12.07.10 / Parenting / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (1)
Tags: cloth, cloth pads, Mama Patch, modern cloth pads, tuala wanita
I am so excited, because, Ahem….yes, my special day is arriving. Happiness is meant to be shared, isn’t it?
Am giving running some promotion to promote cloth pads by hoping more will switch to cloth. It is always best to start with Cloth Liners, if you are afraid of mess of washing your own blood.
Here is what everyone is waiting for!
Plus SUPER BARGAIN PACKS (see below)
PINKY PACK
Introduction of our new pink FLOWER liners (our first flannel printed liners). Comes in only shade of light pink, dark pink and purple, Pinky Pack only cost Rm24! (normal price is Rm27 for 3 liners)
COLOR PACK
Get 5 liners from Monday right up to Friday and get a Free FLOWER liner for free. So that makes up to 6 liners in a week so you do not have to worry about doing your laundry daily during the weekdays.
REGULAR PACK
If you have been switching to cloth liners, you will surely love wearing the cloth pads and do not mind washing it a bit. Trust me, the comfort of wearing cloth is simply so wonderful that you would not even mind washing it. In fact, you will fall in love with doing laundry with your cloth pads like I do!
WETBAG PROMOTION
Yes, we care for you and know that storage especially the soiled pads will be your greatest concern, if you wish to fully convert to cloth. For this month (only until 23 July 2010), we are slashing our price up to 40% on all our Petite Wetbags for purchase of cloth pads total up to as minimal to RM 50.
With the great bargain offer as above, we hope that more will switch to cloth, for a Greener Earth for our future and our children.
p/s: We posted this promotion on Facebook plus all our latest products too. To enjoy free shipping for your purchase, do post one of the Picture Announcement above on your Facebook Wall and notify us when you send in your order to mama_patch@yahoo.com
Remember to join us at http://facebook.com/mamapatch so you could catch our latest news too!
06.04.10 / Child's Play, Parenting / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (10)
Tags: babywearing, cloth pads, Mama Patch
It is scary, to run a home business from home, surrounded by 3 all-day-long fighting kids, without help of anyone, except a maid. My 3 kids hardly sleeps and even if they do, the boys only nap about an hour each day. Rest of the time, they are still hooked to me for “their pacifier” (obviously weaning fail!), and that’s when they do not fight!
During daytime, I can no longer stay by the computer much, so I spend my time travelling here and there, bringing my kids along to make arrangement with my tailor for the orders. It is only after the kids sleep at night, I can reply all orders and inquiries on emails so I had to work pass 2am each day 
Overall, Mama Patch anniversary sales was a great success, thanks to support from so many friends and readers from this blog. Although margin is really less after the great discount, I had the greatest satisfaction when many friends who were skeptical about using washable cloth pads actually took this opportunity to try the pads out since the pads are so damn cheap. You should see how they reacted and comment after their first trial! One review from one of our blogger friend here.
Not only that, our old customers who know the “magical” of cloth pads actually took this great opportunity to grab like there is no tomorrow. Besides that, babywearing was greatly promoted to many first timers also where many babywearers bought slings as gift for their relatives and friends.
With the support from so many people on our homemade, now Mama Patch can afford to hire another SAHM to sewn from home. Our 2nd tailor, a thirty-plus Indonesian Chinese young widow, who were left alone in this country with 2 daughters has been sewing to make a living ever since her hubby passed away few years back due to cancer. Besides promoting quality handmade, I am very happy that we manage to live to our motto, to support work-from-home mothers.
Our promotion finally ended at 31 March (you won’t believe how relief I am at that very moment!), and we pack to leave home for Cheng Beng at hubby’s hometown. Check out one interesting place we visited while we were back to hometown soon…..
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
- Join Us as a Fan on www.facebook.com/mamapatch
- your blog (create a new blog post, link back to www.mamapatch.com) or/and
- 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
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!
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.
08.01.10 / Child's Play, Chin Nee, Parenting, remember me / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (17)
Tags: baby ring sling, breastfeeding, breastfeeeding twins, cloth pads, cotton cloth pad, day of SAHM, fleece pad, Mama Patch, mamapatch, menstrual cloth pad, microchamois pad, old time teochew favorite, orh nee, pacifiyng, premium cloth pad, ring sling, sweet yam paste, teochew delight, Twins, washable pads
As the boys (now at 19 months) hardly nap now (only once a day), I no longer enjoy long online working hours. For the 2 hours nap, I have to reply emails, enquiries, update worksheet when receive order, kepo-ing and visit my friends in FB, take pictures, edit them and then upload the products and my blog pictures, snap the pads, make arrangement and pack things for shipping, go out run errand, pick up stocks from my tailor, and finally blog, chat, bake (if I have time)!
*Now you see*
For instant, this is what they did when I want to take picture of my sling for my website. As they just recovered from their flu and cough and have better appetite recently, now they both look almost the same again! Gosh, even myself can’t even recognise who is who now!
*Now you don’t*
As they were playing at the grill door, blocking my lighting, kept on appearing in my many camera clicks, then go play on the electric plugs (sigh….modern plugs are situated so much lower now at the risk of children touching them), we shooed them away.
“WAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!”
And this is what happen usually when I am in a rush to get things done, so that I can meet delivery and reply mails. I got stuck afterward for hours, trying to soothe my *si beh cheung hei* boys down, nurse them, coax them and finally by the time they fell asleep, their “want-to-play” sister is back from school again!
So now you know why it is so hard to get just one simple email or quotation replied from SAHM like me. Having a maid is not much better when it comes to managing the boys as they are also older now, and know who to choose to carry them.
Breastfeeding Pacifying twins @ 19 months
Tell you, they even pakat to suckle together, face to face, play, giggle and laugh while suckle from my poor boobs. If the first one let goes of my poor overly-dry dangling boob, he will ask another to “tutup baju” also. But if the other half refuse, one will get very *boh-kam-wan* and continue suckle for comfort at his side until there is no ending for me
Some little achievement for the week
1. Release of Mama Patch Premium Fleece Pad at Mama Patch
2. New design flannel cotton pads : Floral/ Plaid Regular at Mama Patch
3. Making of Yummy delicious old time Teochew Delight - Orh Nee (Sweet Yam Paste) at Decuisine.net
Enjoy drooling and happy weekend to all!
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:
- log into your facebook account
- go to http://www.facebook.com/mamapatch or search for “Mama Patch”
- 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
- log into your facebook account
- go to http://www.facebook.com/mamapatch or search for “Mama Patch”
- 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!
21.10.09 / Baby wearing, Celebration / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (8)
Tags: babywearing, events, IBW 09, IBW09, Mama Patch
The KL Babywearing members decided to meet up on the 17th October 2009 in conjunction of the IBW 09. We choosed The Curve as our meet up venue, hoping to avoid the crowd in 1Utama.
Gathering with some babywearing mummies
It is indeed great to see many young mummies nowadays are wearing their babies and toddlers. I just hope there will be more Chinese mummies will come out to show support to babywearing in public.
Posing for a group photo at the fountain at the end of the Weekend Flea Market
Initially we planned to walk over to Ikea Cafe but to our surprise, the place is sooo packed on that day! I think the group ended up elsewhere. We then went over to Ikea (boy, it was really hard to find a parking on that day) and got the kids a play tent
Everyone fresh in green
Since hubby and I just got a new shirt, we decided to wear green on that day, except qiqi who refuse to be in a theme with us. So she wore a white dress with little red flowers and I told her she looks like Kakak’s (who was wearing red) daughter instead.
We were suppose to attend a neighbour’s open house, but we reached home late. Although I still see many cars around, hubby did not want to go anymore
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.
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.
21.05.09 / Baking/Cooking, Celebration, Chin Nee, Mama Patch, Parenting / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (29)
Tags: cake, cupcakes, Mama Patch
I am so pissed off with him last night that I had to scream at him while having our dinner (if I still have those cupcakes with buttercream, I’ll throw them onto his face!)
Since the day I started to bake a few years back, I have been telling myself that I would one day want to bake for my own children’s birthday, be it a cake or cupcakes. Seeing that cupcakes is in trend now (actually more easy for me to decorate), I decided to go for cupcakes, at least until my piping skill improve.
But from the moment he knew I am gonna bake for them, he keep on asking me, many many times until yesterday, if my cake is going to be presentable, and he told me he prefer getting a “proper cake” from the shop for her girl’s birthday celebration in school (so that her girl could be proud CUTTING the cake instead of just having cupcakes)
After all the attempts and trials, all the hardwork and sweat (while I leave the boys crying behind) I am really dissappointed
It is now either I am going to bake ONLY CUPCAKES for all 3 functions (QQ’s school birthday celeb, boys birthday with family in Kuantan, and Melaka which I plan to buy from my favourite shop) to release my anger, OR he can have to use up all his great saving from the cash drawer, go and order 3 cakes for 3 occasions, apply leave from work so he could personally collect and send his version of “presentable cake” to his girl’s school!
What’s new over at Mama Patch
