Buried dreams

10.04.10 / Just info, Mama Patch / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (2)

I wish I could do more for Mama patch. I have lots of plans and dreams, but just no energy to carry everything I have in my mind. I could have register mama patch in more web directories, I could have promote mama Patch more effectively by expanding our stockist or to place them at places within easy reach from the public. I want to do so much, but I notice the kids are very much neglected now. I just had to bury my dream, at least for the time being, until they are older.

Where I have been?

27.03.10 / Child's Play, Chin Nee, Confinement preparation, Mama Patch, Parenting, SL Buddhist, best & good, remember me / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (6)

Notice I have been missing away from blog, from facebook for days already? I miss my blog, I miss chatting with my blogging friends, I miss my children, I miss baking, I miss my life during this crazy one week Mama Patch anniversary sale. Or perhaps I am not efficient enough? Really can’t believe how lousy I am!

It certainly isn’t easy to run an online shop, especially in a one-man-show business, plus so many distraction from home. So if you ask me if I wanna run a big business and be a Big Si-Tau-Poh…err….NO..more more. I changed my mind. I told hubby, I would rather just let Mama Patch stay small and exclusive as it is now, and it is already enough to keep me busy. Am just happy where I am, doing a little here and there, to keep myself occupied while still being able to spend some time with the kids.

So, no more dream of business expansion, as I do not wish to die of exhaustion since I do not have a good coverage of whole life insurance to protect me. Not at least at the moment when my children still needs me ya…*shake head*….what a weak woman I am!

1280 Fans on Mama Patch Facebook!

23.03.10 / Baby wearing, Celebration, Contest, Mama Patch / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (7)
Tags: free cloth pads, free ring sling, Mama Patch

THANK YOU, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.

Mama Patch will never reach this far, without support from FRIENDS and FANS out there!! You certainly deserve the best, and we will strive our very best, from MAMA PATCH…… *tears in my eyes*…….

As promised, EVERYTHING WILL GO AT 28%, UNTIL 31 MARCH 2010. You will have more than ONE WEEK to grab, although we might deliver later as expected most items will be custom made, especially our Ring Sling.

To place order, please furnish all details needed at http://www.mamapatch.com/order/ so we can process and reply as soon as possible.

And wait, we are not done yet…………

You still have a chance to participate for our Grand Prize Draw!!

All you have to do is copy and paste the below birthday wish and picture to

1. Join Us as a Fan on www.facebook.com/mamapatch
2. your blog (create a new blog post, link back to www.mamapatch.com) or/and
   
3. your facebook wall (shout the message above plus picture as frequent as you like on your WALL. Just remember to leave us a comment on our page at www.facebook.com/mamapatch)

“It’s Mama Patch 1st Anniversary!
Check out their finest handmade at http://www.mamapatch.com
Join as a FAN at http://www.facebook.com/mamapatch “

Grand Draw: ONE FREE Pastel Silk Baby Ring Sling worth Rm168 (design fully custom made to your wish) or Cloth Pads (combination of your choice) worth Rm128
Everyone stand a fair chance. Blog or share on facebook starting from now until today, 12 midnight!

Each announcement will entitle one draw so you can post or share as frequent (even daily or hourly!) as you like (pssssstt….we only have about 100 names at the moment and many are repeat names!) Our grand prize will goes the winner fairly and randomly pick by our little model in the pic above when he gets up in the morning tomorrow!

Very much blessed,
Chin Nee

Updates at Mama patch

23.03.10 / Baby wearing, Cloth Pad, Mama Patch / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (0)
Tags: babywearing, cloth pads, fleece cloth pads, fleece pads, linen ring sling, Mama Patch, pure linen ring sling, ring sling

Anyone who sees me in mamapatch facebook now will surely know that what I am waiting for at this moment.Yes, the moment Mama Patch reaches 1280 fans, I’ll have to change all my price to Promo Price on website, and send out all my replied emails in draft. There has been lots of enquiry coming in.

Pure Linen Series

This discount is a great opportunity for anyone who wish to try out wearing their babies. Even existing customers are grabbing more Ring Slings (28% is really a good time to grab our new launched Luxurious Pure Linen) to match their clothing!

Premium Fleece Cloth Pads

Besides  a great chance to experience babywearing, friends who were reluctant to try out the cloth pads initially actually turn in to ask more about cloth too. Am really so happy to see many them giving cloth a try this time, and I can 101% assure you that there is no turning back to disposable once you tried cloth pads.

To check out more, do go to www.mamapatch.com. Wish to be in a part of our Grand Draw Giveaway? Do check out details at our website and see how you can join our Shout Out Contest, end at 12 midnight tonight!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAMA PATCH!

16.03.10 / Baby wearing, Child's Play, Chin Nee, Cloth Pad, Mama Patch, Mama pad, Parenting, best & good, remember me / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (13)
Tags: 1st anniversary, Anniversary, baby ring slings, babywearing, Birthday, Cloth Pad, cloth pads, facebook, fans in facebook, mamapatch, ring sling

*chop*, some announcement from mamapatch…

Gosh, time flies and without realizing we have now reached  Our 1st Anniversary, at Mama Patch! To honour and appreciate everyone who has support us, we have something nice for everyone to win:

How to participate:
All you have to do is copy and paste the below birthday wish and picture to

1. your blog (create a new blog post, link back to www.mamapatch.com) or/and
   
2. your facebook wall (write message, upload pic, leave us a comment on our page at www.facebook.com/mamapatch)
3. And lastly, remember to Join Us as a Fan on www.facebook.com/mamapatch

“It’s Mama Patch 1st Anniversary!
Check out their finest handmade at http://www.mamapatch.com
Join as a FAN at http://www.facebook.com/mamapatch “

Grand Draw: ONE FREE Pastel Silk Baby Ring Sling worth Rm168 (design fully custom made to your wish) or Cloth Pads (combination of your choice) worth Rm128
Everyone stand a fair chance. Blog or share on facebook starting from now. Each announcement will entitle one draw (so 2 announcement = 2 draws) so you can post or share as frequent (be it daily or even hourly) as you want. Our grand prize will goes the blogger/ facebook Fan, fairly and randomly pick by our little model in the pic above when he gets up in the morning on 31 March, 2010 (dateline).

Token for everyone: 28% Discount Voucher for ALL
And that’s not all. We want to thank everyone too, for walking down the one journey with us. Please help us to invite all your friends to join us as a Mama Patch FAN in FACEBOOK. Once we reach 1280 Fans, we will be announcing a Super 28% Discount Voucher (applicable all handmade on Mama Patch website) to everyone, through Facebook (do make sure you join us to be find out ya!)

Thanks a lot!

Very much blessed,
Chin Nee

Fun with medicine

05.02.10 / Mama Patch, Parenting / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (7)
Tags: baby ring sling, cny collection, fun with syringe, Mama Patch, ring sling

Thanks for all well wishes, for us. We wish you the same too, to be in the pink of health before the arrival of CNY.

The boys are indeed getting better and today, Korkor no longer release smelly-watery yellow poo. That ends the misery of forcing them to drink so much of medicine, especially the “plasticky smell” medical powder sachet. Although they are only having flu and coughing now, drinking only 2 types of medicine is a bliss.

The boys love to play with the syringe. Tricking them to take medicine becomes easy this way. Of course they are smart that they would not drink those sweet syrup so we alternate a few syringes with plain water (it is easy as my boys love plain water).

Mama Patch CNY & Valentine’s Day Special Collection

In conjuction to this coming festive season, and also for the first time, we are offering a great bargain of 8% off for this Hot and Sexy Ring Sling collection. A great time to add another item to your wardrobe, matching it with your CNY clothing Check out more details at Mama Patch Website

Mama Patch will be close from 12th~20th February 2009 for this coming CNY celebration. Last shipment will be 11th February and resume again on 22th February 2009.

On the other hand, I am still rushing to deliver orders for Mama Patch so do not have the time to bake my pineapple tarts yet. In order to not neglecting my family, I am closing order for custom made pads and ring slings now so I can have more time for CNY preparation. For ready stock, you can still send in order and we will ship out before we leave home for CNY.

It’s a http://www.facebook.com/mamapatch

16.12.09 / Baby wearing, Cloth Pad, Mama Patch / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (4)
Tags: facebook, goes, Green, greener planet, Mama Patch, mamapatch, planet

Yeah!!!!

Finally we got our own URL and now officially named on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/mamapatch

Thanks to support from all friends online, all my close blogging kaki-s and readers (silent readers, I know you are there following this blog up to Mama Patch, thank you!), Facebook Fans of Mama Patch, we have almost 500 FANS as of today. As compare to blogging sometimes back, I find that uploading latest information and pictures through Facebook is even more easier and quicker for me to reach out to all without leaving out anyone.

If you have beautiful babywearing moments or cloth wearing experience to share, do drop by at our WALL. Just:

1. log into your facebook account
2. go to  http://www.facebook.com/mamapatch or search for “Mama Patch”
3. You can either type “What’s on your mind” / insert photos / add link to your blog posting by clicking on the above shown

Mama Patch goes GREEN: Join us at http://www.facebook.com/mamapatch to help us promote babywearing and spread the love by using only reusable for a Greener Planet for the sake of our future generation.

If you wish to catch up with the latest release of Mama Patch (yeah, we are in the midst of coming up with something new even if you do not wear your baby or does not like the idea of using cloth pad) , come join us and BECOME A FAN in http://www.facebook.com/mamapatch to find out what’s happening behind our curtains ;p

p/s: Although it sounds a bit crazy, Mama Patch has the wildest dreams of reaching out to 3000 fans by 31 December 2009. Not sure if it is achievable, but we definitely need everyone’s help. Just

1. log into your facebook account
2. go to  http://www.facebook.com/mamapatch or search for “Mama Patch”
3. click on “Suggest to Friends” (see the red circle on Mama Patch as shown as above) to all your family members and friends.

*psssss*….We will announce something special for everyone (announcement will only be made through Facebook) once we reach 3000 Fans!

Despite my “busyness” with the running boys

09.10.09 / Baby wearing, Cloth Pad, Mama Patch / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (12)
Tags: Baby wearing, cloth, designer, Mama, mamapatch, pads, patch, pocket, ring, sling

I am starting to worry as my boys are now taking too much of my time. Instead of spending more hours in front of the laptop, now I have to chase them all day long. I can only run to my laptop once in a while to check and reply urgent emails/orders. Since my neighbour is hospitalized now, I had to send QQ to school myself and even pick up her and some neighbour’s kids. Sometimes I even take more than 24 hours to reply emails, which can be quite embarrassing especially when I am running on online business.

Updates on Mama Patch Ring Slings

Some new Designer Pocket Ring sling, order customized by the customers

I get more orders for Ring Sling with Pockets nowadays as compare to the silk (which is still my favourite). Guess it is more convenient to wear a sling with pocket so we can at least go “free-hand” as we ladies hardly has pocket on our pants. As we allow customer to mix match the pocket prints and the color of the sling they want, they can really amaze me with the combination of design they come up with.

Most recent order, Barnsling Zip Pocket on White Ditte (Nah…I just wanna show off my new hair color ) I think this Barnsling will look very striking on Black Ditte too. To find out more variation you can create with our Designer pocket Ring Sling, do visit http://www.mamapatch.com/category/ring-sling-designer-pocket/ .

Updates on Mama Patch Modern Cloth Pads

Not only I am crazy about using cloth myself, I get very hooked up seeing the beautiful colors and combination I can come up with my products. Just can’t stand snapping pics of the cloth pads (You will think I am nut if you see me frequently lining up the colorful pads at my main sling door for the light I need for shooting!!) Hmm…at least something of my personal creation which I am really proud off! See more @ http://www.mamapatch.com/category/modern-cloth-pad/

Recent Discovery

After using cloth pad for my menses almost a year, I sometimes cannot be bothered if there are unremoveable stains on my pads. I am still sceptical about if it really gonna grow bacteria in the between layers so I decided to open up an old pad to check. Guess what’s my finding?

As I do not bother to soak with soapy water (you see, I can change new ones as frequent as I want, hehe…) the surface sometimes leaves stains. When I cut it up, I am SO SURPISE to see that the inner layers (right to the bottom) is actually as good as new!! Wonder why??

Well, the answer is because blood (blood from any part of our body, not just menses) is easily staineable ONLY when it is exposed to air. It will be good to sun your pads on the line as sun not only kills bacteria (hey, our blood is sterile anyway, OK!), it works great as a whitening agent too. But even if you don’t, you can now be assured that your pads is really clean in the inside (see picture above). Don’t believe, go open up your pad and check it out yourself

Updates on Mama Patch Petite Wetbags

Worry about the messiness of using Cloth Pads during outing? Here, is the solution by using wetbags. Mama Patch cute Petite Wetbags are designed for your convenience of pad storage. With just our single zip wetbag, you can keep the soiled pads in the zipped area (with pretty colorful waterproof lining) and separete the cleans one on the outer pocket. Isn’t it conveninent?Check out more prints @ http://www.mamapatch.com/category/wetbag/

Now if you are still lazy about bringing home soiled pads from shopping for hours, just go out with your disposable and bring a cloth for change when you are about to come back. Otherwise use only cloth at home on weekends and nights for a deep and comfy sleep.

Now you do not have any excuse for using cloth pad, do you?

Irresponsible Printer (name not reveal)- edited version

12.08.09 / Chin Nee, Just info, Mama Patch / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (25)
Tags: Chan, cheap, company, hp @ 012-6832111, khinzir, Kinz, leaflet, leaflets, Mama Patch, Mr, online, printer, printing, silly leaflets, www.xprint.com.my, xprint, xprint.com.my

Can you see what’s wrong with the leaflet as shown in the picture?

Instead of printing front and back differently, this headless company actually printed them this way, each 1000pcs  (for my 2000pcs A5 leaflet order). And what made me so *BURNING* and *EXPLODING*mad is that:

• their staff (was silly of me that I forgotten to ask for her name) was the one advised me for my artwork placing
• their inexperience or irresponsible staff, Mxxxx is the one who admitted nothing wrong with my artwork prior printing (when I keep calling her to reconfirm as my 6th sense is suspecting something amiss about the placement, she did not even replied my call despite many many times I called in and she was engaged)

When I received the order, I called in and guess what, once again the same personnel, actually admitted she did not see anything wrong about my artwork placement.

Knowing nothing can be done by just talking to their staff who would not admit their own mistake and pay for my reprint, I somehow got the contact number of  the boss of this printing company and called him instead.

To cut story short, he insisted that it is his “company policy” that no free reprint should be done, no matter what. After 30mins of argument, I decided not to waste another second on my handphone bill talking to someone like this. Really heart pain, sigh…luckily I can control my anger well and I do not keep them for long.  Not worth letting these idiot (ok, must be polite right, after all they are still human!) driving me to the grave since I am not properly insured (I know I should upgrade the coverage with the new life insurance quote.

So irresponsible when they keep pushing the fault to my artwork while it was being adviced by their staffs.

Funny thing is he wasn’t very happy on how I got his HP number online. Too bad he doesn’t know what a blogger can do and he got his old info was cached in Google although it has been removed.

So do not be surprise k, if you see Mama Patch leaflets around the town, coming in 2 sheets instead of one. Now you know the original story of how these funny leaflets were produced

Update on 14/5/2010:

1. They wrote 2 emails reminder to me to remove this post  otherwise they will file a complaint with MCMC and follow by the legal action. However I do not see any reason why I should, as after all I was only pouring out my anger with their irresponsible manner of handling their customer AT MY OWN SPACE.

2. I owe an explaination to the public on why the Mama Patch product leaflet appear in such a funny way.

3. In fact, I  am still a customer to this company and I have nothing against this company. It was the irresponsible way of their (referring to the name stated above) method of handling customer that make me really pissed off.

4. I have decided to edit my writing if there is any word I used on humanity basis. But I will definitely not taking down this post, as everything written happened in actual. (In fact, I still have the proof of the end product with me and I hope they recorded their tele-conversation with their customer as well to show what actually happened that day.

5. I do not hope to spend another single minute wasting my time dealing with all the nonsense above. If they are smart, they should let the sleeping dog lies. But if they really want to push me to the wall, I shall file a complaint to the tribunal and bring this up again to the media.

Update on 15/5/2010:

I have taken down the real name of the PIC in charge but am leaving the company name here, for record purpose on how my silly leaflet was created.

Picnic at Damai

11.08.09 / Family, Mama Patch / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (7)
Tags: Ampang park, babywearing, bean bags, cloth, Craft, cupcake, Damai, decor arts, Doof, event, gathering, Mama Patch, pads, picnic, ring sling, story telling, Tiny Tapir

Anyone saw me in Facebook already knows how *burning and exploding* mad I was a few days back. Anyhow I had a great weekend at the Damai Picnic and I shall share the happy thing first.

Some pics from the picnic. I forgot my camera, but thanks to Faridah’s hubby for helping me to capture some of them.

Mama Patch corner given by Tiny Tapir, thank you.

Happy picnickers eating on the clean grass, with luxurious Doof bean bags as  seats! (seriously I have not come across a picnic like this!)

QQ at cupcake decor corner. Rm5 and she gets to decorate 2 yummy baked cupcakes with lots of pretty toppings!

Me lazying on of the luxury Doof bean bags with my kids towards the end of the picnic

Tell you, these bean bags are so beautiful and so comfy. How nice if I can afford to get a few of these in my house!

More pictures of the picnic here

Really, I did not expect this picnic to be so fun, especially for the kids (how I wish I am a kid again!) There are so many activities arranged for kids

• fresh cupcake decoration kids can decorate (a small fee for children activities will be charged)
• arts and crafts for kids
• story telling

besides yummy BBQ and great talks/demo going around for the adults. Those who have not turned out, you have really miss this one. But if you are into babywearing, we will have another babywearing gathering soon, on this Sunday at Tiny Tapir, Ampang Park.

Daddy in sling

07.08.09 / Baby wearing, Mama Patch / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (5)
Tags: babywearing, ring sling

Don’t be surprise if you see pic of a man wearing his son on Mama Patch new product leaflets very very soon.  All the while it was me, the mother who wear the boys but Jessie suggested that it is nicer to have men do the babywearing instead. Looks cool huh? Thanks, Jessie for your suggestion.

Dad wtih son in Colorful Red Ditte Ring Sling (Lusy Flower patch is hidden in the loop)

Dad wtih son in De Pastel Raw Silk Cool Winter

Nah…he won’t wear his son in public la since he has 2 maids (me and Kakak) carrying his boys. But I still like to put the boys on him just for my photography sessions. We wanted to try on QQ but she refuse

How I got started on cloth

04.08.09 / Cloth Pad, Mama Patch / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (14)
Tags: Cloth Pad

Thanks for the positive and very encouraging support to Mama Patch Pads. I am indeed touched to know that so many friends around me are already reaching all way out to save our environment, besides enjoying the health, benefits and comfort from switching to cloth. Let me just share my childhood story here, starting from being a girl.

Experience with Disposable Pads

I consider myself one extremely unlucky female on earth having very bad regular menses cramp. Ever since I got my menses during my teens, I have been hating myself being a lady, having to go through monthly torture with not only bad cramp, but itchiness, rashes and extremely uncomfortable. I stay away from school and from work at least a day in a month when I have my menses. I had to rush myself into the loo very very frequently especially on heavy days as I can’t stand feeling damp when the blood clot gushed out from my body and stay jellied. And worst of all, I keep thinking that my blood stink, and it did not even cross my mind it is the horrible smell actually comes from the chemical in disposable pads. (to prove this, you notice our used liners sucks even though we do not bleed?)

Realise the Goodness of Cloth Pad

I started off my boys on cloth diapers after being nagged by a good online friend (must really thanks to you, Chanel). It really feels great converting my boys fully to cloth even at night and I thought, why not myself to cloth as well?

I was really skeptical about the whole thing at first, but well, no harm trying anyway. I started myself with cloth pad on lighter days and slowly brave myself to use cloth even on my heaviest flow. I was really amaze to realise that even a piece of thin cloth pad can actually absorb so much better than disposable! With cloth, now I could sleep very comfortably at night without having to worry myself overflow all over my mattress sheet.

From then on, I have been fully on cloth even on outing. Not only it saves more (disposable pads are really expensive in long run), but I just love the comfort of wearing cloth pad. Gone were the days of my damp and discomfort experience and I have never turn back to disposable ever since.

Washing Part

You will be so surprise to know that our blood does not stink at all. It is actually the chemical that makes us stink. I love washing my own pad and each time I do, it somehow gives me a kind of satisfaction for saving the environment.

1. Whenever I change to a fresh one, I’ll rinse off my soiled pad under running water until water runs clear.
2. Then I’ll leave it to soak to remove stain.
3. Toss into machine and just wash it as how I do my undies together with the laundry.

Healthier living for our new generation

Wearing cloth is so much healtier too. Now I know how comfy my boys feel wearing cloth diapers instead of disposable diapers. Realising the benefits of cloth, I will surely put my girl on cloth too, in future so that she could have a healtier, comfortable growing up journey in her life.

Modern Cloth Pad

02.08.09 / Cloth Pad, Just info, Mama Patch, Mama pad / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (9)
Tags: Cloth Pad, modern

My birthday celebration

27.07.09 / Celebration, Chin Nee, Mama Patch / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (27)
Tags: KAM snap press

This is the 2nd year I celebrate my birthday with 3 kids. For dinner, I just prepared nasi lemak for the family. Told hubby not to get any cake but instead he came back home with 3 big slices of cake from Secret Recipe.

Initially I wanted to go to Umai-ya for Japanese buffet (heard so much about this place), but after a second thought, it is really too pricey to spend for a meal like this. Furthermore, it might be difficult also for us to eat in peace since 2 boys will be making lots of noise. Better save the money and go later when they are bigger.

KAM Snap Press

As a birthday present, I got myself a KAM Snap Press for my sewing project. It is indeed a very heavy chunk of metal and now I can easily apply snaps for Mama Patch cloth pad, bags and even repair my kids cloth diapers. If you have anything which requires snap press service, just send over your kids project and I’ll help you to apply the snaps onto your projects

See also

Picnic @ Damai (organised by Tiny Tapir)

Not knowing what to do on weekends? Take advantage of Tiny Tapir’s lovely grass at their bungalow @ Damai and have a picnic with your family ( some picnic cloths provided). The event is FREE lots of activity for yourself and your children too.

What’s new @ Mama Patch

17.07.09 / Mama Patch / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (6)
Tags: babywearing, Mama, pad, patch

It has been a great blessing for Mama Patch since we started creating piece by piece unique handmade Ring Sling for local local mums since March. It is indeed a great and exciting journey for us, especially when each material is selected (with help of QQ) each piece product created and even tested (by my 2 boys) at home, with much of love.

Catch a glimpse on my new product! Fresh out from sewing room. I hope I could launch Mama Pad in a week or two soon!

Mama Patch Baby Wipes for Grabs
Mama Patch Baby Wipes will still be on wholesale price just for you only Rm22 per bundle of 5 different prints (price valid until 22nd July 2009). To order, click here. Grab them while stock last.

Share with us your intimate moments with your lil ones

Subscribe to Mama Patch Mailing List
To celebrate this special month, we have a total of 10 x RM10 Vouchers for grab. All you have to do is to subscribe to Mama Patch Mailing List. Every lucky 8th person* will walk away with a Rm10 voucher. Do share this great news with your friends and family!

Alternately, if you facebooking, do join us as a fan @ Facebook

We love the earth and hope to produce more reusable mother and baby products from our smoke-free and pet-free home for you and your little ones.