Nautical Giveaway Featured Vendor: Sudzy Bums

Featured Vendor: Joni from Sudzy Bums

Joni donated this sweet little sailboat soap to the giveaway!

Joni started her business about a year and a half ago as a hobby. She started with cloth wipe solutions and diaper pail deodorizers for awhile, then got into novelty soaps because she wanted to make her son's party favors. Her items are gluten free, tree nut oil free, peanut oil free, dairy free and vegan. Most of her items are made from scratch with her own recipes with natural and essential oils.

She loves to make novelty soaps, and she makes them from a natural glycerin soap base, colored with mica based color block. Here's some examples:

Joni's best seller is one that she started with - her cloth wipe solution. You spray it on your baby's bottom to cleanse, soothe, and protect. And it comes in different scents!

As a kid, I always loved the soap that had a toy in it - my brother and I would actually chip away the soap to get the toy sooner ;-) Here's some great Sudzy Bums soaps with toys!

You can find these items in her store, http://sudzybums.storenvy.com, or on facebook, https://www.facebook.com/SudzyBums.

Fun Fact: Joni has three kids, that I'm sure make great testers for all her products and great for ideas, like all the fun animal shapes she has!

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Nautical Giveaway Featured Vendor: That's Incredibow

Featured Vendor: Miranda from That's Incredibow

Miranda donated this white felt key fob with anchor embroidery to the giveaway.

Miranda started her business last year when a need for continually buying new crafts supplies met with a lack of bow real estate on her little girl's head. In addition to bows, she added necklaces, and headed off to a craft show. Once there, she found she was just one of many bowtiques. She decided to set herself apart by following her "true nerdy passion" and specializes in creating items for nerd babies and their parents (nerd parents and their babies?).

Her favorite items to make right now are 3D felt bows and felties (felt shapes with embroidered details for clips, bow centers, pendants, etc.) and I don't blame her! They're adorable to look at and they just look fun to make! She also likes making chunky bubblegum necklaces with a geeky twist.

Her best seller right now are bottlecap badge reels - she says everyone loves to show their nerd pride at work! And I don't blame them, they're the perfect combination of geeky and subtle.

The felt bows are most definitely my favorite, especially the Wonder Woman one!

You can find these items in her store, http://www.etsy.com/shop/thatsincredibow, or on facebook, https://www.facebook.com/thatsincredibow.

Fun Fact: Miranda is fluent in Arabic! And in following with children's geeky names, hers is named for King Arthur's Guinevere.

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Nautical Giveaway Featured Vendor: Gifts by Gita

Featured Vendor: Gita from Gifts by Gita

Gita donated this fab pair of cotton kitchen towels to the giveaway. They measure 26 x 16.  Embroidered with a large anchor and embellished with an angel fish or turtle.

Gita actually began in the business world with jewelry, but shifted her focus when she realized that design was really what she liked. Pregnancy jump started the creative drive in her brain and she became interested in embroidery. She loved the possibilities in combining fabrics and design elements to create wonderful, unique designs. She played around with embroidery in 2011, but Christmas 2012 was when it really took off. As a mom to three little ones, she likes to focus on babies and their parents. She keeps a piece of her jewelry beginnings in her shop with Baltic Amber teething necklaces, and also sells all natural lotions.

She loves making embroidered shirts, especially custom designs and having a chance to try new fabric combinations. Here are some of my favorite designs:

Gita's best seller is a birthday shirt for little girls which has fun, bright fabric, and customized with the guest of honor's name. You can also get a matching flower hair clip!

I love these ornaments! Just think of all the shapes that could be done for yearly Christmas ornaments!

You can find these items in her store, http://giftsbygita.etsy.com or on facebook, https://www.facebook.com/GiftsByGita.

Fun Fact: Gita is a co-leader of her local ICAN chapter, which is the International Cesarean Awareness Network (find more info here: http://www.ican-online.org/), and is planning to add more doula, birth, and mid-wife embroidery to her shop this summer!

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Nautical Giveaway Featured Vendor: Bows and Heros

Featured Vendor: Jettie from Bows and Heros

Jettie donated this matching bottle cap bow and necklace set with fun anchor images to the giveaway.

Jettie is another recent business, starting in October 2013. She had been purchasing OTT (over the top) bows for her daughter at OTT prices, and she thought they were just a little too big. So, she started to make bows that were more for everyday people, at everyday prices. She soon added bottle cap key chains, necklaces, and bracelets, with styling for boys, so her own sons would have something (though they were willing to wear the bows!). Her husband joined the biz as well, making paracord bracelets. Now, they can offer items to all ages and any gender, welcoming custom orders to make just the right piece.

Jettie's favorite item to make are Pony-os - ponytail elastics with lots of fun ribbons, which are great for cheering & dance, or anyone that wants some decorations in their hair without a clip or headband!

Their best seller though, is paracord bracelets. They have the favorites of course, like the cobra stitch, but they also have some other fun knots that set them apart from other paracord bracelet makers.

Personally, I love these parabuddies! I've seen many items in paracord, but nothing like this!

You can find these items in her store, www.etsy.com/shop/bowsandheros, or on facebook, https://www.facebook.com/jetsbowtique.

Fun Fact: Jettie and her husband have SIX kids! Three of them are toddlers, which her husband is a stay at home dad for, while Jettie teaches at school.

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Nautical Giveaway Featured Vendor: Nerdtastic

Featured Vendor: Amanda from Nerdtastic

Amanda donated these awesome four nautical themed bobby pins to the giveaway.

Amanda officially started Nerdtastic recently in September 2013, after making many of the gifts and jewelry for her nerdy themed wedding. She loved being able to "bring nerdy things to nerds" in a new way! 

She loves making all her items, and has new favorites all the time (who doesn't?), but right now, she really enjoys making art for her "Fictional Brews" collection, which start as posters and then become lip balms. She says her kitchen always smells interesting!

Right now, the Percy Jackson themed "Nectar" lip balm, with a honey scent and lavender accent. The artwork is also available as a print!

I love that you can get whole sets of items in the same theme - lip balm, sugar scrub, poster, and more!

You can find these items in her store, http://nerdtastic42.storenvy.com, or on facebook, https://www.facebook.com/FeelingNerdtastic.


Fun Fact: To go with their nerdy wedding, Amanda and her husband have matching Star Wars wedding bands! Their daughters' names are also partially based on the Roman Empire, as well as their dogs being named after Jedi (except for Falkor, the luck dog).


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