the things that I will lose when I have baby.  With that next step on the horizon, I have an enduring feeling that I must get in all of my wild and crazy moments now.  I am ever conscious of the small and big ways that my day-to-day will change with pregnancy and motherhood.  The truth is that I will have plenty of wild and crazy moments post child, but I find myself obsessing over my baby bucket list.

And then I saw the following during a commercial break from the Bachelorette (of course I watch, did you expect any less?).

My childhood memories set to the sounds of Keane were perfection.  The original cast in their original glory.  No uber modern, 3-D, high tech upgrade.  The authentic look and feel.  Simple and classic.  Winnie the Pooh.

I made it halfway through the 2 minute 11 second preview before my eyes started to water.  I literally felt a lump in my throat - that cliched, but genuine, ache around where I imagine my tonsils begin.  I thankfully held it together, then turned to my husband (who was doing his best to ignore the Bachelorette and read a weird sci fi book) and said, "That is why we must have a baby."

Oh bother.