KiddyUp: The shop for way out west! Kids clothing AND Giveaway!

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April 4, 2009 By Jennifer 159 Comments

Kiddy Up specializes in custom made clothing for children from infant to size 7. You can find her great children’s clothing in stores from LA, IN, to TX! Want to know more?

Boys Monster Shirt

Isn’t that the perfect shirt for your little monster? That’s what I thought too when I saw this shirt! Your little monster not so little? Don’t worry she makes T-shirts too!
Actually she makes far more then just shirts! She makes bags, blankets, travel set, clothing, and so much more!

Hello Minnie Mouse Lounge Set

She also makes custom requests! Do you have a themed birthday coming up and can’t find that character on an outfit you like? Let her know she can make an adorable outfit that’s sure to be a hit at your next event!

New Square neck dress

Who are you?
I am Anedra Selley (mother of three and full time preschool teacher) who originally opened my store and then teamed up with Kesha Martell another mom of one and one on the way. My kids are Bailey 11, Ethan 7, and Sierra 2

COWBOY UP LOUNGE SET CUSTOM

How long have you been sewing?
I have been sewing for well about 16 years I guess, I stared in Home EC in high school and have always loved crafts, so when I got with my husband 10 years ago I bought my own sewing machine and started sewing and teaching myself. I owned a children’s store for a couple of years and put a lot of my items in there that was about 6 years ago and that is when I started Kiddy Up. Well, another child later and she had a ton of medical problems and ended up having open heart surgery when she was 8 months old and we found out she had di-george syndrome. I heard about Etsy and went from there. I was staying at home and needed something to do. Well then I went back to work and I work with kids similar to mine with disabilities and needed the insurance of course. She goes to respite which just happens to be my partner in sewing. I have summers and lots of holidays off which is great.

NEW HOOT APRON KNOT DRESS

Where can we find you other then Etsy?
I am on facebook and twitter but haven’t put much time into twitter because I would rather be sewing. Twitter: we are under Kiddyup and Facebook I am under my name. I love creating and sewing and I have my main model as my daughter and she loves it. I make all her bows to match her outfits as well!

Ruff Ruff Executive Tie shirt

My little man was lucky enough to test out one of her shirt! We picked the little Ruff Ruff Executive Tie Shirt! Doesn’t it rock? And yes, my boy is in the “really big smile is my best smile” phase! Don’t mind the boo boo’s on his nose! The shirt came nicely packaged and the work is great quality. I washed it and it became even softer. Since it was 100% cotton I went with one size larger. But it didn’t really shrink much anyways!
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Want one of your own custom made shirts? Kiddy Up has graciously offered up one of her age or initial shirts custom made just for your little boy or girl! Great for your child’s next birthday party or add their initial for a custom signature piece in her closet!

CONTEST NOW CLOSED

***Will Ship Worldwide***
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Filed Under: Giveaway, kids, toddler Tagged With: custom clothing, Featured Crafters, kids, toddler

Is your Toddler/Child afraid of Monsters? Then you need your own customized CurlyQ Cuties Monster!!!

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March 22, 2009 By Jennifer 4 Comments

As most of you who read my blog regularly know. My toddler has been having some real issues with “monsters” in the house. If he is watching tv or playing with toys and he suddenly noticed the room close by was dark he would get upset saying monsters were going to get him. This in return resulted in more lights on then we liked.

Night time & Nap time weren’t much fun either. Even with a night light in the room it made no difference. He would wake up at night and make us go in there and search his closet, look under his bed, look behind the toy box and make sure there were no monsters in his room. There were times that even after looking around he was still too scared and made me lay in his itty bitty toddler bed with him until he fell asleep.

Then I was contacted by CurlyQ Cuties. They have these little monsters that you can customize to your likings and then you get this adorable little monster shipped to you!

Their Website:
CurlyQ Cuties have an awesome website. When you click on “Design your own Monster” it brings you to a screen where you get to decide not only on colors, but everything right down to the shape of the monster! Here is what “G” picked:

“G” and I sat down and played with all the different designs, shapes, and colors. My son is seriously addicted to anything ABC so the fact that we got to put a “G” on his monsters belly was an added bonus! At the end you can even print all your monsters that you make. “G” had fun then coloring over the different monsters he had designed.

When we received our monster “G” was so excited. He immediately began playing with him. He loved the “G” on his belly and ran right to his scribbled over monsters he had previously colored. He was so excited to remember HE had made this monster. The quality of this monster is excellent. It is soft, bright, and very well made. The colors on the website are very true to the colors on our little monster.

“G” now refers to his little monster as “Good Monster”, so even though the letter on his belly was originally supposed to stand for his first name it now stands for “good”.
He has carried him from room to room in the house. He brings him to bed at both night time & nap time. It arrived in the mail on Thursday and he hasn’t woken us up once in the middle of the night because of monsters since!

The more amazing factor is he has actually booted his 2 puppies, Blue, Piggy, and Turtle all out of his bed to make room for “good monster”. He loves thinking that this little monster keeps all the other monsters out of his room. And as Mom, I just find it cute!

Want one of your own little monsters?
You can go to www.curlyqcuties.com and get started now. They start at just $25.00!
In 10 days or less you could be holding your very own customized monster!

Filed Under: kids, Product Review Tagged With: CurlyQ Cuties, kids, Make-your-own, Monsters

Mailboxes & Handmade Valentine’s!

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February 4, 2009 By Jennifer 6 Comments

So many thanks goes to The Berry’s Patch who gave me the heads up on these mailbox kits at Walmart for only $4! I couldn’t resist and went out and got my boys one too!

I did have a bit of trouble finding them though LOL! I ended up going to 3 different Walmart’s before I found them. And they weren’t in the main Valentine’s Day isles with all the candy. They ended up in the back of the store in the isle with the cards & frames.

Here’s what they came with:

We added some crayons, mom’s sticker maker, & some paper punches.

Both kids had a blast!

We even added some red satin ribbon to spice them up!

All set!

Then I also found the Valentine left over’s from last year. I thought I would post them in case you were looking for a great and easy handmade Valentine your kids could make!

These puppy’s are made from ALL hearts!

We started out with a large heart and turned it upside down to make the face. Then added 2 medium sized hearts to make the ears. Then a small heart for the nose. Then take that same sized heart and cut it in half and there’s your tongue! Add some google eyes and your done!

Then we added “I’m ‘mutts’ about you” on the back!

We haven’t figured out what we’re going to do yet this year. But once we do I’ll let you know

Filed Under: kids Tagged With: Etsybloggers Carnival, kids, My kiddos

Pumpkins!

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October 15, 2008 By Jennifer 1 Comment

The other day the kids & I went pumpkin picking. We carved our pumpkins just the other night. We got the templates free online from The Pumpkin Lady. I had bought one of those pattern books that came with the tools last year. We made some cool pumpkins from it. I didn’t feel like spending the $5 on the book again especially since I had washed and saved the pumpkin tools. So, I searched online and found the free patterns.

BTW, the porch looks so funny b/c it isn’t done being built LOL! So its only in 2×4 form! The steps are temporary as well!