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clothing

Vintage kid’s clothing for almost every budget

I am a bit of a vintage fanatic, so it makes sense that my interest in clothing from other time periods extends to what I dress Jasper in. Etsy is always my first go-to for all things vintage and kiddos, but I recently found myself a little overwhelmed. To help out, I talked to vintage fashion guru Jenny Mitchell of Frecklewonder about some of her favorite vintage shops.

Avoid undergarments, and six other advanced thrifting methods

My best advice for thrift store shopping: KNOW YOURSELF. Don’t get shit just because it’s cheap, and don’t look at stuff that’s never going to fit.

Help! My nursing bra sucks

Where can one find nursing bras that work for well-endowed mamas?

Easy DIY: decorating baby & kid clothes with freezer paper stencils

Here’s an easy-peasy DIY tutorial for making your own freeze paper stencils so you can get decorating those clothes — yours OR your kid’s!

Pushba in Mamasan

What happens when you bring together longtime Offbeat Mama icon Pushba and longtime Offbeat Mama sponsor Mamasan Maternity? This hotness…

What do you wear during labor and birth?

So you’re going to have a baby. Like, imminently. Like, within a few hours. What to wear?

Plus size maternity that isn’t like a floral tent

So you’re plus size, and you’re pregnant. You want to feel good about your body, and also have room for that expanding belly.

There are lots of plus-size maternity options out there, of course… but lots of them lean more toward the floral femmey side of things. You want to maintain yourself of self, even as you’re growing another person inside you. (Sometimes that still just seems FREAKING WEIRD, right? Seriously.)

We’ve rounded up some of our favorite plus-size maternity options that hint toward the bad-ass and still stylish… take a gander. We promise that the ONLY flowers we’ve got also have skulls involved. 🙂

DIY Baby Mobile Tutorial + 5 other projects you’ll love

This tutorial is actually ultra simple and uses just a few inexpensive crafting supplies that you may already have laying around: photos, craft paper, scissors, glue, wire, and a paper punch. And don’t stop at photos… think of spaceship shapes, circles and triangles, bugs and birds, monsters, jungle animals. There are just SO MANY possibilities!