Wanted: Your photos

Do you have a cute kid or a gorgeous baby belly that you want to share? I'd love to have enough reader-submitted entries to have a photo every week. Send me your photos at erica@TheBabyBoutiqueAtWombsWindow.com

(I love to get your birth stories to share here too!)

Do you Kirtsy?

It's hard for me to keep up with all of the cool social networking things going on around the world wide web, but every now and then I get brave and jump on another bandwagon to see what it's all about.

I hated My Space, what with it's tacky looking layouts and trashy pictures everywhere. Get me outa there!

I joined Facebook awhile back, and that's safe and nice and mighty fun when an old friend from 7th grade pops back into my life!

I just started Twittering recently, so we'll see how that goes.

Kirtsy is something that I think is pretty durn cool. What's Kirtsy? it's like...your best friend who calls you up to say, "Hey did you see the great sale?!" or "Oh my goodness! You have to read this!" Basically, it's a way for women everywhere to point everybody in the direction of the stuff on the web that you find and love. A shout out for all your favorites. A courtesy call to everybody who hasn't already found what you love.

And, of course--you get to find out what everybody else is thinking is so mighty cool, too.

Go check it out. Get a feel for the thing. And then you can start Kirtsy-ing anything and everything that you love. :) (You can start with posts right here! Let people know about our giveaways, new products you love, or articles that are helpful to you. Just click the "kirtsy this" button underneath every post!)

It's Time for some Giveaways!

Time's up! The winners of this giveaway are Memarie Lane and kagey10. Thanks for joining in the fun. See you at the next Bloggy Giveaway!

It's the most wonderful time of the year...Bloggy Giveaways!

If you're not familiar, just clickety-click on the Bloggy Giveaways button and you can start from there, hopping from blog to blog, meeting new people, and signing up to win cool freebies. What's not to love about that?

A warm welcome to all of you that are visiting me from the giveaway carnival! I am Erica, owner of The Baby Boutique at Womb's Window. I invite you to take a look around--my boutique has the most adorable stuff for your little ones! Almost everything at the boutique is made in the USA by talented work-at-home mompreneurs! I love supporting other moms, and it is so exciting to see the amazing amount of talent in this industry.

This week I'm giving away aromatherapy sleep pillows to help your little ones conk out easier at night! These little pillows are just 3"x4" (approximately) and are scented with chamomile essential oil. I have two in a Cars movie fabric, and one that features Percy from Thomas and Friends.

To enter to win simply leave a comment telling me
1. which sleep pillow you would like to win
2. what was your favorite item at The Baby Boutique

I have three of these that I can give away. I will give away one for every 25 comments. So, if we get up to at least 75 comments, all three sleep pillows will be given away. :)

This prize is limited to residents of the USA.

Drawing will be held on Monday, August 4 because I'll be busy celebrating my 17th wedding anniversary over the weekend. :)

One more freebie that is available to ALL of you:

If you sign up for my free email newsletter you will get "The No-Cry Parenting Guide" ebook by bestselling author Elizabeth Pantley for FREE!

I have three different newsletters--you can sign up for any or all of them that interest you. I aim to not send out newsletters too often, but when I do I make it valuable. Try it and see what you think!









I have some other great giveaways going on this week. Check them out here:


Supermom's Health and Wellness Blog--I'm giving away some awesome handmade soap and some great product samples

Supermom's No-Lice Advice--I'll send one lucky winner their very own bottle of my No-Lice Hair and Body Spray, to help keep the cooties away!

AND, please don't miss the excellent giveaway that my friend Kim is doing. She has the coolest, craftiest stuff over there, unlike anything you've ever seen. It is simply a MUST VISIT spot. Clickety-click! Be sure to visit her Etsy store as well. You'll love it!

(**Red Alert! If you go to the top of the main page of my blog starting early Wednesday morning, you can read about an amazing sale on a collection of resources that you will love. It's over $100 worth of stuff for just $5.97. Wowza!)

A Fun Photo Mosaic Meme

Hey Gals! Looking for a fun little activity today? It's easy enough to do with your favorite little tyke on your lap. :)


Here's the concept:

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

The questions:

1. What is your first name? Erica
2. What is your favorite food right now? Turkey and cheese sandwich
3. What high school did you go to? FHS
4. What is your favorite color? dark red
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Heath Ledger was my favorite actor (not a crush, though--sorry!)
6. What is your favorite drink right now? water
7. What is your dream vacation? oceanside
8. What is your favorite dessert? something chocolate
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? peaceful and free
10. What do you love most in life? my kids
11. What is one word that describes you? unique
12. What is your flickr name? my name

1. Lorena, 2. Panini, 3. 08 05-03 FHS Prom shoes 05, 4. drops of spring, 5. Heath Ledger and his daughter Matilda..., 6. wham:a different corner, 7. Pacific Sunset [1080769], 8. squares, 9. Free your thoughts....., 10. Jumping into the new dimension (DSC_4769), 11. Joy of life, 12. drops of spring