Thanks to Car Seat Cuties for providing product samples for this review and giveaway!

Are you expecting? Do you have a baby shower to go to? Then you’re going to love Car Seat Cuties! And one lucky Contest Corner reader will win a Car Seat Cuties car seat cover in the style of their choice, so read on!

You may remember Car Seat Cuties from their feature in both our 2020 Holiday Gift Guide and our 2023 Mother’s & Father’s Day Gift Guide. These adorable car seat covers keep baby warm AND stylish in their adorable patterns! Car Seat Cuties are made by MaterialJill, which is a soft goods design studio right here in the Pacific Northwest in Tacoma, WA. The concept of Car Seat Cuties is that the cover wraps over the top of the car seat with an opening at the top to frame baby’s head, so it envelopes and snuggles your tot during those cold months – which we have plenty of here in the PNW! This idea makes sense, because I can just imagine a parent spending a lot of time wrapping baby in a blanket only for them to toss it off as soon as they start driving. There’s no more of that with Car Seat Cuties around!

And to make it fun, Car Seat Cuties has a variety of different whimsical character patterns to turn your baby into everything from a princess to Frankenstein! It’s genius, because they took advantage of the opening for the face and basically treated it like a comic foreground, which are those cutout boards you see at fairs and theme parks that you stick your face through to look like you have the body of whatever cartoon is painted on the front. As an aside, I learned the official name for this while researching what those photo cutouts were called, and I found this fascinating article about the creator of comic foregrounds, who also went on to create the famous “Dogs playing poker” painting – what a legacy!

I have multiple moms-to-be on my gift list this summer, so I thought this would make a perfect gift. I love anything that is both practical and fun! I chose the Pirate design for both mamas, because I saw it and thought, “Perfect gift ahoy”! Yes, that’s a pirate joke, me mateys! Arrr!

For mommy #1, I created a gift basket in preparation for her baby shower earlier this month; I spoke about the process and inspiration behind my little DIY gift basket in yesterday’s post. You’ll see my little Pirate wrapped in the center of the basket below! It was a big hit, and the father-to-be commented that he can’t wait to rock the pirate!

The second Pirate is going out in the mail to a friend across the country. She loves pirates, so this will be a fun surprise!

Giveaway Time!

One lucky Contest Corner reader will win a Car Seat Cuties car seat cover in the design of their choice, ARV $30! Enter via the Rafflecopter below:

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