Diaper Garden Gallery: Chili and Lime

High Summer, August 2003

In High Summer, we're harvesting the fruits of the vine and the tree. The garden demands more hard work. If you are lucky, your chili peppers have been stressed enough by your weather to yield mad heat. Oh, yum. Watch out for those seeds.

Newsletter. High Summer is high time for a mass of Hot Chili & Lime--the ingredients of our favorite hot sauce. Chilies are one of the great foods from the Americas. Mix chili with a little bit of tropical lime, and it's enough to make you want to sit under an umbrella on the beach sipping a lime-drenched drink and munching on something crunchy and spicy.

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Setting. For a lot of green space, we visited the yard of another local homeschooling family who live on the edge of a river (OK, creek). There were so many items to photograph that Marc had a difficult time choosing how to sort them into an interesting composition. In the photo above, he pinned the dolls on the wash line in the distance and framed them in the basket. It may not be immediately obvious that the babies aren't teeny tiny and draped across the basket itself.

Details
August 2003 Chili & Lime fitted diaper set Most of the seven diaper colors were new. When going so far as to make seven colors of diapers, why not add dolls, T-shirts and socks? It was a crazy big bunch of diapers. See color detail and auction sets.
August 2003 Almost-in-One Chili & Lime contour set The inside of the diapers and doublers was an abstract chili seed pattern in a dark green-grey dye we mixed with a clever foam block Marc created. All doublers were green with chili seeds on the front. The covers were very bright, neon green--not all all the rich, adult colors we usually produced. It was hot. It was summer. Why not the brightest lime green ever?
August 2003 Hemp / Cotton Chili Babies The Babies were Bubble Babies made for us in our colors of hemp/cotton by the original manufacturer, Gentle Beginnings. The bodies are loose and the heads, hands, and feet are stuffed (with organic wool) just enough to make them baby chew toys.
August 2003 Organic Cotton Chili T-shirts A lot of our customers put their babies in nothing but a diaper and a T-shirt most of the summer. Why not match? Shirts from Maggie's Organics dyed by us to match.
August 2003 Organic Cotton Chili Socks And, maybe Baby wants socks, too. Thick organic cotton toddler socks also from Maggie's Organics.