MWS Raffle Winners!

The Video Birth Announcement Winner is...Jess T.
The Video Holiday Card Winner is...Eliza R.
You will both be emailed individually on how to claim your winnings :-)


Use your coupon
If you didn't win please know that your coupon from the MWS show will be honored for the next three months!! So all you preggie mamas start thinking about which theme you want! The first of the year will also bring a new theme with a great new song.

The Holidays
And our Video Holiday Cards promotion is going strong. Order yours today to be sure I have your spot on the schedule reserved. Can't beat $99 holiday cheer!!


Winners were chosen by my intern Nate.

Video Holiday Cards!

People have asked us for a couple years now to do Video Holiday Cards. We send out our own every year, but it seemed like too much of a mad rush to do it for others. Well we've finally caved into consumer demand. Holiday Cards it is. Amazingly, we're offering them for only $99! I know you paid waaaay more than that last year for your holiday greetings.

Simply send us 20 photos, pick red or blue graphics, and we'll do the rest. Set to a merry version of Jingle Bells you'll get to send out a variety of pictures from throughout the year to friends and family. Your Holiday Card will stand out from all the rest!

You will receive a link via email that you simply send to all your loved ones. Family still wants something for the mantle? With just a click they can print from their browser or open it in their own photo software and print or save.

We can host your holiday card on our password protected site or you can buy the movie file to post anywhere you like. Our site is comment enabled to spread the cheer :-)

Visit the Holiday site to check it out and then go on over to Cool Dog Productions to order your own! Oh and it only $99. Did I mention that? Yep 99 bucks. Can't beat that.

Happy Holidays!

Nate and the Traveling Retail Display

On Friday, Nate and I traveled to Somerville to see the folks at Diaper Lab!





This was our first stop taking our retail display to visit baby and kids stores in Massachusetts and beyond. We're really excited to introduce local retailers and their customers to Video Birth Announcements by Cool Dog Productions.

As a stay at home and work at home Mom, I get to combine spending time with my kids with my work. We'll travel to different places and stop along the way, learning and having fun.

Salina and Ryan, the owners of Diaper Lab, have a great little store on Highland Ave in Somerville. They can answer any cloth diaper question and can introduce even the most timid to the NEW cloth diapers :-) Salina was very interested in our announcements and we can't thank her enough for letting us come into her store. She's hiding behind the register there in the last photo - she ducked at the last second.
Really! I think she does like us :-)

Where do you think we should stop?? Please leave comments with store suggestions. Nate loves to take trips!

Diaper Lab's First Anniversary

The Cool Dog Family looooves Cloth Diapers! So we're so excited to have found a local source for dipes. For a while now I've only been able to order them online, but now I can go and touch all the diapers I want :-)

Do you cloth diaper? Sposies are so 2008. Get yourself over to Diaper Lab and see for yourself how much has changed in cloth since your mom had you in cloth and pins. They can answer all your burning questions.


If you go tomorrow you'll stumble upon Diaper Lab's 1st Anniversary Celebration! They're having an afternoon of demonstrations, raffles, activities, and fantastic sales!

Have fun!

Mommies Who Shop - Boston

Mommies Who Shop is coming to Boston!!
Cute stuff for mom, kids and baby at sale prices. Wine, munchies and pampering - free. Door prizes, raffles, and swag bags. Seriously do I need to go on? I will anyway...The Seaport Hotel Ballroom, Aura Restaurant, a nite out with the girls.

Really, more?

Cool Dog will be there!! We may or may not have coupons for $25 off Birth Announcements. We may or may not be taking orders for Holiday Cards. That's right you asked, we heard. Holiday cards it is!


From Mommies Who Shop:
What's better than hanging out with a bunch of cool moms? What if you could shop and drink and get a mini-massage with them?! I see lots of new friendships forming... :)

Mommies Who Shop features the "best of" in handcrafted, local designers for babies, kids, and their mamas too. Bonus: music, eats, drinks and swag, FUN GNO!

Buy advance tickets now! Be among the 1st 200 advance tickets purchased to ensure you receive one of our loaded goodie bags! $20 in advance/$30 at the door. Discounted parking vouchers to the Seaport Garage will be given to the 1st 100 cars.

You'll be hungry with all this shopping... Enjoy gourmet hors d'oeuvres and desserts from Chef Rachel Klein of Aura Restaurant - home to Fine Dining, "Family-Style." This weekly family dining program takes place every Friday night at Aura in a special family dining room designed to let parents enjoy a three-course prix fixe menu while kids buzz through their healthy favorites to go to play with toys and enjoy planned activities.

Tired from all the shopping . Stop, get a glass of wine, and a mini massage from Best of Boston's Bella Sante.

Magic Beans, full specialty toy store combined with a baby specialty store featuring the best stroller selection anywhere, is offering these awesome items for the charitable raffle:

UPPAbaby Vista stroller
Stokke Tripp Trapp high chair
Kettler Happy Navigator Tricycle
Melissa and Doug BIG Giraffe

Tickets/info: Mommies Who Shop

Buy 4 get 1 free
Grab your gal pals and go! Purchase 4 tickets at Mommies Who Shop, the 5th one is on me! Enter coupon code, "girlfriend" at checkout. :)

Video Birth Announcements - A New Home

For the past few months I've been working on a new site. A New Home for all of my babies..my announcements. CoolDogBaby.com

I chose a blog format for privacy and comment enabled fun. I also include some subtle advertising for gift giving, and a registry link. For after baby is born there is no subtle way for a mom to let people know that she is registered. And people want to know. So Cool Dog can take all the wierdness out of that and tell them for her ;-)


It's still in beta for the next few announcements as we gather data and feedback. Please let us know what you think too!!