Friday, May 23, 2008

Mamanista.com Reviews Sweet & Spunky




Click the "Mamanista" image above to see what they had to say about Sweet & Spunky!!!


Monday, May 12, 2008

Socially Conscious/Fair Trade Baby Clothes


Before I dye and paint each onesie, it arrives to me as a carefully sewn garment. The other day I was wondering about the people that create my "canvas" (so to speak). I had no reason to doubt the ethics of my wholesaler, but I don't like to assume. I asked what the conditions where like in which these baby clothes are made, and I wanted to share the response I got...

"Dear Alisha,

I received your inquiry regarding the factories and conditions where our garments are produced, I appreciate your probing this issue as it is something very important to us.

We sent our company representative to inspect the factory to double check the certification that we were presented with. The goods are all produced in modern facilities, no sweatshop conditions, no child labor, decent working hours and conditions, and fair trade.

All our employees have strong family values and our collective conscience would not allow us to have our goods manufactured in unfavorable conditions."

Sunday, May 4, 2008

New Baby In The Home...


I painted this onesie just the other day for a new baby living at the Magdalene Home.

The Magdalene Home is a safe nurturing environment where teenage girls, who are pregnant or parenting, can live. They provide the girls with emotional support, as well as training in life skills such as cooking, shopping, financial planning, childcare, prenatal care, and postnatal care.

When I heard about the Magdalene Home I decided that I would make a custom onesie for each baby living there. Last summer, I was actually invited to visit the home. I learned a lot about it and I could see that young women are truly given the opportunity to make a better life for themselves and I'm very excited about supporting that cause.

Click on this link to see more info and their website. (scroll to the "Giving" section) http://www.sweetandspunky.com/info.html

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

made in mom


Here's a custom order I did a while back. What a cute idea!
...just had to share it. :)

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Sneak Peek...





I just received some photos of my newest boy model, Hosea. His parents, Jeni & Matt, are some dear friends of mine that I met in college. Here's a sneak peek.
Thanks Jeni & Matt!

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Sweet & Spunky Baby




I just got these adorable photos in my email.
This is my sister's nephew, Alasdair, who lives in Hawaii.
He is too cute!

Thanks for the photos!


(Light turquoise onesie, turquoise paint, turtle graphic, lettering style: Monkey)

Friday, March 28, 2008

Cutest Commerical Ever!

I LOVE this commercial !
Seriously, it makes me want to have like 7 kids !
.....well, maybe just for a day
.......or a couple hours
........or maybe I'll just watch them on T.V. :)


Friday, March 21, 2008

Let's Get Creative




Here are 3 onesies I made yesterday for Hosea, my newest baby model. Him and his parents are all the way in Scotland right now, so let's hope the onesies travel safely. :) These are all good examples of some designs you can do if you don't know the baby's name yet. "Mango" is Hosea's nickname. I'm kind of partial to the fruit nicknames, because in high school mine was "Papaya". Those were the days.... :)

Important: By default, the text and graphic are the same color, if you'd like them to be different colors, like the "rockstar" one above, just indicate that in the comments box during the ordering process.)

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Tutus and Turtles



Wow! Such kind words about Sweet & Spunky today on Tutus and Turtles. Click image above to view direct link to the review!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

cuteable




My store was mentioned in today's "Cuteable Finds" on the review blog of cute, Cuteable.com.
Click image above to go directly to the post. After you click, mine is the 3rd one down.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

They're Talkin' !




I was featured on The Wee Review. It's a blog that reviews hip products for baby's, toddlers, and parents. Click on image above for a direct link to my review.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

New Arrivals



I really like this cute little onesie I did the other day. It's for a little -soon to be- newborn. It's orange paint on a sky blue onesie with the "cutie pie" lettering style. I love the baby turtle!


See my site at:
www.SweetandSpunky.com



Monday, March 10, 2008

We're in Business!


Sweet and Spunky.com has been officially up and running for a little over 2 weeks! I can’t believe it. I want to thank my dear husband for supporting me, like he does with all of my crazy ideas, and I couldn’t have done it with out all of his patient computer help either. Also, thank you Allison for the photos of your beautiful baby girl! …and of course, my sister Ashley, for patiently sitting through countless conversations starting with “Ok, so what do you think about this idea…..”