PSA Essentials Review and Giveaway

****Giveaway Closed. Congrats comment number 55, Jonnie!****

I didn't send out Christmas cards this year. Want to know why? Because I'm lazy. That's why! I was too lazy to write my address on each envelope. Pathetic, amirite?
I thought about ordering address stickers, but with the hustle and bustle of the season, it just didn't happen. So, sadly, no Christmas cards for us!

Here's the thing, though. After the Christmas season was over, PSA Essentials contacted me about their custom stamps! As I browsed their site, I fell in love with the cutest custom address stamps ever. I knew that those stamps would be the cure for my laziness. Or...My mail laziness, anyway!

Luckily, PSA Essentials was nice enough to send me a stamp of my very own to try out.

But wait! It gets better (does that sound like an infomercial? Oops!...But, seriously, it gets better!)
All PSA Essential stamps are peel and stick--Meaning you can peel certain things off of your custom stamp and replace it with images to match the season or occasion. So brilliant.


See? Here's a Christmas tree alone on the left, and with a cute little border on the right.

Or, here's just a simple monogram with a cute border.

OR! Check it out, a cute little flower with my address around it.

I love that I can customize my stamp whenever I feel like it. So, I can ditch my address and use the stamp for something else. Like, say...Crafting maybe?

When I first received my stamps in the mail, I was a little worried about a few things.
1-Would the stamps lose their stickiness?
2- How the heck would I change the ink color?
3-Wouldn't it be messy to peel the stamps off once I was ready to switch them out?
4- How would I get the peel and stick stamp to be centered on the stamp body?

Luckily, none of those were even a problem.
1- Despite peeling and sticking the stamps over and over again these past few weeks, the stamps are still as sticky as ever!

2- The PSA Essentials site has great videos that show exactly how to change the ink out. I felt silly for even being worried about it!

3-The stamps were a breeze to clean off. I just used a baby wipe and they were as good as new!

4- This nifty little guy helped me line up the peel and stick stamps so they were perfectly centered.

This product is seriously awesome.
I tried to find something negative to say about this product, because this post makes them sound too good to be true, right? But, I couldn't even think of one thing I would change.

Annnyway.

One (1) lucky US or Canada resident will win their own personalized PSA Essentials stamp ($30 value)!

Want to enter?
-Become a follower of the PSA Essentials blog or become a fan of their Facebook and leave me a comment saying you did. If you do both of those things, leave two comments.

And, that's it! Easy, right?
Giveaway ends on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 and winner will be contacted via email.

Good luck!

**This post was sponsored by PSA Essentials, but all opinions were mine. They didn't tell me anything to say!

DIY Instagram Magnets

I'm so glad you guys enjoyed my screen saver from last week! I'm thinking of making a few more...Any quotes or patterns you'd love to see? Let me know and I'll try to get 'em up here for you to use as wallpaper.
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Anyway! I have been loving Instagram on my phone lately. It's just so convenient. Especially for taking pictures of my baby. I'm addicted to it!

Unfortunately, all of my Instagram pictures usually just stay on there because...Well...What else am I going to do with them?

Luckily, my sister gave me some Instagram magnets from StickyGram for Christmas. I fell in love with them. So, I decided to DIY some of my own to give to grandparents.

It was super easy. All I had to do was find some magnets (I just used magnetic ads that I didn't need anymore), print off my Instagram pictures, trim the pictures, modpodge them to the magnets, trim the excess magnet, and stick them to my fridge.

Who knew that stainless steel fridges weren't magnetic on the front? Not me!

Don't know how to print off pictures from your phone? Just go to your photos and click the little box with the arrow.

Then, click on "email photo" and email the picture to yourself.

From there, just print it off of your computer.

OR

You can go to FollowGram and link up your Instagram. All of your Instagram photos will automatically go onto your FollowGram account and you can just drag the photos you want off onto your desktop..

Do you have Instagram? Follow me @teandbaby. I'd love to follow you back!

Hope that helps!

Have a great weekend.
My husband has something exciting planned for my birthday (tomorrow) and I can't wait!

iPhone Chevron Wallpaper

**Warning: This post is probably too long to be considered healthy**
*reposted from my fam blog.
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Lately, I have been finding myself on my phone. A lot.
I feel like I'm always writing back to emails, checking blogs, texting, or whatever else all through the day.

I love that I have all of those things right at my fingertips. What I don't love? The fact that it's so easy to just "check something real quick", but then end up on my phone looking around way longer than I needed to be in the first place.

So...I decided that my phrase for the year would be "be present". This phrase applies to so many areas in my life. I feel like I show up to things and participate,  but I'm never fully there because I always need to "check just one little thing" on my phone. Been there before? Tell me it's not just me?

I've noticed this happening more and more. So...I decided to make a little screen saver for my phone that says "be present"...That way, when I'm on the ground playing with El and get the urge to check my phone, my phrase for the year will be right there in my face and hopefully I'll decide to be more present in what I'm doing, instead of checking my phone.

And, I also decided to put it on this here blog so that you can use it, if you'd like.

And, here's just the plain chevron, if you don't like the whole phrase thang.

Don't know how to use a wallpaper on your phone? Easy! Just double click the picture you want to use and then choose "save image"

If "save image" doesn't show up after you double click, just take a screen shot of the image you want to use (click the top button and the middle button at the same time, like in the image below).

                           


After that, go to your pictures on your phone and the image you chose (or screen shot) should be in there. Just click on the picture to view it.

Theeen click the little icon that has the arrow coming out of a box.

And click on "use as wallpaper"

After that, you'll just want to scale the image to fit your screen and click  "set".

Then, it'll pull up a menu like this where you can choose where to put the image.

I decided to put the one with words as my lock screen and the plain chevron as my home screen, but I mean...You can use them however you want. It's your phone, after all.

Taadaaa.

Balboa Baby Shopping Cart Cover- Review

I'm not huge on worrying about germs. I don't know, maybe that makes me crazy?...But, I always feel like when shopping carts and my baby are involved, a good wipe down should suffice.

The ol' wiping method worked great for me. And, to be honest, I always thought the shopping cart covers other mamas were using were a little ridiculous. That is, until I realized that cart covers were for more than just protecting from germs!

Let's set the scene, shall we? Okay...So, we were walking around Home Depot. Just me, the mister, and the baby. Baby girl was buckled into the cart and having a grand ol' time holding chewing on paint chips. She looked adorable. Like, for real. I even snapped pictures (on my phone) of her moments before the incident.

See? Adorbs.

Then, out of nowhere, she lost her balance and smacked her head into the cart. I totally won worst mom award right then. My poor baby was screaming and had little bruises from where the cart hit her. OW!

That's when I vowed to start looking into cart covers. And, can I just say, thank goodness for Balboa Baby? They stepped up to the plate and sent me an adorable cart cover to review (in the pattern Suri).

I was so surprised when it came the next day (!!!!) in the mail. They had such great customer service. It was the first thing I noticed about the company.

Next? The shopping cart cover was SO.COOL. Not only was it the best pattern ever, it was also completely compact. In fact, it even folds into itself to form a little bag! How great is that?

Of course, we had to rush to the store and try it out. Baby E loved it! She was squealing the whole time. I especially love how soft it is! I don't have to worry about baby girl losing her balance and whacking her head anymore. The padding makes her feel secure (and protects her little body from harm), while not being too bulky.

Did I mention it even fits onto high chairs?

Really, I love this thing and am so grateful I got to try it out. I bring it every where now, and can't go more than a few steps in the store without people asking me all about it!

If you're in the market for a shopping cart (or high chair) cover, this one is for you!

So, was this post too long? I got a little excited. Sorry!
Here are the cliff notes!

Balboa Baby Shopping Cart Cover

pros:-Easy to use.
-Adorable.
-Just the right amount of padding.
-Two loops for toys to hook onto (no more bending over to retrieve thrown toys. YAY!)
-Folds into itself to form a perfect little bag.
-Can be used on a highchair as well.

cons:
-I wish it came with instructions. I mean, it was easy to figure out after a bit, but the first time I used it I was a little lost.
-I should have gone with a darker color. Shopping carts are grosser than I thought!

**Balboa Baby gave me this product to review. This post contains my actual feelings about the product, and they had no say in what I wrote in this post**

"Tute"-in Tuesday

It's that time again! Time to link up your tutorials (that you haven't posted here yet)! I can't wait to see what you lovely readers have come up with now. Maybe you'll be the one I mooch off of next Monday?

Here are the rules:

1. Please use the permanent link to your post when you are linking up (just click the post you want to link up, and it should take you to her perma-link...Feel free to email me if you can't get it to work, and I'll try to give you some better instructions.)

2. Please link up something you've never linked to "Tute"-in Tuesday before!

3. Please be sure to visit other people who linked up and leave 'em a nice comment. Because, come on, we all love comments. It would be awesome if you left something more than "nice blog. www.oopsicraftmypants.net"...But, it's up to you!

And, this is optional, but:

Let your readers know about the party so they can join in on the fun! Here's a button, if you want to use it I wouldn't be opposed. 

<a href=http://oopsicraftmypants.blogspot.com/><img src=" http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m606/erika237/tuteintuesday-1.jpg" /></a>

Now, let's get linkin'!

Merry Christmas!

Thanks for reading!

Easy baby leg warmers

We went to Target the other day to grab some quick stocking stuffers. It was a huge mistake going shopping on the Saturday before Christmas Eve. Never again!

The good news is, I picked up two pairs of cute patterned tube socks. I have been wanting to sew her some knock off Baby Legs for a while now (since the $12 a pop for real ones just seems cray cray to me).

I know there's a million tutorials around for these online...But, I thought I'd share mine, just because I'm still kind of amazed that I knew how to even thread my sewing machine!



So basically, it went like this.

                                  
                           
1. Gather socks. Preferably cute ones.
2. Measure your baby's legs and cut your sock at that length (leaving the top part in tact)
3. So, basically you have a pair of crew cut socks, and then the long tops separate.
4. Cut about two more inches off of the top of the "crew cut" socks.
5. Take that two inch piece, and fold it in half (with right sides facing out)
6. Slip the two inch piece over the long piece from step 2 (make sure all raw edges line up. You can pin if you need to!)
7. Sew them together at the raw edge and flip them open to see your brand new (knock-off) Baby Legs.

              

After all of that, you should probably find a cute baby (easiest step for me!) and have them model their brand new legs.



Be sure to stop and admire the chub.



She is loving them so far. I even got a smile. See?
                           
                       

I'm loving them, too! They have made diaper changes a breeze so far!

So...What about you? Have you made anything cute lately? I want to see!