It is no secret that I really like kid's clothing and I especially like handmade or unique things. I recently stumbled across a blog called It's Poppy Dip written by a mom of five -- two of whom were adopted from Ethiopia. The name It's Poppy Dip means "everything is good"... it's an expression that her two-year old loves to say when he's happy and things are good.
Sallee is making dresses to fund their family's third Ethiopian adoption. The dresses are darling, well-made and available in lots of different fun fabrics. Plus, Sallee gets them made so quickly. It's hard to imagine how a busy mom-of-five finds the time to sew let alone sew quickly. I'm impressed.
Now here is the great part . . . Sallee is going to give one lucky ". . . and babies make four" reader a custom-made Poppy Dip dress. You get to choose the fabric and the size (12 months to 7 years).
To enter, simply visit It's Poppy Dip, click on the "Fabrics" link at the top and then come back and leave a comment here telling me what Poppy Dip fabric you're coveting for a dress for your little one or a little one you know. Sallee just added some new fabrics for Fall so if you've already got cooler days on your mind, you're in luck.
Leave your comment here by midnight CST Sunday July 25.
I'll pick one super lucky winner at random and post the winner on Monday, July 26.
Good luck!
Gotta tell you ... your adorable girls and their clothing have inspired way too many outfits in Em's closet! :)
ReplyDeleteBut you have to love clothing with a cause!! Such adorable dresses at such a reasonable price!! I hope folks flock to her site. My favorite is the zippity-zoo-da charcoal / carmel fabric....
But how can you chose just one?
Thanks for the chance to participate in your drawing... It was hard to choose a favorite Poppy Dip fabric (because they were all so cool and unique!) but I think I like Kawaii Asian stripe best.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy your blog and I LOVE your photos! Thanks for sharing!
Tina
What precious dresses! And a lovely idea Sallee has to help bring her new little one home!
ReplyDeleteI love the mocca print - so fun!
Thanks Kristi!
Wow--Am I the first one?
ReplyDeleteMartina is in a phase where she only likes to wear pink. And, she LOVES dresses and gets very upset when I make her wear anything else. This style would be perfect for her.
So, I think she'd covet the magenta pink floral dress!
I think my favorite is the owl cream! I have this thing for owls lately!
ReplyDeleteI am alway in love with your girls clothes and outfits. I am definitely going to get this simple, elegant dress too, the krakow blues material is fabulous!
ReplyDeleteJill xx
Sweet!! I'm kinda partial to the Kawaii Asian stripe fabric. Adorable dresses, and I love the store name.
ReplyDeleteLove the giveaways! Would love a mocca dress for my Lily!
ReplyDeleteWhat adorable dresses... I know my little one would love every single fabric, but my eye goes toward the apple flower brown design.
ReplyDeleteThese dresses (and your models) are "Two" cute! I love all the fabrics, but "owl cream" really caught my eye.
ReplyDeleteI've never won ANYTHING; therefore, I'm so happy that the prices of these dresses are extremely reasonable! I will have to order a few for my girls!
Thanks for introducing this site!
Just found your blog. The dresses are darling, as are your little ones. Deco rose dark brown, was my favorite :) What a fun give away.
ReplyDeleteCute stuff. Hard to choose.
ReplyDeleteI choose "feeling groovy orchid/brown"
thanks for the chance to win!
Kind regards from Miami,
Carol and Taylor
Kristi, I don't comment often because all of my comments would be the same, over and over again, along the lines of:
ReplyDelete"WOW! What fun!"
"You're SO talented!"
"What beautiful, beautiful girls!"
I've been following you since you were in China--we were filling out our paperwork at the time. Ah, how the years have flown and are flying...
My fabric choice for the dress (and it was impossible to choose) is "pumpkins gone wild walnut (dk brown) funky flower."
Deco Rose Dark BROWN, would look lovely on my China Princess and her CROWN...I thought rhyming would help :)
ReplyDeleteLove your blog and I ordered from "Pretty Me" after seeing your girls in those adorable skirts ~ you are a bad influence ~ thanks :)
Hi Kristi,
ReplyDeleteFound your blog from another blog - love your photography and your style! Thanks for introducing us to Poppy Dip and for doing this giveaway. I love ALL the styles and plan to get some for my daughters whether we win the giveaway or not - thanks again, Wendy
As always I love your photos!!! I love dressing my granddaughter in the funky fabs too! I know she would think "Sea Beauties" was "POPPY DIP"so.........I think that is my choice........(how many times can I enter?) Oh well I will just have to buy 2 or 3 of MY favorites!!!
ReplyDeleteI love the way you dress your girls so if Poppy Dip is good enough for you its good enough for me! Hopefully we should be bringing our little girl home in
ReplyDelete3-4 months and i think she would look very cute in one of these dresses.
Love your blog-your girls are beautiful and I always love to see their clothes! :)
ReplyDeleteI love all the fabrics from Poppy Dip and the casue is a great one! My daughter loves animals and especially owls so I would pick the "owl cream" fabric as our favorite.
I will be ordering a dress or 2 for my daughter on my own also!
Thanks!
Hope in CT
i love all the fabrics, but i think the owl one is my fave since "owl-whoo whoo" was one our 22month old Ethiopian daughter's first english words:)
ReplyDeleteYour girls always look so adorable
ReplyDeleteWould love to win a dress in garden collage dk cocoa for my friends soon to be baby Mia : )
Thank for the chance!!
Love the giveaway! I pick "Owls Cream". Thank you!
ReplyDeleteYour family is so beautiful!
Alyzabeth's Mommy for Ten Months!
Ok - that was hard! My favorite is the Mocca (drk brown). The dresses are so cute!
ReplyDeleteI love your bog and your girls are just adorable! I am always checking in to see what is going on and, of course, what they are wearing!!!!!
Thanks, Sharon
mash531@verizon.net
How do you ever choose just one!?!?!? I think I love the sweet tooth yellow with a close second of the sea beauties.
ReplyDeleteBTW you beauties are getting so big. I have followed your blog since you went to China and now they are so big. My how time flys.
Wow, what a great idea for a giveaway. My daughter Brandi is almost 3. She loves busy print fabrics so I'd have to go with the Garden collage dk cocoa. It would look so cute with tights in the winter. Thanks you! Jodi Anne
ReplyDeleteKristi,
ReplyDeleteI love your blog and have followed along for years...before, during and now home with our daughter, Sophie, from China. Your girls just say the funniest things! Thanks for sharing and for having such a fun giveaway! I love the owl cream fabric. Too cute!
Kim
I LOVE "Pumpkins Gone Wild Walnut!"
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting a giveaway!
Mary
It was hard to choose since I have twins of my own and like them to coordinate like you do yours! I do love the chocolate lollipop purple and the chocolate lollipop teal--I haven't seen those patterns before.
ReplyDeleteLove how you dress your girls, they always look so cute!!
ReplyDeleteI love several of the fabrics but one of my favorites is "two young street". Christe
Kristin, thank you for holing the giveaway. I would love to be entered. My favorite and it was a difficult choice is the deco rose dark brown. How beautiful! I would love to have a dress for our hopefully soon to be daughter. Thank you again.
ReplyDeleteTerri
LID 4-7-06 for Grace
what a great idea! my fav is "bangle dot"- but it is really hard to choose just one 8-) thanks!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the Smiles fabric, but it is hard to choose. There are so many nice ones.
ReplyDeleteMichal and Kenna look so adorable in their Poppy Dip dresses, but then those two would look adorable in paper bags I think.
Oh! You *KNOW* how I love your girls' clothes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeletePLEASE MAKE ME WIN THIS!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wanna see Little Miss Meera in the Boho Blossom dress ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!
;)
Heather
What beautiful dresses!
ReplyDeleteI will definitely be checking the shop out once we bring our daughter home in Aug/Sept!
As far as favorite fabric - it's so hard to choose one!
I think I am in love with Owl Cream, followed by Sweet Tooth Yellow. Oh, and what's the one with the guitars? That one, too!
Thanks for introducing me to such beautiful dresses!
Kim
What a neat and fun idea, and a wonderful cause. Thanks for the opportunity.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the "riley" print. It's pink, Marissa's favorite color, and the pattern looks like intersecting roads...just what our life has been about this year. Yet, even with the trials the roads of life throw us, the flowers are what we take with us. That's what I'm trying to teach Marissa!
Now you'll see how many of us really read your blog ( : So many pretty fabrics it's hard to choose but I think boho blossom (black) is my favorite. Hugs to All -Dale
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is the Kawaii Asian stripe. Thanks for the contest!
ReplyDeleteAdorable dresses on adorable girls. I love a number of the fabrics but I's have to pick Valori orange BIG pink flower
ReplyDeletebecause pink and orange are my girl's favorite colors and we both love big flowers.
What a hard choice - most of the fabrics caught my eye! But, if I were pressed to choose, I think my girls would look fab-o in
ReplyDeletenorthcott blue green stripe or the krakow blue flowers (I'd have to buy a second if I won, as both of my girls would HAVE to have a Poppy Dip dress!
So sweet! I'd love one made in the Jitterbug Brown Dots but then again, I'd like any of them. Too cute!
ReplyDeleteLove those dresses. Your girls are just adorable!
ReplyDeleteI have to say my pic is "apple flower brown". I love the pinks and oranges!
Adorable! My favorite fabric is teal butterfly. I love clothing for a cause!
ReplyDeleteI just love the Northcott Blue Green Stripe...my two favorite colors together! What an amazing mother!
ReplyDeleteI love Boho Blossom. Thanks for sharing all your great finds with us!
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Julia
Oh my goodness, what beautiful dresses! I had such a hard time selecting a fabric. But, I love the pumpkins gone dots! In 12 months!
ReplyDeleteJitterbug brown dots for me! LOVE these fabrics and dresses! Would love to have one for fall!
ReplyDeleteMy Kate would LOVE the pumpkin gone dots. She seems to be all about dots on her clothes lately! I wonder if Sallee would ever be convinced to sew for bigger girls (ie, beyond 7) so I could get my 9 year old a cute dress, too.
ReplyDeleteCute stuff!! Thanks for the heads up on this momma, her cause and cute clothes.
ReplyDeleteI am torn between several fabrics... pumpkins gone wild walnut, chocolate lollipop teal, eyes wise persimmons....
So sweet, I love any of the fall ones! What a fun dress this would be to have.
ReplyDeleteKim2027@aol.com
WOW!!! We are huge fans of Sallee & her poppy dip dresses!! Our Ethiopian princess looks pretty adorable in her poppy dip "smiles"
ReplyDeleteI'm in love with the new fall colors and would LOVE LOVE to win
*pumpkins gone wild walnut(dk brown) funky flower*
Thanks for cheering on such a great cause and mom!!
xoxo
Oh, I love the fabric and the dresses. I hope I get picked!!!
ReplyDeleteVery hard to choose, but I love the pumpkins gone wild walnut (dk brown) funky flower...or maybe the sea beauties since my girl is so into the Little Mermaid!
I love the dresses! I just started sewing again. My girls looked at the fabrics and chose their favorites. The Queen chose "Krakow Blues" and The Princess chose "Magenta Pink Floral." So, I guess if I win a dress I will have to buy one too. But what a great cause!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the giveaway! I've enjoyed watching your beautiful girls grow up!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite fabric is beatrice (very dk cocoa). It was hard to choose!
Thanks again!
Rochelle
I like Riley for my daughter, Ryleigh. I also love the big pink flower fabric.
ReplyDeleteI love these fabrics and dresses. I can't believe my youngest is almost too big for one. I wish I'd found her quicker.
ReplyDeleteMy baby would love the Owls on a Whim fabric because she is purple crazy, but I LOVE the Kawaii Asian Stripe.
What a fun Giveaway.
Thanks!
I love the Boho Blossom pattern. Our future daughter Maiya from India will just look adorable in this cute dress!!:) Gidget
ReplyDeleteI LOVE THE BEATRICE BEST!! My little granddaughter, Lexie, will be perfect in it! She's 18 mos. old and wears that size, too!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much!
Gale
Thanks for highlighting a designer from the adoption community! I'm sure my daughter would have a different opinion but I love the Kawaii Asian Stripe. It reminds me of when we lived in Japan.
ReplyDeleteOh my! I love them all but especially love the Kawaii Asian stripe fabric!!! By the way, you aren't doing another virtual Matilda Jane trunk show are you?? I would love to order from you.
ReplyDeleteMelissa
I love the owls!! Just a great beginning school dress. I enjoy your photography and your great taste in childrens clothing.
ReplyDeleteI love these dresses! They are so cute, and what a wonderful idea! My favorite is the sweet tooth yellow (although it was hard to pick just one favorite).
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this site, I can't wait to order some It's Poppy Dip dresses!
I love these dresses -- the simple style, the fabric choices -- great for almost any type of day!
ReplyDeleteAlthough choosing ONE fabric is tough, I'm choosing Boho Blossom b/c it's completely different from anything Esther has.
Thx for this opportunity! The Lord bless & keep you...and give you peace!
Claudine in MD
Oh I love them..valori and big pumpkin walnut are my faves:)
ReplyDeleteI love everything your girls wear! My favorite fabric is pumpkins gone wild with the dark brown background.
ReplyDeleteThanks,
Jill
aj455@comcast.net
Would love to have one for our daughter we are bringing home from China this fall! Mocca (Dk Brown) is my favorite!
ReplyDeleteChoose just one? Man, that's tough. There are some darling fabrics!! For the contest, however, I'll chose:
ReplyDeleteJitterbug brown dots
Thanks, Kristi! This is fun!
I really like the Eyes Wise Persimmon fabric, and I'm in love with these precious dresses. Thanks for helping me spend my $$$.
ReplyDeleteOkay, Kristi, I narrowed it down to three but I think I have to go with magenta pink floral for Ella, you know she's a really pink girl!
ReplyDeleteHi Christi,
ReplyDeleteI love this idea for a fundraiser for adoption. And the clothing is beautiful! I love the Apple Flower Brown fabric. Thank you for sharing this resource with us as well as your awesome blog! I love following it.
Jacquie
Your two lovelies are always sporting the cutest outfits! They've definitely inspired some of my favorite pieces from my own daughter's wardrobe! What cool fabrics at Poppy Dip. I think my fav is *Valori orange BIG pink flower*
ReplyDeleteOh Fun! Came to your blog through Journey to Hannah Claire...
ReplyDeleteI would choose the Riley fabric for my little gal! Thanks for the giveaway!
Kristy
Hi they are all great. I like two young street the best. I loved all the fabrics. Victoria
ReplyDeleteI am so in love with the owl cream and brown daisy flower (below the owl) fabrics! I think my miss Muriel would look darling in a Poppy Dip of owls with a flower trim.
ReplyDeleteThey are all so fun and your girls are darling in theirs.
Thanks for a chance to be entered in the drawing
What fun! Thanks Kristi!
ReplyDeleteWe love the "owls on a whim"
Isabella just loves all things purple.
Thanks for sharing where you got the girls dresses. They are adorable and you have to love shopping for a good cause.
Blessings,
Amy
Your girls are always dressed cute, they are beautiful. Thank you for letting us join in the drawing.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite was the APPLE FLOWER BROWN. It was hard to pick, they all were nice fabrics.
Thank you!!!
Love these darling dresses! My favorite is Sweet Tooth Yellow. We love cupcakes just like your girls do!
ReplyDeleteDebbie
I love the dresses!! My favorite is the smiley fabric.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea!! I must say that my favorite is FLUER TATOO for my niece:)
ReplyDeleteEven if I don't win I may go on over an buy one myself ~ thanks Kristi for the tip!! I must admit your girls' clothing has to be the cutest!
PS - Where did you get the outfits they were wearing at Chinapalozza (the tanks and then ruffled skirts)?ashlynnrose.blogspot.com
Blessings, Ashley
The dresses are really cute! I love the many fabric choices. My favorite is the Poppy Dip! It would look adorable on my four year old who is going thru a dress phase right now.
ReplyDeleteSuch beautiful dresses! Garden Collage is a lovely fabric.
ReplyDeleteI hope things go well fundraising for this adoption.
Cheri
I love the aqua owl fabric. How cute! Thanks for the opportunity.
ReplyDeleteAmy :)
Just found your blog. The dresses are so darling, as are your little ones. the deco rose dark brown is my fav......
ReplyDeleteCute Cute dresses...I love Valori and Feeling Groovy Orchid/Brown!!
ReplyDeleteI am in Love with the Beautiful
ReplyDeleteBOHO Blossom!!! Thanks for entering me.
So hard to decide when they all are SO cute!! One of my favorites is Sweet Tooth Yellow. It would be adorable for a birthday dress!!
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Robin
Thanks for the opportunity AND for the reminder!!!! It is hard to pick but I think my daughter and I are leaning toward Boho Blossom Black if we are lucky enough to win!!1
ReplyDeleteKristy,
ReplyDeleteHow fun!!! I love the Mocha dress, too!! But I must say, it's hard to choose.
Hugs,
Ohilda
They are adorable. I would love to have one of those in Modern grace with stems. I have bookmarked this site for school shopping!
ReplyDeleteI found your blog off of Poppy Dip's website! I can't wait to go back and read from the beginning! We are currently in our first adoption process - a boy from Ethiopia. We are so blessed and excited to be on this journey!
ReplyDeleteI think my current favorite fabric choice is garden collage dk cocoa, but like most everyone else said...so many adorable ones to choose from!!!
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ReplyDeleteWhat darling dresses! I love so many fabrics but I think the jitterbug brown dots is the one I would love to see Tia wearing!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun giveaway :)
Thanks for the link, I think she is talented and good price.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is mocca (dk brown).....
Thanks, Michele
Hi. How in the world do you choose from all of those fabulous fabrics? I think I'm in love with "on a whim OWLS color pistachio". I have a dress in Smiles and I LOVE it!
ReplyDeleteAngie
angcas31@gmail.com
Love the Krakow Blues!
ReplyDeleteHmmm...so many great fabrics...but am loving the "Pumpkins Gone Wild (walnut)" pattern!
ReplyDeleteSweet dresses! Catie liked the Kawaii Asian Stripe.
ReplyDeleteSweet dresses! Catie liked the Kawaii Asian Stripe.
ReplyDeleteI just stumbled across your blog for the first time, and had to leave a comment because these dresses are adorable! We're waiting for RA from China for our 5yr old daughter and I think she would look just lovely in Modern Big Blue Flower or Kawaii Asian Stripe. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteYour girsl are absolutely adorable and I love the way you dress them so stylish!
ReplyDeleteI would pick whim owls color pistachio
What wonderful fabrics! It is so hard to decide but I think I like the Garden Collage dk cocoa best.
ReplyDeleteWhere did you get those adorable pink tennis shoe on the July 20th post?
I love your blog!
the dresses are so cute and the reason to make them is so sweet and special. I love the fabric Plain Jane it would look beautiful on my little "specail girl" as it does on yours. I plan to add several of these dresses to my daughters closet.
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