Earth Day Sale at Continuum Family!

Our third annual Earth Day sale is on for today only!! Get 15% of many, many items storewide, including all organic and eco-friendly products. I've only got a few slots open for many of my CF custom items so shop early for your chance to get these at a great price!

Children and Nature vs. Technology -- The Garden

I just came across this great little short -- a must watch! "A young girl briefly escapes her mother’s grasp, discovering nature within the city’s chaos."

My favourite part is the look she gives her mother at the end when her mother is trying to get her to take back her video game...:)


The Garden from Jason Stefaniak on Vimeo.

EC with a Newborn

I just wanted to pass along this great blog post on newborn EC from a customer of ours in Quebec, Canada. EC from birth is such a fantastic experience!

Where to Find Continuum Family Around the World

I am often asked if we offer our CF line of EC-friendly baby clothing and accessories at wholesale. The short answer is "sorry, no". While I love the idea of having other small businesses support us in bringing our custom items to as many places around the world as possible, we have made a conscious decision to keep things small here at Continuum Family. For now at least, it suits us best to be a family-sustaining business. We have embraced the business practice of smallering, which means we plan to grow the business only as much as we want to grow it, running our business instead of letting it run us.

That being said, there are currently two companies, Dream Nappies in Japan and Windelmaus in Austria, that are carrying select CF items. Dream Nappies carries our prefold belts and T-shirt tunics/gowns and Windelmaus carries our tiny undies and pull up training pants.

 tiny undies order destined for Austria

While we will remain the exclusive distributor for our CF line in North America, we will review any requests for other international companies to carry our CF items on a case by case basis.

EC Essential -- The Tunic!

Even though I have 3 weeks of sewing orders in the queue, I took a half hour today and whipped up a tunic for Malcolm out of some lovely camel colored wool jersey that I just got in:

For an almost-11-month-old who's now walking (aacck!!), this is a really handy piece of clothing. It's long enough to keep him warm with only trainers underneath (and he would be discreetly covered if he was nakey butt) but it's not so long as to get in his way when he's crawling or sitting on the potty. And, add a pair of matching wool pants (not yet sewn) and we're ready to go out and about.

In addition to the tunic length, I also make these as a regular shirt length (4" shorter) and a gown length (6" longer), in either long or short sleeve. They are currently available in both cotton and bamboo, and I will be getting more wool jersey colors in a couple of weeks.

Affirmations for Peaceful Parenting

Take a few short minutes to read these -- very inspiring!

NVC Book Giveaway Winner!

Wow! I really enjoyed reading all your comments and seeing that NVC has inspired many of you already. So nice to read that many are open to learning about it as well.

So without further ado, the winner of the NVC book giveaway is...

Jess said...
I've only heard of NVC, but I'm hoping to read more soon!

So Jess, please get in touch with me here to give me your contact information. I need to hear from you by October 9 or I will redraw for the books. ETA: Again I had to redraw and so the new winner is...

Lisa said...
this is some of the first I've really seen about NVC, but I'm hoping to read more and learn more about it. Thanks for doing this!

Thanks so much everyone! I'm having a lot of fun with these giveaways, so stay tuned for future ones. :)