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A very sweet & very amazing artist wove by hand a collection of gorgeous wraps JUST for us! Sarah from LUZ Handwovens created for PAXbaby the most beautiful handwoven rainbow complete with teaching rails and a hand stitched rainbow middle marker! Woven in the USA and made with 100% cotton, be sure to make My Rainbeau the handwoven love of YOUR life! It doesn’t get more special than this; be sure to follow our PAXbaby Facebook page next week for an elite ISO Angel stocking sometime soon!

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*happy babywearing*

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Time for another happy Free Friday at PAXbaby.com!!

One lucky winner THIS week will win their very own custom babywearing portrait by Little Lovely Custom Portraits! Do you have a special photo in mind that you would like to use?? A special legacy carrier or moment in babywearing time that you want to remember forever?? Capture this special time in your lives with an amazing hand drawn work of art created especially for YOU!

The winner will be emailed once the drawing comes to an end on Friday, October 23rd, 2015!! Shipping address must be confirmed via email within 24 hours, or a new winner will be chosen!!

For this reason, make sure to check your email (including your Junk folder!!)

Best of luck to all of you!
*happy babywearing*
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If you are looking to “shop small” this Christmas, you are definitely going to want to pop on over to check out the amazing goodies we have in our WAHM Shop!

Leave the big box stores alone this holiday season and chose something lovingly made from someone just like YOU!
From dollies, to diapers, to jewelry… we have your shopping needs covered!

http://shop.paxbaby.com/wahm-shop/
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This little bit of magic will astound and captivate your littles!!! Fold and roll this simple square of hand woven cloth, by West of the 4th Weaving, into a sweet dollie for your child to play with!

It’s a toy that will encourage your child to be imaginative, a toy that will charm even bigger children, and a toy that packs easily into your diaper bag for that meltdown moment when a little bit of magic will go a long way to soothe a frustration or sadness!

Keep a West of the 4th Dollie Square with you at all times to soothe any little thing!

http://shop.paxbaby.com/west-of-the-4th-dollies-vanilla/
Or
http://shop.paxbaby.com/west-of-the-4th-dollies-coffee/

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Wrap a rainbow around your wrist and feel Rainbow Bright chic! These WAHM made rainbow glass bead jewels are created with memory wire which will keep its shape and require no clasps. It doesn’t get any easier to add a flash of color to your outfit than by wrapping on an exclusive Bright Sunny Smile bracelet!

All the beads are glass pearls in sizes ranging from 4mm to 8mm in red, orange, yellow, green, baby blue, and purple. These are not made for babies so please take care with your new bracelet!

One size fits most.

Bracelet stands 1.5″ tall.

Bring out the smiles and wrap on a rainbow bracelet!
http://shop.paxbaby.com/adult-rainbow-spiral-bracelet/

http://shop.paxbaby.com/child-rainbow-spiral-bracelet/

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The rainbow lovers on your list will flip for these hand made beauties!
Where will you hang yours??

http://shop.paxbaby.com/rainbow-mobile/

http://shop.paxbaby.com/rainbow-crystal-suncatchers/

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This handmade eye-catching piece depicting the Wizard of Oz’s “Over the Rainbow” lyrics will make any room cheery! The print is backed with flannel and appliqued with wool blend felt! Stitched carefully with contrasting embroidery floss and finished with a smile, PAXbaby’s WAHM made art work is sure to give you & your little one a big smile each & every time you see it!
http://shop.paxbaby.com/over-the-rainbow-decor-pictures/

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See anything else in our WAHM shop that catches your eye??
Want to be featured next?
Drop us an email at help@PAXbaby.com!
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PAXbaby.com’s FREE Friday Giveaway, hosted by Rainbow Farts Art, is an AMAZING set of 8×10″ and 4×6″ print combo pack!!! Spread the rainbow-y, care-giver, and breastfeeding LOVE with these amazing prints!!! This giveaway is free for any of our US PAXfriends!! International PAXfriends are encouraged to enter, but will be responsible for the shipping fee :). The winner will be emailed after bedtime on Friday, June 27th!! Shipping address must be confirmed via email within 24 hours, or a new winner will be chosen!! For this reason, make sure to check your email (including your Junk folder!!)!!!
Good luck and *happy babywearing*
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Brand new wrap scrap bundles to celebrate Wrap Scrap Saturday!!!

What will you create? A purse? A quilt? A hairband? A chair?

http://shop.paxbaby.com/wrap-scrap-bundles/

**photo credit:Ashley M Pagán: http://pinterest.com/pin/160722280424632348/**

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Do you have your pendant yet??
Need a gift for a brand new mama?
I have mine hanging in my rear view mirror!

http://shop.paxbaby.com/handmade-glass-rainbow-babywearing-pendant-on-black/

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Psssssst…

Did you know PAXbaby.com is on Instagram (IG)!?!?

Catch PAXmommy Jillian’s newest uploads on

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PAXbaby/app_267091300008193

or on Instagram:
http://instagram.com/paxbaby/

Get a sneak peak of belly shots, PAXfamily photos, art projects and much more!

Do you have IG yet?

I do, and LOVE it!

Such a fun way to keep up with your friends, without all the extras of Facebook.

See you there!

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*happy babywearing*

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PAXbaby.com fan, Nadine Aridov, shared this gorgeous work of art on our Facebook wall the other day.

An artist friend of hers painted this beautiful keepsake so she could always treasure her babywearing days and remember exactly what she looked like whilst wearing her child.

To be honest, it brought tears to my eyes when I read the caption,

“Soon your own feet will carry you through life,

until then MINE will do it for you.”

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Life moves fast, and our babies grow even more quickly.

It is hard sometimes to just take a step back, breathe and enjoy these precious moments as they come.

Babywearing is one way to keep your baby close, because before you know it they will be running, jumping, climbing, playing and growing like weeds.

But hopefully they will still remember the comfort of their mother’s heart beat, the rythmic breathing on their necks, and the safety and comfort of their mother’s back.

Peace.

Love.

and

*happy babywearing*

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In a perfect world, everyone would wear their babies!  Slings, pouches, and carriers would be commonplace, and expected.  But sadly, we live in a society where babywearing is still considered to be odd, crunchy, or plain old bizarre.  I find myself grinning like a lunatic at other babywearing moms that I pass, but hopefully they are just as happy to see me & my baby too!  Sometimes it feels like a secret club, and I am so lucky to be part of it!

When I stumble across babywearing in unexpected places, I LOVE it!  In movies (Star Wars Attack of the Clones), in books, in vintage family photographs, but my very favorite find is babywearing art!  The ALWAYS peaceful expression on the mothers’ faces reminds me of what I want to look like while wearing my baby!  Serene, relaxed, and enjoying the nurturing moment!  If this were a perfect world, my house would be full of babywearing art to remind me to savor the moment and enjoy the peace!

An early American Illustration showing a family on their way to church. Notice the baby in the sling!
This is Happy Family from Picture Lessons Illustrating Moral Truth (a childrens’ primer). Circa 1850.

Kee Fung Ng is a Chinese artist who escaped red China to San Francisco. His most cherished paintings depict children. This one of a child wearing a baby in a traditional meh dai carrier is circa 1970.

French artist Jean Charlot (1898-1979) created beautiful illustrations with Mexican and pre-Hispanic themes. It is said that his favorite subject was babies in slings!

Contemporary artist Erika Hastings used watercolor to create this sweet image of a baby being worn by her mother in what appears to be a Soft Structured Carrier.

When I was a mere 14 years old, still biting my lip over being an entire foot taller than the majority of my peers, my English teacher requested that we write an essay about “love” as a nod to the impending February 14th.

What is true love?

Pretty abstract for a group of high school freshman that liken “true love” to awkward fumbling in a backseat, right?  I was stumped.  I had never kissed a boy, or held hands in a dark movie theatre.  I had never slow-danced.  Or found a note tucked into my locker between classes.  & the more I thought about the subject, the more I despaired over being the only 14-year-old in the entire universe that had not locked lips.  (obviously, my flair for the dramatic has come honestly by decades of careful practice.)  I believe I tapped out something self-righteously angry about how love could not be boxed in, could not be defined, & how this was pretty much the worst essay, like, EVER.

I got my first C- on that paper.

Fast forward 12 years again to the topic of love.  With a little more maturity, I can attempt to define love – my husband, who kisses the back of my neck every night before we fall asleep.  My son, who has my smile.  My friends that brought me pink slippers & bottles of liquor when I lost my first baby.  My dog, curling up at my feet every night in loyal companionship.   Snow & chocolate chip cookies.  My Moby wrap, the Twilight saga, perfectly ironed table linens, & the smell of Christmas.  & today, despite every single one of the things listed above (minus the Christmas smell since it is January, after all), the greatest definition & example of love are these:

Tissue paper pom-poms.

Over a month ago, I came up with the brilliant idea of throwing The Momma (aka my mother) a birthday brunch at the end of January.  Despite the fact that I have an infant son & returned to my full-time office job only three weeks ago, I saddled up the troops & forged ahead.  Ten of her closest girlfriends at my house, celebrating a woman we love.  & although she insisted that I throw a few eggs & a pre-made coffee cake on a plate, I wanted to really do this right.  Let’s be clear that I am NOT Martha Stewart.  I struggle mightily to take thoughts into action, but I felt determined to whip every piece of linen, tissue, & Southern Charm I owned to exemplify this amazing woman.  Decorations, food, & friends to reflect her own beauty, class, & grace.  Invitations were mailed on linen paper, with every single invite RSVP’ing in the positive.  A miracle!  I spent every free waking moment (& trust me, I don’t have many of those!) making & fluffing poms, polishing silver, washing crystal until it sparkled.  All with a joyful heart, knowing it was for a woman I love.

& then the unthinkable happened:

No, really.  It’s unthinkable.  We live in North Carolina, where the chances of snow are about as good as K. Stew ever giving a gracious interview.  So despite the forecast, I plugged on without rest, dipping truffles & strawberries, ironing pink tablecloths, & gluing butterflies to every surface imaginable.  & when I woke up this morning to multiple inches of snow with more pounding down, I sat at the dining room table & cried.  Not for my own hard work, but because I had been dreaming of this day for a month, when I could show my mother & all of her girlfriends just how much I love her.  It may have been pink tissue paper to everyone else, but to me, those tissues represented years of IOU “thank you’s” & “I love you’s.”  With a heavy heart, I called each guest to cancel & reschedule.

Because for the first time in my life, I truly understand love.  A love that is unconditional, unrelenting, & soul-consuming.  The sacrifices, selflessness, & loyalty that comes with being a mother.  I know that The Momma spent her entire life showing & teaching me how to love that deeply — did I ever truly appreciate it?  Or did it take becoming a mother myself to fully understand the extent of her heart?

Momma, I get it now.  & I cannot wait to show you for the rest of my life that I finally understand.  Even if it’s through fluffing tissue–paper at midnight on a Friday.

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