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At least once a week we get emails from customers requesting items we don't have for sale.  We love these emails, because that's where most of our greatest new ideas come from.  But every so often they provide us with a challenge.  And while we're all for a challenge, sometimes they can drag on and on and on.

Case in point.  Our elastic toddler belts are still one of our most favourite products.  We've been making them for over 2 years now, and just recently overhauled them to be even better.   And while we love our polka dotted ones, we CONSTANTLY get asked for ones that are fun but plain.  Up until now, we've only had plain black. 

But finally, FINALLY after two years of looking, we think we may have found a supplier of some fun, colourful elastic that is PLAIN!  It just showed up in the mail yesterday, so we're going to test it out on our peanuts over the next week or so and make sure we're happy with them before they hit the shop, but here's your little sneak peek (and yes, we know we won't be winning any photography awards with the picture - my camera is TERRIBLE at night with or without the flash). 



Elastic Toddler Belt Twist

I hate it when we get all excited about something and then it doesn't work...

A couple days ago we had a customer email us with a great twist on how to get more bang for your buck with your elastic toddler belt.  We're ALL about practical and economical solutions to things, and hers was all that and more.

So we teased you about it on the Facebook page.

And tonight it totally went bust for us.

We'll share it with you anyhow, along with how you can try and make it work for yourself, and how it didn't work for us.

Her issue was that some of her son's pants don't have belt loops, which make the elastic toddler belt useless.  She was planning to email us and see if we could make something that had clips instead of the snaps, when she realized she could combine the 2 ideas for a fraction of the cost.  She went to her local craft store and picked up some clips - similar to those we use for our mitten clips.  She looped the elastic toddler belt through them, snapped them up, and voila!  Problem solved.

So I was all excited to snap some pictures of how it worked tonight using our mitten clips.  Problem is, the hole on our mitten clips is no match for the snap.  So I can't get it to loop through to close.

That said, there are BAZILLIONS of manufacturers of clips, and no two are exactly the same.  Obviously some on the market have a bigger space than others (after all, hers worked!).  So if you measure the length of the post on the snap, and head to your local craft/fabric store, you just might be able to get it work for you, too.  And if that happens, we'd love an email on who makes the clips so we can share that information with our fans!

Nothing like a major let-down on a Friday night!  We'll do some shopping around as well, and see if we can't find some that will work.  Or, if you can't wait and love the idea of an elastic toddler belt made with clips instead of snaps (for the belt-loop-less pants), drop us an email at yourplayfulpeanut@gmail.com and we'll hook you up.

PS - Looks like gas prices aren't the only things on the rise lately.  If you haven't purchased a $5 elastic toddler belt yet you may want to soon.  We're trying to maintain our prices as long as we can, but in the re-stocking of supplies we're starting to see a lot of increases which will means a few product price increases in the near future...

Elastic Toddler Belt Twist

If you've ever seen our elastic toddler belts, you know that they are just about the best $5 you can spend on kids' gear - if you have a tall, skinny kid.  Someone mentioned this idea to me last week, and I thought it was so neat I had to share it...


I always used to put the belt under the belt loops, roll them to the front and snap them.  And that totally works.  But have you ever thought of putting it on this way?  (I find it easier to do this before I put the pants on my daughter, but she's 2 so it could just be an attitude thing :).

Works the same, I just find it a nice, clean look.  What do you think?