April Yates Creations - Door Hanging Tooth Pillow Review

Disclosure: We received the below items in exchange for our honest review. All opinions and experiences are our own and may differ from those of your own. 

April Yates Creations

April is a WAHM in West Virginia who makes handmade items for kids and moms. April is a mom of 3 girls and an infant son. She loves being able to stay home with her kids. They recently moved to West Virginia for her husbands' job. He is an associate pastor of a reformed Baptist church in town. They have been married for 11 years and enjoy exploring new things together. Sewing is how April relaxes and unwinds. She loves to sew for her children and enjoys creating things for others. She is excited about her newest ventures into selling the things she makes. All items are made with 100% cotton fabric and she tried to keep ready made items in her shop to help allow for faster selection. However, she is willing to work with you on customs. All of April's creations meet CPSC safety regulations, basically meaning they are safe for baby and mom to use. 

Door Hanging Tooth Pillows

We received this Dino print Door Hanging Tooth Pillow ($10ARV) from April Yates Creations. This hanging pillow is for your child to put their tooth in and hang on the door for the tooth fairy. The little pocket is large enough to put their coins or dollar in from the tooth fairy, what and see their excitement in the morning when there is now money in the pocket where tooth was just the night before. These hanging pillows help out the tooth fairy so she or he doesn't accidentally stir your little one as they sleep. The tooth fairy isn't very stealthy when she comes to out house in the middle of the night. 

My middle child, can't wait to lose his first tooth, he is 4.5 years old and as far as we know none of his teeth are even loose. I believe my daughter lost her first tooth between 4 and 5 years old, so we're hoping it's soon. When he does lose his first tooth, he wants to put it in this pillow and hang it on his bedroom door knob, in the mean time I've put the pillow up on the mantle so his younger brother doesn't lose the pillow or whatever else he is capable of. 

The ribbon strap is the perfect length to hang around any type of door knob, yet not long enough for littles to fit over their heads. This is a great thing here as Ezio, my 3 year old loves to put any and everything around his neck. I'm not quite sure why, but it definitely gives this tooth pillow an additional star. 

This pillow is made of a soft cotton flannel outer, including the pocket that matches the print and it is stuffed with a soft fill, giving the perfect soft and safe place for your child's tooth while they sleep and hopefully dream happy dreams of all the things the tooth fairy may bring them. 

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There are currently two of these pillows available via April Yates Creations Etsy shop. 

They are on clearance for only $6.50! 

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Savannah's Inspirations - Pink Pixie Size Large AI2 Cloth Diaper Review & AI2 Giveaway! US 10/2

Disclosure: We received the below diapers in exchange for our honest review. All opinions and experiences are 100% our own and may differ from those of your own. I hold no responsibility for the fulfillment of the below prizes. 

About Savannah's Inspirations - Pink Pixie Diapers

Savannah's Inspirations is a small business that is owned and ran by a very sweet work at home mom named Tara. Tara creates beautiful head bands, hair clips and bows as well as AI2 cloth diapers (matching shirts are available), custom orders are always welcome and she will even make your little girl a matching hair accessory for her outfit and/or diaper. 

Dino Side Snapping AI2 Cloth Diaper

Construction

Pink Pixie AI2 cloth diapers ($8-$25ARV) are available in three sizes, Small or Newborn, Medium and Large. AI2 cloth diapers are waterproof diaper that have a snap in/removable soakers. They are constructed from a fun cotton print outer fabric, hidden layer of PUL, which is the waterproof fabric and an inner layer of soft fleece. The snap in soakers are made of microfiber terry with a layer of fleece on top and bottom. 

Craftsmanship

The stitching and over all construction of the diaper is great. The diaper has been through many washes since we received it and it has fully held up with no issues. There has been no fading the cotton print outer fabric. Stitching lines are not all wonky and I love that the diapers have size tags sewn onto the wings so if you have multiple different sizes of Pink Pixie diapers you will know what size each one is. 

FIT

I have always loved side snapping diapers on my boys! From personal experience they always seem to fit much longer and the hip snaps do not put painful pressure on older toddler's hips. Ezio is 2.5 years old and about 35 pounds. We received a size large which has an approximate weight range of 20 - 30 pounds, however he still has tons of room to grow in the diaper! It fits him great around the legs, nice and snug, but not too tight and we also get a nice fit around the waist with out the diaper digging into his belly. We typically use the 4th snap setting inward from the tip of the wing to achieve a great fit. 

The fleece inner of this diaper is super soft and comfy for baby's delicate bum. After washing it does become a tad pilly, but that's normal for the majority of fleece fabrics. The soaker snaps in at the back and the soaker gets wider at the front, perfect for absorbing when in use with little girls and little boys. 

Absorbency

Ezio has no complaints about this diaper and has brought it to me several times to put on him. We love dinos here and green is a favorite color of mommy's and the only color Ezio is currently saying so it's a double win. I love the absorbency of this diaper. The soaker isn't super bulky, obnoxiously long or complicated at all. Ezio is a big eater and not so big on his fluid intake so he is an average wetter and was able to wear this diaper for 2-3 hours at a time. It's a great afternoon nap time diaper for him and it typically does NOT need to be changed immediately after his nap unlike some of our other brands. I am definitely very pleased with the absorbency for my average wetter. I was a tad leary about the absorbency of the soaker, but like they say, never judge a book by it's cover. I was pleasantly surprised. 

Washing and Drying

With the snap in soaker, I just unsnapped it for washing and drying, you can really just leave it snapped in if you would like, but I have OCD and must unsnap and unstuff all diapers before washing. When drying, I always dry in the dryer as I have terrible luck with line drying... seriously, it ALWAYS rains when I try to line dry. Anyhow, I tumble dry on low and both the shell and soaker are dry after just one automatic sensor low heat drying cycles. Perfect! 

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Discount Code!

Use code 3littlemonkeys at check out to receive 25% OFF your order at Savannah's Inspirations! 

Expires November 30th, 2014. 

Giveaway! 

We are giving away TWO AI2 cloth diapers! There will be two winners, winner gets to choose gender and size, sponsor gets to choose fabric. Giveaway is open to US residents whom are at least 18 years of age at the time of entrance. This giveaway will end on October 2nd at 11:59pm CST. Winners entries will be verified, winners will be notified via email and will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner(s) will be chosen. Please enter through the Giveaway Tools entry form below for your chance to win. 

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