Join Us At The Herb Fest

We love participating in fun events around the region. Our tables at the Pueblo and Colorado Springs Earth Day Celebrations were such nice ways to spend a day... and we love seeing you and your babies.

Please come and join us for this up coming event.

-Sierra

More on Sling Happiness

Photo: Inside the glow of the parent-baby sling bubble

I finally figured out how to write something on our own blog! My kids and I got together with Sierra and her kids today to take some pictures for our website (which will be up soon!) and I was reminded of how much I like to put my kids in slings, as big as they are getting. I haven't used one for a while because I am letting chronic back problems heal, at least for a while, and also Jacob, at almost 21 mos. is old enough to walk around by himself. But putting my "babies" in the Bundle Bug gives me such a feeling of closeness with them...and them with me! How can I tell? Well, because of how we nuzzle each other and by their immediate sense of comfort in the world.

Eliana, who weighs about 32 lbs. still fits nicely into my sling facing me, her now-long legs dangling by my side and her arms around my neck. As long as she leans into me and I have the fabric pulled way up on her back (to support me well enough), I am quite comfortable and have even carried her through airports while I pushed Jacob in a stroller. Jacob can still face out into the world or into his most comforting, number-one person--mommy--and even fall asleep there while I walk on for miles and hours doing what I need to do. If he started out quiet and reserved in a new environment, he starts to coo and babble when I put him in the sling, enjoying his new viewpoint from up high. Even after an absence from the sling of many months, he finds himself quite at home. I also loved that when Jacob was tiny, I folded his legs up just like the Bundle Bug is designed to do, and though he was scrunched up into a ball, he loved it because that's how babies find themselves in the uterus--it's actually comfortable for them.

So, I found an old picture of Eliana in the sling with me--she's about 9-10 mos. in the picture and now she's 3 1/2! Slings carry babies from newborn baby seed pods to grown-up-acting toddler size. The first sling I ever had was a Maya Wrap which was given to me for free by someone who was just passing it along. One of our goals is to get as many donated slings as we can, from as many companies or parents-passing-them-along as possible and offer them for free, like mine was given to me...spread the word, as we want everyone who wants one to have one and we'll offer a sling class with the giveaway, too. I was so happy that someone gave me the opportunity for such a delightful experience with my children--one that I hadn't even heard of. We want to provide that for all of you, too.

Green Women Mercantile Celebrate Women's Bodies

"The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories that it tells. I have a belly and hips that say, 'We grew a child in here, " and breasts that say,
'We nourished life.' My hands, with bitten nails and a writer's callus, say, 'We create amazing things.'"

-Sarah, from I Am Beautiful: A Celebration of Women in "Their Own Words"

Grandmothers Holding Babies

This is beautiful baby Izzy with her Grandmother Maggie from Ireland, wearing a Bundle Bug (a very beautiful one too, I might add!)

I once heard that the "human race evolved when women learned how to put their babies in slings"... I love that idea... I know my mothering evolved when I got my first sling!

So... Sling away women, mothers and grandmothers. And please, if you love your sling and love how your babies look in the sling, or snuggly or backpack or whatever else you put your babe in... send me a picture and a statement! Let's help women all over the place find comfortable and happy ways to carry their babies!

Thanks so much Maggie and Izzy!
-Sierra

Beautiful Cycles... Read What I am Reading...

I am constantly watching people discover their cycles. It always amazes me to see women realize how many choices they have... and to find the pleasure of honoring their cycles. My sweet sister in law called from college to help her friends order menstrual products, and I felt a sense of comfort knowing that these young women were somewhere talking about making changes in the way they choose to honor their cycle blood each month. To these women, and all the ones to come, I thank you as our mother earth thanks you and as your body thanks you for choosing to make a change... whether it is using re-useable pads at home or a commitment to no longer buying any disposables, whatever you are ready and able to do, it is amazing and powerful!

Terry Tempest Williams says...

"Today, I feel stronger, learning to live with the natural cycles of a day and to not expect so much from myself. As women, we hold the moon in out bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on a full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase. And the energy we expend emotionally belongs to the hidden side of the moon."

I am in full moon tonight... where are you? Create a new word for where you are in your cycle...

-Sierra
I have a few sites i think are beautiful and amazing to look at... this one shocked me and surprised me: www.spiralingmoon.livejournal.com www.milkandcookies.com

Green Women Mercantile Goods!

Because our website is being created by wonderful women, with children and things do take time I thought I might post a list of our current products and prices, so that people can see our inventory easily!

We have so many great products, and are adding new ones all the time.

• Sorella Luna Sea Sponge Tampons $12.00
• Petunia Pads (reusable menstrual pads) $8-$10 depending on size and current special package deal of one light, two regular pads and one overnight for $32.00
• The Keeper (reusable menstrual cup) $35.00
• Unbleached Indian Prefold Cloth Diapers (so soft!) $26.00/dozen
• Baby Booties in Organic Cotton and Wool Blends $16-$24 depending on type and size
• Maya Wrap Baby Sling $50.00
• Bundle Bug Baby Sling $50.00
• Pineflower Soap Co. handmade soaps and lotions $1.50-$7
• The Van Manen's Children's Music $15.00
• African Market Baskets $16-$38

And we're waiting for... our own line of cloth diaper covers, Zena Candles and handmade jewelry
See something you are interested in? Want to host a party and get discounted goods? Having a baby, want to register? Call us, or email us and we will get our superb goods off to you...

Pueblo 719-369-5622
Manitou Springs 719-685-5979
email: companysr@yahoo.com

Remember to check back with us, our products are ever changing and more pictures are coming! Are you looking for something that you can't find or want to find in a greener way? Let us see if in our network of businesses we can locate it for you.

-Sierra

Women and babies... beautiful bonding!

Sierra and Scarlett in Isla Mujeras, Mexico - April 2006


Crystal and Shannon in Beulah, Colorado in a Bundle Bug... nursing in a sling, the happiest baby ever... Summer 2006

What do I love about slings and baby wearing? I will let the pictures do the talking.

We want to see pictures of your babies in slings!!! Please post them or email them and let us post them!!!

-Sierra