Wittle bee, Wittle waste!

After serveal boxes from wittlebee I noticed a reoccurring issue.

PROBLEMS

We got several items in wrong sizes, MANY damaged items. The charged my account when I didn't recieve a box for 3 months! I had to dispute charges with my credit card company because Wittleebee just kept saying oh we are out of stock... Well don't charge my card until you ship then.

I never received replacement I was just told they no longer provide replacements... They did credit me back one months charge even though 

There was a lot more drama that I won't get into but their business was getting very shady to me. They cancel one of my accounts saying they only allow one account per household, but did not accomadate for more then one child, also they continued to have NEW customer sales when my moths boxes had not even been sent out.

That really made me upset. I called and the phone number didn't get through to anyone, then I emailed and got no response, So I posted on their facebook page and it was immediately deleted.

I will not do business with this company again. The CEO Sean Percival was previously the VP of myspace, also he and his wife Laurie used to run lalawag a blog about technology. Sean included a cell phone number to text in the boxes, I texted this number a few times never received any response.

I hope that others of you have had good service but unless this company is bought out and fixed, I will not be spending my time or money on them anymore, I can get better deals hunting the internet on my own. I fail to understand how company that got 2.5 million in funding can't keep enough stock to send out to their oldest customers. OH and I won't even get into the lies and price changes...

Julep box review

I order a julep box for 1 cent and got it in the mail. I love how prompt they were in sending it out. It took almost no time at all. It came neatly wrapped and undamaged, So I was pretty happy. The colors are very in for summer time.

I had to wait to try them out as our house is on the market right now. I got 3 colors, a melon color, a yellow and a purple. I tried out the melon color. The 1st thing I noticed right off is how THICK and gooey it was very hard to get a thin coat. I did need two coats since it didn't apply nicely, it was clumpy and took FOREVER to dry.

 I painted my toes and my fingers and I disliked how thick it was so much that I went straight to my phone to cancel my subscription. 

NOW I am super picky about my nail polish I like it to be on the thinner side so I have more control of color. But some people might not mind at all. I will say after doing the dishes, bathing, cooking, giving both of my boys baths, typing on and off all day, and I don't have a single chip. So they are doing something right! :)


A week later I opened the yellow and guess what? It wasn't thick at all , I must have just had a messed up bottle. I should have added a little polish remover to thin it out! 

Over all I was pretty pleased with my penny spent. But since I am so picky I opted to cancel my account. Which I sat on hold for 7 mins waiting to speak to someone only to be pushed to a machine that told me to leave my info and they would cancel for me. Shortly there after I received an email telling me my account was canceled.

Wittlebee Clothing Review

After hearing a lot about Wittlebee on facebook I ordered! I love shopping for my boys but in the interest of NOT going to the mall and spending my extra pennies, I thought this would be a great option. This is the 2nd set of boxes we have gotten I intended to blog about the 1st but I wanted to make sure I was really sure about them.

 How it works: Fill out your style profile Sign up and you can leave notes or talk to a stylist and a box comes in the mail.

So here is the style profile for my 6 month old:

 Size: 3-6 M
Styles needed: Short Sleeve, Shorts, Pants
 Graphics: Skulls+Rock&Roll, Patterns/Plaids, Stripes
 Favorite Colors: Grey, Blue, Black Clothing Style: Hipster, Mix and Match
 Accessories Needed: Pajamas, Swimwear
Climate: Hot Summer Days
 Child's Gender: Boy

His style notes:

Swimwear not needed! Sorry we just got a gift with some in it!
We also loved the romper thing by tea.
We really loved the Luca Charles tank we got in our box. He has bright blue eyes and anything that makes them pop would be wonderful. Thanks for all your hard work! and here is his box.

 Here's what we got:

~Luca Charles Tee shirt- can't find this exact one but I would say about 35$

~Tea colthing romper - Can't find exact one but similar one for 25$

~Tea clothing tee shirt- 19$

~Tea clothing pants- 22$

~ American Apparel onesie - 11.50$

~cloud mine pj set- atleast 28$

~Wild and cozy bear onesie- 11.90$ current price.

Total:152.40 Now I wouldn't say that I would have bought any of these for their full price, But I do think they are all VERY well made.  I don't think all of my notes were followed exactly but I am pretty pleased.  I wish there had been something a little rock and roll "ish" though.

 
 


Here is the style profile for my 5 yr old:

 size: 5T

 Styles needed: Short Sleeve, Pants

Graphics: Skulls+Rock&Roll, Patterns/Plaids, Stripes

 Favorite Colors: Grey, Blue, Black, Green Clothing

Style: Preppy, Hipster, Mix and Match

Accessories Needed: No thanks

Styles not needed: Long Sleeves, Writing/Slogans

Climate: Hot Summer Days

Child's Gender: Boy

 The notes I left for the stylist:

 He loves his tops with designs from his last box. He loves the color green and anything punk/rock and roll. He also loves stripes.

Here is his box.

 

From Kelton's box I could hardly find any of it online but here's my best guess:

PJs by skivvydoodles - 27$

Gio Berti blue short - 19.50

Kids Headquaters set- 9.00 wholesale

Wittlebee shirt (American Apparel)- 11.00

College street shorts- 6.99

Kids headquarters shirt- 1/2 of the set price?- 4.50

Total price- $77.99

I feel like the older kids boxes are OK not as good as the baby boxes but they do the trick. Also Sean the CEO implies that maybe by the end of the year they will be carrying larger sizes... I hope with that they will also carry more recognizable big kid brands.

Over all I love my boxes and will continue to order from them. I will relax on expecting anything covered in the style questions and flow free with it. I may even order a few as gifts! They do make great shower boxes as well. 

On a side note I wish they had more special offers for their longer standing customers and not just for the new ones.

Want to try it yourself? Use this link for 10$ off!

I've been a slacker...

Well I have... I won't lie about it. I honestly forgot how hard it is having a newborn. Who is 3 months old now! I don't make enough time for myself. Some say I give too much and maybe I do. It's who I am.

While I haven't been doing a lot for myself I did do a little shopping. I don't have my pre-baby body back and I think I am just grateful to fit in to my old jeans... which I really need to replace soon. Anyway I bought a few things that felt springy to me.

 Take a look:

All 3 are apt. 9 from kohls, I love the way the caftans look belted. I wear them over white tanks. and the shrug is just nice to have when the sun sets here in the desert. It gets a little chilly.  :) I promise to start blogging more! It's my goal to write a blog at least 3 times a week.

Crowd Tap- Old Navy's BOTTOMS BONANZA

As a Crowdtap member I was selected for a chance to participate in Old Navy’s BOTTOMS BONANZA event.

They sent me these amazing coupons for free shoes and a bottom of our choice for myself and some friends.

So off we went to old Navy... we ran all around and tried on piles of clothes. Had lots of laughs and spent way to much time rushing. We are all busy moms but we made time for ourselves this day!

Here are some photos of our trip and goodies.


A few things about Old Navy:

~it was hard to find sizes , hangers size didn't match actual size.
~ as my friend says "they aren't fat friendly." I thought she was being crazy but after watching her try on things she is totally right. 
~while all employees were very nice they weren't extreamly helpful in finding sizes also I didn't see any one on the sales floor.
~We waited a long time in the check out line and I am not sure if they were short staffed but it was time consuming.
~ We LOVED all the new patterns and colors for fall... although the blue skinny jeans were not working with anything for me.

What are your thoughts on Old Navy? I love their stuff, it's youthful and fun but not too young for us moms. :)

Our baby is here!

Our baby boy arrived after a long day of pitocin but he is here and well. Well, mostly. Here is the announcement I made on shutterfly!It was so hard to pick only one design so I let Doug pick.

But it was incredibly easy to make and they arrived faster then projected! Shutterfly makes sharing our photos easy! Which is important since almost all of our family is on the east coast.

 Welcome Kiernan Ignatius Kane Stanley. 6 lbs and 17inches!
Blue eyes and sandy brown hair.
Long fingers and big feet!

Stationery card

View the entire collection of cards.

Our little one...and me.

So I can tell you a few things that really aren't attractive, hospital gowns for pregnant ladies, IV bags, and being so tired that you fall asleep in any position and drool on yourself.  I mean I suppose some people might not mind these things I on the other hand  don't care for them at all.

Last night I was feeling really off and called my Dr. and he had me go to the hospital to get checked out, I am 35 weeks now and having some odd problems. Looks like pre-eclampsia but isn't. Well last night it sure wasn't PRE-E. I had blood work done and my potassium was way too low, which was entirely unexpected.  The dr. was confused and very worried about my heart.( I am a very heathly young woman.) I am not on any meds that should cause it and I hadn't been vommiting at all. So there is no logical medical reason they could find.

They gave me an entire bag of IV potassium, which took forever... not kidding we started at maybe 11:30 pm and by 11 am I was almost done. Boy it sure burned a bit.

But now I am home safe blood tests came back fine at mid-day so, I am on a banana with every meal diet, on strict bed rest and  trying to listen as best I can.

So I will be resting but will be back to posting after baby  arrives.

Happy New Year!!!