So,

two weddings (and being MOH in one)

one high school graduation (for the little brother)

one college graduation (for the brother-in-law)

one Air Force commissioning (also bro-in-law)

five accompanying parties to throw and/or attend

one return flight from Ukraine to welcome home (with boyfriend on board)

and

two weeks of summer camp

do a pretty darn good job of keeping a fledgling blogger from her blog. Oops. My apologies. Anyway, as a welcome back to whoever may be watching, I’ve compiled a list of links having to do with cloth menstrual pads (and one for tampons). I haven’t personally made my cloth pads yet, but I need to get on it, considering that time of month is sneaking up quickly! Once I do, I’ll offer my thoughts. I could rehash a lot of things here, but there’s a terribly long and informative discussion that I’m going to link to (and highly recommend reading), so I’ll just say this: reduce, reuse, recycle. “Disposable” anything is a huge waste.

Fantastic discussion full of advice and personal experience at Crafster.

Several different styles at Adahy’s Cloth Pad Patterns

Cloth pads with removable inserts at sew green and a way to donate them to a good cause.

An interesting idea for reusable tampons.

A clever, minimal waste pattern from Jan Andrea.

UPDATE: I tried the pattern from sew green last month, and while it was simple and easy (I made two pads from quilter’s cotton in about 10 minutes and used peices cut from an old towel for inserts), it felt like wearing a diaper, and I wasn’t used to the wings (being a previously all-tampon kind of girl). So we’ll see what this month brings…