The Artist Notebook is a blog by Lake & River Studio, merged with Just Add cloth, featuring articles, news, latest works, and more.

The Decision to Cloth Diaper

The Decision to Cloth Diaper

I made the decision to cloth diaper long before becoming a mother, or even learning I was pregnant. For years during our infertility struggle, I just knew I wanted to use cloth. Maybe it was...
motherhood After Infertility: The New Normal

motherhood After Infertility: The New Normal

Motherhood is a strange experience after infertility and miscarriage. My new normal isn’t normal yet. Normal used to be a sometimes vague and sometimes distinct sense of pain and emptiness. Sometimes it was happy with...
Cloth Diaper Mini Review- Revisited

Cloth Diaper Mini Review- Revisited

Six months later, I am here to reevaluate my original feelings on each diaper in my original cloth diapering review. Some of them have continued to work out well for us, and others have gone...
Hating Breastfeeding and Sucking It Up

Hating Breastfeeding and Sucking It Up

Chomp ! Chomp! Chomp! “Yeeeeoooowwww!!!” That was the first two weeks of breastfeeding. He was a biter. He did not know how to suck or bring his tongue forward, and instead clamped his jaw down...
My Mini Review of Cloth Diapers

My Mini Review of Cloth Diapers

Cloth Diapering. In case you didn’t know, it is considered cool now in the modern baby world. I must admit, my cloth diaper stash is my biggest baby related investment. Of all baby stuff I...
My Very Late Birth Announcement

My Very Late Birth Announcement

I am finally sucking it up and suffering through our hard computer chair to give a very belated update. Baby Boy is here! He will be known here as Lucky from now on. He was...