My Christmas Wish List... an etsy Treasury

I made an etsy treasury of items I am in Love with... many have been a long term love affair! When you have a new baby, there are unexpected costs.... and in general spending money on oneself (even if we had any) just doesn't feel like a priority- Hello College fund! And so I made this Wish List for Santa to check out- to Pamper the New Mom= ME! Check it out HERE.

Christmas Classics at Grayday Etsy Shop

My Christmas Treasury, vintage Little Golden Book, $6.

The Night Before Christmas, Vintage Book, $6.

Cute Feather Onsie

I Love this Organic Feather Onsie by coucousalut, $22.

Urban Knitfits- Back OPEN!

I reopened Urban Knitfits this week, it's too chilly out not to have some knit goods available! Since I'm a new mom and still getting the hang of my new schedule, I am only offering ready to ship items for the time being. And NOW is the time to get some Holiday shopping done!  Shop Urban Knitfits. 

Scouts, an etsy treasury

My Vintage Boy Scouts flashlight has been featured in this scouting Treasury: "On my Honor, I will do my best." A really fun and nostalgic collection!

Sweater Knitting Patterns, a round up

I wrote last week about my desire to knit myself a sweater this fall/winter... So I set about searching Ravelry and other knitting pattern sites for something special.  Here are a few I have stashed away, including the one I think I will knit! I'll keep you posted on it's progress.

Above: The Bernhardt, by Allison Green Will. PS: you will need to be logged into your Ravelry account for the links to work. Ravelry is free to join and oh so Awesome!

Short Sleeve Cardigan- by Vogue Knitting.

The Pamelia, by Norah Gaughan

Adrift, by Carol Feller

Linden, by Veronik Avery.

This is the sweater pattern I am 90% sure I will knit... As I mentioned before I have a large amount of white eco yarn I can use, but it's still probably not enough, and honestly I am so bad with taking care of anything white that I might go back to the drawing board when it comes to choosing my color. Here is the Cascade Eco wool website- that offers great colors. The best part is it comes 478 yards a skein and the average price is $15 a skein!!! Not to mention it smells heavenly. Since I made a gray shrug sweater out of this yarn last year I might stick with a neutral and go with one of their browns. Stay tuned!

Breast Feeding, my new past time... plus helpful links

Women on the seashore, Paul Gauguin, 1899.

So tomorrow marks my first week of being a mom... and so far it's been wonderful and really lovely, hard to put into words without being too mushy...  besides all these moments of wonder- my days and nights have been consumed with breast feeding- (as I know they will continue to be).  It has been a steep learning curve for both baby and myself so I thought I would share some helpful links and some "lighter" ones as well. sorry if this is alienating for some...  : )

RESOURCES:
Breast Feeding Made Simple: Website with great "latch" video

Breast Feeding In public- taking a stand.

Kelly Mom- Breast feeding resource- good for trouble shooting, etc

Dr. Sears: Breast feeding guide.

Mothering Magazine: articles and discussions on the topic...

Mother Food: Nutrition and diet for Breast feeding moms

Nursing Mother's Companion: series of books

Low Milk Supply

And of course- Breast feeding.com


LIGHTER FARE:
Fashion for the Breast feeding mom- from Cup of Jo

Marvelous Kiddo Blog: writes a lot about breast feeding, including little art history depictions of breast feeding between mom and child

Expressiva: Nursing apparel

Modest Middles: Nursing tank top that goes with any shirt! Allowing you to adapt your normal clothes into nursing attire.

Our First Outing with our little bundle

Late this morning we took our 5 day old in her Moby wrap out for a stroll around town. It was so nice to finally get out of the house and to see all the leaves that fell over the weekend. Such a great way to Welcome in November!