Photos from the event:

What a great day! Thanks to everyone who came to the sale. Lots of fun was had by all and the company was fabulous!

We will be announcing the winner of the Goodie Basket soon! Check back for details!!

TODAY IS THE DAY!!!

Mamamade 2007 Is HERE!

Come join us at New Song Christian Fellowship - Woodbine - Close to the Nashville Zoo (and even closer to Krispy Kreme :o)!

Date and Time: Saturday, November 17, 2007 from 9am- 2pm

Location: New Song Christian Fellowship, Woodbine (in the coffeehouse basement)

Address: 2949 Nolensville Pike, Nashville TN 37211

Contact: http://mamamade.biz/, Chelle's e-mail: chellebaldwin AT comcast DOT net, or by cell: 615-579-0452

As a way of giving back to the community, the Mamamade event will be equipped with bins to receive non-perishables for the Second Harvest Food Bank that operates out of New Song Woodbine. Consider bringing an item or two with you when you come to shop; you'll be helping local families in need.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Getting Ready!!







Several of us spent some time this evening at the coffee house getting things set up and ready for the morning!

Can't wait to see you all there!!!

Time & Location Reminder:

Date and Time: Saturday, November 17, 2007 from 9am- 2pm

Location: New Song Christian Fellowship, Woodbine (in the coffeehouse basement)

Address: 2949 Nolensville Pike, Nashville TN 37211

Contact: http://mamamade.biz/, Chelle's e-mail: chellebaldwin AT comcast DOT net, or by cell: 615-579-0452

As a way of giving back to the community, the Mamamade event will be equipped with bins to receive non-perishables for the Second Harvest Food Bank that operates out of New Song Woodbine. Consider bringing an item or two with you when you come to shop; you'll be helping local families in need.

Elizabeth's Bio



My name is Elizabeth Hutchison. I am a native Nashvillian, homeschooling mother to four wonderful boys, and married to my best friend, Ben for almost ten years. I have a "vintage inspired baby items" business called two green olive trees.

I hand make baby bibs, burp cloths, diaper sacks, blankets, and other baby accessories from top of the line, designer fabrics. I also have a series of "recycled" baby accessories which are made from the ever so abundant, articles of clothing that would otherwise end up in our landfills. I am excited about this new creative phase of my life! You can check out www.twogreenolivetrees.etsy.com for up and coming items.

Window Shopping

Thought I'd put a few photos here of items that will be available this weekend!

Quite a neat variety of things!

From Julie:

This week has been challenging to say the least. I have had a raging head cold that has involved snot galore, coughing, sore throat, you name it. Being a mama and being sick is one thing. Being a mama with a cold with 2 children who have colds takes it to a whole 'nother level. Add in there that I have basically waited until this week to get all my stuff together for the mamamade show PLUS this month and next are my busiest of the year at my i-get-a-paycheck-for-this job and well... It's been a teensy weensy bit chaotic here at Clark Central. But hey! I am a mama and that means I can do things under pretty chaotic circumstances (with lots of help from my wonderful husband and of course by the grace of God!) Thankfully, I am on the mend and other than this horrendous cold sore that has shown up ON MY NOSE (ick!) I should be 100% by the show.

So all that to say this: I will have at least one of each version of my "chore charts" available at the show on Saturday (Click the picture below to see all available themes) as well as CD's of note cards. I spent the better part of last night printing the charts and I have to say, I'm pretty thrilled with the results! We have been using our chart here for months now and it really is a great motivator. I have made several for friends here in my neighborhood and for some other mama friends and the feedback I am getting is very positive. The ones I will have Saturday will not be personalized but will be great gifts nonetheless. Personalized ones will be available for $15 *if* your order is placed at mamamade. Personalization includes: Your child's picture incorporated into the chart (you'll have to e-mail me a high resolution digital image) and your choice of 4 of the chore tiles. (There are 28 tiles for each chart. 24 of them include common household tasks. The last 4 can be left blank or you can tell me up to 4 that you want specific to your child.)

Also available is a "Love Chores" chart for your significant other. It comes with blank tiles that you can fill in yourself with a sharpie. This would be a fun Wedding Shower gift. You can write things on there like "Give me a back rub" - It's the ultimate "honey-do" list!

Finally - I will also have sample designs of my Birth Announcements and Christmas Cards and will be ready to take your orders for custom designs.

Only 2 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grab you hats and pull up your britches people and get ready for the big event!! Can you believe it starts in 56 hours and 15 minutes?!?! I have been living in a cloud of dust trying to get all the cutting boards done for the show. There have been some shall we say "mechanical difficulties" along the way. As you know my router switch bit the dust a while back. That was actually the second thing to break on me (my sewing machine went on strike weeks ago) and as I was soon to discover not the last. I had one of my orbital sanders literally go up in smoke and then my drill press decided that I had drilled one too many holes and went KER-PLUNK! Thankfully it did that just as I was finishing up so I only had to hand drill a few boards. I ended up with 3 different sizes of boards. The biggi, mini and skinni. Here they are in walnut.
I have all the sizes in three different woods. Walnut, Cherry and Mahogany. The maple on the skinni and mini is curly maple. On the biggi it's rock maple. Here is a pic of the three different woods.


I spent my nights whirring away at the sewing machine making a bunch of Placemat-a-doodle-do's. I have 4 colors available this year. They are vinyl so cleaning them up after a meal is a breeze with a wet wipe or washcloth. Make your outings with your kids easier and pick up one for them. Heck for that matter make your outings with the kids more fun for the rest of the people in the restaurant and pick one up for them.

So it's quarter to one in the morning and I have to go make lunch for my oldest daughter for school tomorrow. As excited as I am about the show I must admit I am looking forward to some earlier bedtimes starting Saturday night! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ......

Mamamade.biz featured in the Tennessean today!

The Tennessean has done a story about our upcoming open house this Saturday! If you've just surfed in from the Tennessean, welcome!

See you on Saturday!

Number of days to MAMAMADE 2007: 5

Number of projects on my plate: O, Thousands!

Number of minutes spent sewing this week: 218 (approx.)


Number of minutes spent exercising: 405 (EXACTLY)


Christmas Gifts purchased: 2

People to buy gifts for: O, Thousands!


MAMAMade Items:

LUNCH TOTES! Finished: 5


These lunch totes are insulated, oh so pretty and born out of necessity! I must pack in my own food everyday to work, lest I be tempted by the vending machine Sirens. And those puny lunch bags gross me out with their unwashable plastic and only enough space for a couple sticks 'o celery and a Capri Sun. So I made myself a big ole bag that I can throw in the wash and get rid of that fat-free dressing spilled last Tuesday.

BOOKIES! finished: 20


Wire wreaths! Finished: 2 (and hopefully more to come, depending on your reaction!)


Bibs! Finished: 12

On The Go Wallets! Finished: 6


Assorted totes, cd boxes, etc! O, Thousands

Come by and see us! We've all been busy whipping up some beauties!

From Carrie


Making their debut at Mamamade, our holiday offerings: "Despertador,'' Spanish for "Alarm Clock'' and "Ni Un Pio!'' or "Not a Peep,'' our version of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" and otherwise known as the thing my Abuela said most commonly to her noisy grandchildren: "No quiero oir ni un pio!'' The perfect toddler tee!


These funny Spanish T-shirts and onesies will each include a card with the lyrics to Los Pollitos Dicen, the traditional lullaby we take our name from.

Despertador is available in 0 to 6 months and 6 to 12 months; Ni Un Pio is available in 2T and 4T. Both are 100% cotton and made in the U.S.A.

We also will have some closeout baby onesies, bibs and adult T-shirts with fun Spanish sayings and designs such as this beautiful tropical bird, the Cuban Tocororo:

From Julie:

You know, the neat thing about designing digital products is that I can give away things for free easily just by uploading them to the 'net!

I thought I'd put up some samples of my note cards (available at open house on CD) for our blog readers to experiment with!

I'm giving blog readers samples of:

• CHRISTMAS TREAT COVERS (simply cut, fold and put over a lollipop. Then staple or secure with a ribbon send them to school with your child!)
• A sheet of 2 Christmas "Print and Go" Cards
• 1 Assemble yourself Christmas Card
• 1 Coordinating Envelope
  

The links above will take you to full size images. All you have to do is save the full size images to your computer and then print and play!


Enjoy!

I just wanted to show a few of the holiday pillows I've worked up. I'm looking forward to Saturday Gals!!

~jenni