I have been experimenting again!!

Wanting to cut some costs around the household i have decided to use cloth diapers. I figured if we did that and only used disposable diapers when he goes for a sleep or when we are out we could be saving around 30$ a month. That is a nice extra payment toward debt..

Yesterday i made him some cloth diapers with some soakers which i will be showing how to make but i wanted some plastic or vinyl coverings so if he leaks through it would not get all over. I tried making one out of vinyl that i had from a pillow case cover but it ripped from my son playing..

I had nothing that was any thicker, until i thought of the old technique of making fabric out of duct tape.

This is all experimental so i will keep an update on how the cover does.

Step one. Make some duct tape fabric.

Step one. Make some duct tape fabric.

I first found a plastic cutting board so the tape could be removed from. I laid tape strips down overlapping about 1/4 inch until i had covered the whole board.

I then took the tape off and then placed tape stickey side to stickey side in the same fashion going perpendicular to the first layer.

 Trimming off the edges

I then free handed a pattern to cut, but you can get one off the net for free to print.

Elastic, needle, thread, and scissors for inserting elastic for a more fitted cover. 

I then made a piece of the fabric to fold over and tape for the elastic casing making sure no stickey parts touched the elastic.

showing the strip being folded over the elastic on the edge.

I stitched in the elastic and covered the ends with tape making sure there would not be any wetness contact with the elastic edges.

I then attatched the sided and a casing across the back of the waist placing in elastic and doing the stitching and covering  like i did on the legs and there you go!  

After a long break from blogging I am finally back in the swing of things. Well, almost. I had first had issues with the Effexor for my depression. I had nasty side effects and then absolwutely no drive to do ANYTHING!. NOw with the side effects pretty much under control I thought i should get back to my daily duities. With a semi clean desk and a mind full of projects I will try to post at least once a day.

Things that I have done on my leave.

We went to the Roscommon, Mi fireman's memorial. We camped out there and had great fun. I thank all of my friends for their company. We had a riot. And i thank Casey and eric for all the work they had put into the wonderful food. Yumm.. casey's cookies sound so good right now.

Then My oldest son started preschool. he seems to like it lots.

This last weekend was the Ovid carriage days. I did not get to enjoy it much because i threw out my back on saturday playing softball. Our team lost but we had lots of fun.

Other than that my days have consisted of trying to keep the family on budget with money saving ideas which will be in another entry. And as a little tidbit we saved 70$ off of our electric bill. I will mention how in another entry.

Hope I did not disappoint by not keeping up on the blogging.

Hate mail will be accepted :)