August 2008

First of all, welcome to all the Simple Mom readers! I am so excited to be a part of the great giveaway that SimpleMom.net is holding. If you haven’t seen it yet — you must go visit her site and enter the awesome contest she’s hosting in honor of her birthday! There are 7 amazing prizes and they’re all going to ONE winner. Talk about the motherload of prizes!

I love when I get a whole load of capes ready at the same time to ship — these cute ones went out last week and were the last batch before I went on vacation. Don’t they look amazing all lined up in a row like that?

I will be back from vacation next week and will be going full force into cape making for Halloween and then the Holiday season. I expect to be busy so get your orders in early!

OK — how cute are these 2 brothers that are the newest Superheroes outfitted by Plum Pear Apple Designs? You can just tell that Connor is THRILLED with his new cape — his mom, Holly, said he hadn’t even had it on for two minutes when he was already flying through the house and yard!

I love the way that the capes for the two boys are similar (same inside fabric and emblem shape) — but individual in their colors. So cute. Connor recently turned three and had a Superhero themed birthday party – so hopefully his new cape fit the bill for what HE thought his official uniform should look like. :)

And of course babies need capes, too! Connor’s little brother, Will, isn’t too steady on his feet yet but is still able to be an outstanding Superhero. He is patiently sitting while observing his big brother zooms around the yard.

Thanks to Holly for the beautiful pictures — you make my capes look gorgeous! Check out Holly O’Keefe Creative for more of her stunning photography!

Look how darling these cookies are:

My friend Carrie made them for me — just simply to say congratulations and good luck for launching Plum Pear Apple! Isn’t she talented? See more of her yummy creations at her cooking blog: Crumbles.

First off, welcome Tip Junkie readers! I am so thrilled to have been featured by the wonderful Laurie at Tip Junkie — I’ve read her great blog for a long time and never imagined I’d have something worthy of being featured! ;)

When my friend Melanie from Heart Unfolding ordered a Superhero cape from me for her godson John-Michael – I was so excited because I knew Melanie takes amazing pictures and she’d make my cape look really good! :) Along with the fact that her John-Michael is beyond adorable and HE makes the cape look really good, too!

She said that he loved it and would not take it off all weekend, even apologizing that the cape looked wrinkled in a few pictures because he wanted to wear it all the time. I say that a wrinkled cape is the sign of a well loved cape – so that’s fine with me!

Horray for a new Superhero!

How cute is THIS idea?! I had a first grade teacher contact me and place an order for two capes — turns out she is a first grade teacher and is planning on using them in her classroom for birthdays and rewards.

What a great idea! How cute would it be to have a Superhero of the Day spotlight? Or have the helper of the week be a Superhero? This could work for both preschools and younger elementary school kids. Such a darling idea!

Her first cape is yellow with the rainbow check inside. It has the cotton ball emblem with a red “W”. The second cape is red with the blue with rainbow dots inside. The emblem is the pow with a blue “W”.

I hope Miss W’s first grade class has a fun Superhero-filled year!

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Some website things: You might have noticed my new button up on the top right of the page. This is to make it easier for those of you that want to subscribe to Plum Pear Apple’s RSS feed. Don’t use an RSS reader? You are missing out! It’s a great way of keeping track of all the different blogs you want to read, in one central place. Some popular ones are Googles Feed Reader (what I use) and Bloglines.

Also I have two giveaways going on right now. One is the MomDot.com giveaway that I talked about the other day (read that post here). You can enter to win a custom cape through MomDot by entering at this post. Make sure you do it quickly – as the contest ends on Monday August 4th!

The other giveaway is being run by my friend Erin on her website East Pecos. She has a friend, Michael, that recently became a teacher and is starting his first teaching position this fall. He’ll be teaching 2nd grade in Albuquerque, NM. Michael is a great guy and will be an awesome teacher for the kids – but since he is a first time teacher his classroom is bare and he wants to cheer it up for the kids! Erin had the idea to post his name and address on her blog and see if people wanted to donate posters, crayons, paper — basically anything that 7 year olds would like — to help him spruce up his classroom.

She then decided to go a step further and provide the incentive that everyone who sends Michael something gets entered in a drawing for a custom cape made by me! Isn’t she a terrific person! You can read more about Michael and his classroom, and about her contest for the Superhero cape at her website. I’m so happy that I am getting to outfit little Superheroes as well as help out big Superheroes!

I also added a new section to the sidebar to list any current giveaways and contests that are going on with my Superhero capes. I’ve had so many great people contact me about donating capes for their wonderful causes … I’m so lucky to be able to do something that can help other people, too!

xoxo, Erin