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If so, you can get Free Shipping at Bright Star Baby on any order over $59. No code necessary, it's automatic. We thought you'd like to know about that!

Multi-pack discounts

Check out our new multi-pack discounts. These are available for the new Bright Star diapers, Fishnoodles diapers, and all diaper covers. You can assort your discount across sizes, colors, and prints too!

New Year, New Diapers!

Happy New Year!

The new Bright Star Ultimate Trim Fit diapers are on the way. We have set an expected release date of January 15, 2011 to be sure all colors and prints are ready to go.

Between now and then, we are offering FREE SHIPPING on these great new diapers to anyone, anywhere! No coupon code needed, it's automatic. Free shipping offer expires January 15. Order yours now and your bamboo all in one diapers will ship on January 16 for free.

Happy holiday days!

We hope this finds you warm and snug, perhaps with a cup of coffee or cocoa in hand!

As a family business, we like to go to shutdown mode this time of year and take a little time away from the computer, packing and shipping. We will not be shipping orders between December 23rd. and 30th. Please place your order by noon on the 22nd to have it go out before our break.


You are welcome to place an order at any time at Bright Star Baby. All orders placed during our shutdown period will ship out starting on December 31.

New store open!

Our new store, Diaper Sewing Supplies, is now open. Here you will find our custom milled fabrics, PUL, print PUL, bamboo fabrics, hemp fabric, foldover elastic, specialty diaper elastics, snaps and more.

The section for diaper sewing supplies will directed from Bright Star Baby to the new store by the end of the year, and in fact all of the diaper sewing inventory is already available at the new Diaper Sewing Supplies store. We have much more to list than is currently on the site, so please check back. We will keep adding in the weeks and months to come.

Our diapers were on TV!

A cloth diapering mom, Juliane, wrote in to her local news station and got cloth diapers featured in a short segment.

http://www.wfmj.com/global/category.asp?c=179433&clipId=5351058&topVideoCatNo=127724&autoStart=true

Although the diaper brands she is using are not mentioned in the piece, in the first shot Juliane's baby is wearing a Nantucket plaid, and in the last shot a Turtle Friends All in One Diaper by Fishnoodles.

It's great to see cloth diapers promoted on a community level. Even if the piece sought to be "balanced" and the pediatrician does not think there are any health benefits (too bad we can't leave comments!) - perhaps this story will give at least a few parents the idea that cloth diapers are a great option because they work so well and look so cute!

Why we make cloth diapers:

Every baby is an opportunity to make a difference.

Families that choose to use cloth

• save money,
• limit the waste they put in landfills, and
• give baby the most comfortable start in life.

Our mission is to support cloth diapering families by making great diapers. We believe high quality diapers that fit well and look adorable motivate families to use cloth - and that can literally change the world.

How did we choose the Bright Star name?

Changing a business name these days is a huge and risky undertaking. Simply trying to find a new website name is extremely difficult! Plus, we felt that new name should be more than just words with a web address still available - it should have some meaning and significance.

Thinking back on the fundamentals, I asked the question: Why do we make cloth diapers and not some other product? I'm not sure I would even be in business if it were some other product! What are the things that influenced me to start this business? Lifelong interest in the environment and conservation. My nurturing instincts as a mother, wanting my babies to be utterly comfortable. My love of fabric and pattern, sewing and design. It all came together around cloth diapers.

I slept on it more than a few nights. Lying there between sleep and waking, I kept having this vision of a little person crawling or toddling around with a star symbol on the back of their diaper. These words came to me: "Every baby is a bright star."

We asked around, brainstormed, and generated a long list of potential business names. Some were funny, some were silly, some were just okay - and most of them were already "taken" as a business name or website address. Bright Star was still on my list, perhaps saving the best for last.

The moment I typed in brightstarbaby.com and saw that it was available - and there wasn't another "Bright Star" in the cloth diaper business - was thrilling. That was it! And a great fit with our mission: "Every baby is an opportunity to change the world, starting with washable reusable diapers."

Bright Star is the diaper label. The word "baby" isn't on the label because it's self-evident, we know this a baby, a "bright star" in the universe. Should we expand into other areas, Bright Star will still fit. The cloth diaper store is Bright Star Baby. With any luck this will carry us forward for years to come.

Welcome!

Welcome to Bright Star Baby! It is December 1st, 2010. We started in business four years ago today, under the name "Painted Patootie." It has been quite a journey! From hand-painted art diapers to covers and fitteds to all in one diapers, from the transition to "Fishnoodles" and now to a new beginning. Today we celebrate our anniversary with new store name - Bright Star Baby. Coming in 2011 we will launch new diapers under our Bright Star label. We intend to be in business for many years to come and we appreciate each and every one joining the journey with us.