Meet the Team

Hi, my name is Bri. I am 27 years old and just celebrated my 8 year anniversary with my sweetie, Heath. We have three beautiful children together. We recently bought our first home in the small town of Powell, Wyoming. My husband and I were both raised in small towns and wouldn’t have it any other way for our kids. Family is a huge part in my life and I have been blessed to be able to have been a stay-at-home mom since my first was born.

When I became pregnant with our third little surprise, we still had one child in diapers and the other in pull-ups. Not only were we preparing to become home owners, but it was an older home which would need many minor renovations. As you can imagine, our budget was tight. The expenses were all adding up in my head and I desperately needed some way to cut our costs.

Then one day while I was checking an online forum for expectant mothers, I noticed some topics about Cloth Diapering. The light-bulb in my head went off and my research began. What? You don’t have to use plastic pants or pins?! I was blown away with the pictures of these “cloth diapers”. They were not at all what I had expected. I was astonished, but a bit skeptical. Not because it was cloth, but because to purchase just one commercially make cloth diaper was practically the same price that I had been paying for an entire economy size box of disposables. I knew that in the long run cloth diapering would be saving me money, but the upfront cost was so substantial. I didn’t see how we could afford it. I wasn’t about to spend $400-$500 on Cloth Diapers that I didn’t even know if I would like. After more research, I found a community of ladies that were sewing their own cloth diapers. Now this, I COULD do. And it would be much more affordable for us.

I have been sewing cloth diapers now for just over a year It has evolved from something that I was doing out of necessity, into something that I now do for pleasure and enjoyment. There is nothing I enjoy more than sitting down and creating something for my children.

I am honored to have been asked to be a part of the Babyville Boutique Design Team and am looking forward to the adventures and challenges it will bring. I know that I will be working alongside a wonderful and talented group of women, and I am anxious to get to know each one of them. Thank you, Babyville, for this opportunity to expand my horizons and be a part in such a huge stepping stone for cloth diapering!

Krista T. is a multi-talented work-at-home mom with six children. She is not only creator of nellybeans.com, an embroidery design and supply business, but she is a successful pattern designer and has an online diaper sewing supply business, Soft ‘N Natural Fabrics.

It wasn’t until the birth of Krista’s fourth child that she began sewing and designing. She virtually taught herself to sew, which led to her designing children’s clothing and patterns. Once she had her first embroidery machine, she quickly mastered that skill and added her own unique designs to her children’s clothing line.

Krista’s interest in cloth diapering was initiated by the birth of her fifth child. She not only wanted to save money for her family, but with her sewing skills, she figured they wouldn’t be hard to make. She was “hooked” on diaper sewing from the very first adorable diaper she made. Now she is one of our leading designers and an expert on successful cloth diapering.

Krista created the embroidered diaper in our book Cloth Diapers Made Easy and has digitized some free downloadable designs for the Babyville blogs. To see more of Krista’s delightful embroidery designs as well information on custom embroidery, visit her website www.nellybeans.com and for her own cloth diapers, http://www.etsy.com/shop/RocketBottoms.  If you are interested in a wide array of patterns, soaker fabrics, Babyville notions, and boutique sewing fabrics, visit Krista’s online shop at http://softnnaturalfabrics.com/store/.