Author: Tickle Me Tubies

Good evening everyone! We know you haven’t heard from us in a little while but we’ve been working hard to get lots of exciting new products and projects done. We’ll post a bigger update with more news later, but for now we just wanted to drop by and let you know we have lots of new tubie pads and clips up in our shop! We are super excited about all of them, but especially excited about the introduction of our new lace tubie pads: you can see one to the left. We all need to feel a little extra special sometimes, right? There are five colors of lace tubie pads currently available in our shop.

And, since it’s Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2017 we thought we’d offer everyone a special discount to celebrate. You can use the code FTAW2017 at checkout and receive 10% your order with no minimum purchase! Happy awareness week everyone!

~The Tickle Me Tubies Team

Hello everyone! We apologize for not being around too much lately. There’s been lots of personal medical craziness going around these days but we are finding time to squeeze in some holiday cheer and hope you are too. There’s lots of excitement in progress and ahead for us but not too much to let you in on right now so we’re going to turn it over to Laura to bring you a special pattern and tutorial.

(Laura) Merry Christmas everyone! I hope this post finds you well and at home surrounded by family. Part of my recent health rollercoaster has resulted in me getting a PICC line. For anyone not familiar with what a PICC line is, it stands for “Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter” and in the most basic sense is basically a long-term IV that allows one to receive IV therapy at home, be it medications, fluids, or nutrition. Well one of the very first things I did after I got home with my PICC was to sew up a PICC sleeve to give me a comfy, cute, and functional cover to both spruce it up and protect my PICC line. After posting a pictures of a few of these new covers I received many requests for a pattern. So after a few more days of testing and perfecting the design, I created a pattern and tutorial for the Tickle Me Tubies PICC Line Sleeve! I hope you all put it to good use, and am always available to help with any questions you may have. The pattern includes sizes XS-XL and an optional pocket with access from inside the PICC cover to thread the line into. If there is enough demand, I may add more sizes later.

To download, click the following links:

Tickle Me Tubies PICC Sleeve Pattern

Tickle Me Tubies PICC Line Sleeve Tutorial

Thanks Laura! While we will eventually make and sell finished PICC sleeves in our shop, the pattern and tutorial are completely FREE. Our desire is for this pattern to bless and empower others by giving back a sense of choice, personalization, and the power to take back the medical (just like our mission statement, which you can read more about here). So whether you make these for yourself, a friend, or sew some up to donate, we want to give you the ability to touch someone’s life. As always, we are here to help! We hope you enjoy the pattern. We’d love to see your PICC sleeves, so feel free to tag us on Instagram, Facebook, or post yours to our Facebook page!

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Hey everybody! We hope you’ve had a good day today. We just wanted to drop by to send a quick reminder to everyone that there are just 3 days left to complete your entries in our big One Year Giveaway! We also have two last easy ways for you to enter: like and share our Facebook post about this blog post.

Each of these will gain you 1 entry. Entries will be accepted for any and all of the ways to enter (found all together on the main post here) through 11:59 PM central time October 2nd, 2016. We will draw our winner and contact them within a week of the deadline. Good luck to everyone who has entered!

Welcome back to our One Year Giveaway! If you’re just joining us, hop on over to the main giveaway post for all the info you need to get involved in all the fun. And don’t forget, you can complete any of the ways to enter the entire time this giveaway is open, not just the day they are posted.

Today is InstaDay! Or, in other words, Instagram Day! Today’s ways to enter are all about Instagram so you’ll need to head over to our Instagram page to complete each entry. Each of today’s ways to enter will earn you 1 entry! Here they are:

Follow us on Instagram (if you already follow us, just leave a comment to let us know and you’ll gain an entry)

Like the “Giveaway Post #2” Instagram post (it features the picture to the left)

Tag a friend on that same Instagram post

Repost the Instagram picture with the hashtag #ticklemegiveaway and tag us: @tickle_me_tubies

 

Have fun!

Mini giveaway alert here! Today is the actual date of our anniversary. 1 year on Etsy! So much has happened, and while our big giveaway is of course still running (more ways to enter coming soon!), we want to celebrate with a little something extra so we’re running a mini giveaway today! Over on our Facebook page we’re giving away $8 store credit to a winner randomly selected sometime tomorrow (Saturday). And all you have to do is comment on the Facebook post about this mini giveaway to enter! See ya there!