Wrap Your Baby Business

20% Ellaroo Wrap Pre-Order Sale

***adding the link for ordering (go ahead and order now): http://www.wrapyourbaby.com/ERpreorder.html

If you are planning to buy a wrap in the near future, here’s a short but sweet opportunity to get a whopping 20% discount on a great summer wrap!

After shipping out all the orders from my Mothers Day Sale, I found that I’m low on EllaRoo wraps and I began preparing to place an order. Then it occurred to me, why not offer a big discount to any of my customers who want to pay in advance and it will be especially worth your while because you can choose from a wider selection of colors than I normally stock in my store!

EllaRoo has twenty different wrap designs and only a handful are commonly found sold in US stores. My order with the distributor is your opportunity to pick from ALL TWENTY of their current designs! You can view the available color choices by clicking here.

I need to place my order pretty quickly, so if you want to take advantage of the discount you must order and pay for your wrap tomorrow, Monday, 16 May. It will take approximately three weeks to get from Europe, to me, to you after I place the order, so you’re looking at early June for delivery.

Come back to this blog post tomorrow for the link to the sale-price Ellaroo wraps. I’ll add it right to the top of this blog post.

Wrap Your Baby on the road…

Wow–sorry about the two month long lapse of blogging!  Instead of making excuses, why don’t I jump right in with what’s up right now?

My family has decided to take our leave of the house, the job, and the stable predictable life (such as it is with kids) and travel the country instead.  No worries–the job I referred to is my husband’s construction, renovation and constructions work.  Wrap Your Baby is not a job, so much as a mission, and Wrap Your Baby comes with us.

So me, my husband, my 6 year old & 1 year old daughters, our baby (arriving in the Spring) and a whole lot of wraps will be moving into a motorhome named Benny the Brave.  We didn’t name him, but the name is very fitting, don’t you think, for such a bold move?

Ada and Benny the Brave

The transition will take a few months, as we have possessions to be freed from, a house to rent, and a baby to have, but we hope to set sail this Spring.

There’s a lot to adjust to and work out–how to stock inventory on the road, where to accept returns/exchanges, the easiest way to find the closest post office each day for shipments . . . and figuring it all out will be a blast.

I’ll be blogging about the new life, starting now with the baby steps leading to our departure, and if our journey interests you, please check it out at FreeRangeDreams.com

Baby Wrap Video Contest

Submit a baby wrapping video for a chance to win a free baby carrier and be part of a video to promote babywearing to the world!

Videos must be submitted by midnight 31 August, 2010 (EST).

Video details:

• Videos can be any length (although if you send me a two hour home video I might not actually watch the whole thing) and you can submit as many as you like (or upload several clips as one video).
• Videos should be unedited.  Please do not add subtitles, effects, etc (so that all submissions can more easily be integrated into a cohesive babywearing video)
• Videos can show the process of getting wrapped up, have someone already wrapped up, show the wrap used as a towel, hammock, or high chair.  It can involve sibling-wearing, or teddy-bear wearing.  The more variety the better!
• Content should be primarily visual and not depend on dialogue.

Submission details:

1. To submit a video, upload it on YouTube (you will have to create an account).
2. Send an email to diana@wrapyourbaby.com with a link to your uploaded video.  Include your name and mailing address (in case you win the prize!)
3. When I receive your email I will link your video to the WrapYourBaby Channel on YouTube so that all video submissions can be viewed there.

Prize details:

• I will pick the winning entry.  I will be looking for a video (or piece of one) that captures the coziness, closeness, cuteness, or convenience, the fun, funniness, or fabulousness of baby wrapping.  The winning entry might as easily involve a dozing newborn or an energetic toddler.  It might be set in your livingroom, or at the Grand Canyon.  Length of video will not be a determining factor.
• Winner will receive their choice of:
  Hand embroidered Chinese Mei Tai (EllaRoo) – I think these sold for $150
  Moby wrap (stretchy wrap) – $40 value
  Gypsymama Water Wrap – $61 value
• Winner will be announced by Monday, 6 September 2010 and will be notified via email.
• All approved videos may be represented on a compilation video demonstrating the spirit of babywearing and the benefits of wraparound baby carriers.

Legal details:

• Videos must be your original work and belong solely to you  (any footage that contains brand logos, or copyrighted images will not be used in the compilation video).
• The content of all submitted videos will become the property of Wrap Your Baby (Baby Earthling LLC) and can be used for promotional purposes.  The content of the videos may be edited.
• I reserve the right to disqualify any video for any reason.

Wrap Your Baby Shipping

I’m going to just blog up my shipping policy to explain myself to anyone who’s interested:

I ship the cheapest way I can, because I hate paying for shipping and think most of you probably do, too.  If I can, I fit a wrap into a flat-rate priority mail envelope (which is a fast service, as well, at 2-3 business days).  Sometimes this involves some squeezing and jamming of the wrap.  As wraps are pieces of fabric, I feel fairly comfortable doing this.  Sometimes an instructional DVD is included and I have not yet had one damaged, but I would hope that a customer would let me know right away if anything made it to them in less than intact shape so that I could replace it.

Some of the wraps cannot fit into the flat rate envelope and Priority Mail is not always the cheapest method.  Storchenwieges are much bulkier than the other wraps I sell, for example.  When this is the case, another method of shipping will be chosen.

I’ve recently added International shipping option to my website.  For now, it’s going to be $8 extra if I can fit the wrap in the flat-rate Priority Mail envelope.  If not, I will contact the customer to let them know that there will be an additional cost.

For International orders, add your desired item or items to the shopping cart and then go to the shipping page to add “International Shipping” to the cart.  Place your order and if any additional payment is necessary I will contact you to discuss it.

Let me know what you think, and whether my shipping policy meets your needs well enough!  Email me or comment here with suggestions.