Bad Fabric Update

So though much research and many, many emails the problem seems to have been narrowed down between early November and late January. The inserts that are most likely to develop these runs in a stocking type holes feel noticeably thinner than preceding Poos and the most current Poos. I am not totally sure if the February roll is also a bad batch but I am pretty sure that it is being that some responses are from mamas that received their diapers in March. PLEASE... if you have a problem let me know. My supplier is trying to get me a replacement roll and I will be spending many, many hours making new inserts to replace the ones that are messed up. I cannot replace your insert if I am not aware. Again... please send picture and approximate date you received your diaper/s to lilpooligans@gmail.com

IMPORTANT: past and present lil' Pooligans customers please read

I have discovered a issue with my hemp bamboo fleece. I'm not sure which batches of fabric and thus diapers are affected but this is really, really frustrating. My earlier purchases and subsequent sales (August-October) don't seem to be affected but later purchases (November-February) when the rolls of hemp bamboo fabric became a bit thinner are affected. So far my most recent purchases seem to be fine but they haven't gone through as much laundering yet. So... this is what I am observing: The hemp bamboo launders fine for awhile and then it starts to develop holes and thin lines. Then all of the sudden the holes get bigger and bigger and after a couple of washes the outer layer of hemp bamboo practically disintegrates and resembles swiss cheese. I witnessed this first hand with one of my nighty nights and the inner layer of hemp bamboo appeared to be fine as you can see in the below picture. I have seen this crop up with others diapers as well. PLEASE email me with pictures and date you received your diaper/s at lilpooligans@gmail.com if you too are experiencing this same problem. I have contacted my fabric supplier and she has contacted hers. I have been asked to send her inserts that show this in its worst state. I hope that this is resolved in a timely and mutually satisfying way. I will keep everyone updated.

Sincerely,
A very frustrated Ange'

lil' Pooligans Swimligans!!!

Testers have been made, stocked, bought and are ready to ship out tomorrow!!! I hope everyone loves their new swim diapers. I look forward to hearing about the good, the bad, and the ugly.

August's Featured Baby of the Month ...

July's Featured Baby is Natalia! She is sporting her Betty Boop Fitted. Congrats mama and baby! Every month I will select a new picture. The winner will receive a 40% discount code towards and regular OSFM diaper. Please email up to three pictures to lilpooligans@gmail.com if you would like to be considered titled ___'s featured baby of the month. Submissions must be received by the 1st of the month to be considered and I will pick the new baby on or around the 7th.

9/04/10 Announcement!!! I am going to be slowly transitioning over to colored cotton velour. This is good and bad... Good because there are more colors available and it will reduce the price of CV inner diapers. Bad because some prefer OBV. All natural inners will continue to be OBV.

Introducing...

lil' Pooligans OSFM swim diaper! This cute beauty is constructed with colored OBV, white PUL, and coordinating snaps. This will available this coming weeks for testing. So... without further ado... SURF!!!

On July 30th, 2008 my life changed...

Two years ago...

My mom fell on Wednesday, July 30th at about 3 pm. When Dad found her she was blue, gasping for air, and totally unresponsive. According to the doctors at Providence Milwaukie Hospital, when the EMTs arrived she was dieing. They had a CT scan done and discovered that she had fractured C2 in her neck, this is the 2nd vertebra down from the base of her skull. The prognosis is not good. She was transferred to Emanuel Hospital at about 5 pm that same evening because they do not have the ability to care for her where she was.

At Emanuel they did a repeat CT and a MRI. She is still unresponsive. The news is not good. She will be a c2 quadriplegic and vent dependent for the rest of her life and they feel that she had a hypoxic brain injury and may never wake up.

On Friday, August 1st we are told that things are grim and that we have two choices. Begin life support by within 3 days or remove the ventilator and let her pass. Dad and I had a "easy" choice to make. Mom made her wishes very clear. We decided to remove the ventilator in the next two days, probably the next morning. A little while later we discovered that Mom wants to be an organ donor so we got the ball rolling on that. Her chart was reviewed, blood was drawn, and they did an exam to determine whether on not she could donated her organs. After this it was decided that we would go through on Sunday with everything.

Well, she had a different idea. She woke up Saturday morning, August 2nd. Since then she had surgery to repair the dens (projection) on c2 with a screw and the off came the c-collar on the same day, August 3rd. Tuesday, August 5th she had surgery to put in the trach. Since then it has been treating her respiratory complications, tests, positioning, clogged NG tube, poking and prodding.

About a week later we almost lost her again... her heart rate and BP would plummet. The nurses kept a stock of resuscitation meds in her room. Yes, it was that bad and started happening that frequently. With the pushing of the nurses and my Dad wagging war she finally got her pacemaker.

On from there the docs fought raging infections, a collapsed lung, and basically kept her alive until they could shirk her off on to Craig hospital. Yes... a level one trauma hospital lied to get her transferred because they were unable to deal with the infections.

Mom the day she left for Denver. You can see how sick she still is.

Over the past two years mom has enduring poking, prodding, surgeries, multiple infections, a huge pulmonary embolism that almost took her from us again. Dad continues to stand by her side. Providing all of her care when the situation calls for it. The bond between my parent's is the stuff dreams are made from.

Mom now...

In honor of this huge life changing event lil Pooligans is doing a 50% drawing for Summer Fun during the anniversary of the three hardest days of my life.

July's Featured Baby of the Month

July's Featured Baby is Rosie's Beautiful Princess! She is sporting her Sealife PnT. Congrats mama and baby! Every month I will select a new picture. The winner will receive a 40% discount code towards a regular OSFM diaper. Please email up to three pictures to lilpooligans@gmail.com if you would like to be considered featured baby of the month. Submissions must be received by the 1st of the month to be considered and I will pick the new baby on or around the 7th.

Something about SAHMs...

TELL ME ABOUT IT ®

By Carolyn Hax

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Carolyn:

Best friend has child. Her: exhausted, busy, no time for self, no time for me, etc. Me (no kids): Wow. Sorry. What'd you do today? Her: Park, play group . . .

Okay. I've done Internet searches, I've talked to parents. I don't get it. What do stay-at-home moms do all day? Please no lists of library, grocery store, dry cleaners . . . I do all those things, too, and I don't do them EVERY DAY. I guess what I'm asking is: What is a typical day and why don't moms have time for a call or e-mail? I work and am away from home nine hours a day (plus a few late work events) and I manage to get it all done. I'm feeling like the kid is an excuse to relax and enjoy -- not a bad thing at all -- but if so, why won't my friend tell me the truth? Is this a peeing contest ("My life is so much harder than yours")? What's the deal? I've got friends with and without kids and all us child-free folks get the same story and have the same questions.

Tacoma, Wash.

Relax and enjoy. You're funny.

Or you're lying about having friends with kids.

Or you're taking them at their word that they actually have kids, because you haven't personally been in the same room with them.

Internet searches?

I keep wavering between giving you a straight answer and giving my forehead some keyboard. To claim you want to understand, while in the same breath implying that the only logical conclusions are that your mom-friends are either lying or competing with you, is disingenuous indeed.

So, since it's validation you seem to want, the real answer is what you get. In list form. When you have young kids, your typical day is: constant attention, from getting them out of bed, fed, clean, dressed; to keeping them out of harm's way; to answering their coos, cries, questions; to having two arms and carrying one kid, one set of car keys, and supplies for even the quickest trips, including the latest-to-be-declared-essential piece of molded plastic gear; to keeping them from unshelving books at the library; to enforcing rest times; to staying one step ahead of them lest they get too hungry, tired or bored, any one of which produces the kind of checkout-line screaming that gets the checkout line shaking its head.

It's needing 45 minutes to do what takes others 15.

It's constant vigilance, constant touch, constant use of your voice, constant relegation of your needs to the second tier.

It's constant scrutiny and second-guessing from family and friends, well-meaning and otherwise. It's resisting constant temptation to seek short-term relief at everyone's long-term expense.

It's doing all this while concurrently teaching virtually everything -- language, manners, safety, resourcefulness, discipline, curiosity, creativity. Empathy. Everything.

It's also a choice, yes. And a joy. But if you spent all day, every day, with this brand of joy, and then, when you got your first 10 minutes to yourself, wanted to be alone with your thoughts instead of calling a good friend, a good friend wouldn't judge you, complain about you to mutual friends, or marvel how much more productively she uses her time. Either make a sincere effort to understand or keep your snit to yourself.

Quoted from : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/22/AR2007052201554.html?referrer=facebook

New happenings at Pooligans

June is flying by so fast! Its hard to fathom that July is just around the corner. This month ends with another round of testing, the launching of the Poo of the Month Club, and two new products. Yes, wovens have been offered before as customs but now you will be able to find these in my shop from time to time.

First on the agenda... I am gearing up for round 2 testing my PnT AI2's as well as working on another idea that may make these true AI2's. I am hoping all goes well and the feedback is just as great as round one. I have decided that as much as I like printed PUL it sucks the big one for AI2 diapers and will only be offering hidden PUL PnTs. Now, if you find a cut of printed PUL that you just must have for a custom PnT then by all means get it. It works, its just not as well as hidden PUL. If all goes as planned... PnTs will join the regular lil' Pooligans line in July.


Next up... added to the current line are OBV I&O's and T&T wovens.

These soft squishy I&O beauties have colored OBV in and out. These are so amazingly soft and squish-able. I may also decide to dive into the wide world of colored cotton velour so that I can offer these in a wider array of color combinations on a more frequent basis; as well as offering as customs. Whether or not standard OSFM Poos will have CV inners is yet to be known.



On to the next note... I am also offering T&T woven fitteds. I found that I had to change my construction to prevent some obnoxious elastic issues in regards to appearance. While these look a bit different than my original Poos I promise that they are the same exact pattern that I offered before offering the same fit and function minus the aesthetic problems that drive my batty. Now, because these are a fairly new construction for me these will be offered at an introductory rate until I have perfected my technique.

Finally... with July just around the corner it is time for the next Featured Baby of the Month and the first month of POTM. The Poo of the Month Club kicks off in just a few days. Currently there are still a couple of spots open. I will be closing this listing down come the 1st of July. There will not be another chance until December to sign up. Also, Please send those super cute pictures. Details can be found on Facebook. I am looking forward to seeing all of the picture of your super cutie pies in their Poos! The winning baby receives a 40% off discount code for one standard OSFM Poo and is featured in the shop, on Facebook, and here.

Oh my... Its June already!?!?

There's a few things that have been going on for this mama. Purging all of the kids stuff that they no longer need, digging myself out of my funk to feel human again, designing a new addition to the Pooligans line, etc, etc.

First up... June's Featured Baby of the month is Cami!!! Isn't she a cutie?


Next up... Current customs list.
1st batch - Autumn (3), Jenn, and Constance. Should ship out by Wednesday.
2nd Batch - Emily (2) and Emily (2). Should ship out Friday.

Thirdly... I currently have first run Poo 'n Toos testers out and am waiting for feedback on those. I am toying with an idea to make true AI2 diapers, and I am also toying with the idea of offering organic cotton Pooligans for those precious babies that are sadly allergic to bamboo.

Finally... Price increase!!! I have adjusted my pattern in such a way to accommodate for shrinkage and provide a bit more bum coverage for those older babes while providing the same great fit on the little ones. Customs price is a bit more than pre-mades because these take more time and effort on my part. I also use premium fabrics that come with a premium price and cannot justify continuing to do business at a loss. Finally, colored OBV inners will cost a bit more than natural OBV because these are not only more spendy but also found in limited quantities. Thanks so much for your continued loyalty!

Basic Poos Price Chart
Standard Diapers
NB Fit - $18
OSFM - $23
TD Fit - $25
Woven OSFM - $25 w/o snaps; $30 w/ snaps (Highly suggested to reduce wear and tear on the fabric.)
Nighty Nights
NB Fit NN - $22
OFSM NN - $27
TD Fit NN - $32

** Soon to come... Swimligans and PnTs!!!

*** Some things that can affect cost: Colored OBV, Wanting very limited HTF prints, Doing SYOF option, etc.

Again... Thanks so much for everyone's loyalty. I love my customers!

In the very near future...

... things will be as they should be. Death, illness, injuries, and life in general has slowed everything way down for me. It is hard to keep up when things are constantly popping up. I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and hopefully it is smooth sailing from there. First I am going to reorganize my life and then I am going to work out the details on a new idea. After these new diapers are made and sent out is back to producing diapers for stockings once again. I need to get my life back in control so that it doesn't continue to get in the way of everything that I try to do. I appreciate everyone's support through these trying times. Being a WAHM is not easy. There are so many hurdles that you must overcome. They say that the first year is the hardest for a small business and this is so true. In the end I will persevere.

~Ange'

May featured baby!!!

Absolutely adorable Noah is May's featured baby of the month! Isn't he just to darn cute in his custom glow in the dark cookie Poo?!

lil' Pooligans is getting an overhaul...

I'm not totally sure of every detail right now but stockings will be random from here on out. I will announce on Facebook when these with be occurring so fans will have advanced notice. I am doing another drawing for a 40% discount once I reach 100 fans and then another drawing at 200 fans for a FFS diaper. I am also going to run monthly contests for the featured baby of the month.

First ever Pooligans drawing!!!

In honor of 50 Facebook fans and counting I am having my first ever Facebook fan drawing!!! One 20% discount off the winner's next Poo purchase! April 3rd at 12 pm PST I will pick a winner from the list via random number generator! So become a fan, comment on the drawing post, and cross your fingers. The lucky winner will be announced here and on my page and the winner will receive their code in time for my stocking that very same day. Good luck everyone!!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/lil-Pooligans/104147852954343

A new year, a new month, a new week...

A new beginning!!! 2009 had glitches for us and 2010 didn't start very well either but now its time for new beginnings. My store is back up and running and I stock every Saturday at 8 pm EST on Hyena cart. This allows me to pawn the kiddos on daddy so that I can stock in peace. Don't get me wrong... I wuv my babies but fighting with hyena cart gets really difficult when you have three kids pulling you in 3 different directions. This weekend will be the last customs stocked for a few weeks. I have yet to decide when my official customs stocking day will be but it will only be once to twice a month max. Thanks so much to everyone that has stuck by my side and supported me through my struggles the past few months.