Happy New Year

A toast to all of you for helping make 2010

- the Baby Diva launch year -

 a fantastic success!

Looking forward to expanding our style for the New Year!

Everyone please have a safe, happy and healthy New Year!

Much Love to you all - Angela

Baby Diva of the Month

Oooooh, This may turn out to be a pain or it may turn out to work great!

Trying to get the layout right for the Baby Diva of the Month Contest for January 2011....  I have a couple of options - I can put the voting up top and the pics to left..... decisions decisions....

The good thing about this is that ANYONE can vote!  All they need is a computer!  They do not have to be a facebooker or "like" the baby diva on fb (although I am hoping they will if they have an account.... hint hint).

All anyone will need to do its visit the blog and cast their vote. 

Look to the left and you will see a mock up of what I'm thinking the voting will look like.  I am going to allow people to vote for more than one picture.  Sometimes we don't get entries until later in the month and I see no need for people to have "voters remorse"! 

Now taking submissions for the January 2011 contest!  Here is all the info...

Send us your Baby Diva/Rough House pictures and enter your child to become the Baby Diva of the month!


Here is what you need to know!

1. Email me your photo entry at angela@thebabydiva.com using “Baby Diva of the Month Photo Entry” as your subject line.
2. Your child must be wearing a Baby Diva/Rough House item to be entered!
3. Please include your Full Name, Address and phone # in the body of the email (No personal Information will be made public - this is for our eyes only!).
4. All photos will be placed, the day they are received) in the current month contest photo album on our blog for voting by all.
5. I will only cast my vote in the event of a tie.

Winner will receive their choice of a Baby Diva/Rough House Hat or Headband!! (One of a Kinds are excluded ....  sorry)

Also – the winning photo will be displayed on the Baby Diva web homepage and be the new Baby Diva Face book Profile Photo for the following month! We reserve the right to change our profile photo when new items come up that need to be showcased, however, the Baby Diva of the Month photo will be our main priority to showcase...)

Please read our Privacy Policy ( http://thebabydiva.com/privacy_policy.htm) prior to submitting your photo! By submitting your photo below you acknowledge and agree to the Baby Diva's Privacy Policy terms and conditions and release us your permission to use the photos on our page, www.thebabydiva.com , and here on our Face book page for contests and / or advertising.

***Please do not send us naked baby pictures! Although they are usually very cute we will not be able to use them due to federal regulations. Crop your images prior to sending them. If we do receive a photo that is questionable we reserve the right to edit them for suitable viewing (or not enter them at all). Thank you!

Get all of your friends and family to go to the Baby Diva Blog and Vote to up your chances of winning! There will also be a Baby Diva of the Year contest with a prize you won't want to miss out on!


Only Baby Diva of the Month winners will be in the contest for Baby Diva of the Year!

Can't wait to get it started!!!

The Holidays are Upon Us....

As I sit here and think about the fact that Christmas is only 1 week away - I try not to stress out.  Running two businesses and a home and the holidays can be a bit much for anyone!  Out shopping today I saw so many grumpy faces and people shuffling about and fighting over parking spaces, then seeing the young couple feel terrible they "shoved" me out of a spot when they saw me carrying Giavanna in the cold, then racing in line to some of the rudest checkout people on earth and even ruder customers... made me kinda sad (that was until my focus shifted to Giavanna screaming with excitement as people paid attention to her and complimented her Baby Diva hat...lol).  After getting home, exhausted, all I thought about was the kids and Ang and the rest of the family being here on Christmas Morning to open all the gifts and to watch the smiles come across the kids faces...  That iswhat Christmas is all about.  I try not to forget that when I see that I too may have a "grumpy" face on.  The kids - their smiles - the laughter - the food and the family....  they all equal the holidays!

An lil "outtake" from last years Christmas photos... I love outtakes... he he


All of that being said - I know how lucky I am to have these two businesses that have brought me together with so many AMAZING people, my home, my man, and my two beautiful kids! 

Just want to take a second to thank everyone for all of your support in this new venture of mine - your support means the world to me.  Even though I would love to thank everyone personally for every "like" on a new product design, all of your wonderful comments, promotion of the Baby Diva and the sales that have come in this year - there simply isn't always enough time to say it - but there should be.  So, from the bottom of my heart I thank all of you so very much for all you have done!!!  You are all so amazing!!!

Success & Thanks!

So we successfully did a contest on the blog!  How does everyone feel it went?  Issues loading your comments?  Some people were telling me at first it wouldn't take their comment but I think they worked out the kinks on their own...  If there were issues please tell me - If you can't post here email me at angela@thebabydiva.com

Gotta gear up to do January's Baby Diva of the Month contest - that won't be through comments though it will be through a voting system - which I am currently trying to figure out...  he he - I'll get it though I promise!

A lil snipit from what's going into the Baby Diva / Rough House Holiday Gift

On another note - I want to take a second to thank those of you who nominated someone for the Holiday Giveaway.  There were some tough stories to read and my task of selecting was not easy!  The recipient will be receiving their box by early next week and I am including a letter letting them know who they were nominated by.  I'm hoping that next year I will be able to send out more than one!  Please keep this in mind as we go though the year...  We all have so much already, and its not necessarily about money but putting a smile on someones face who could use it.  Or just letting them know you thought of them during a hard time.

I am very excited to send out this package!  I hope it helps to lift their spirits!

And I will leave you with another outtake from Giavanna's pictures....  they crack me up!

I even bribed her with my phone today - worked for a while.... 

What should we name that hat.....????

Ok Ok - Gotta give this whole Blog Contest thing a try right???

If you've been watching the Baby Diva FB page and the site you have noticed we have been doing Vintage Inspired One of a Kind Headbands... and naming them appropriately....

I really wanted to try a hat - seeing how Giavanna will only wear hats (headbands if I bribe her) I figured a lot of other lil ones were the same so  I gave it a shot with a Black Newsboy Cap and brand new Crushed Lace Flowers.  I added a few Burnished Pearls to accent the flowers and, my new love, the black and burgundy feather accents!

I absolutely love the way it came out and cannot wait for Giavanna to wake up from her nap so I can try it on her and get some shots of her in it!

Here are some photos for you...

Now here is your task.....  Name this hat!  Simply add a comment to this blog - I will be checking back and selecting the winner tonight at 9 pm - the lucky winner will get a piece of their choice from the Baby Diva Rough House Collection! (sorry - One of a Kinds Excluded... :( ) Feeling that Holiday Spirit as the wind and snow are blowing outside!!!


Good Luck Ladies!

So, I'm blogging...

Today - I guess I am officially blogging! 
.....

Trying to focus on getting things done and the whole new Facebook promotions rules have just gotten in my way!!!  Now - I must blog!  But - hey - we gotta continue our contests and the Baby Diva of the Month somehow right!?

So, Giavanna is now napping and I am down in the office editing the photos she "allowed" me to take of her this morning.  Of course I had to bribe her with pretzels and dip for breakfast (that was after her real breakfast)

so she would sit still and keep the headbands on long enough for me to get some good shots of them.  I will be posting the "good" images on the FB page and the website in a little bit but thought it would be fun to share a couple of her "outtakes'!

People ask me all the time how I get good photos of her - I am NOT a professional photographer my any means - I have a good camera (and am still learning it) and I take probably 100 photos to get just about 5 to come out perfect! 

But no matter how many come out perfect or horrible we always have fun!  I'm excited about the new Vintage Inspired One of A Kind headbands and clips....  I am dieing to do some hats too (just not today)!  Picking out all the fabrics was a hard task...  there are so many beautiful fabrics - some that work well - some that don't.  But it's all trial and error for me right now. Just like this blog!

As for the blog - and the contests - I am working on getting the blog transferred over to thebabydiva.com and then finding a way that we can do the Baby Diva of the Month contests here so that the FaceBook police don't boot us off!

I will keep you all informed on the contests of course!

And please let me know if there is anything you would like to see on here - I guess now that I am "blogging" I have a little more freedom to do things here that I can't on FB or the site - Please let me know!!

Thanks everyone!



Just getting started

Well - I guess now I have to learn a new gig....  the Blog!  I have been avoiding this day!  But, the new facebook rules are making it impossible not to have one now that they won't let me do contests for you guys on the facebook Baby Diva page .... :(

Their new rules began December 1, 2010 and I am afraid that they could shut down the Baby Diva page if I continue to do the contests through their platform.

I am just learning this now in hopes that I can have it all set up in time for January's Baby Diva of the Month Contest!  Jeez!  And people were just starting to get the hang of how to vote!

Oh well.... at least we are only 2 months in and not longer - as I learn so will all of you!!! 

Welcome to blogging!!!