It’s been a while…updates, photos and even a healthy tip!

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on the blog!
Yikes! Facebook has become my favorite place to share upcoming stockings etc. because it’s so quick and easy, and everyone is right there and able to reply on the spot! I’ve just asked on facebook what our customers would like to see in upcoming stockings. Come on over for a visit if you’d like to have some input!

I love writing and sharing lots of photos too though, so I really shouldn’t neglect my blog.

Recently, my husband and I took our three youngest children (dd 12 and twin dd’s 10) on vacation. It was the first time they ever flew in a plane and they were SO excited. It was actually the first time dh and I had flown together in a plane since our eldest was just 3 months old, over 18 years ago! LOL So I guess we were pretty excited too. I had not flown in quite a few years, I think it was about 15 years ago. When I was younger I used to fly quite often, as all our family is in the Netherlands. It was always exciting. This was just a 1.5 hour flight but it was a ton of fun and a great experience non the less!

We had a great time! The younger kids had lots of fun with us, and the older two complained about being bored at home alone because they weren’t allowed to go anywhere. LOL This was the first time we had left them in charge of the homestead. Actually, the homestead is the main reason we haven’t been away for a vacation in so long. It’s one thing when you have a cat and maybe a dog or two. It’s a whole other story with five horses, 3 dogs, 3 cats and other ‘farm’ animals. LOL So when the eldest two suggested we go away WITHOUT them, at first that seemed like a very foreign concept but then we realized that life does change, children grow up and we may as well enjoy it rather then fight it. The eldest two are going away to their friends wedding in May, so they didn’t feel the need to come along on this vacation. They preferred to prove they are ‘grown up‘ now instead. lol

Vacation is fun, but it’s always nice to come home too. Now, just a week later, it almost feels like we were never gone. lol

I thought I’d share some recent custom order photos.
I always love looking over custom photos as it shows just how very different each of our customers are!

A petite custom, Ultimate regular flow and thong liners;

UltiMini, Ultimini xs, mini Poppetjie blankies, regular wrap wing and a couple of swirl tiny liners.

Teeny Ultimate’s, Light comfort contour and tiny liners.

Two UltiMini’s

Natural Beauty package

Postpartum and beyond package with nursing pads.

UltiMini and Heavy Wrap wings with zorb! These are super absorbent pads!

Postpartum order, UltiMax Supers, UltiMax, regular wrap wing and a Poppetjie blankie.

Nursing Pad custom order

Heavy Wrap wing, UltiMini and UltiMini xs pads.

Heavy wrap wings, ultimini, regular wrap wings, ultimini xs and teeny ultimates!

Ultimate Pads, Ultimate II, Ultimate Heavy Flow, Regular Wrap wing and Ultimate Regular Flow

Postpartum package

Some more nursing pads, with milk.stops

Super bright petite custom order.

UltiMini’s, regular wrap wing, ultimate regular flow, teeny ultimates, light comfort contours and tiny liners!

More heavy wrap wing with zorb!

That’s all the custom order photos  for now!

And remember, if you are  not yet a fan on facebook, head on over there now! Once we hit 500 fans we will be drawing TWO HUNDRED dollars in prizes!
The top prize is a ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR gift certificate for ANYTHING we sell, instock or custom orders!

We have 278 fans so far, so we really aren’t all that far off. I know we can do it!

And just a note for those of you who may have missed it, we are no longer stocking on Tuesday evenings. With this stocking time, I was constantly working on the weekends getting the last minute things finished, snapping photos, editing and listing. This just wasn’t working out for my family, which it really shouldn’t. Families need time together, to play, and even to rest. We’re also now stocking at TWO congo’s, LilyPadLanding AND Revolution. Both stock on Thursday evenings, each one twice a month, which means TWO stockings a week for Homestead Emporium. The thought of spending TWO evenings a week putting up listings was putting me into a bit of a panick. Each Homestead Emporium stocking requires about 5-7 hours just listing items for sale. The congo stockings require about 2-3 hours. This would mean I’d have TWO evening’s a week of doing listings on top of my regular sewing times each afternoon after we finish our homeschooling. That just wasn’t sitting well with me. So this is the perfect solution. Now I am able to stock the congo AND the regular shop all in one night, Wednesday nights, and it gives our customers time to browse our regular shop for two days before everything goes “live”. I like this idea and I think that once we are all accustomed to the change, it will work out well for everyone. Most importantly though, my family will once again have mama back to themselves on the weekends (as I sit here typing on my biz blog on a Sunday afternoon LOL!)

In other news, simply because this post isn’t yet long enough (ha ha!) I wanted to share something I learned recently. For almost two years now, I’ve been experiencing shoulder pain. My dr said it was the same thing a baseball player would have, and it was due to sewing/serging so much. Thankfully, I’ve got a pretty high pain tolerance so I simply lived with it and carried on. Every once in a while it would get bad enough that I would take something for the pain, but then the pain pills would upset my stomach. I really hate feeling ill, more so then being in pain, so I just sucked it up and kept on sewing/serging.

A while back a friend had mentioned tumeric, and how wonderful it is. A few years back I had been told by our holistic dentist to take tumeric for a few weeks before, and after, having some dental work done. I believe he said it was highly recommended for fighting infection and I recalled just how great I had felt that entire winter, despite all the dental problems I had been having. So I looked into tumeric again after my friend mentioned it may help with  my shoulder and I began to take it. Sure enough, within the week I now have almost full mobility of my shoulder once again and my pain has gone from about an 8 out of 10, to probably about a FOUR! For the first time in almost two years, I can actually raise my arm to put my hair up in a ponytail without excruciating pain! I can sleep without being woken up by the pain. Even my mind feels clearer because it’s not constantly battling the pain! What a miracle!

So if you suffer from pain, inflammation of any kind, infection of some sort, take a look at tumeric and read up about it for yourself. I found in my research that it is also good for those with digestive problems, liver problems and there have been studies done targeting certain types of cancer. Well worth taking a look at tumeric.

As a side note, I first attempted to take it in powder form, in my daily smoothy. Yuck. lol I’m now taking it in a gel form, much easier. lol

And that’s my tip for anyone suffering from pain. It’s not fun, do some research, and see if tumeric might help you! And please remember, this is simply MY opinion/findings. Do your own research, talk to your dr, whatever you need to do to keep you healthy, and safe. In my findings, they said it is not recommended for pregnant women, or those nursing, so be forewarned please. Each person needs to find out for themselves, through their own research, if any herb or medicine will be right for them.

Revolution & Resolution

Revolution-a sudden or marked change in something

Resolution-the act of determining upon an action or course of action

The word resolution is used a lot this time of year. New Year’s Resolutions. Goals, desires, ambitions, dreams, things we want to attain and have yet to do. So much we want to accomplish, do, change, be, and become.

Along with a new year always comes thoughts, deep thoughts of the year now passing us, and the year to come.

This New Year, I want to create a challenge, for our customers.

Are you up for a challenge?

Homestead Emporium has always had one MAIN product line, and that has been our menstrual products.
Menstrual products are not something that ‘mainstream society’ often talks about. Yes, in some ‘circles’ it is considered acceptable. Yet, many women, young and old, are still feeling shy about sharing their choices, and why they’ve come to the choices they have made.

We often encourage our customers to leave feedback on the site, whether it be our main site www.HomesteadEmporium.com under feedback, or in the feedback section of our cart www.hyenacart.com/homesteademporium
Our main reason for this is because we want women to know, that using cloth pads, is not as scary as it might first seem!
Yes, the fact that it also helps others make a decision as to ‘where’ to buy their cloth pads is a bonus too, but it is VERY important to us that the word be spread that cloth pads are great!

Tomorrow brings in the New Year, 2010.

With the New Year, we want to bring YOU a challenge!
As any of our customers who have been with us for a while know, we had announced quite some time ago a big contest we were having in which we asked our customers to try and guess the date our homestead would sell. Well… those dates are long over, and our home has not sold, and in the meantime we’ve decided to stop for a bit, do some more renovations before we go back at it once again.

However, we still have the issue of the big $100.00 gift certificate prize we wanted to give away!

So, with the New Year, I decided I wanted to rally our customers to a challange! I want to challenge each and every one of you to become bold in your use of cloth pads. YOU are making a difference in the world! Be proud of that difference, open up, share it with your friends!

This is a challenge to me too! Believe it or not, my husband is MUCH more vocal and open about the business then I have ever been! When people ask me what our business is, I usually respond with, “We create organic cloth products for the family.” Which is true, however, my husband usually replies with, “We make and sell women’s cloth pads.”

He is braver then I.

I’m often concerned that I’ll gross someone out. I’m the type that likes to ‘ease’ it into a conversation when the timing feels right. Not him. He simply says it like it is. He’s been sharing this info since I first started selling cloth pads and he’s never been embarrassed to share about it openly. It does not matter to him WHO asks the question either, younger, older, friend, stranger, women, and men alike, all recieve the same response.

So this year I am challenging myself to be bold and brave like my husband, but I don’t want to do it alone. I want you all to join me!

I shall reward you for being brave with me though! We shall walk this path TOGETHER!

We promised a $100.00 gift certificate for the contest that never had the opportunity to happen.
For this contest however, I’ve decided not to give away ONE $100.00 gift certificate, but to spread the love and
ALSO give away TWO $25.00 gift certificates
AND FIVE $10.00 gift certificates!

Yes, that is EIGHT Gift Certificates totalling $200.00 in FREE products!!

What must you do to enter the contest?
It’s very simple. If you have not done so yet, join us on our facebook fan page!
Try the link on the right hand side here, if that does not work for you, go to our cart www.hyenacart.com/homesteademporium and click on the facebook link at the very bottom of the page.

If you twitter, join us there too!
Then, tell your friends and your family how proud you are of the change you are making for the earth, and for your own body!! Share with them how comfortable cloth pads are, and how EASY they are to take care of! My best friend keeps a pad to show anyone who comes to her house, so they can see for themselves how soft they are! Ha ha! No one can argue that bamboo velour is certainly nicer to the touch then paper or plastic!
After you tell your friends and family, ask them to join us on facebook!

Once we have reached 500 fans, we will have random drawings for all EIGHT prizes!

I know some of you are thinking “500 fans?!!?”

We can do it! I KNOW we can! Just the other day we had a contest for our facebook fans that once we reached 200 fans, we’d have a drawing and we reached well past 200 fans very quickly! I believe in you all! I know you can be brave! If “I” can be brave, you all can!

It’s time for a revolution in our thinking. Being good to the earth and to our own bodies is something to be PROUD of, not something to hide! Periods are normal, not scary! Let’s make cloth pads ‘normal’ too!!

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Now onto some more business news that we are VERY excited about!

Tomorrow we will be stocking, for the very first time in a brand new congo! We are very proud to be a part of this wonderful group, called, amazingly enough, Revolution!

Are you ready for a Revolution?

Our motto is:
BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD-GHANDI

How awesomely fitting!

Come see us, and the other wonderful artisans participating, here www.hyenacart.com/revolution

We have a collaboration with SMJAE:

A Pad and Dundie set:

Some Ultimate style Pads

A tiny liner package

And, to help you in your quest to make changes, a Free For Shipping tiny liner!

So come join us tomorrow!
Auctions and drawings go live at 12pm EST, everything else goes live at 9pm EST!

We hope to see you then!

In the meantime, don’t forget to spread the word! Join us on facebook and twitter!

New stock, and join fb for a contest!

The shop is STOCKED! All set to go live tomorrow evening at 8pm EST, 5pm PST!

We have now become lisenced to create, and sell, Dundies underwear! We lovingly call them HER Wear here, Homestead.Emporium.Rear.Wear.

We have two custom listings for Dundies in ANY size, children’s and/or women’s.

http://hyenacart.com/HomesteadEmporium/index.php?c=0&p=68233

Check out the fabric stash we’ve accumulated for the Dundies!

We also have some pretty single pad listings;

Reusable cotton balls;

…and two custom pad slots.

You’ll find it all, and more, here: www.hyenacart.com/homesteademporium

In other news, on facebook we’ve reached over 200 fans! We are going to be having a drawing for the winner’s choice of a pair of dundies or a pad, in any size/style we offer!

In the meantime, anyone who joins before then WILL be entered into the draw!

So if you haven’t joined us on facebook yet, be sure to do so now!

My Favorite Things, stocking Tuesday Evening

We’re having a special themed stocking this week, and possibly next week as well. I’ll also be posting some blog posts in between to share some of my favorite things with all of you. I wish I had been able to find the time to share BEFORE Christmas shopping time was over, but maybe my sharing will give you some gift ideas for birthdays this year, and even a jump start on next Christmas.

First off, some photos from this week’s Stocking.

We’ve got Not-So-Flat-Wraps in FOUR sizes, in some of my very favorite fabrics.

My absolute favorite is FarmGirl, and I know others love this fabric just as much (maybe, I love it an awful lot! LOL) as I do. Anyone who knows me well, will appreciate how difficult it was to cut into this fabric but hoarding is never good, and if I don’t share my stash with others, what good is it just stashed away?

Each of us ‘girls’ in the family who currently have our own stashes, are sharing our favorite pads.

Here are some of mine:

My eldest daughters favorite pads, all minkee!

And my next daughter’s favorite ’smooth’ pads. We’ve created the ‘perfect’ teen package:

We also have some of our favorite goodmama diapers to share! We hope to start offering these regularly and have our stock here and ready, but we simply haven’t had the time to get our regular main site cart up and running yet. For now, we offer you three of our favs in this stocking, here are two.

And last but not least for this post, our favorite reusable cloths for the whole family PLUS a sampling of our favorite homemade soaps created by other work at home families.

I’ll be sharing more of our favorite things here on the blog during this upcoming week and hopefully another recipe or two as well as we continue our Christmas baking tomorrow.

We hope to see you tomorrow evening at the shop, be sure to stop by and check out all the rest of our Favorite Things Tuesday evening at 8pm EST, 5pm PST.

We have a free for shipping drawing too, so be sure to enter to win!

www.hyenacart.com/homesteademporium

Busy busy, tis the season to be busy!

Things have been busy around here between work and ‘play’! Tis the season to be busy, joyfully though of course.

First off, I shared this photo on facebook and was asked if I’d be selling these.

Hee hee. No, we can’t sell any of our homemade sweets, but I can share the recipes we used. I hope some of you get a chance to try them!

First off, the white chocolate balls. (and please forgive the ‘messy-ness’. I would normally put these on a platter to snap photos but I didn’t think of blogging them until asked, so just look past the smears and smudges of chocolate etc. surrounding all the goodies. lol)

This is the recipe we used:

http://ricekrispies.ca/cgi-bin/rk_ca_2007/recipe.pl?id=85

Right from the Rice Krispies site. However, we find the most delectable chocolate to surround peanut butter and rice krispies, is WHITE chocolate! If you’ve never tried peanut butter, rice krispies and white chocolate, you don’t know what you’re missing. It is VERY yummy and these are easy to make, but a little time consuming. Well worth it though! Once we’ve dipped them in white chocolate, we drizzle them with milk chocolate. My eldest daughter made this batch.

Next up, some more peanut butter and chocolate overload.

One of my twins wanted to create something with marshmallows, peanut butter, and chocolate. I typed it into google and this is what I found that sounded the yummiest.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Recipes/story?id=2526521

These are much easier and less time consuming to make then the peanut butter balls, so if you like peanut butter and chocolate, and need something really easy, try this one first.

Now if you’re wanting something REALLY easy but just as tasty, and something the kids can really help with, try chocolate dipped pretzels!

Chocolate, crunch and salt, yummmm…

After the younger three dipped all these, we drizzled them with melted white chocolate, as shown in the back, in the top photo.

There isn’t really any recipe to share for these. We simply melt the best milk chocolate we can find (I usually buy it by the large bars and break it up) in a double boiler. If you don’t have a double boiler, a bowl inside a pan of hot water on the stove, with the bowl kept off the bottom of the pan works well too, just keep that water out of the chocolate!

Then simply dip the pretzel of your choice into the chocolate, melt white chocolate to drizzle over top if desired. I’ve also seen these dipped into crushed candy canes or candies afterwards. My personal favorite, is to dip them into skor pieces! We may still do some of those at a later date. If so, I’ll share a photo of them as well.

We’ve got lots more baking left to do, so I’ll try and snap more photos along the way and share the recipes here.  I’ve got some recipes good for those with nut allergies too, such as Scotch Shortbread (a treat I try to send fil each year as he seems to like it )

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And now onto our regularly scheduled programming.

We’ve got a great variety of pads, and colors, instock this week!
I’m not sure how much I’ll get done for next week’s stocking, so I did as much as I could this week to fill up the shop a little just in case things get overly busy (ha ha, nah, that NEVER happens around here!)

For those of you with some last minute Christmas shopping to do for online friends, friends who live far away and you just didn’t get things purchased and shipped in time, or even relatives who you know would appreciate some GREEN in their lives, we’ve made your life just a little easier by now offering Gift Certificates!

If you’d like to purchase a gift certificate, simply email us at homesteademporium@gmail.com and we can add the name and dollar amount to your gift certificate and either email it to you, or to your recipient. We can also do printed gift certificates, however, it is probably too late to get those out for a confirmed Christmas delivery. At this time, if you’re wanting it as a last minute Christmas gift, email would be the way to go.

We are offering gift certificates in ANY dollar amount you would like, beginning as low as $10.00. We’ve had quite a few customers who purchase from our shop for gift swaps etc. and the gift certificates add that extra bit of enjoyment as your recipient can pick out just what they want! The gift certificates may be used for instock OR custom orders AND, the gift certificate value may also be used towards the cost of shipping.

For those wanting some instock this week, we’ve got got quite a variety!

Our newly designed thong liners, which now offer a more wrap around wing design in our waterproof backed styles, for those who prefer that little extra protection. We will still be offering our tab style occassionally, especially for our non waterproofed backed thong liners but we feel those who want more protection will love this new design.

Like black? Wear lots of black? Or simply don’t want to worry about stains? We’ve got some pads just for you this week! A variety of sizes, all in black Bamboo Velour! These are factory dyed, and we’ve washed this fabric on hot, several times, and we’ve had NO running of colors. Of course we always recommend washing with like colors though, but there’s no fear of running dyes with this dark, true black fabric.

We’ve acquired some new waterproof fleece recently, in COLORS. I’m always thrilled when I find colors! We  use only the best, high quality, windpro fleece from Malden Mills. Those who know this fleece, know it’s value. (a tip, just don’t bleach your waterproof fleeces!)

We’ve got a SUPER trim backing that is absolutely perfect for our wrap wing designs.

And a super bright, almost as trim turquoise backing that is just the right thickness for our comfort contour designs.

We have some “long” regular flow pads, for those who don’t need the bulk of extra absorbency, but DO need the extra length. These are still very absorbent, in our regular flow absorbency but not quite as absorbent as our heavy flow pads.

We also have some of our original design, Ultimate Pads.

There’s lots more pads instock for you to choose from, plus we have restocked our undyed bamboo velour nursing pads in super soaker style and regular style.

So come check it all out tonight at 8pm EST, 5pm PST!
www.hyenacart.com/homesteademporium

A new week, and new stock!

It’s been a VERY busy week.

First off, I want to say a very big thank you to everyone who helped us clear out our old fabrics last week.

We still have some Free For Shipping pads up for grabs, one Hyenacart dollar acution for two pads, and THREE hyeancart dollar auctions for our Ultimate Not So Flat Wraps! If you haven’t entered the drawings, be sure to do so asap! They end tomorrow at 7:50, just before our new stock goes live.

At first, the plan was to have a weekend sale. Then, the children went away for the weekend to the grandparents, and I found MORE unfinished old stock then I originally thought we had, so I figured when the kids are away, mama shall… “work”. ha ha!

I got in a little over my head though, and spent much more time sewing then I expected. We also had a few oversells, but we’ve got that straightened out (just waiting to hear back from one last customer! If you read this, please email me asap!) and then all clearance sale items will have been shipped out. The last of them should be going out tomorrow!

The clearance sale idea came up because I finally got tired of missing my personal fabric stash and asked dear hubby and son to help me move it from storage, to the cabin (the biz workspace). They brought our bedroom wardrobe, which does not fit in our bedroom, to the cabin and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was able to fit almost my entire personal stash in there! Yay!

It’s now finally safely near me, waiting to be used, one piece at a time.

In the meantime though, the boxes and boxes and rearranging of things created more clutter, and some clutter (read: old stock fabrics and cuts) just had to find new homes. So you all really helped me out. I’m glad to see everything will be well loved and used and it was fun to share the clearance items at a good deal for those who need to add to their stash!

To add to the busyness of this week, it’s our twins birthday tomorrow! We celebrated today. Dear hubby took all the children swimming at a wave pool in the next city over, and I remained behind  with the excuse that I had to stock the shop for tomorrow.

This was true, but I was really staying behind to decorate for a surprise ‘party’. lol It was just our family, but the girls were excited, and surprised, just the same.

These two are such a blessing! Well, all five children are of course.

Enough about that, back to business!

We’ve got new stock!
Lots of variety of sizes in our newest colorways. Autumn Splendor, Verdigris, Borealis and “Shay”.

Here’s a small sampling, you’ll have to check the store for the rest: www.hyenacart.com/homesteademporium

And last but certainly not least, I thought I’d share a few custom orders from this past while.

Postpartum/heavy overnight set:

Some teeny ultimates:

A stash for a mama who prefers our shorter pads, including our tiny short wrap wing pads, just 6 inches!

Another variety stash:

And two dark Ultimate Pads.

The variety we get in our custom orders always reminds me of just how very unique each and every one of our customers are! I love it!

Thanks for looking/reading. We hope to see you at the shop tomorrow evening, at 8pm EST/5pm PST!

PS. If you are pregnant, and hoping to put in a custom order for postpartum, we are accepting custom orders for women due after February 1st at this time. We will be taking a break from custom orders over the holiday’s, so if you’re in need of a custom order after the new year, please email us to put your order in asap!

STORE WIDE WEEK LONG SALE!

We will not be having our regular Tuesday night Stocking this week.
Instead, we will continue the STORE WIDE CLEARANCE SALE!
ALL Instock Items 25% OFF
ALL Week with Coupon Code- THANKS

We will be adding a bit more stock in the next couple of days!
So check back often!
We WILL combine shipping.
Please be patient as we sort orders over this week.

All orders placed before the weekend have shipped.

MORE stock being added in the next couple of days!
We have LOTS of Ultimate Regular Flow Pads coming at Awesome sale prices!
Complete your stash, start a stash, or try our pads for the first time!
You can’t beat these deals!

This sale is not valid together with other coupon codes, and is not retro-active.

STORE WIDE WEEKEND SALE!

STORE WIDE WEEKEND SALE!
ALL Instock Items 25% OFF
ALL Weekend with Coupon Code- THANKS

We will be adding more stock ALL weekend long!
So check back often!

www.hyenacart.com/homesteademporium

New colorways!

We have four beautiful new colorways this week. I just LOVE them all!

First off, “Shay”. My daughter Shaylah created this colorway by helping me with my dyeing one day.

It’s just like her personality, the colorway is strong,  somewhat ‘tom-boyish’, with a touch of femininity!
 
Next up, Autumn Splendor.

Borealis

and last but not least, Verdigris

 

We have a selection of different sizes/styles in these new colorways this week! Everything goes live at 8 pm EST/ 5pm PST.

We also have two custom slots for hand dyed bamboo velour pads, including the new colorways!

 

We hope to see you tomorrow evening!

www.hyenacart.com/homesteademporium

New stock, including the new Ulti-Max!

If you had nothing better to do on Saturday night then hang out on the computer, and if by chance you stumbled upon my tweets here on the blog or on twitter,  or if you follow us on facebook, you would have heard by now that we have a new pad.

A customer had emailed me a while back, sharing her concerns for her teen daughter. Her daughter was using our Ultimate pad but even with the biggest pad we offer, she was still having some issues. For weeks I went over and over again in my mind and on paper, how I could come up with a solution, without creating something that would end up feeling like a ‘diaper’. During that time, a couple of other customers had also emailed me with a need for even ’more’ pad. I asked more questions, received more input and continued to work on the new design.

These stories always tug on my heart strings and is a big reason why we are constantly creating new products, because our customers ask us to. Our customers have needs and I enjoy getting creative to see if I can’t come up with something to meet those needs. It’s the best part of this biz! I love designing, and creating something new! The great part is, if ONE customer has a special need, I can be sure more of our customers will have that same need. It might not be a lot of people but if one size/style of pad meets a need for a handful of women, it’s more then enough to keep that pad in our shop!

Through creating this new pad, the Ulti-Max, I realized that I really like it! It offers even better coverage then our Ultimate Pad, it’s just as long at 17 inches, but, it’s more discreet! I have always loved the Ultimate Pad. It was one of our first pads to really step out of the box and go the distance. However, even the best can some times become better! I believe the new Ulti-Max may have outdone the Ultimate.

I thought I would share a few comparisons with you, our customers, so you could decide for yourselves if you feel the new design will work better then the old. I’d like to figure out if we should keep both, or simply go with the Ulti-Max.

Here you can see the two pads side by side, the Ulti-Max on the left, the Ultimate on the right.

The Ulti-Max is less ‘box-y’ at the end, and the top is more like our Ultimate II pad. I felt this created a much better fit within the undies.

In this next photo, the Ultimate Pad is on top of the Ulti-Max pad.

You can see that while it doesn’t seem like there is ‘much’ difference, the Ulti-Max wings are definitely wider and fuller then the Ultimate wings. These are essentially the same size as the wings on our Heavy Wrap Wing Pad.

This was a bit of a dilema for me. I’ve always loved the fact that although the Ultimate pad is a HUGE pad, when worn, it does not FEEL huge. This is where I had to make the most changes to the full design to keep the pad feeling comfortable, while still adding MORE coverage. I believe our customers will agree that the Ulti-Max has suceeded.

For those with a flow that can only be named “fast & furious”, the new Ulti-Max will be sold in two types. Ulti-Max regular and Ulti-Max Super. The Ulti-Max Super will have double the absorbency throughout the entire pad from back to front and wing to wing. If you simply need the extra coverage our 17 inch pads offer, you’ll want to stick with the Ulti-Max but if you also have a “fast & furious” flow that tries it’s best to get away on you, you’ll want to give the Ulti-Max Super a try.

To debut the new Ulti-Max, we’ve listed four pads. One is an HC$ auction. All you pay with real money is the shipping! The cost of the pad can be paid in ‘play’ money earned on the hyenacart forums/message board!

This pad is one of our Ulti-Max Super pads, with the extra absorbency!

I created another Ulti-Max (regular) in some of the hand dyed bamboo velour from Lisa at Becoming Art.
This is one of our favorite colorways, Valley Farm, with it’s vibrant hues in beautifully bold colors! We don’t have a whole lot of this left so I wanted to be sure to get this one Ulti-Max out of my last big piece. This Ulti-Max is up for regular auction.

Then we have two regularly listed Ulti-Max pads, another Ulti-Max Super.

And another Ulti-Max (regular). This one in a deep, rich cocoa bean colorway on organic cotton velour.

I hope our customers will enjoy the new pad as much as I have enjoyed creating it!

~You’ll have to please excuse some of our photos this week. The power went out while I was waiting for my camera battery to charge and by the time the power came back on and charged it, the sky was very gray and not so great for photography!

We have lots of other new instock this week. LOTS of bags, a good variety this time!

 

And an example of one of our wrap wing pads folded, with a purse sized wetbag.

We also have new Menstrual Cup Bags in three different prints. Here’s one:

We have LOTS of swirly pads this week as well, in a variety of colorways.

There’s LOTS more stock to see, some come visit us! www.hyenacart.com/homesteademporium
It all goes live Tuesday at 8pm EST/5pm PST
We hope to see you then!

And please, feel free to leave your comments here on what you think about the new Ulti-Max pad!
Remember, if you have a menstrual issue that you have not been able to find the solution for, please feel free to email me (homesteademporium(at)gmail.com) and we can discuss your specific needs. Don’t worry about anything being ‘TMI” (too much info). In this line of products, there’s no such thing!