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RDA 2nd Annual Reusable Cloth Diaper Photo Contest

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Last year, this was such a great campaign by the Real Diaper Association! It was a great success, our Executive Director is amazing! This helps raise tons of funds for our cause, please enter your baby! I know you have lots of cute fluffy bum pictures around!!

**Post by The Eco Chic

Grab your camera!

It’s time for the 2nd annual Real Diaper Association (RDA) 100% Reusable Cloth Diaper Photo Contest! Today (10/19/10) is the first day you can submit a picture to the contest. Anyone can enter the contest – all you need is a child in cloth diapers and a camera. Entries will be collected from now until November 3rd and there is a special treat for the 12 best photos that are submitted.

All submissions will have a chance to win. Any active RDA member as of November 5th, 2010 has the opportunity to vote on the best 12 pictures. (To become a member of the RDA follow this link to the contest rules and click Make a Donation on the right – membership is only $25 per family for the year.) But never fear – you don’t have to be a member of the RDA to submit your photo to the contest!

What happens to the best 12 photos? They will be used to create the 2011 RDA Cloth Diaper Calendar! And the picture with the highest number of votes will become the Cover Model – and win a Flip UltraHD 2nd generation video camera OR $150 Gift Certificate to my favorite diaper retailer – Kelly’s Closet! Tough decision on which prize I’ll choose when I win – think I may pick the gift certificate for more cloth diapers!!! Which prize would you pick if you beat me in the photo contest? Two runners up will also win great prizes from Metro Minis and Sub Tree Hugger – and all 12 finalists will get a copy of the 2011 RDA Calendar!

Hmmm….now which diaper should I choose and where should my setting be? The beach maybe? A park? In the pool? A holiday inspired picture? Oh the choices are endless!

Want to learn more? Want to win even MORE great prizes? Join the RDA along with Eco Chic Parties for a Kick Off Twitter Party – TONIGHT! Tuesday, October 19th from 9-10pm ET on Twitter (of course!). We’ll be answering all your questions about how to enter and going over some of the rules with you. We have some special guests joining us with lots of fun prizes including:

Nifty Nappy: giving away a combination of NINE cloth diapers of assorted styles and prints! Fitteds, pockets, swim diapers, and more!

The Willow Store: giving away TWO starter kits featuring their Super Saver shells and inserts.

Growin Green Bums: giving one lucky family a year membership to the RDA – so they can vote for their baby!

To RSVP for the #REALFlashyBums Twitter Partybe sure to visit Eco Chic Parties NOW and enter! The party starts at 9pm ET but I hear that Eco Chic Sidekick is offering up some pre-party training starting at 8pm ET for anyone who is new to Twitter! That’s TWO hours of party fun! What are you waiting for? Go enter – and don’t forget to bring your camera!

Posted in Cloth Diaper Charities, Cloth Diapering, Real Diaper Association, Real Diaper Circle, Reusable, Twitter | 2 Comments »

Interview with Rockin’ Green Cloth Diaper Detergent Creator, Kim Webb!!! **Closed**

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

Rockin' Green HQ

At the beginning of the month I took a trip to San Antonio, TX. On my list of things to do was to visit with the creator of Rockin’ Green Cloth Diaper Detergent, Kim Webb. I was fortunate enough to meet and interview her! I even got to tour the Rockin’ Green headquarters. I was so excited to meet Kim after months and months of chatting wither her via Twitter and Facebook, I was able to meet her in real life. We had a great time chatting about detergent and fluff. We first toured the office and I got to meet one of her son’s and an employee! After the tour, we sat down and I asked her a few questions. I would love to share with all my readers the pictures of her office and her answers to my questions! I hope you enjoy!

Q (Marissa): Why did you create Rockin’ Green?

A (Kim): I cloth diapered my oldest, who is 4 now, and was stripping every 2 weeks. In Texas, we have hard water and I even blew up one washing machine. I also converted all my friends to cloth, I was involved in a large playgroup. My friends came to me asking “I can’t get this to work?” and I felt really bad because I couldn’t help them and I couldn’t even get the stink out of my diapers. That was a big draw back to cloth diapering because I couldn’t help them wash. I was so tired of not being able to wash stuff right, my kids would get rashes from everything and I could not find anything that would work at the grocery stores. I then started researching about all the chemicals in laundry detergents and I started tinkering around and basically made my son’s own soap for months and months. I first started selling my detergent along with GAD diapers to see how it would do. And well, it took off and now all I sell is Rockin’ Green.

Q (Marissa): What is a typical day like to work for Rockin’ Green?
side note: extremely kid friendly, you can bring your kids to work! How cool is that?

A (Kim): It is pretty laid back, show up around 9, kids running around, my oldest, Jackson, is always playing…. my youngest, Zachary, thinks he is the foreman and will boss people around. The soap is now made in a larger facility, we could not keep up with demand, so it is made and packaged in a local facility. Then it comes back to us and we ship it out. We go through about 7,000 lbs of detergent a week, the facility is in San Antonio and we just got a bagging machine!

Warehouse

Warehouse

~Long Pause~ Potty Crew!

Q (Marissa): Can you tell me how your company makes environmentally friendly choices?

A (Kim): Packaging is very important, before we were using double bags a plastic bag to protect the soap and then a cloth bag to make it pretty. But it was a lot of waste, people would end up with 20 bags and it was adding up too much. We decided to go with the new bags, they are one piece and recyclable, they take up less to transport compared to a box of detergent. The bags allow for easy shipping. We wanted something to fit in a flat rate envelope which are already made by the post office so therefore reducing waste. Our soap is also biodegradable and you only need to use about 2 tbs. which creates less waste and run off!

Q (Marissa): With the launch of all the new scents and formula, can you tell me how the they differ from the original Rockin’ Green?

A (Kim): In my quest to make Hard Rock, it was about a year project, I did a lot of researching and discovered ways to make Soft Rock and Classic Rock even better. When we did our product testing, it was all people who were previously using Classic or Soft Rock, we found some really cool things along the way to make it superior.

Q (Marissa): What is your best washing tip to other cloth diapering families?

A (Kim): Don’t skimp on the water!!!!! If you have a front loader, replace the word “Rinse” with “Wash”. For example, if you have a top loader, you normally do a rinse, a wash, and a rinse. For a front loader, I would suggest a wash, a wash, and a wash. You are still not going to be using the same amount of water as the top loader folks, but you really need to have the water because that is where the ammonia buildup comes up for the most part. For example, if you are washing 15 pocket diapers in a front loader, each insert will hold about 8 oz sometimes 15 oz, and if you think about it that is a lot of urine in each insert. Let’s say each of the 15 inserts holds about a cup of pee, you put the diapers in and your inserts in the front loader a lot of times the front loader does not put that much water in, so you are washing with a 50/50 mix of water and urine. That will not be rinsed out all the way, so if you do the 3 washes you will be more likely to get the urine flushed out. So, Wash Cold (no detergent), Wash hot (w/ detergent) and Wash Cold (no detergent). The first wash will get most of the urine, so your next wash you will be washing in clean water. This is what I suggest when someone is having stink issues with a front loader, I believe to attack it at the front and not the end.

Wash Routine!

A short bio of Kim:
She and her husband of 9 years have 2 boys, Jackson 4 and Zachary 18 months. They currently reside in San Antonio, TX. Her hubby was a Marine and aircraft mechanic, but now works full time at Rockin’ Green!

Ms. Kim Webb and Son, Zachary

To celebrate the new formula and scents one of our lucky Readers will win a bag of Rockin’ Green Hard Rock!

How to enter (please leave a comment for every method of entry)

Mandatory Entry:

Visit Growing Green Bums store and tell me your favorite item, besides Rockin’ Green!

For Extra entries:

Become a fan of Growing Green Bums on Facebook. Leave a comment.

Become of a fan of Rockin’ Green on Facebook. Leave a comment.

Follow @GrowinGreenBums on twitter and tweet this giveaway. Please tweet, Win Rockin’ Green Hard Rock from @GrowinGreenBums http://bit.ly/aBrxIA #clothdiapers Leave a comment with your status.

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Giveaway end on May 31. (Open to US only).

Posted in Cloth Diaper Friendly Detergent, Cloth Diapering, Eco-Friendly, Giveaways, Green Household, Rockin Green Cloth Diaper Detergent, Twitter | 177 Comments »

Twitter: How To Guide for Cloth Diaper Chats

Monday, December 14th, 2009


Twitter is such a great social networking site! I have been so surprised about the community of natural mamas out there! It is wonderful place and twitter is a great way to connect all of us! Not only can you chat with other natural mamas, but you can chat with other Retailers, Manufacturers, Celebrities, etc. You will also learn about sales and giveaways!!

TWITTER BASICS:

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a service for friends, family and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

Terminology:

Following: Same idea as adding a “friend” on Facebook, except that if they do not follow you back they will not see your updates.

Tweets: These will appear in your “timeline” or Twitter Feed. Your tweet has 140 character limit. Here is an example tweet: “Finishing up hanging my #clothdiapers out on the clothesline”.

Retweet or RT: This is a process in which you repost someone else’s Twitter status on your feed. Here is an example “RT #username “text of the tweet you are reposting”.

Hashtags: The hash “#” sign is used to mark a word as a keyword. For example adding #clothdiapers hashtag allows others to view your tweet that are following that keyword in case they are not following you!

@ (Mentions or Replies): The @ sign is used to indate that your are replying to a specific username. For example, if I wanted to ask Tiny Tush a question about their diapers, I would tweet: @TinyTush “text/question”. Remember that @reply is visible to everyone, so if you need to discuss something privately use Direct Message.

Direct Message (DM): Direct Messages are the twitter equivalent to email. You may only send direct messages to those following you.

#Clothdiapers Chat

Every Monday night at 8:00 pm EST a cloth diaper community comes together and chats all about “fluff”. To chat along with the group, it is pretty simple adding a hashtag at the end of your tweet #clothdiapers.

There are a couple of different ways to join in on the chat, but here is one simple way to chat

1. Of course, must have a Twitter Account. You can sign up here: http://www.twitter.com/

2. If you have a twitter account go to http://www.tweetgrid.com/

3. Once you are at Tweetgird, look at the top of the page and you will find a search button. Please click “search”. Enter in “clothdiapers” (one word)

4. Enter the hashtag box with #clothdiapers, enter your Twitter Username and Password and click “Tweet”.

Now you are all set to chat! Tweet Grid is nice beacause it will automatically update. Yes, it gets very busy and it is hard to keep up with the chatter, but you will get the hang of it! This really is a great forum to connect with other cloth diapers families, retailers, and manufacturers. You can ask questions about cloth diaper care, cloth diaper sizing, cloth diaper troubleshooting and so much more!

Make sure to sign up for a twitter account and follow @GrowinGreenBums Learn about sales, ask questions and just chat with us!

Posted in Cloth Diapering, Twitter | 6 Comments »

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